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20th February 2012

Photoset reblogged from Rural Workshop with 136 notes

I’m going to ignore some of the stuff I disagree with this fellow about and just focus on the has a might beard, bit a cop, hid away for 12 years part.

thedailyfeed:

Meet the Texas family staging a 12-year standoff with the law on a 47-acre compound with no electricity, running water or phone.

For 12 years running, a Texan named John Joe Gray has been in America’s longest standoff with law enforcement.

In 2000, the wanted, anti-government militant and his family barricaded themselves in a 47-acre parcel outside Trinidad, population 1,100, and told the cops to “bring body bags” if they tried to enter his property.

Wary of provoking another Waco-like shootout, Henderson County’s then-sheriff, Howard “Slick” Alfred, listened. Instead of sending deputies to seize Gray, he decided to wait them out.

More than a decade later, Alfred has retired, as have two of his successors — and Gray has still not left the property.

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Source: thedaily.com

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    texas family staging a 12 year standoff with the law on a 47-acre compound with no electricity, running water or phone.
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    Remember Ruby Ridge.
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    Rock on Against the Tyranny…
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    fucking worst. Rather than “mess with” them, can we please just sell them back to Mexico?
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