Anyone remember #MAGA types losing their shit over the #oregon shooting of LaVoy Finicum who was running around in the snow avoiding arrest while reaching into his jacket where a loaded semi-automatic firearm was later found? Anyone? He got a road named for him. #minnesota are you down to rename the road where she was murdered? #reneegood #reneenicolegood #lavoyfinicum

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“I’m a little stirred up by the award, Cliven Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I can’t understand the reasoning why the award would be given nine years down the road. We sort of wanted to have faith in Kash Patel, but this throws his integrity away.”

“Beyond words!” Jeanette Finicum wrote in a Facebook post. “How are we supposed to trust law enforcement, FBI in particular, when they … refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes … Mr. President, I had such hope that you would clean things up! But the government corruption continues. Just new lipstick on the same old pig!”

“The Finicum family is both devastated and angry” by the award to Astarita and the other FBI agents involved in the stop, said Mark Herr, a family spokesperson. “This is like a scab being pulled off and a wound being reopened rather than being allowed to heal and close.”

Cliven Bundy, involved in his own dispute with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on public land, said he had hoped Patel would “clean up” the FBI.

“We thought Kash Patel was going to be the honest part of the FBI here,” he said. “But now, as ranchers out here in the West, we look at him as being our enemy now.”

#lavoyFinicum #uspol #kashpatel #fascism #malheur #maga #ammonbundy

Cliven Bundy, LaVoy Finicum’s widow slam FBI award for agents in 2016 Malheur standoff


“I’m a little stirred up by the award, Cliven Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive Monday morning.

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The caption on the FBI award photo said they responded to a “violent extremist militia group’s armed takeover” of the refuge and helped stage a traffic stop to arrest one of the militia’s leaders and key members who “planned to meet clandestinely outside the refuge.”

But the caption’s description of what occurred next doesn’t square with testimony and evidence presented during Astarita’s three-week trial.


I know these guys aren’t necessarily consistent, but I’m really not sure I understand the political calculation on this one.

#Oregon #malheur #ammonBundy #LavoyFinicum #fascism #enclosureOfTheCommons #primitiveAccumulation #accumulation #classwar #USPol #militias #threepercent #oathkeepers

FBI honors agents involved in LaVoy Finicum standoff with bravery medal

Director Kash Patel presented the Shield of Bravery to Hostage Rescue Team members, including agent W. Joseph Astarita who was acquitted of lying about firing shots at Finicum's truck in 2016.

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