[dragnet2]

"What he said was this: 'If y'all come to get me, bring body bags,' " said Thomas, now a local justice of the peace. Thomas remembers the message clearly, not because of its unvarnished threat, but because -- after 12 years -- Gray, who doesn't acknowledge the authority of any government, continues to dare police to come and get him. Sequestered on a 50-acre, wooded compound in eastern Texas since jumping bail more than a decade ago, Gray and his clan have effectively outlasted the administrations of four local sheriffs, all of whom have decided that Gray's arrest is not worth the risk of a violent confrontation. "The risk of loss of life on both ends is far too great," said Anderson County District Attorney Doug Lowe, who first sought to prosecute Gray involving a Christmas Eve 1999 assault on Texas Trooper Jim Cleland. "I believed it then; I still feel that way." The stalemate, perhaps the longest-running standoff in the U.S. between law enforcement and a fugitive living in plain sight, is also emblematic of what the FBI believes is a troubling re-emergence of an anti-government movement that vaulted to notoriety in 1995.

Very interesting.

Ya know, I run into people who've lost it all, or most of what they'd worked for decades for. To be honest, some of these people just no longer give a damn about dying, or little of anything else. Calling them extreme is an understatement.

Pissed off to the core, with boiling contempt, would be a much better description.

[the invisib1e hand]

Pissed off to the core, with boiling contempt, would be a much better description.

The unbelievable actions of the leaders of the land in the past week lead me to believe they are trying to bring it to a confrontation.

Shades of "Gideon's Trumpet" (Colson).

[maine yankee]

When you've lost everything,

You've got nothin’ to lose

[Publius6961]

Pissed off to the core, with boiling contempt, would be a much better description.

Every time I read a thread like this one, the first thing that pops into my head is, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."

There's a lot of freedom seeking on the horizon.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeehaw this Bummer down.

[hope]

I imagine there’s a few like him, but this is what the islamist, jihad’s have been practicing for years and now we are at a crossroads...do we act like them or do we war against them...I say we stand for what is right and true to the Only God and press on!