Washington: With his shaven head and soft voice, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum resembled a monk – albeit a monk wearing a Stetson and packing a Colt .45 pistol on his hip. And like a monk, Finicum waxed poetic when asked this month whether he was prepared to die rather than go to jail for occupying a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. "Absolutely," he told NBC's Tony Dokoupil on January 5. "I have been raised in the country all my life. I love dearly to feel the wind on my face, to see the sun rise, to see the moon in the night. I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box." That interview proved prescient on Tuesday when Finicum...
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