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What happens when a homeowner doesn't pay his property taxes? Do we surround his home with armed police and threaten him with violence? No, we just put a lien on his home, and at some point in the future when the home is sold, the back taxes due are taken from the proceeds of the sale. Ah, but that just doesn't make you feel good about enforcing the law against "thugs", does it? Bring on the snipers! But that is not quite what is happening. he is "squatting" on land that doesn't belong to him. He has been asked to pay for the use, and he isn't doing that, but remains on the land that doesn't belong to him. At some point, his belongings have to be removed from the l;and that doesn't belong to him and he is not willing to pay to occupy. If somebody started using and occupying land that belonged to you. Would you just wait till he died and hope you got something out if the estate? (Never mind that doing nothing might be seen as consent and would possibly jeapordize future legal proceedings) The land occupation "squatting" is by cows, and the government is already in the process of confiscating and removing them. So when that's complete, what then? Then it's just a civil matter of how much back fees he owes for the grazing rights. That's not worth armed force. And it's not another private individual who is aggrieved - it's the government. They can afford to wait to avoid bloodshed. The amount of money he owes to the government, gets spent by that same government in less than one minute. It's not going to break the U.S. bank. That's Obama's job.

Okay, so wait until he drives into town to buy a gallon of milk, and catch him then. That would be less dangerous than surrounding his home with law officers and facing a horde of angry citizens. Have we learned nothing since Waco and Ruby Ridge? I just wonder if all this blood lust from the liberals here would still apply if it was instead a liberal home owner standing up against the government, rather than a conservative.

What happens when a homeowner doesn't pay his property taxes? Do we surround his home with armed police and threaten him with violence? No, we just put a lien on his home, and at some point in the future when the home is sold, the back taxes due are taken from the proceeds of the sale. Ah, but that just doesn't make you feel good about enforcing the law against "thugs", does it? Bring on the snipers!

Right, ranchers are "thugs" for wanting to keep the land they've always had. Keep up that demonization so that the eventual shootout by the feds will sound justified. Oh, and be sure to also call their home a "compound", their guns an "arsenal", and their supportive friends a "militia". Yeah, that's the ticket!

It's not very practical to apply legal responses based on the age of the person in question. It's also not very reasonable to escalate to deadly force over cows and turtles. Are they worth the deaths of citizens and law officers? But they're not escalating to deadly force (has a shot been fired?), and they didn't do it over cows and turtles, they did it after 20 years of due process and over a million dollars in arrears. People get evicted from apartments by armed Sheriffs for much much less. So how young should he be before we shouldn't ignore the problem and wait for him to die? Just because shots haven't been fired yet doesn't mean they won't be. Did you make the same claim when federal troops were surrounding the Koresh community home? There are large numbers of armed federal troops. There are large numbers of citizens protesting their presence. There are reports of armed militias heading that way. Sounds like a confrontation between armed groups to me, with a liklihood of gunfire. Will the government back down? Of course not. Those pesky citizens have to be taught that absolute obedience is required. Even if it means killing them. How about a non-violent way to end this standoff? How come nobody is talking about that possibility. All anyone wants to do is prove who has the biggest balls. How about the government put a lien on the rancher's land, and then leave him alone. When he dies, the assets are sold, and the lien is satisfied. The government gets their money, and no one dies. Nah, that'll never work. Bring on the tanks and tear gas!

Well, well, isn't that interesting. Follow the money. So maybe the cows and turtles are just an excuse to seize the land for huge profits. And of course, all that oil drilling activity won't hurt the turtles at all, like those evil cows who go around deliberately stomping them to death.

Hey, just had a brilliant idea: Let's put a bunch of those turtles on the border with Mexico, and then the Feds will rush all their law enforcement assets to the border region to protect the turtles by finally stopping the illegal immigration. Do it for the turtles!

Here's another BLM land grab underway that will hurt ranchers: "Oklahoma-Texas border dispute has ranchers worried" http://www.rfdtv.com/story/25206377/oklahoma-texas-border-dispute-has-ranchers-worried

It's not very practical to apply legal responses based on the age of the person in question. It's also not very reasonable to escalate to deadly force over cows and turtles. Are they worth the deaths of citizens and law officers?

Do you think that justifies confiscating all his cattle and surrounding his house with snipers? The guy is 67 years old. Just ignore his defiance, and he'll die off soon enough on his own. Then you can go get his cattle peacefully.

NOT using a gun could allow the attacker to stab YOU to death, and then continue his stabbing spree undeterred, which could well have produced even more casualties. They got lucky by tackling him, but the use of a gun in this situation, had one been available, would most definitely have been justified.

