Hasn’t come up yet, but I’m painfully aware of the possibility. In such a case, the first thing I’d find out is how much uninsured-motorist coverage the client has, because a driver with no plates probably has no insurance either.
As far as ‘road building’
I doubt it was anything more than excitement that they managed to get a back-hoe started and decided to play with it.
Yes, but of course they’re going to insist on a jury trial and probably represent themselves, grand standing as much as possible. This farce could drag on for another 3-5 years easily.
. . . But, what happened to all the bags of dicks?! And the 55-gallon drum of lube?!
[Federal Supermax in Colorado explodes, killing all inmates and guards; forensic investigators rule out chemical or nuclear explosives and posit something called a “critical mass of crazy”]
Evidence item #232-19191, one 55-gallon drum of lube, used. 
Wes Kjar was also arrested. I believe he’s the last of the Malheur indictment.
3-5 hilarious years!
Pretty much, but it went through a Paiute archaeological site.
It might be hilarious at first, but we’ve all heard the sov cit bullshit before and it still stinks the same as it did the first time round. I hope the media wises up and stops reporting on them, the worst fate that could happen to them is for them to be ignored and rot in jail.
Well sure but the somewhat hyperbolic submission in question made it sound like the cattle were doing something inappropriately uncattle-like. They were actually just cattle being cattle.
Well, if he had two forms of ID, one government-issued with photo and address… 
The whole document makes perfect sense to me and I have no doubt that everything she says is completely true. However, I must say I am puzzled by this sentence:
[my emphasis]
“…for being taxpayers?” Wut? I’m not seeing it.
I think she is trying to say (with incredibly bad grammar) that because they are taxpayers they are the boss of public officials and not the other way around. The old “we pay your salaries” argument.
I’m sorry, I don’t speak loon.
Maybe they think paying taxes is enough. The Hammonds’ paid their property and income taxes and…? The arsons were just protecting their property? I don’t know.
And in other news, Bundy’s cattle learned something from Bundy . . .
“We will fight for bovine freedom,
and hold our large heads high.
We will run free with the buffalo,
Or die!”
Here’s CNN.com’s coverage - guns, explosives and Vanilla Isis poop found at the refuge: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/us/oregon-standoff-investigation/index.html
A great short story, and written during the Civil War, when some other idiots were denying the authority of the United States. My favorite part, which the defendants should be required to read, is when Nolan, the exile, helps free some badly-mistreated kidnapped Africans from a slave ship. He speaks to a young Navy officer with him as they return to their own ship:
*…he beckoned me down into our boat. As we lay back in the stern-sheets and the men gave way, he said to me: “Youngster, let that show you what it is to be without a family, without a home, and without a country. And if you are ever tempted to say a word or to do a thing that shall put a bar between you and your family, your home, and your country, pray God in his mercy to take you that instant home to his own heaven. Stick by your family, boy; forget you have a self, while you do everything for them. Think of your home, boy; write and send, and talk about it. Let it be nearer and nearer to your thought, the farther you have to travel from it; and rush back to it when you are free, as that poor black slave is doing now. And for your country, boy,” and the words rattled in his throat, “and for that flag,” and he pointed to the ship, “never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no more matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day!”
I was frightened to death by his calm, hard passion; but I blundered out that I would, by all that was holy, and that I had never thought of doing anything else. He hardly seemed to hear me; but he did, almost in a whisper, say: “O, if anybody had said so to me when I was of your age!” …*
From here: The Man without a Country - Collection at Bartleby.com
Just in case your morning needs a bit more cray cray here is Shawna Cox’s counter claim. Obviously she turned down the free legal help.
Look up. It was already posted yesterday in post #2703.
She’ll be in the spotlight in later years when she runs for office on the Cray-Cray Party ticket. Or will a felony conviction stop that from happening (here’s hoping)?
So wait, she says the feds are imperialist and communist, nobility and socialist? There’s a trick.