A Failure of Planning

Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum carries his rifle after standing guard all night at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, near Burns, Ore. With the takeover entering its fourth day Wednesday, a... Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum carries his rifle after standing guard all night at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, near Burns, Ore. With the takeover entering its fourth day Wednesday, authorities had not removed the group of roughly 20 people from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon's high desert country. But members of the group, some from as far away as Arizona and Michigan, were growing increasingly tense, saying they feared a federal raid. (AP photo/Rick Bowmer) MORE LESS
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LaVoy Finicum appears to be getting bored. He’s one of the guys who’s hold up in that Wildlife Refuge visitor center, except when he runs down to the mini mart to get a sandwich. LaVoy says he needs to get back to his ranch. “I got cows that are scattered and lost.”

So far so good.

But he also says he’d rather die than be arrested by the FBI.

“I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box,” says Finicum “There are things more important than your life and freedom is one of them.”

Getting arrested, spending six in and out of court appearances followed by a few years in prison does not appear to be a part of Finicum’s decision matrix.

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