Oh, I agree 100%. Theyw ere protesting smething that needed protesting and they brought a lot of light on it.
We have been fighting this fight for years...decades...here in the west.
Klamath was another one that shined a light on it.
Slowly people across the country are becoming more and more aware of it.
I am very sorry that Lavoy was killed. He was a good father, grandfather, foster patent, and a good American. His death was completely unnecessary and I hope the people in charge of ordering that take down are investigated and held accountable.
Tragically, Lavoy made some serious mistakes in that entire incident on that afternoon on their way to John Day...and it cost him his life. He was unaware of how the law enforcement personnel would react to his driving off, his trying to go around a road block and almost hitting one of their number, and then getting out and acting erratically and reaching to his side. He should have simply gotten down on the ground spread eagle as soon as he jumped out of the truck.
But overall, he and the Bundys were shining the light on serious eroisions of constitutional rights.
It’s not just about Constitutional Rights, it’s about trading/selling of recently acquired/to be acquired private land and mineral rights to foreign entities, and using large tracts of federally ‘owned’ land as collateral on loans from foreign entities. Those foreign entities want their ‘property’ protected, thus the government is now keeping the public out of most federally owned land.