Haunted by the mental picture of the body of patriot cowboy LaVoy Finicum lying in the winter Oregon snow, Canada Free Press wrote back in March of 2016... ""Maybe some day, a song writer with heart will come along and mark his passing with 'The Ballad of LaVoy Finicum' to remind us all in song about the cold-blooded cruelty of governments who put power and one-upmanship ahead of the dignity of human life."
That day has come. Much better than any ballad is the book,'Liberty Rising: One Cowboy's Ascent: The Murder of LaVoy Finicum', written by Thara Tenney, eldest child of the LaVoy and Jeanette Finicum dozen.
"I miss him every day and will never be done learning from his timeless wisdom"
As a cowboy patriot, Finicum, not only loomed large in the lives of his family and friends, but looms large in the memory of all who read about his death at the hand of government agents since January 26, 2016. Quintessentially, LaVoy Finicum will always remain steadfast as the iconic image of a cowboy posed against the background of a setting sun.
No one could tell the story of The Life & Times of LaVoy Finicum more compellingly than his daughter in 'Liberty Rising: One Cowboy's Ascent: The Murder of LaVoy Finicum', released in May.
Just one look at the picture of Thara and her Dad and you know what she means when she says: "I miss him every day and will never be done learning from his timeless wisdom".
"A single day never passes without my thinking of him," Thara told Canada Free Press, "For me every day is Father's Day.
Thara Tenney describes herself as "the lucky wife of Tom Tenney and the proud mother of four boys."
LaVoy and Thara
While she has a Bachelor's Degree in Communication with an emphasis in marketing, her motivation never was to advance on the 21st century's corporate ladder. Alongside many small projects, her sacred toil has forever been dedicated to raising her boys with the aim "to train up strong sons of liberty."
As can be clearly seen by the life of LaVoy, "training up strong sons of liberty" has long been a Finicum family tradition.
For Thara, through the years the battle of the balance has had to be flitted somewhere between homeschooling "strong sons of liberty", putting in work as a community self-care coach, a fundraising chairman, promoter of children's sports, campaign messaging director, and so much more.
During the first year after her father's tragic death on January 26, 2016, she travelled the country with her mother, speaking about what really happened on that fateful day.
It's all in her book, 'Liberty Rising: One Cowboy's Ascent: The Murder of LaVoy Finicum'.
"LaVoy Finicum was only one rancher, a citizen trying to eke out a living in a livelihood the government is making all but impossible with the smothering red tape of bureaucracy. And that's why his death that came as he was standing knee-high in the Oregon snow is all the more unforgettably tragic. (CFP, March 10, 2016)
"After being shot down in cold blood--as he was clearly signalling to armed federal agents and Oregon state police that he posed no threat--his body was left to lay in the snow. The passengers traveling with him on the way to a meeting with Sheriff Glenn Palmer, left traumatized in shock in a vehicle authorities shot up like a scene out of a B-grade Hollywood movie, the authorities initially never even bothered to cover his body with a blanket."
"In life LaVoy Finicum--like many ranchers--was plagued by the ongoing harassment by the agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). LaVoy Finicum got about as much respect from them in death as one of his own cattle.
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Under an unofficial but effective media blackout, the story of his death took a long time to reach the public.
Until now, no one chronicled the story of LaVoy Finicum's tragic death in more detail than Douglas V. Gibbs, president of the Constitution Association.
"In the practical media blackout that followed Finicum's death, Canada Free Press (CFP) is grateful to Constitution Radio KMET 1490-AM radio host and TableTopNews publisher Douglas V. Gibbs, who today gives the rancher a well-deserved and long-coming eulogy.
"In the face of the media blackout, this is one eulogy of which Finicum's children and grandchildren can be proud, as it was written by a proud United States Navy veteran and one of the nation's leading authorities on the U.S. Constitution; by a man who is current president of the Constitution Association.
"With an investigation into the authorities responsible for LaVoy Finicum's death now underway, we can only hope that Gibbs' words: "What we saw in Oregon with the shooting of LaVoy Finicum was an execution, an assassination of a person who dared to question the federal government", won't be the last ones written."
Thara Tenney proves in 'Liberty Rising' that even in a world where the government can take your children, your land, tax or fine you out of livelihood, seize your bank accounts, your property, impose the laws of eminent domain and tell you where you can and cannot pray; the common man, reading his Bible, will still go on hoping and searching for better days.
"Regardless of which political side you might fall on, this story is so compelling, tragic, and iconic that once your journey of discovery begins, the hope is you will be moved by the details, Thara writes.
"Everyone who was there with Dad on that fateful day was acquitted in an Oregon Federal Court. Today my Dad, the "dead man," has his day in court. You, the reader becomes the jury--reviewing his side for the first time.
"Dad was One Cowboy who stood to uphold and defend the United States Constitution against domestic adversaries.
"The series of events that led up to that tragic day, January 26, 2016, in Oregon, where his right to life was taken, are grossly misunderstood by a vast amount of Americans.
"Begin your journey of discovery to decide, was he the villain, fool, or hero?"
"Most tragically of all in the shooting of Mr. Finicum is not that one more cowboy was brutally shot down, it's that society is allowing the curtain to come down on the cowboy as America's most legendary icon."(CFP)
As CFP wrote in 2016: "Rest in peace LaVoy Finicum, you did something no BLM agent is likely to ever do, you died with your boots on."
Yet, even though felled by the bullets of government agents on Jan. 26 2016, LaVoy Finicum lives on as a legend--not only to his children and grandchildren, but to everyone who ever knew or read about him.
Ebook and paperback of Thara's book can be found on Amazon, limited edition hardback and paperback can be found on her family website.
Proceeds from the sales of 'Liberty Rising: One Cowboy's Ascent: The Murder of LaVoy Finicum' will go to support the Finicum family’s civil wrongful death case.
Judi McLeod——Bio and Archives
-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Haunted by the mental picture of the body of patriot cowboy LaVoy Finicum lying in the winter Oregon snow, Canada Free Press wrote back in March of 2016... ""Maybe some day, a song writer with heart will come along and mark his passing with 'The Ballad of LaVoy Finicum' to remind us all in song about the cold-blooded cruelty of governments who put power and one-upmanship ahead of the dignity of human life."
That day has come. Much better than any ballad is the book,'Liberty Rising: One Cowboy's Ascent: The Murder of LaVoy Finicum', written by Thara Tenney, eldest child of the LaVoy and Jeanette Finicum dozen.
