[Delphinium]

I bet this didn't even happen. These federal officers have been known to make this stuff up before.

Remember a few years back when Jack Ward Thomas was involved, and they were accusing ranchers of putting bombs in their trucks? I think they themselves planted them there to make the ranchers look bad.

[Ranchwife]

You could be right, we have all been thinking along those lines.
There were at least 5 FS people there that night, at the bright orange portable corral in the Montoya Trap where the incident allegedly occurred, Kit was by himself. No witness for his side of the story, but it is so much more believable than the various stories the FS is coming up with (and, yes, they are coming up with more than one story about it. The FS employee that testified against Kit at his arraignment wasn't even there when it happened, so his testimony is merely heresay, and it's different than the head LEO is telling, and he was there, in fact, he's the one who used the pepper spray on Kit).
Sadly enough, though, my dad (another rancher the FS put out of business in 1999) says it only takes 2 lies to make it the truth. In other words, if there is no one to corroborate Kit's story, then it couldn't possibly be the truth.......our wonderful justice system at work again! I'd kinda like to see everyone of those who were there (Kit included) that night, get hooked up to a lie-detector machine, personally.
I can just hardly wait until I can let the whole story out of the bag, and everyone will know what a lying bunch of two-faced hypocrits the FS has in it's employ........