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Subject: Anarcho-Capitalists Outraged: Murderous Feds Kill Oregon Occupier Thu Jan 28, 2016 2:15 am
With his shaven head and soft voice, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum resembled a monk – albeit a monk wearing a Stetson and packing a Colt .45 pistol on his hip.
And like a monk, Finicum waxed poetic when asked this month whether he was prepared to die rather than go to jail for occupying a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.
"Absolutely," he told NBC's Tony Dokoupil on January 5. "I have been raised in the country all my life. I love dearly to feel the wind on my face, to see the sun rise, to see the moon in the night. I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box."
That interview proved prescient on Tuesday when Finicum died during a confrontation with federal and state authorities. While police had yet to confirm that he was the one killed, his daughter and followers made the announcement, according to The Oregonian, treating his death as a martyrdom.
Details of the incident remained unclear on Wednesday morning. Finicum, an Arizona rancher who served as a de facto spokesman for the small band of armed men occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, was on his way to a meeting several hours away when he and other occupiers were pulled over by authorities.