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Chinese farmer fires homemade cannon to defend land
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Posted on 06/08/2010 8:07:30 AM PDT by MollyKuehl
A Chinese farmer has declared war on property developers who want his land, building a cannon out of a wheelbarrow and pipes and firing rockets at would-be eviction teams, state media said on Tuesday. Yang Youde, who lives on the outskirts of bustling Wuhan city, in central Hubei province, says he has fended off two eviction attempts with his improvised weapon, which uses ammunition made from locally sold fireworks. "I shot only over their heads to frighten them," the China Daily quoted him saying of his attacks on demolition workers sent to move him off his land. "I didn't want to cause any injuries." The rockets can travel over 100 metres, and exploded with a deafening bang, the official paper added. It did not say if anyone had been injured. His approach is more aggressive than most, but Yang's problem is a common one. Anger over property confiscation is one of the leading causes of unrest in China, with many people forced to give up homes and land to make way for anything from roads to luxury villas. Yang says the local government has offered him 130,000 yuan (13,120.52 pounds) for his fields, on which they want to erect "department buildings." He is asking for five times that amount. Construction ditches have already been dug across the land of less obstinate neighbours. A first eviction team attacked him in February after his rockets ran out, but local police came to his rescue. In May he held off 100 people by firing from a makeshift watchtower. The government is planning to reform property confiscation rules, but rights groups say the changes do not go far enough to address the potentially destabilising issue.
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To: James C. Bennett
Eminent Domain allows the US government to do to you exactly what the Chinese Commies did to this farmer.
And BATF laws would nail the rocket launching defender to the wall. He would be up on assault chargers and destructive devices charges.
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posted on
06/08/2010 9:53:23 AM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: Teacher317
Without property rights “economic freedoms” are illusory.
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posted on
06/08/2010 10:21:55 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(The incredible shrinking alleged president. Wish he would hurry up and reach the vanishing point...)
To: MollyKuehl
Property confiscation, already here in the land of the free.
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posted on
06/08/2010 10:22:01 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: James C. Bennett
Eminent Domain allows the US government to do to you exactly what the Chinese Commies did to this farmer. Well, at least the way this Supreme Court is misinterpreting our Constitution, yes.
If you follow the actual words of that document? No.
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posted on
06/08/2010 10:25:17 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(The incredible shrinking alleged president. Wish he would hurry up and reach the vanishing point...)
To: EternalVigilance
Words Vs. Supreme Court’s misinterpretation.
Who’s gonna win?
To: James C. Bennett
Eventually the truth will win.
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posted on
06/08/2010 10:35:40 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(The incredible shrinking alleged president. Wish he would hurry up and reach the vanishing point...)
To: MollyKuehl
Hot diggety dog!
Someone needs to send Mr. Yang one of these flags:
To: James C. Bennett
Oh? Does he get a jury trial where his Chinese peers decide the amount of just compensation?
To: MollyKuehl
He's probably already been executed, his home razed to the ground, and a new statue of Mao has been erected on the spot that photo was taken.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
06/08/2010 1:00:38 PM PDT
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The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: rawhide
Hold my Jiu and watch this!!
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posted on
06/08/2010 1:07:03 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: The Comedian
He's probably already been executed, his home razed to the ground, and a new statue of Mao has been erected on the spot that photo was taken. Lol. Not if the local police is helping him. Actually, we saw a lot of this stuff during the Yeltsin days when the old soviet was falling apart. The myth of the russian populace's defenselessness proved kinda thin as people dragged heavy machineguns and even howitzers out of barns and basements.
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06/08/2010 3:02:58 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(I want gigaton warheads now!!)
To: The Comedian
He's probably already been executed, his home razed to the ground, and a new statue of Mao has been erected on the spot that photo was taken.
More than likely. Marxists have no use for human life, it's just a commodity, only to be used to advance and build their communist edifices.
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06/08/2010 3:23:38 PM PDT
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MollyKuehl
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To: MollyKuehl
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:11:09 AM PDT
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A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Yahoo
Gesundheit! Wo bist du????
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06/09/2010 6:15:40 AM PDT
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MollyKuehl
(Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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