Marvin Heemeyer - Killdozer
- "Outraged over zoning disputes, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004 to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings"
Posted on 11/18/2017 5:02:27 PM PST by sparklite2
In Coachella, a man was fined $900 for expanding his living room without getting a permit. He paid his fine. Then more than a year later he got a bill in the mail from Silver & Wright for $26,000. They told him that he had to pay the cost of prosecuting him, and if he didn't, they could put a lien on his house and the city could sell it against his will. When he appealed the bill they charged him even more for the cost of defending against the appeal. The bill went from $26,000 to $31,000.
Brett Kelman of the Desert Sun found 18 cases in Indio and Coachella where people received inordinately high legal bills for small-time violations. A woman fined for hanging Halloween decorations across a city street received legal bill for $2,700. When she challenged it, the bill jumped to $4,200.
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One of the lawyers is VP for the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers.
Sounds like some sort of racketeering operation....
Behind the cheddar curtain in Walworth county Wisconsin, you need a permit just to get a new washing machine or fix your fence - no kidding. And yeah, they charge you to prosecute you for something. It’s a bs money game.
Re #3. Good quote about government having too much power. Here’s another:
Quotes from “The Russian Revolution” by Alan Moorehead 1958 “…but the fact remained that this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals...”
Yep. See my quote in #44.
“Extortion is a dangerous vocation.”
Not quite dangerous enough yet, apparently.
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Yup. Time for someone to take out the trash.
Why do you think there are cameras at almost every redlight in most states? THey are deathly afraid of Henry Bowman. Every day that passes and I do not hear about some government thug being killed amazes me, given how much of the kind of crap in this story goes on.
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