Idaho

Vanje

(9,766 posts) Fri Mar 9, 2012, 06:24 PM Mar 2012

Crazy Athol tax-protestor claims "legislative immunity".

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/03/idaho_lawmaker_claims_legislat.html

Republican Rep. Phil Hart is locked in a legal tussle with the Internal Revenue Service over $550,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest. Government lawyers are seeking to foreclose on Hart's home in Athol to help settle the debt.

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This is the same crazy MOFO that stole timber from Idaho state-owned forest lands.

http://m.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2012/jan/04/hart-defends-public-timber-taking/

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Crazy Athol tax-protestor claims "legislative immunity". (Original Post) Vanje Mar 2012 OP

I'm wondering when our bat-shit insane legislature will have enough of his games EvolveOrConvolve Mar 2012 #1

Does it breed them or do they go there? saras Mar 2012 #2

Actually, I think the Unabomber went to Montana EvolveOrConvolve Mar 2012 #3

They'd be tolerated in Montana except they can be seen from so much farther away... saras Mar 2012 #4

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)

1. I'm wondering when our bat-shit insane legislature will have enough of his games

Reply to Vanje (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 06:28 PM

Mar 2012

Even as fucked up as Idaho is, this guy take crazy to a whole 'nother level. There's something about Idaho that breeds crazy dudes like Hart and Rex Rammell, then encourages them to get into politics to infect the rest of us with their insanity.

saras

(6,670 posts)

2. Does it breed them or do they go there?

Reply to EvolveOrConvolve (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 08:29 PM

Mar 2012

I mean, if you were batshit crazy, where would YOU go? If it was good enough for the Unabomber...

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)

3. Actually, I think the Unabomber went to Montana

Reply to saras (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 09:20 PM

Mar 2012

Even still, yea, you're right. Crazy people are attracted to Idaho because of its extreme tolerance for crazy (one of the few things that ARE tolerated in Idaho).

saras

(6,670 posts)

4. They'd be tolerated in Montana except they can be seen from so much farther away...

Reply to EvolveOrConvolve (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:53 AM

Mar 2012

Long, long time ago in Idaho I met an ex-Vietnam vet. He took huge amounts of acid while in Vietnam, he said this was the only lifestyle he knew, and if he thought of it as just like Vietnam except no orders, no booby traps, and no Viet Cong, it was a good life.

Where else do you go if you want to live like that?

From experience I'd say it isn't so much crazy they tolerate as "don't come down your half-mile long driveway except for supplies". They're pretty conservative while you're in town - you can have crazy ideas as long as you act like a good ol' boy. But up your driveway is your business. Four neighbors could be hippie, redneck, telecommuting yuppie, and a guy who wants to be a bear, and from the road you can't tell.

And the Unabomber wasn't the only crazy who went there. The folks at Ruby Ridge moved there.

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