[Tennessee_Bob]

Mental illness is not an excuse to kill, but neither is intruding in someones home acceptable.

On the other hand, is mental illness an excuse to ignore six court hearings and a subpoena? I'm not saying that anyone should have been shot and killed - I think it's a shame. However, the two police officers were trying to enforce the law and the orders of the court. The civilian was ignoring those laws, as well as the laws regarding the upkeep and safety of the house.

[spodefly]

Bob, the point for me is the courts and the police should never have been involved in this. As I said in another post, we have become so inured to the vagaries of the state that we just accept that someone not submitting to the will of the state must be doing something wrong.

The old man should have been left alone to live out his life.

"Find out what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.'' -- Frederick Douglass

[Travis McGee]

When is the government going to show 1% as much effort in deporting the MILLIONS of ILLEGAL aliens clogging our hospitals and jamming our schools?

Now I can demonstrate the harm that these freebie grabbing illegals are causing; I fail to see the harm this old geezer was causing on HIS PROPERTY.