[RandFan]

What happened to New Hampshire? I thought it was the 'live free or die' state?

They put this man in jail for contempt.

Another judge drunk on power?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Reads like a movie in the making, if generations to follow allow.

[VTenigma]

We’re not in Walden pond anymore Toto.

[eastexsteve]

There’s no “living free” if you’re on private property. If the do-good libs want to see him live out his years where he is, then they need to work out an agreement and start paying the landowner rent. These damn squatters show up everywhere.

[lee martell]

That settles that! Otherwise the elder squatter would have made a never-ending war about trying to reclaim “his” cabin.

[joshua c]

been there 27 years. why is owner throwing him off now? new owner?

[Vision]

Good old silly AP propaganda.

For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his pets and chickens...on someone else's property.

[Truth29]

So arson was used to solve the problem. Now the old guy will simply be disposed of even though he had no original claim to the land.

[USS Alaska]

For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels.

Where did Rumplestiltskin get the solar panels?

He hasn't worked in decades, does he hunt and fish?

Where does the ammo come from?

I just have questions, no answers.

[tired&retired]

A similar situation happened near our hunting camp where a group from the city purchased a large tract of land, put a wire around the property, posted “No Trespassing” signs, shoved out an old local guy’s shack and built a big fancy hunting camp. The camp burnt to the ground just before hunting season.

The local Hillbillies got their own justice.

[ClearCase_guy]

[Track9]

This story is bing run because the eviction moratorium is ending and they want civil disobedience

[Flavious_Maximus]

He should have said he is native American Indian and the white people took his land.

It worked for Elizabeth Warren. /spit.

[outpostinmass2]

The man is squatting on property he does not own.

[Texas Fossil]

Jodie Gedeon, an avid kayaker who befriended Lidstone about 20 years ago, had been working with other supporters to help him, including organizing a petition drive and collecting money to cover property taxes.

Oh, so this is about a property tax foreclosure sale 27 years ago?

[Varda]

You're defending a squatter. When has America ever been “live free” on someone else’s property? Are you also for the government forced “moratorium” on evictions?

[HighSierra5]

Maybe B.O. will let him squat on his Martha’s vineyard estate. I wish I could squat on B.O.s estate.

[backwoods-engineer]

Whether he was squatting or not depends on who you ask. Also, the AP and other communist news sources are reporting this wall to wall, because they want this done to every rural self-sufficient man in “Iowabamaho”, as they call the “Red” States.

[kenmcg]

“What happened to New Hampshire? I thought it was the ‘live free or die’ state?”

Since when does “live free or die” means you don’t have property rights?

[liberalh8ter]

That was quick. I guess the landowner is now free of his burden. I'm sure the fire had nothing to do with him, at all. Live free or die - in a fire? (I know the cabin's inhabitant didn't die)

[PAR35]

Well that’s one way to get around an eviction moratorium.

27 years - does New Hampshire have a 30 year law on adverse possession? That may explain the timing.