*LaVoy Finicum* *---* *paid for his crimes the hard way.* On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 7:45:13 AM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > Thursday, January 28, 2016 > > *Tyranny, Defiance, and the Death of LaVoy Finicum *William N. Grigg > > [image: []] > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VNE_K8Cv1Qo/Vqr_r6Sz1HI/AAAAAAAAMfI/R2HSkhqTiwI/s1600/Finicum.JPG> > > > LaVoy Finicum, who was shot at a roadblock by Oregon State Troopers and > left to bleed to death in the snow, was not a violent criminal. He and his > colleagues from the group calling itself Citizens for Constitutional > Freedom were traveling to John Day, Oregon to organize political > resistance to federal control over lands in the western United States > <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/us/oregon-armed-group-arrest-bundy.html?_r=0> > . > > After trying to run the roadblock, Finicum plowed his vehicle into a > snowbank. He exited with his hands in the air, staggering in the snow > before making a motion with his right hand that the FBI claims was an > effort to grab a handgun. Another possibility is that Finicum, as some > witnesses claim, was shot while his hands were raised in a posture of > surrender, and that his subsequent movements were involuntary. > > The carefully planned ambush, which displayed detailed intelligence > regarding the plans of Finicum and his friends, was a joint operation > between the FBI and the Oregon State Police. It was was not carried out in > defense of persons or property, but to enforce the will of those in control > of the Regime. Finicum, a 55-year-old rancher from Arizona, had become the > subject of a federal warrant after renouncing his grazing contract with > the Washington-based usurpers who control range lands in that state > <http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_occupiers_recr.html>. > > > > The night before he was killed on Oregon’s Highway 395 in an > FBI-orchestrated ambush, Finicum had denounced the “escalation” he had seen > on the part of government officials seeking to end the CCF’s occupation of > the Malheur National Refuge. On several previous occasions Finicum – who > had raised cattle and scores of foster children -- made it clear that he > would rather die than spend the balance of his life immured in a government > cage > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/27/lavoy-finicum-ore-occupier-who-said-hed-rather-die-than-go-to-jail-did-just-that/> > . > > > > * https://youtu.be/aAGxDWKrjPQ <https://youtu.be/aAGxDWKrjPQ> *Reasonable > people can contend that the occupation was an imprudent provocation. That > criticism can apply with equal validity to many similarly imprudent acts > carried out by idealistic but obnoxious men during the 1760s and early > 1770s, and now celebrated (in sanitized form) by inmates of the > government-operated school system. Many of the same people who numbly > absorb annual recitations of Patrick Henry’s oration at the Old South > Church <http://www.oldsouth.org/sermon/2013-07-07> will see Finicum as a > fanatic who committed “suicide by cop,” rather than someone for whom “Give > me liberty, or give me death” was a credo, rather than a cliché. > > After being shot multiple times, Finicum fell on his back – but he didn’t > die instantly. The video captured by an FBI surveillance aircraft showed > him lifting his hand imploringly, and holding it up for several seconds > before he lost consciousness. > > [image: []] > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9tzxsSM87As/Vqr_0g5IIvI/AAAAAAAAMfQ/xsBRoJH9xag/s1600/Finicum%2Braises%2Bhis%2Bhand.JPG> > > > *Finicum raises his hand. *None of the officers on the scene approached > Finicum to disarm him and render medical assistance while there was still a > chance to save his life. In the press conference that served as a debut > for the FBI’s snuff film > <http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/fbi_to_release_video_footage_o.html>, > > Greg Bretzing, a spokesman for the American Cheka, explained that > potentially life-saving aid was withheld while the officers took Ammon > Bundy and four others into custody. > > This emphasis on “force protection” reflects the wartime priorities of an > occupying army. Fallen enemy combatants are not owed the same consideration > as criminal suspects. Thus Finicum’s mortal remains were left sprawled on > the frozen ground, in a posture eerily reminiscent of the body of Lakota > Chief Bigfoot following the vengeful Seventh Cavalry’s massacre at Wounded > Knee. > > The federal statute under which Ammon Bundy and six other members of the > CCF have been charged, 18 USC section 372, offers no protection whatsoever > to the persons and property of U.S. citizens. That measure, enacted in > 1861, is designed to protect “officers” of the federal government > (including administrative personnel and other bureaucrats) as they prey > upon the Regime’s subjects. It originally targeted actual and suspected > sympathizers with the Confederacy, which in practice meant anybody who > respected and defended the right of states to withdraw from the Union, even > if motivated by an ignoble cause. > > [image: []] > > > *Chief Bigfoot at Wounded Knee. *After the Confederacy was defeated and > the once-voluntary Union was repurposed into a Soyuz, the same measure was > frequently pressed into service during the thirteen-year military > occupation of the South. A Justice Department memo written in 1977 > <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjQ8tPkqM7KAhULk4MKHUdEAT8QFggkMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Folc%2Ffile%2F476856%2Fdownload&usg=AFQjCNEeEw1NdfAne51_I8R94-ujXyhWwg&sig2=ac2EYV5hsCbhzEpNfP8fSQ&cad=rja> > > noted that “although this provision is more than 100 years old, it has been > infrequently used. Most recorded cases have involved internal revenue > agents whose efforts to track down tax-evading operators of illegal stills > met with resistance.” > > Those anti-Bootlegger operations, significantly, continued for decades > after the Regime ended the exercise in authoritarian derangement