Obviously, the FUSA is not at peace. It would be wonderful if the DONALD could consider where he stands with his blanket praise of Law Enforcement. Perhaps he could cut a few holes in that blanket to allow more of us to breathe easier. Maybe later...
: I’ve thought about you. All three of you, with your guns
: pointed at LaVoy Finicum. The video still haunts me.
: I would have been the first one to give you the benefit of the
: doubt. I was raised around law enforcement. I know good men
: in law enforcement. But that changed for me, as it did
: thousands of Americans, with the events that unfurled in
: Oregon as I felt utterly stunned at what I viewed in that
: video.
: I watched the grainy version of the video that the FBI
: administration released of LaVoy Finicums death, even
: though I knew that with our technology today, they have
: better, more clear footage and footage with audio from this
: event. But you will not release that, it is too
: incriminating for the FBI. They did this with purpose to
: deceive the public and that video would have revealed to
: the world your actions that day . This footage you did
: release, left people arguing about what they were seeing in
: the blurry video rather than to bring their attention to
: the way that three FBI agents ambushed and murdered an
: innocent, non-violent rancher with no criminal history. A
: man with a large family. A good man. A man who never
: threatened you.
: The FBI had clearly set this up in advance with stops prepared
: and dozens of agents ready to end the protest because four
: weeks of a land rights issues protest was all the patience
: they could muster. The protesters had left the ranch many
: times before and on this day we’re headed for a meeting to
: inform ranchers of their rights. You knew that. You stopped
: the two cars and started shooting at LaVoy’s truck full of
: passengers- unprovoked. They never brandished a weapon
: against you.
: Finicum told you he was driving to the Sheriffs office for
: protection from you. The only place he felt safe. You fired
: on his vehicle. You could have just followed him if you had
: ever intended to have a peaceful outcome. But that was
: never your intention. Finicum knew why the local law
: enforcement wasn’t invited to this event- why the local
: Sheriff was intentionally kept at bay- Finicum feared what
: you would do to him with no local oversight. The Sheriff of
: Grant County, just over the county line where you ambushed
: him, valued Constitutional rights and Finicum knew the
: Sheriff would never approve of an ambush on the highway and
: and execution of a protester.
: A tax-paying citizen who loved America could not trust you and
: fled for his life because he knew you could murder him and
: get away with it. Let that sink in.
: When Finicum got out of his vehicle with his hands up, within
: seconds you gathered around him and shot him in the back.
: You shot him him in the back.
: Who would carry out such a cowardly deed? Who would follow
: orders to shoot a rancher with his hands up and shoot him
: in the back seconds after getting out of his vehicle? The
: three of you would do this. What were you thinking? How do
: you reconcile this in your head and in your heart?
: No talking? Not one attempt at a peaceful negotiation? At the
: refuge all he did was talk to you, never threatened you.
: His hands were UP. Did your conscience allow you to shoot
: him without any reservation? After his lifeless body
: dropped into the snow, you cared so little for this fellow
: citizen that you walked around his body and didn’t check
: for a pulse for 15 minutes? Why? Because of your guilt or
: because you had such little regard for him or for human
: life in general? Both of those answers are equally
: terrifying to me.
: Moments later you shot rounds of ammunition into Finicum’s
: truck with scared women inside screaming for help- trying
: to surrender. You threw gas cans inside the vehicle. Is
: this how you do it now? Are you sincerely okay with this?
: Look at what you have become. By a miracle they survived.
: Before you hunted him down and silenced him like wild game,
: Finicum carried out two heroic acts. As he turned the blind
: corner on the highway, he almost ran into your barricade
: head on, as vehicles and men stood standing in the middle
: of the highway at your “stop”. He veered to the left on the
: snowbank to avoid hitting you. To preserve your lives. He
: then got out of the vehicle with his hands up to divert
: your attention from his truck with passengers inside, so
: you would stop firing upon them. To preserve their lives.
: This is the man you surrounded and killed within seconds.
: You killed a hero.
: I wonder what has happened to my America where you could
: easily tell the good guys from the bad guys. Are you
: mercenaries now? Carrying out executions on demand? Have
: you realized yet that you did the bidding of a government
: that is seeking to violate the property rights and steal
: the land of your fellow citizens? Do you realize that you
: are a citizen and that these ranchers were standing up for
: YOUR rights, too? Or have you not realized this.
: Most Americans won’t take the time to do the research to find
: out that you shot him in the back before he ever reached
: for his stomach – the area where you shot him. And your
: bosses instructed the media to tell everyone he reached for
: a gun to justify this cowardly act of murder on a fellow
: citizen. What a pathetic cover-up for your actions that
: day.
: I’m asking all three of you who carried out the execution of
: Finicum, to RESIGN.
: Resign, because I have to know that you will never be allowed
: to act with force again. I have to know that men like you
: would not be allowed to continue on as FBI agents. If you
: are rewarded for this dastardly act, I will lose all faith
: in our justice system.
: We need men with a conscience and a soul in law enforcement.
: We need good men who are there to protect the citizens rights.
: Your fellow men.
: You took an oath to defend the Constitution. Did you
: understand this oath when you excitedly repeated its words
: to get your badge? It wasn’t a promise. It was an oath. An
: oath to protect and to serve- us. LaVoy was one of US.
: Are you going to protect us or are you going to protect
: orders? Even if those orders compel you to disregard
: someone’s Constitutional rights in the most brazen and
: corrupt and evil way? Was this you “just doing your job”,
: so that you could end their protest?
: Millions of people have died as a result of those ” just doing
: their job”. Under Hitler. Under Stalin. Is this who you
: have become? Shooting someone with their hands up because
: you were told to?
: You can no longer hide behind the lie that you felt threatened
: enough to shoot him dead. With a dozen or more of you ready
: to attack him, the only one that felt threatened was
: Finicum, I assure you. You murdered an innocent man. The
: salt of the earth. A man who would have stood up for you
: and who would have respected you. A man who would have
: shaken your hand and talked to about his love for America.
: You killed him.
: Let me ask you this. In all of your years in the FBI, how many
: ranchers have ever threatened you or have drawn weapons on
: you? I’m guessing the thugs you deal with everyday do not
: include ranchers and farmers.
: How many ranchers over the years have left their working
: farms, to protest over the stealing of another ranchers
: land and imprisonment? I’m guessing probably none.
: Here’s the difficult question. After decades of government
: abuse to rancher’s property rights, how many ranchers have
: YOU defended, or aided, or stood for- because you did take
: an oath to defend the Constitutional rights of those in
: your care. I am going to guess that you have never stood
: for any of these men against the abuse of the government.
: You have become pawns. You are protecting the governments
: special interests, not the people’s.
: Resign, so I can sleep at night with some of my faith in
: America restored.
: Resign, so I can tell my kids to respect the FBI.
: Resign, because I need to know there are not monsters out
: there with guns and badges that will do anything they are
: told to do, like killing innocent Americans, because we
: could be next.
: Resign.
: You may be a fellow citizen, but you are not my fellow
: American.
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: http://foxnews1450.com/2016/02/25/an-open-letter-to-the-three-fbi-agents-that-killed-lavoy-finicum-in-oregon/