Michael Savage
demands feds investigate Oregon 'murder', 'We're going to fight this dirty, evil government', by Cheryl
Chumley, 1/28/16
Michael
Savage, top-ranking
conservative radio host and author of many best-selling books, took on a topic
during his most recent broadcast that’s been playing second fiddle to the
political press coverage – the Oregon standoff between ranchers and feds that
resulted in the fatal police shooting of Robert LaVoy Finicum, age 55.
In between discussing
Donald Trump and playing clips of his recent interview with the Republican
primary front-runner, Savage referred to Finicum’s shooting as a “murder” and
called for the U.S. attorney general’s office to investigate. “I’m demanding an investigation,” he said.
“I’m demanding the attorney general send a task force into Oregon.” And if the feds won’t,
the United Nations ought to look into it, Savage said.
Finicum had served as a spokesperson
for the protesters occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns for
the last few weeks, according to the New York Times. The occupation came
because of a dispute among ranchers and federal officials over land rights,
sparked by what many saw as the unfair imposition of a five-year, U.S. Justice
Department-pressed prison sentence for a local father and son, Dwight Hammond,
73, and Steven Hammond, 46.
The details of Finicum’s
death are fuzzy. The Oregonian
reported he was shot during a
traffic stop by FBI and state police after he “charged police.” And the
FBI, in a statement reported
by WND, blamed protesters:
“Finicum’s death didn’t have to happen. We all make choices in life. Sometimes
our choices go bad.”
But others say Finicum
had his hands in the air while exiting his vehicle and yelling at the assembled
police, “Just shoot me then,” WND reported, citing audio from one passenger riding with
the protesters at the time they were stopped that’s been making the rounds on
YouTube. Regardless, Savage said Finicum was an American citizen, supposedly
protected by the Constitution.
“The cops executed a man
in Oregon but because he’s white, there’s no outcry,” he said, apparently
referring to the massive media coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement that
included daily coverage of racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in Baltimore,
Maryland, and in other spots around the nation for more than a year. He vowed to set up a
legal fund to help the ranchers and families in the community.
“Those poor white guys,
those ranchers who stood up,” Savage said. “They’re not rich guys … when the
time comes, and it’s not today, I will set up a box at MichaelSavage.com … and raise money for them.” He added: “I’m
going to raise money for these poor guys in Oregon, it’s that simple.”
A few minutes later,
Savage hit hard at the idea again. “We had a peaceful group
of protesters assailed by police and there has been no outcry,” he said. “This
is a huge issue. This is a huge story. … I know many of you don’t care because
they don’t look like you … they wear cowboy boots and cowboy hats, but they’re
Americans, too. … We’re setting up a] legal defense fund for the ranchers that
were oppressed. … The fear I have is the government will try to ruin them, take
their life savings, put them in prison.”
Savage said in an email
he would discuss specifics of his legal defense fund during an upcoming radio
broadcast. “We’re going to fight
them,” he said on his show. “We’re going to fight this dirty, evil government.”
Police arrested 11 the day of Finicum’s shooting death. Another three turned
themselves in the next day.
Anrianna Finicum Brown,
26, one of Finicum’s 11 children, called her father a “good man” who was
peaceful at heart. “My dad was such a good,
good man, through and through,” she said, the Oregonian reported. “He would
never ever want to hurt somebody, but he does believe in defending freedom and
he knew the risks involved.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/michael-savage-demands-feds-investigate-oregon-murder/
Comments
Oregon
voters should insist that the State take Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in
Burns Oregon back from federal control.
Oregon should also pass a full array of ‘freedom laws’ based on ‘natural
law’ to push back all federal land grabs.
All should citizens who have been arrested must be released at no cost
to them. Unless States push back,
federal abuse will continue.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
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