As far as I can tell by reading CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rancher-...lavoy-finicum/
This guy was armed, dangerous, had a warrant out for him, and these people were occupying federal land that wasn't even in disupte.
They were just trying to incite violence. They weren't peaceful protesters, that guy participated in the Nevada/Southern Utah rancher thing.
AFAIK there's good circumstantial, and anecdotal evidence, these events were related to white collar criminals, rich white criminal scum, and organized crime. Also $$ and they pissed off a lot of people in the world.
The FBI was just given the shitty order to go round em up cowboy, so to speak.
But these whites thought they were above their day in court and decided that whining about guns and federal government was the way to get out of it all.
I think TLDR, it's not right to even endanger law enforcement over your criminality and political views. If you want to make a statement it's better to be heard in a civilized way then brandishing guns and threatening to go down fighting and starting rebellion. Whatever this cowboy was trying to say was definitely lost on me. And I'm pretty adamant about peoples freedoms.