Tragic but it's not a smart idea to take a hand grenade, live or not, to a courthouse.
I have no more sympathy for this guy than I would for a thug who waves an unloaded handgun at cops. Common sense would tell you - you do that, you are going to get shot. The cop has no idea the gun is not loaded (or that the hand grenande is a dummy).
Approximately two years ago the Child Support Bureau in Ohio sent me checks totaling approximately $8,000 for over paid child support. My ex wife had told the court my kids were attending college when in fact that were not. Still lost about $6K.
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While we disagree on the result of the POPS case, this article is very well done. I would only add the reason behind our takings clause added quite a lot of fuel to this fire.
From the article: "Not one, but three staff writers, plus two contributing staff writers and a researcher went to work portraying Perry Manley as an angry, confused, and obsessed personality who was simply too stubborn for his own good."
Yeah, like our founding fathers. From the Declaration of Independence:
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."
No fault divorce and the child support system is LITERALLY destroying lives as surely as (and more frequently than) the Nazi death camps did. However, they have learned it is more cost effective to just keep them alive and constantly paying, as indentured slaves to the state, then to outright kill them. And these enemies of the state are being created by the hundreds of thousands every few months by our family courts.
The family is being destroyed by our government. This man gave his life for the most noble political cause that currently exists in this country.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798