Just press forward with everything you've got without hesitation, never acknowledge limits or principles, and never admit anything about your tactics -- so that time and again, everybody else wakes up one sunny morning finding they own nothing and you own it all.
A qunitessential American? I think not.
A few hundred people of this guy's means and mindset, and they could make all of rural Wyoming totally inaccessible (while only "owning" half the land).
It's well worth picking apart this guy's legal sophistries, as he's leveraging all the aberrations of modern legal philosophy to play the (local) tyrant here.