I couldn’t just stand there and watch my livelihood burn.
Sniping works good for dealing with unwanted critters on your land.
Hard isn’t it. But your choices are do nothing or do something which will have no effect as they will do it anyway while you are in cuffs - at best - then you face a fine so big you will have to sell out, and then, because you did what you did, your wife will leave you taking the kids and whatever other monies.
But you can hold your head high while having lost everything - maybe your neighbors will notice your valor, but no one else will.
Of course, all that is if you are lucky and do not go to prison. If you, do any knowledgeable fellow felon will tell you that you just had what you thought were rights,- but were, in fact, privileges - revoked. (Thus spoke SCOTUS in three cases - only Treaty Tribes have Rights guaranteed by the Constitution, all others have mere privileges which can be revoked at any given time.)
So standing there watching is the best course considering what will happen if you do not - don’t play their game - they are waiting ...