The ironic union is motivated by protecting useless species
and/or mining of metal ores often times enriching American Leftists selling out
to foreign entities that offers risk rather than benefit to Americans.
The upset rancher/farmer often will cite U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 17
while the Leftist scoffs at the legal reasoning notably due unchallenged
Congressional legislation and Judicial Activism. YET the rancher/farmer stand
looks at the Constitution’s temporary stipulations of Federal control which
SHOULD enable an individual State to reclaim Federally controlled land.
This is yet another dot connecting many Left-Right issues if
connected to completion probably end in Civil War for a resolution.
JRH 1/12/20
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A Martyr in Defense of Liberty
LaVoy Finicum's Journey and His Destiny
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 1/11/2020 2:16 AM
Raised in the northwestern corner of Arizona Navajo
territory, Robert LaVoy Finicum largely came to manhood in and around the
sprawling area of Fredonia and Colorado City, Arizona, just off State Route
389, and Hildale, Utah, before his fateful death, his murder
by law enforcement, near Burns, Oregon on January 26th 2016,
just one day before his 55th birthday. His name is a hallowed one in the annals
of the Patriot movement and the minds of
most American Patriots, as a man who was willing to fight for those ideas of
freedom and liberty and the Founding principles of America.
LaVoy led a small band of protesters, including Cliven
Bundy's sons, Ryan and Ammon, American Patriots who understood that the federal
government and the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) were consistently and
constantly acquiring or simply taking water and grazing rights and land unconstitutionally,
from farmers and ranchers across America. These men and women were standing
firm for property rights under Our Bill of Rights, when they occupied the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge on January 2nd 2016 and began a standoff with the FBI
and other law enforcement agencies, that lasted forty-one days.
[Blog Editor: In using various search engines I was disappointed
that most links turned were quite negative toward ranchers and farmers being
weary of the Federal government utilizing land control to manage the increasingly
rare individual rural land owner’s decisions of their own ranch or farm. The
perspectives were Left-Wing by far in the majority. The search engines emphasized
an element of White Supremacism and racism among ranchers and farmers really
more angry about imposed land limitations than politics. Most Western ranchers
and farmers are Caucasians so it’s a bit moronic to call them White Supremacists.
HOWEVER when White Supremacist organizations seemingly appear to offer support to
generational ranch/farm operations, WHO do you think these ranchers and farmers
will gravitate toward? AT ANY RATE who are two perspectives of the Malheur
Occupation that too me appear Leftist yet with some sympathy toward rancher/farmer
plights. The perspective was written prior to Bundy Judicial exonerations and
the Hammond pardons:
o Malheur Occupation Is Over, But the War for America’s Public
Lands Rages On; By Peter Walker;
Observer; 2/22/16 1:08pm
o Lingering occupation: Behind the documentary on the Malheur
standoff; By Amanda Waldroupe; Street Roots News; 1/25/19]
LaVoy and anyone else with a proper understanding of
America's Founding understood that the land is a gift of God to man to be
individually commanded and cultivated to suit his purposes, and government
officials do not have any right to interfere with this unalienable God-given
right. In line with this same logic, Article I, Section
8, Clause 17
of the Constitution clearly states that land within the boundaries of a state
may only be acquired by the national government, if it has the consent of the
state legislature; and then, it can only acquire it for the placement of
military forts, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings. This
procedure was created to ensure that the national government could not simply
grab land and use the land as a means to coerce the states and people to do
their bidding and to expand its power past the limitations of the Constitution.
And, this same principle applies to water and grazing rights, especially those
handed down to pioneers' descendants from territorial grants preceding
statehood.
It was from this point of view that LaVoy started his
journey towards his destiny, in June 2015, as he wrote the following in two separate letters to the BLM,
three days apart that read, in part: "At this time I feel compelled to
stand (up for) the Constitution of our land and in doing so please do not feel
I am attacking your character. This is not about cows and grass, access or
resources, this is about freedom and defending our Constitution in its original
intent ... I am severing my association with the BLM."
During this same time frame, LaVoy had expressed his
displeasure over ranchers steadily being pushed out of grazing lands like the
Grand Canyon-Pashant [Blog Editor: perhaps Parashant or Pesant?] and BLM
tactics, after they called him and told him to remove 24 head of his cattle
grazing on "BLM land", on the Arizona Strip. LaVoy replied that he
was "not asking permission".
After the BLM drained one of his water storage tanks to
fight a grass fire, he exclaimed: "[The water is] mine. It's for my cows.
I need it. Quit stealing." He later took to Youtube where he asked,
"You gonna come in there like You did with my friend, Clive?" He
concluded: "Well, I'm telling you, leave me alone. Leave me alone, leave
Cliven alone."