called > alcohol prohibition: The 1977 memo cited three cases that occurred over the > previous twelve years, the latest reaching the Supreme Court in 1971. The > purpose of the memo, significantly, was to provide the FBI with a legal > rationale for investigating and prosecuting, under the rubric of > “conspiracy to impede federal officers,” acts that were not explicitly > criminalized by other federal statutes. > > The “conspiracy to impede” statute “did not even contain a requirement > that an overt act be done in furtherance of the conspiracy before the > conspiratorial conduct would become actionable,” pointed out Assistant > Attorney General John M. Harmon. “The broad purpose of protecting the > Federal presence as fully as possible supports a broad, rather than narrow, > reading of the word `officer,’” he continued. Thus it was the Justice > Department’s opinion that “the term `officer’… includes both permanent and > temporary, full- and part-time officers and employees of the United States.” > > Sixteen federal tax-consumers are usually stationed in the cluster of > buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They act as a salient > representing an unaccountable federal bureaucracy that has usurped local > jurisdictions by seizing land that was not theirs by right or > constitutional mandate > <http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/10/grant-gerber-horatius-on-horseback.html>. > > Indeed, the federal claim to the land in Harney County, Oregon rests > entirely on illegal settlement by white ranchers in violation of treaty > obligations with the Paiute Indians. > <http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/01/this-is-government-land-eternal-refrain.html> > > Unlike the peaceful protest by the CCF, the illegal occupation of what > would become Harney County in the 1870s did involve violence and extensive > property damage – and it was actively encouraged by the Feds as a way of > consolidating control over territory to which they were not entitled. That > act of land larceny > <https://2ndfor1st.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/identified-federal-employees-bragging-of-stealing-land/>was > > “legitimized” in the fashion described by St. Augustine > <https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=OykMAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Augustine%22+%22City+of+God%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=0qbzIm4xYu&sig=vcVZZ1AblgDXSXnE9VkrIERPrMQ#v=onepage&q&f=false>. > > A “government,” he explained in The City of God, is simply a gang that > "acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues > peoples," and then achieves legitimacy "not by the renouncing of aggression > but by the attainment of impunity." > > [image: []] > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lj-iIfZKKDI/VqsARIIDLnI/AAAAAAAAMfg/tPAsKLA1Dv8/s1600/2FBI%2Barrest.JPG> > > Although the CCF did express its intention to use force in self-defense, > the “occupation” of the vacant headquarters buildings – which would be > considered trespassing, if they were legitimately owned by a definable > victim – was not achieved by violence. But because the action undermined > the local franchise of a Regime claiming a universal monopoly on violence, > it was treated as an act of terrorism. > > In her sophomoric screed called a “criminal complaint > <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwi9nIf9qM7KAhWCnYMKHeu6DkoQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fusao-or%2Ffile%2F816166%2Fdownload&usg=AFQjCNEP6oVoJJExVOGO-g2S4vQYSZxRVw&sig2=Je3ZUCAFLw25e2DDjyp-bg&bvm=bv.113034660,d.amc>,” > > FBI Special Agent (she is, to be certain, a *very* “special” agent) > Katherine Armstrong uses quadruple hearsay to depict the “occupiers” as a > nest of terrorists bent on wreaking bloody havoc in Harney County. After > the “occupation” of the refuge began, “BLM was notified … by a Harney > County Sheriff’s Officer that a source informed him that the group … had > explosives, night vision goggles, and weapons and that if they didn’t get > the fight they wanted out there they would bring the fight to town.” > > [image: []] > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0SWYhbZc9gg/VqsAZmr57jI/AAAAAAAAMfo/_yX-q-QZrOM/s1600/Tyranny.JPG> > > > *The BLM in action: Who are the terrorists here? *None of this was true, > of course, and the conveniently anonymous “source” is hidden beneath > redundant layers of official deniability. The only “fight” conducted by the > CCF was a quixotic campaign “to restore and defend the Constitution,” as > Armstrong’s criminal complaint observes > <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwi9nIf9qM7KAhWCnYMKHeu6DkoQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fusao-or%2Ffile%2F816166%2Fdownload&usg=AFQjCNEP6oVoJJExVOGO-g2S4vQYSZxRVw&sig2=Je3ZUCAFLw25e2DDjyp-bg&bvm=bv.113034660,d.amc>. > > This kind of seditious talk was enough to cause Harney County Sheriff Dave > Ward, who displayed canine docility in doing the bidding of his federal > masters, to irrigate his skivvies. > > The CCF, quavered Ward in a January 27 press conference > <http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/oregon_standoff_press_conferen.html>, > > “have chosen to threaten and intimidate the America they profess to love.” > No being in whom we can find even a faint flicker of rationality could > genuinely believe that *anybody* -- let alone *the entire country* -- was > threatened and intimidated by the “occupiers.” But people whose position in > society depends on the threat and exercise of lethal violence are > intimidated by those who are prepared to call their bluff. > > This, more than anything else, explains why LaVoy Finicum was left to die > in the snow while his killers hurled flash-bang grenades at the terrified > survivors in his vehicle. State-inflicted death is the last argument of > tyrants, particularly those who fear that defiance may become contagious. > > > > http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/01/tyranny-defiance-and-death-of-lavoy.html > >
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