Posted on 02/05/2009 4:10:33 AM PST by blueplum
The nation's foreclosure crisis has sparked scams nationwide, emboldened squatters and homeless advocates and led to numerous federal indictments.
But this?
Sacramento police were in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods Tuesday investigating a scheme with a twist: claims that the house involved is under the protection of a sovereign republic and that trespass could be met with "self defense" and "justifiable homicide."
The bizarre case unfolded Tuesday in a gated West Natomas neighborhood that boasts million-dollar homes and some of the city's most prominent residents – think members of the Maloof family.
At issue is a 3,361-square-foot home on Clubside Lane that sold in 2006 for $865,000, assessor's records show. Neighbors say the home has been on the market seven times since then and that the last owner moved out more than a year ago.
It's been vacant ever since.
That all changed over the weekend, when lights suddenly came on and a middle-aged couple started moving stuff in.
About the same time, two printed signs appeared on the front window, one of them warning against trespassing and claiming the home was the "Private Property of sovereign Woman of republic of California" and that federal and state employees could not access the property.
The sign mentioned "freeman," an apparent reference to the radical anti-government group that gained fame in 1996 during an 81-day standoff with federal authorities in Montana.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Didn’t Peter Griffin try this?
Yeah crazy. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to secede from the United States, not why they would be keen to protect their borders after doing it.
There ya go ... the democrats’ goal for decades has been to create a nation of freeloaders, and it is obviously working, so get used to this mentality of ‘everything is free for the takin’.
A whole new meaning to the municipal term “homesteaders”
But if “the lights came on”- who paid for them to be
turned on should be a matter of public record.
The real story here is that this house sold for $865,000 and that anyone would call this an upscale neighborhood.
Interesting, I think we should keep our eyes and ears open for more events like this across the US, for both reasons of this “Freemen” and of the factual happenings of fraudulent renters that are crawling out of the woodwork, where there is disarray there is profit at play.
we’ll find out soon enough just how ‘liberal’ the Cal State University president acts towards his new squatter neighbors...hehe :)
Example:
Elderly woman had owned a duplex house with off-street parking on her side of the house. Her tenants, extremely rude and obnoxious women, would use her driveway and parking spot...whenever!! They were repeatedly told to stop. Finally, in order to stop them she had her daughter park at the end of the driveway.
One of the woman was an all around cheat. She had a home in New Hampshire. Her car, registered in NH, was in MA 4 days a week. She even had a handicap license plate. She wasn't handicap. So, she was not paying MA taxes, using MA services, and bugging the crap out of her elderly landlord 4 days a week.
Yeah, there’s some heavy hitters on that street. Me thinks the “legal process” may just get short-circuited to get the trash taken out in the middle of the night.
“One day, they just suddenly vanished, and no one knows why they left.” ... How convenient that will be.
I imagine there are a lot of signs in City 17.
The track record on past attempts at doing that leaves a lot to be desired.
$865,000 was likely the boom price - probably worth more like $450k now (and dropping)
Yes, but some of us did reasonably okay as sovereign nations before annexation... and now we have nuclear plants, oil, heavy industry, farming, experienced military.... now might be a good time for Texas to leave.
You have to "register" a no trespassing sign with the Sheriff's office in California? Does the Sheriff come out and wipe your nose, too?
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