[VIDEO: BLM Stealing Water
Posted by LaVoy Finicum
8.06K subscribers - Aug 7, 2015]
This set the stage for LaVoy's trip to Harney County, Oregon
to join Ammon and Ryan Bundy in the Malheur Refuge Occupation, after seeing so
many other small ranchers treated unfairly by the BLM, with those truths
previously mentioned solidified after standing alongside Cliven Bundy, during
his standoff with the BLM. He and all the others were truly making a stand
against the overreach of the federal government, and in the process, they hoped
to get all America thinking more about liberty.
Just as our Federalist Founders didn't want an all-powerful
federal government, so too the people, who still hold the ideas espoused by
LaVoy and others, such as Cliven Bundy, are simply wary and opposed to any
heavy concentration of power in the hands of the federal government, since they
have already witnessed, too often first hand, the manner that power is so
easily abused, especially through the BLM. However, neither do they see
government as evil, or even a necessary evil.
Far from the "white supremacists" and
"domestic terrorists" that yellow journalists, such as Kevin
Sullivan, and the establishment propaganda press, like the Washington Post,
attempted to portray them as being, these men and women were simply strong
advocates for a responsible, limited government that favored local solutions
and a federalist system inhibiting the centralization of all government into
the hands of the few, adhering to the full and proper use of the checks and
balances and good government practices set forth in the Constitution.
Noted by B.J. Soper, head of the Pacific Patriots Network, in 2016,
and by many patriots previous to and after him [ZeroHedge]: "We've let the
government step over the line and rule us, and that was never the intent of
this country." And I would add, it was certainly never the intent of our
nation's Founders.
And given the dangerous assaults and violence exhibited by
extremists in the protests of Black Lives Matter [the other BLM] and Occupy Wall Street, there isn't any
justification for the actions of law enforcement against LaVoy and his fellow
protesters, who were protesting peacefully, even if they had "taken"
Malheur. People were initially able to come and go freely, until the protesters
started blocking entrance from fear of federal government infiltration aimed at
arresting and removing them, before they achieved their goals. LaVoy certainly
wasn't so dangerous or violent a man that he had to be so sorely mistreated and
ultimately executed.
Whether he was armed or not is irrelevant. We regularly see
many militiamen at peaceful protests all over America, both socialists and
conservatives, going armed with long guns and pistols. Going armed at a
protest, as is Constitutionally protected from many legal perspectives, isn't a
death warrant, or at least it shouldn't be. Our Constitution doesn't state that
anyone must allow themselves to be abused by government agents, or anyone else,
and it doesn't prevent any American from engaging in a proper and lawful act of
self-defense, especially if one is defending themselves against government
tyranny.
Passenger Shawna Cox captured the entire miserable and
dastardly event on her cell phone, and I have watched the video with sound,
that captured the moment of LaVoy's death, so many numerous times, often
choking back my own angry tears, to think that people sworn to protect and
defend the Constitution could so casually ignore it in this or any case; and,
each time, I can only conclude this was a planned execution.
Posted by The Oregonian
161K subscribers - Mar 8, 2016]
From the first roadblock stop and the shot that hit LaVoy's
driver side mirror to the second roadblock, it becomes well and beyond apparent
that this was a planned execution. The bullets were flying at LaVoy's vehicle
before he could even come to a complete stop on the slippery snow-covered road,
as the video does show, in fact, a bullet piercing the truck ceiling; and, as
he exited the vehicle with hands raised, he was immediately hit in the side by
a round, that caused him to flinch to that side -- offering the assassins their
excuse "he was reaching for a gun" -- and multiple rounds then hit
him and his life was ended.
Several FBI agents and Oregon Highway Patrol fired on LaVoy,
but it was Casey Codding, of the Oregon Highway Patrol, who fired on the
vehicle before it ever stopped. FBI agent Joseph Astarita fired the first shot
after LaVoy jumped from the vehicle, to divert law enforcement's attention away
from his friends, and in the course of the execution, Codding shot LaVoy in the
back twice, just like a coward, even though LaVoy was not brandishing a firearm
or any other weapon -- even though they knew that LaVoy was an innocent,
peaceful rancher without any criminal history who had told them he was on his
way to a meeting with the Sheriff of Grant County -- even though they knew he
had a large family of eleven children and was a good man who had never
threatened anyone.
o [Finicum shooting: Grand jury transcripts reveal FBI agents'
testimony; By Maxine
Bernstein; The Oregonian/OregonLive;
Posted 4/20/18 UPDATED 1/30/19
o FBI Looks Terrible in Killing of Rancher LaVoy Finicum;
By M. Dowling; Independent Sentinel; 2/4/18]
FBI Joseph-Astarita
murdered LaVoy Finicum
Most good police officers go their entire career without
ever having to kill anyone. Codding has killed three people, including a
teenager, "in the line of duty". He's also one of LaVoy's murderers.
