In Oregon, angry protests about the killing of a wildlife refuge occupier
Source: Washington Post
BURNS, ORE. — Hundreds of angry protesters shouted at each other Monday on the steps of the local courthouse in a town deeply divided by the month-long armed occupation of a nearby wildlife refuge by anti-government extremists.
More than 200 local residents carried signs that said, “Get out of our town” and “We love the FBI” and screamed “Go Home! Go Home!” at a group of nearly as many anti-government militia members who had come to protest last week’s police killing of LaVoy Finicum, a spokesman for the occupiers who had taken over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
“I’m here because I live here, and I want the militia to go back home,” said Ramona Bishop, a local Harney County resident carrying a sign that said, “Thank you, FBI.”
The local residents timed their protest to start 30 minutes before a rally called by the anti-government organizations angry about the death of Finicum, who was shot dead by an Oregon State trooper Jan. 26 in an operation that also yielded the arrests of the occupation’s primary leaders.
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As a memory refresher, here's the NY Times story:
Town Mute for 30 Years About a Bully’s Killing
By A. G. SULZBERGER
DEC. 15, 2010
SKIDMORE, Mo. — The murder of Ken Rex McElroy took place in plain view of dozens of residents of this small farm town, under the glare of the morning sun. But in a dramatic act of solidarity with the gunman, every witness, save the dead man’s wife, denied seeing who had pulled the trigger.
The killing was a shocking end for a notoriously brutal man who had terrorized the area for years with seeming impunity from the law until he was struck down in a moment of vigilante justice. It was also the first major case for a young county prosecutor, not far removed from law school and just months into the job, who said he was confident that the case would be solved soon.
But the silence of the townspeople held. Now, nearly 30 years later, that prosecutor, David A. Baird, is preparing to leave office with his first and most famous case still unsolved.
No one has ever been brought to trial in Mr. McElroy’s death, and, although there is no statute of limitations on murder, most people around here suspect that no one ever will be.
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/us/16bully.html?_r=0
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Ken Rex's truck after the shooting. [/center]
...his friends from that other tribe of regressives, the ones who over and over, when the dead are dark and 'urban', tell us that,
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fill in the blank killed by cop) should have obeyed the cops, straight up, immediately; it is (whoever they hate)"s fault for being dead. Don't those people ever learn?"
We all cast our subjective projections upon the shared reality of the world. Most us operate within the socially tolerable parameters of subjectivity accepted in sane company. Our illusions are investigated and our delusions delved into.
Then there are the others whose personal projections are profoundly perverted and present a clear danger to civilized society.
There numbers are outright lies, right off!
On the scene reporters in Oregon:
Amanda Peacher ?@amandapeacher 8 hours ago Burns, OR
I estimate 300 locals here supporting law enforcement and officials, 150 protesting Finicum's death. Tense.