This situation is shaping up like another Ruby Ridge, and it could get really ugly... News stories: https://www.google.com/#q=cliven+bundy+nevada+ranch&tbm=nws

Well if it's got to be a real pie, make it a cream pie, like coconut or chocolate. Don't use something with a hard crust on top like cherry or apple. Besides, cherry and apple would be much better for eating.

So you don't think that the USPA should have an Airport Access Defense fund? What does that have to do with breaking the law? If there's a need for AAD funds, then some DZ is being shut down for some kind of legal reason - i.e. "breaking the law" in the eyes of some government entity. Using normiss' logic: "The drop zones should have known they were breaking the law, they knew the risks, so don't expect USPA to come bail them out when they get in trouble." So some county is trying to kick a DZ off an airport, claiming FAA safety violations - screw 'em, it's their personal problem? Or maybe, just maybe, we should band together, pool our resources, and fight these encroachments on our sport when they are unjust!

Seems like I've heard someone complain of a pieing leaving stains in their clothing that would not come out, but I can't remember what the substance was that did that. I know the liquid inside a cyalume light stick will do that.

So you don't think that the USPA should have an Airport Access Defense fund?

http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=1497 Yep. And does the "meteroite" match the material of the natural rock on the ground in that area? I'll bet it does.

We have a tradition in this sport of "pieing" jumpers who reach certain milestones in their careers. The first one is usually at 100 jumps, when they're tricked into stepping outside under false pretenses, whereupon a horde of other jumpers smack them in the face with pies. My poll question today is: What's the best type of material to use for pieing? I've seen problems with real pies when they came frozen and weren't thawed out sufficiently, causing a person to be hit in the face with pies that are still hard as a brick inside. Giving someone a bloody nose kind of takes all the fun out of it. And then there's shaving cream, which seems to be substituted because the canned whipped cream requires refrigeration, which can be a problem in some places. The problem with shaving cream is that if it's accidentally ingested, I've seen it cause a scary medical reaction. And of course, it can't actually be eaten, which is part of the fun of watching the victim sample-taste the goo on his face. So my material of choice is whipped cream. It's cheap, you spray it on a pie plate, it's soft, it's messy, and achieves all the desired fun effects, without any negative side effects. It even encourages the hilarity of other people licking it off of their face. And lastly, the dogs will even clean up the mess on the ground for you afterwards. What say you?

Crikey! Do you notice any signs that one is about to happen? How much time advance notice? Or are they completely unexpected and unpredictable?

Is there some reason why you don't like me and wish me to quit the sport?

Is there any FAA rule requiring floatation for skydivers within 100 feet from water? I've never heard of anything like that. Couldn't find anything in Section 105. Maybe they're referring to this section: http://www.flightsimaviation.com/data/FARS/part_121-340.html But that is for aircraft, not skydivers. Sounds more and more like someone looking for some nit-picky bureacratic excuse to cause a drop zone a lot of trouble.

Yes, there's certainly that. But several people I know are perfectly normal likeable folks, but when the subject of rich people comes up, they're like Jekyl and Hyde, with another personality that just wants to get rid of all rich people. It's weird, and frightening. The hatred I see in these otherwise normal people is inexplicable to me. One guy considers anyone who was born into money and doesn't have to work for a living as "worthless". Of course, this comes from a guy who has had to work hard and struggle all his life. But just because you're living off of daddy's fortune, doesn't make you worthless. It doesn't mean that all your money should be taken from you. Sheesh. I don't know how they get from "envy" to outright "hate"...

Wait a minute! Back up. How did you get from "lava" to "cake"?

Well if they can't prove their illegal, then they can't take anything for resale. And likely it wouldn't be re-sold anyway if it is illegal, they'll be donated to museums, or repatriated to the Indian tribes. If the concern is for the cultural heritage, then an auction doesn't improve anything - it just transfers the artifacts to yet another private collector. Seems heavy-handed to me to. Taking over a guys house, questioning everything he owns, and they don't even have an arrest warrant. Excuse me? You can't just go on fishing expeditions. You have to allege something illegal, get a search warrant, and then look only for that thing specified in the warrant. You don't get to just go through a guy's entire house and life, looking for something, anything, upon which to arrest him. This is wrong.

What do bass and bluegills eat? Bugs. So when you eat bass & bluegills, you're eating bugs. That doesn't sound so appetizing either. Yuck! If "you are what you eat", then bass & bluegills are bugs, and you're a bug too. You're an insectivore.