Whatever happened to "protect and serve"? Who has
police forces across the country so indoctrinated and so intensely concerned to
the point they see ranchers and family men as the greatest enemy to their
country?
There wasn't even one attempt to peacefully negotiate with
the Malheur group and LaVoy Finicum, even though all LaVoy did at the refuge
was speak to authorities in a non-threatening manner. It should deeply trouble
all Americans that law enforcement had so little conscience and lack of
reservation, they could easily shoot LaVoy with his hands raised; equally
troubling, they didn't even check him for a pulse, until they had walked around
his body for fifteen minutes, as they placed their lack of respect for human
life on full display before the American people.
Far too many law enforcement don't even understand what it
really means to defend the Constitution and freedom, as they set about
destroying the freedoms of the American people in an out-of-control display of
power at the behest of mayors and governors using them to acquire greater
influence and power, i.e. as we currently see unfolding in Virginia via
Governor Northam and the Democrat majority in the Virginia legislature
regarding proposed gun control measures. Wicked "leaders" could not
so subvert our freedoms without willing murderers like Casey Codding.
CASEY CODDING another
Finicum shooter
Today, all Americans must face the certain fact that our
federal government is out-of-control and corrupt, nearly beyond the point of
salvation. It will kill its own citizens if we try to live too freely, or so it
does seem, of late. Who can ever remove the image from their mind, of Vicky Weaver being shot through the head, as she held her baby
in her arms in the doorway of her husband's cabin on Ruby Ridge? An
innocent American shot dead by FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi,
on August 21st 1992; look at Waco, Texas in 1993 and the
overreaction of the ATF; one incident after another, until the standoff at
Cliven Bundy's ranch, when armed patriots came to his defense and said "No
More".
What has happened to this America I love so well, that one
can barely distinguish between the Bad Guys and the Good Guys, in the ranks of
those charged to protect and defend society? This case and the recent soft coup
against the President indicate a great evil courses through their ranks today.
Throughout the history of the FBI, how many times has anyone
in America seen any rancher draw his firearm on an FBI agent, or any other law
enforcement agent? These ranchers aren't common low-down thugs. They are fine
Americans, the salt of the earth.
Has there ever been an FBI agent who defended or aided or
stood alongside a rancher, because it was the right thing to do and it kept
with their oath to defend the Constitutional rights of those in their care? Has
any FBI agent ever stepped outside his role as a government pawn protecting
special interests, to actually protect the people he was supposedly hired to
serve and protect?
LaVoy had stated, time and again, a desire to make sure that
the standoff ended peacefully, and up until the day of the ambush, there wasn't
any reason to believe that it wouldn't, since LaVoy had been in constant
contact with Sheriff Glenn Palmer, who was quite sympathetic to the cowboy's
cause. These men weren't "anti-government"; they were anti-tyranny.
LaVoy would be alive and well at home, with his family today, acquitted of all
wrong-doing, just as many other defendants associated with the standoff have
been, if the FBI and the Oregon Highway Patrol had not escalated the situation.
Ironically, LaVoy wrote a book entitled “Only By Blood and Suffering”,
originally published in 2015, that foreshadowed his own death. The protagonist,
a cowboy, dies in a shootout with the federal government, just as LaVoy finally
did.
Real American patriots, such as Robert LaVoy Finicum, are
far and few between these days, especially in the ranks of our elected
officials, since so many so-called conservatives claim to stand for the
Constitution against the federal government's overreach, as they stand by
silent and meek, in the wake of its insistent and continuous assaults against
'We the People' and our rights to life, liberty, property and freedom from the
restrictions of arbitrary force. The faux conservatives are far too willing to
allow federal power grabs to go unopposed, as a large, meddlesome, intrusive
state and its progressive operated institutions undermine our private economy,
economic liberty and the freedom to own property and allocate our own
resources, enervating the country's civic character; but LaVoy Finicum was willing
to go all the way, sacrificing himself and giving his life, in his fight
against the Bureau of Land Management, in order to preserve those values that
were established centuries ago that respect our God-given rights.
Twenty-one short months of LaVoy's life passed, between the
time he showed up alone at the Bundy Ranch in 2014 and the moment he died a
leader of the Malheur occupation in 2016. He died as he had lived, trying to
make a difference and protecting the ideas and people he loved; he died a
martyr in defense of freedom and liberty.
By Justin O. Smith
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Blog Editor: Rather than
capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post
and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship
tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false
accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat censorship
by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you belong to.
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and
source links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
