Posted on 01/27/2007 1:36:11 PM PST by tpaine
Here's another one of your heros.
They’d been hassling Carl Drega, retired carpenter, for years. He was cited for not finishing a tarpaper outbuilding on his property “soon enough.” He was cited for shifting rocks and fill to rebuild the shoreline of his property -- along the Connecticut River in upstate New Hampshire -- after it washed out in a flood. (Authorities claimed he didn’t have the proper permit. The state announced it would send in contractors to “put the shoreline back the way it was” -- precisely what Drega claimed he had done -- and bill Drega for the costs, however high.)
Drega tried to fight them in court, and to get the Boston Globe interested in his plight. But he was an unsophisticated man, and no one paid any attention to his rambling letters until that hot day in August 1998 when two local cops pulled him over in a supermarket parking lot for having “rust holes in the bed of his pickup.”
Then they started to pay attention.
Carl Drega shot and killed the two cops, drove downtown in one of the police cars, found the part-time judge who had backed many of the actions against him, and killed her too. Then, for good measure, he killed the editor of the local newspaper, who was foolish enough to try and tackle Drega while unarmed.
Carl Drega died later that day, in a shoot-out with police.
In San Leandro, California -- about
See #26,
Sick, but funny.
--So, you admit it? You have no idea why the Second Amendment exists?--
So you admit you are a lawless anarchist?
Small claims court may or may not have covered all your loss but you don't need a lawyer.
--On the other hand, he warned them that he would kill them if they came on his property. Apparently they accepted that risk, so in a way, they committed suicide...--
Sounds like that 'she was responsible for being raped because ...' arguments.
In the name of Allah we good people must do terrible things to keep the Zionist and infidels out of our lands so that the goverments will listen to us.
I agree.
Always expect to read or hear about somebody going postal at a county council meeting....especially in big government blue states.
Cut your losses.
Statements like yours do nothing but help the anti-gunners.
Yes, but that's why we fought the First Revolution and the actions/attitudes of arrogant, greedy public officials is why there will be a Second.
My reading of the article is that the Land Owner had been fighting the imposition of an existing easement for a number of years and the town was imposing a new easement that did not exist when he purchased his land.
It seems to me that the town handled this very poorly. The town served the papers for the new easement early in the morning to the wife (they probably new that he would not be home) and started work the very same day.
The town apparently did not want to give this man time to take any legal action to prevent the start of work on the new sewer line.
In my mind the town knowing this man would not take this issue lightly tried to roll over him with a surprise attack. They knew he worked nights and would not be able to get a court injunction in time to stop the start of construction.
The guy was operating on lack of sleep that and his long running anger over took his patients.
I don’t condone his actions but like his fellow townspeople I understand him.
Addendum: Seems as though something could have been worked out in this situation, though.
In my opinion, the whole reason we have the Second Amendment is that sometimes the King's Men need killing, and the people need to have the ability to do so.
~If~ [BIG if] he had a valid reason for killing, -- he killed the wrong men. The city officials forcing the issue were his enemies, not the workingmen.
I don't want to go so far as to justify what this particular man did. But let's look at the general case, rather than the specific --
No, as specifically, -- in this case, -- you cannot compare the workingmen to "SS soldiers".
I served & I'm well aware of the Nuremberg codes. -- They don't apply.
My hero. (((sigh)))
I wonder if the local government pulled back on their enforcement of stupid laws immediately after this man lost his mind.
This article, like so many others, is long on emotion and short on facts.
There was more in another article but not much more. Something about clogs and his tie-in to the county system.
LOL! Guess a lot of Freepers can't find the diplomatic way to show support for this misguided soul without appearing unbalanced and extreme.
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