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Counterpoint:
Didnβt that guy terrorize an entire town?
And when we needed him most, he vanished
Freedom fighter
~~freedom fighter~~ Weird antisocial asshole.
Seriously this was all over being told to pay to connect to the town sewer instead of pumping sewage into an irrigation ditch. This guy was just an asshole that decided to destroy his town because he couldn't be a selfish fake-libertarian piece of shit and dump literal shit out in the open. The killdozer as an item is metal as fuck, but he died a pathetic shit-slinger who wrecked everyone else's property and then blew his brains out to dodge accountability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer?wprov=sfla1
That's one extreme of the story. The other extreme is that he'd been doing it, along with every other business in that area, for years, because there's nothing out there. It's just sand and rock for miles in all directions. There's nothing to contaminate because nothing lives there.
The only reason he got involved in anything is because he was told it wasn't going to cost him any money. He shows up and starts filling out the paperwork and it doesn't say what he was told; it says he has to pay (souces differ) something like $6K-20K for an easement so he can dig up city property to access the sewer line to connect to it. He doesn't sign that paper. Instead, he gets up and walks away from the table, leaving behind the paperwork he'd already filled out, which included his application to connect to city utilities. Since he filled out the application, they file it, process it, and approve it, which is what "allows" city hall to start levying fines against him for non-compliance.
Every other business in that area continued to do the exact same thing as him, but only he was being fined for it. What's more, if he'd just stayed home that day and never signed anything, there'd be nothing anyone could do about it.
He knew he didn't understand the system, so he didn't want anything to do with it. Against his better judgement, he tried to comply. He started off acting in good faith. When he found out the other party wasn't, he walked away from the deal. He should have taken every piece of paper with his signature on it with him, but he didn't because he didn't understand how the system works.
He thought that since he didn't sign everything, that meant none of it was any good. When he got the letters from city hall about the fines, he did what he'd done with all the mail from city hall for years: threw it in the trash.
A city government, trying to expand its power and control, absued the system to extort money from someone who wanted nothing to do with them. If city hall had just left him, and well enough, alone, everything that followed could have been avoided.
Wow that's a lot of lies
As someone not extremely familiar with the details of the situation, I don't believe Heemeyer was in the right, but do you have any sources about what actually went on?
The Wikipedia page is pretty good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
The TLDR is an entitled white man doesn't like to be told what he can and can't do. Instead of installing a septic tank he tries to kill every one, only kills himself like the dipshit he was, and damage a bunch of buildings in a small town.
There is no such place on Earth.
[citation needed]