Posted on 09/07/2013 11:27:30 PM PDT by RC one
On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb.
Movers carted out his easy chair, his clothes, his television. Next came the things that were closest to his heart: his Marine Corps medals and photographs of his dead wife, Martha. The duplex in Northeast Washington that Coleman bought with cash two decades earlier was emptied and shuttered. By sundown, he had nowhere to go.
All because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Right, and you know the county got more than $134 from the sale. So what happens to the rest of the money? Free profits for the government from stealing the property of the citizenry.
There are multiple interests involved. All of them legitimate. It’s a well studied aspect of property law. The same consequences occur without any tyrannical involvement.
Freedom without authority is anarchy. Authority without freedom is tyranny.
Bought and paid for . . .NOT . . . with property taxes we do not own anything, we just make huge security deposits and pay rent to the real owner the government. Don't pay the rent and we loose the property and the deposit.
Sure, the story is sad, but it could have so easily been avoided. How many demands for payment did he ignore?
From the article: Coleman, who struggles with dementia...
Yes we can own the property. There also are multiple interests and liabilities involved and it might take adjudication to discern who is the proper prevailing interest and how that is quantified.
This is the kind of thing that separates the sheepdogs from the sheep.
Wait to see what happens when the IRS places liens on us for not buying Obamacare.
Maybe then we will get up out of our Lazy Boys, turn off dancing with the stars and retake this nation.
Maybe.
Not unusual for people o old age to forget or mismanage.
I know one guy was on a wheel chair and the same happened to him because he missed the hearing as there was no handicap ramp. That is right, somehow courthouses get away without them. He committed suicide.
I once went to a hearing. When I checked why I lost the claim, the record indicated I had skipped it.
Government is evil. It does not repurchase lives, it lies and destroys them
People need to get a grip about what is going on.
You know they are goingfo come. They already confiscate passport for child support, same for obamacare support.
Real Estate means Royal (Government) Lands.
negative. In a legitimate government, a man doesn’t lose his home over a $134 tax bill owed to a local municipality. It is tyranny. But feel free to justify it however you like if it makes it easier for you to accept it. I pity the fools that come to my home when I’m 76 years old and tell me to to GTFO.
We are all accountable when we disrespect legitimate authority. If one uses deadly force to disobey legitimate authority, then the state is authorized to enforce the law by deadly force.
ridiculous. you own property yet the state takes it from you over $134 bucks. like they have the right to sell your house from under you. incredible times.
reset coming.
When you defend your property from rapacious Government YOU are the legitimate authority.
Did your Founding Fathers teach you nothing?
Don't be analytical and actually think about the facts.
You're supposed to work yourself up into a lather, put on your internet tough guy mask and boast about how you are morally entitled to commit murder if you don't pay your bills.
Clearly you think this whole "conservatism" thing is about taking personal responsibility for your own actions.
It's obviously about rehearsing childish revenge fantasies in your head instead. Don't you get it?
Disrespect legitimate authority? Ha! The legitimate authority that puts a 76 year old veteran on the street after stealing his private property and selling it to someone else over a $134 tax bill can kiss my ass in hell. How’s that for respect?
Assuming the authority is legitimate. On the one hand, Jesus specifically taught us 1) to pay our taxes, and 2) he himself would help us come up with the money (the coin fish). On the other hand, Augustine points out that a human law which runs contrary to the divine law has no legitimacy. Immoral law is really anti-law. And any law or system of laws which can result in this kind of inequity is clearly immoral. Someone was unjustly enriched at the expense of another. This is an ancient principle of the common law. Forfeiture as a penalty, especially for minor infractions, has long been frowned upon. The tax sale loophole is relatively modern and a clear departure from the old equities that gave the common law its moral force, I.e., its legitimacy. It cries out to be fixed. Especially where mental competency is at issue. I applaud Texas for their effort to get back on course.
You ruined everything by actually reading the entire Constitution, and the Federalist Papers too.
Madison, Hamilton and Jay just jawboning on and on about the executive enforcing the laws, having a nation of laws instead of men, elected governments having the power to levy taxes and suppress insurrections - and all that boring grownup stuff.
It's so much cooler to fantasize about doing whatever you want and then going on a rampage when someone tells you there are consequences.
Do you really think millions of Americans are amassing massive stockpiles of weapons and ammo so we can all look at them sitting in the safe? Think again a little more analytically. It's just a matter of time.
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