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KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
3. Agreed
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:36 PM
Feb 2016

It's hard enough to lose someone you love but to know they went looking to get themselves killed needlessly it's just that much harder. If a little blue tarp square gives them comfort then who cares............

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
6. Making him a martyr only keeps them in the denial phase of grief longer.
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:42 PM
Feb 2016

They will never get to acceptance - accepting the fact that LaVoy chose suicide by cop.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
10. Yes and I can comment on it. The fact that he died does not mean
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 10:09 AM
Feb 2016

people cannot point out the absurdities. In fact the death just makes the situation that much more absurd. A man died because of ignorance. No other way to put it.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. I wonder if any of them ponder, "if only he would have stayed behind the blue tarp."
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:38 PM
Feb 2016

All I can hope for is that one person there will have a critical thought and move away from the White Identity movement and toward a more normal life.

onecaliberal

(32,861 posts)
5. If he would have made the decision to stay at home and take care of his family like a law abiding
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:40 PM
Feb 2016

citizen he would still be alive. He's the one who made threats, he's the one who went across state lines to occupy federal land, that in no way belonged to him or the other crazies he is supposedly standing up for.

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