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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:05 PM Feb 2016

Oregon standoff: LaVoy Finicum memorial torn down and rebuilt

Source: Oregon Live

Soon after somebody tore down a cross erected in honor of a dead protester, somebody used its remnants to put a smaller version of the cross back together.

A memorial held Saturday was a spectacle of patriotism and of admiration for Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, who was killed Jan. 26 during a confrontation with Oregon State Police.

At least a dozen cars pulled up to the spot where Finicum died, following BJ Soper, a leader of the Pacific Patriots Network who had organized the memorial. About 50 men, women and children milled around on the road and the snow, watching the show.

A man climbed up a tree to nail another makeshift cross.

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Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/oregon_standoff_lavoy_finicum.html



what a bunch of maroons - they needed a quarter so they "wouldn't look illiterate"...

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Oregon standoff: LaVoy Finicum memorial torn down and rebuilt (Original Post) jpak Feb 2016 OP
Ugh...as a born in Oregon person... SoapBox Feb 2016 #1
Fuck "LaVoy" Finicum, and the creepy land-grabbing movement for which he was poster boy. (nt) Paladin Feb 2016 #2
Flags touching the ground, writing on flags, such patriots. A Simple Game Feb 2016 #3
They only recognize the stars and bars as their flag, so the U.S. flag means nothing LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #4
How is honoring a traitor a "spectacle of patriotism"? NutmegYankee Feb 2016 #5
While assigning folks to eternal anguish is above my pay grade... 63splitwindow Feb 2016 #9
Bye Bye..... Grassy Knoll Feb 2016 #6
The second erection... n/t jtuck004 Feb 2016 #7
Inbred flashmob. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2016 #8
Feel bad for his family/kids. I think our Feds dragged their feet so much it emboldened this group. Sunlei Feb 2016 #10
The Feds were smart to pick a time and place for a clean arrest. Only casualty wanted to die. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2016 #15
Leave off the "patriotism". It was certainly a spectacle-of stupid. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #11
That welfare cowboy doesn't deserve any memorial. Joey Liberal Feb 2016 #12
Patriots? Beowulf42 Feb 2016 #13
Nearly causes vehicular manslaughter, is labeled a patriot ffr Feb 2016 #14
These same people are the types to drive through the memorial Cindy Sheehan made. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2016 #16
Pretty much. She wasn't a patriot. These guys are. ffr Feb 2016 #17
I admit it. It was me. I took down the memorial. Next time, I promise there will be video. n/t Kennah Feb 2016 #18
David Fry calls people who back the Feds & HRC to be taken out ffr Feb 2016 #19
A "spectacle of patriotism?" tabasco Feb 2016 #20
Nuttin says Hero to a thug,, Cryptoad Feb 2016 #21
Who wants to be the one to explain to them that Mormons don't generally use crosses? LeftyMom Feb 2016 #22

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
1. Ugh...as a born in Oregon person...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:10 PM
Feb 2016

I am SO embarrassed by this spectacle.

This clown of a so called patriot, doesn't deserve squat...he was an idiot, moron and domestic terrorist.

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)
3. Flags touching the ground, writing on flags, such patriots.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:23 PM
Feb 2016

And the children, so many there. What are those poor kids learning?

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
5. How is honoring a traitor a "spectacle of patriotism"?
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:41 PM
Feb 2016

The guy is in hell burning along with Benedict Arnold.

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
9. While assigning folks to eternal anguish is above my pay grade...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 03:01 PM
Feb 2016

(thankfully), I do agree that to call it patriotism is a full 180 degrees off. A gathering of traitorous, clueless malcontents is more accurate.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. Feel bad for his family/kids. I think our Feds dragged their feet so much it emboldened this group.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 03:09 PM
Feb 2016

The first day the group broke-in and entered buildings & trespassed on park property they should have been charged with those crimes.

To me its like the Feds waited to charge people with any crime and let the squatters have all-access to come & go from the location.

Feds seemed to want much more then just several simple crimes with a misdemeanor charge/fines. With waiting Feds got 16 for a Felony charge each and managed to kill one of them too. Probably cost Americans millions in our Federal money for those two weeks. Millions more in future for their 16 Federal court trials.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,005 posts)
15. The Feds were smart to pick a time and place for a clean arrest. Only casualty wanted to die.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:50 PM
Feb 2016

Finicum would never have surrendered or left, since We the People were not going to rob We the People to give the Bundy gang our land to sell for mineral rights and trample to death. That's what they were insisting on bottom line. Finicum said he was going to die instead of accepting arrest, so he gave himself only one option: suicide by cop. He accomplished it by evading a lawful highway stop, attempting to go around a barricade, not staying in the vehicle until commanded, not staying still after exiting, and reaching where a gun would be kept. The last point is the most obvious part of his suicide by cop. Finicum did everything to force the issue.

The Feds bided their time, avoided a shootout, and have only four dolts left to deal with.

Almost always, patience is the best strategy, especially when you do not want to let the other side martyrize several of themselves as a way to radicalize and increase terroristic mindset.

You have the gang leaders in jail and a tiny pocket of leaderless loonies who will be worn down by time.

Beowulf42

(204 posts)
13. Patriots?
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:28 PM
Feb 2016

These people are NOT patriots. Either you believe in the Constitution or you take part in an armed rebellion against the rest of us. The false meme that people agree with this outlaws about the use and fate of the lands in the is wrong. Polls show that the majority of Americans don't agree with their aims, and not even the people of the west agree with them. They want to turn the lands over to the cattlemen and lumber companies and the hell with the rest of us. Do yourselves a favor and quit calling them "patriots."

ffr

(22,670 posts)
14. Nearly causes vehicular manslaughter, is labeled a patriot
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:34 PM
Feb 2016

Not a patriot. Not a protester. A domestic enemy, terrorist, one who imposes his will on others at gunpoint and threatens to harm others with deadly force.

Straight out of an ISIS/ISIL playbook.







LaVoy Finicum, armed, posting guard outside a national wildlife refuge. Domestic... patriot or domestic terrorist?


ffr

(22,670 posts)
19. David Fry calls people who back the Feds & HRC to be taken out
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:18 PM
Feb 2016

"This is the kind of the people we're dealing with nowadays, absolute trash, lowlife scumbags. No morals, no remorse for the dead. These are the scum lowlifes who kill babies for crying out loud!...That's the people we're fighting against. So all the good people in America... need to realize...these are the people we need to get rid of...siding with the government and taking our guns..." David Fry 02/07/16*

Dehumanizing people you don't agree with and calling for them to be taken out. I wonder who else did that in world history? Need I go there?

Didn't realize that I needed to be taken out because I support the laws of the United States and don't want my constitutional rights to be trampled on by domestic terrorists executing a land grab. I suppose once his freedom fighters declare martial law and are done cleansing America of 90 - 95% of all those who disagree with him and his cause, he'll make a new constitution and begin again.

* I won't do him the service of posting his YouTube link.

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