Dispute Over Land Prompts 13-Hour Standoff Between a Family and Deputies; Two Officers Killed

AP via TBO ^ | December 9,2003 | Jeffrey Collins

[Rebelbase]

"anti-American literature"

*That* is exactly what the JBT's would call your book.

[sauropod]

I'm glad i am not the only one that has picked up on that. Notice how in the one news article the literature is called "anti-American" and in the other "anti-Government."

IOW the Government is America.

[sauropod]

Rather bold statement considering we don't really know yet what happened.

How does it feel being a Gubbermint JBT shill?

[Cultural Jihad]

Bixby's wife then holed up in an apartment in town and threatened to shoot bystanders if her husband or son were injured; she was promptly arrested ...

Those statist curs! Don't they know that the Constimatushion clearly protects the right to commit cold-blooded murder?! Free Mumia Abu-Bixby now!

[sauropod]

"Those statist curs! Don't they know that the Constimatushion clearly protects the right to commit cold-blooded murder?! Free Mumia Abu-Bixby now!"

You're an idiot.

[AAABEST]

This story does not ring true to me. Comments?

It probably won't ever "ring true". It's very hard to get to the truth with incidents like this because everyone has a conflicting story to tell or an axe to grind.

[Cultural Jihad]

It probably won't ever "ring true". It's very hard to get to the truth with incidents like this...

There are no Grand Juries impaneled in South Carolina? What exactly doesn't ring true, that a family of kooks went over the deep end and committed murder over the widening of a road?

[MissAmericanPie]

Certainly not enough information in the article. When an article goes vague like this everything written should be taken with a grain of distrust.

From the pictures it looks like that highway project was going to within five foot of their front door. As also can be seen there was no reason to build a highway five feet from their front door when the photo's clearly show the opposite side of the highway has no homes for, what? A quarter mile? Looks like they had pleanty of room to build their highway without ruining the property on the only inhabited side of the street. I'd sure like to know what their anti-American literature was.

[countrydummy]

up kind of late.....have not been asleep yet! lol

[Cultural Jihad]

Speaking of not enough information, why would you be pronouncing engineering edicts based upon a photo?

[verity]

The Bixby's may not be playing with a "full deck."

[sauropod]

It doesn't take a degreed engineer (I have two) to determine how close the highway was coming to the house.

One of the photos shows what looks like a significant amount of land alteration on the opposite side of the highway.

We do not have the full story here.

[AAABEST]

I was just commenting on how hard it is to determine what happens in situations such as this, grand jury or not. No need to bust a vessel.

Hey...you're screeching at me again! I thought you were angry with me and didn't care to correspond any further.

[MissAmericanPie]

Two photo's, one showing the construction almost to the guys front door, the other showing the tons of vacant room on the opposite side of the street.

I'm guessing the home owner was pretty upset about the situation. He's probably not an engineer either.

[Cultural Jihad]

The Bixby's do not live in a community ruled by some foreign occupying colonial power, are not estranged from any institution of self-governance, are not disempowered and disenfranchised with no voice or legal recourse for the redress of grievances.

Perhaps Mao and some fringed nutcases like to preach that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, but self-governable Americans do not.

[sauropod]

Self-governable Americans should not have to contend with capricious eminent domain acts, which looks to me like what is going on here.

There is an awful lot of Gubbermint abuse of private property rights occurring right now in our country - if you care to look. Try fighting and winning a eminent domain case, just try.

[Cultural Jihad]

I'm guessing the home owner was pretty upset about the situation.

And this somehow justifies cold-blooded murder?

[sauropod]

"And this somehow justifies cold-blooded murder?"

Nobody on this thread said it did.

[Cultural Jihad]

No one told Mr. Bixby that he had to live in human society. He was free to purchase an island somewhere and be safe from the capricious demands of his neighbors.

[sauropod]

"No one told Mr. Bixby that he had to live in human society. He was free to purchase an island somewhere and be safe from the capricious demands of his neighbors."

Which was there first, his house or the highway expansion?