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'Tractor Man' sentenced
The News and Observer [Raleigh, N.C.] ^ | June 23, 2004 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/23/2004 10:13:42 AM PDT by Constitution Day

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1 posted on 06/23/2004 10:13:43 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day
He got off easy.

He wanted to "start a revolution" because he mismanaged his family farm into the bankruptcy? What a self-centered jerk.

2 posted on 06/23/2004 10:17:43 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

Desperation does funny things to a man. In the farm crisis of the early 80's, we lost 4 neighbors to suicide in a 6 month stretch.


3 posted on 06/23/2004 10:20:55 AM PDT by SoDak
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To: wideawake

You're right he should have been executed for not licking enough boots.


4 posted on 06/23/2004 10:28:44 AM PDT by dljordan
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No, genius, he should have been given 10 years minimum for his terrorist act.

His crime was not a failure to "lick boots".

His crime was to fail to do an honest day's work and then get so overwrought believing that the world owed him a living that he damaged public property, threatened thousands of people with harm and preoccupied law enforcement with his stupid antics, thereby placing other people in danger.

He licked far too many boots - his whole rationale for his shenanigans was whining about how US taxpayers wouldn't fork him over enough of those fat subsidies he was used to.

5 posted on 06/23/2004 10:49:28 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Constitution Day

Ridiculous. Some L.A. gang members get less time for killing policemen or children.


6 posted on 06/23/2004 10:50:08 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: SoDak

Hey, anything beats having to face life's problems like a real man, right?


7 posted on 06/23/2004 10:50:27 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Constitution Day

This guy's making me look bad.


8 posted on 06/23/2004 10:53:10 AM PDT by tractorman
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To: tractorman

LOL!


9 posted on 06/23/2004 10:53:31 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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To: Constitution Day
Tractorman probably thought this was a way to draw attention to the plight of the (highly subsidized) tobacco farmer.

In reality, no one is going to support anything regarding the growth of tobacco (excluding perhaps increasing taxes). At this point, he's got a Boston Tea Party with minor federal damage.

But when he announced 'organophosphate bomb', that got the appropriate jackboot attention because this is when he crossed the line from protest to threat. These materials are neurotoxins (post synaptic uptake inhibitors) and are chemical cousins of material such as Zyklon B.

10 posted on 06/23/2004 11:03:48 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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You're right he should have been executed for not licking enough boots.

For 2 days, this guy's selfish actions shut down several of the major roads into downtown DC. If you know anything about DC traffic, his actions are almost a hanging offense.

11 posted on 06/23/2004 12:36:58 PM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: tractorman

::snicker::


12 posted on 06/23/2004 12:50:25 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Constitution Day; GoLightly

Once I saw the picture of the tractor I knew it wasn’t about me.
I make the red ones.


13 posted on 06/23/2004 12:58:40 PM PDT by tractorman
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Yeah, well I figured it would have been quite a drive for you.


14 posted on 06/23/2004 1:05:19 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: tractorman
Massey Ferguson?
Farmall Cub?

:)

15 posted on 06/23/2004 1:06:04 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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To: GoLightly

LOL fellow cheesehead.


16 posted on 06/23/2004 1:08:53 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: Constitution Day

Case-IH
New Holland


17 posted on 06/23/2004 1:10:34 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: Constitution Day

WTFIIWNC? :)


18 posted on 06/23/2004 1:12:28 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (John Kerry - Not the Swiftest Boat in the Delta.)
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To: tractorman
Aha.

Massey & Farmall Cub were the ones that came to mind, since my family has one of each.

19 posted on 06/23/2004 1:13:18 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Don't ask me, man.

The guy's farm isn't far from my house, BTW.

20 posted on 06/23/2004 1:14:02 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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