Oregon Shooting Video May Galvanize, Incite Antigovernment Fringe (SPLC)

[inanna]

Bill Morlin
January 29, 2016


After the FBI releases a video of the shooting of LaVoy Finicum antigovernment extremists release a call to action

The release late Thursday of FBI aerial video, showing the fatal shooting of Oregon refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum, was intended to dispel “inaccurate and inflammatory” accounts spreading on social media and in extremist circles.

But there are already indications the release may be used as a springboard for the extremist movement to make the 54-year-old Arizona rancher and foster parent a new icon for the antigovernment movement, much like Gordon Kahl became in the 1980s and Vicki Weaver in the 1990s.

A Pacific Northwest militia group issued a statement today, saying it “condemns the violent action taken by the Harney County Sheriff's Department along with the FBI in the shooting death of Mr. Lavoy Finicum.”

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“Come stand together with other Americans, and express our Constitutional right to PEACEFULLY assemble and air our grievances,” the statement said. Its release came as FBI negotiators continued to work around-the-clock to convince four heavily armed occupiers remaining in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns to peacefully surrender.

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Link: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/29/oregon-shooting-video-may-galvanize-incite-antigovernment-fringe

[cantbeserious]

1. Finicum death - the way things ARE

[KansDem]

2. “Come stand together with other Americans..."

What do these people do that they can just pick up and go on a moment's notice?

[VMA131Marine]

3. If you listen to the interviews it seems many are on SSDI

Finicum and his wife made $105,000 in one year by fostering kids