Posted on 02/09/2009 5:53:32 AM PST by Mikey_1962
Looks like U.S. citizens are being pinched from both ends of the spectrum to me.
We executed some spies in the 50s.
Nethercott's previous felony conviction was in California. Nethercott's 70 acres was in AZ, close to the border.
The pistol whipping took place in Texas, on Sutton's game ranch.
The civil judgement was against all three of them, Nethercott, Jack Foote and Sutton.
Sutton paid his 100 grand judgement. Nethercott had no assets so the lawyers went after his AZ property to satisfy the civil judgement. Foote also had no assets, but he did lose his property in Abilene Texas because Texas has homestead laws that prevents the taking of a man's homestead to satisfy a civil judgement.
There is a link in reply #49 that leads to an accurate article about those events and circumstances.
The only thing I can think of right off the top of my head is he was already a convicted felon when he was caught with a gun. You have to be pardoned to ever get that right back. G. Gordon Liddy tried to get a Presidential Pardon so he could own guns "legally" again. Seems his wife had all the guns in the house. I always wondered what would happen to him if the feds came in and found HER guns.
As a Texan, I always wonder over other states allowing felons to vote. I don't get the advantage of allowing a murdering drug lord the right to vote again, once he's paid the "debt to society". I'd just as soon he have the right to keep a gun as vote for Obama.
There going to end up owning that property just like illegals ended up owning a property in Texas.
I suspected this case was a load of BS from the outset, considering how Barnett was careful to turn over trespassers to authorities. Barnett is being set up as an example to ranchers and property owners who object to illegal aliens running roughshod across their properties. Now who would have the highest interest in that?
I would like to set up an internet-based legal defense fund to aid in this man’s fight. Do you have any idea how to contact him, or contact information for his attorneys?
This issue makes my blood boil, and we are going to see more and more of these ridiculous suits unless we act. My longterm goal is to start a fund that would serve as a legal defense fund to ANYONE needing assistance of this sort.
Thanks. I’ll take a look at it.
That one sounds like it is a lot more complicated a case than just some guy stopping illegals from crossing his property.
He should have shot them instead of holding them at gunpoint - his kind heart is his downfall.
We have as many as 3000 a night crossing the border here in Cochise County now...down from a high of 5000 just 2 short years ago.
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