I enjoyed watching today's RPLR (Ron Paul Liberty Report). The segment about the squatters in the NYC house was fascinating, but I'm not surprised that the homeowner was arrested for changing the locks on her property. NYC doesn't respect property rights.
Here in Sonoma County, CA there is a history of squatters. When the USA declared war on Mexico in 1848, the Mexican landowners, ranchers, and businessmen fled to Mexico. It's a similar situation to the Palestinians fleeing their homes in Israel during the 1967 War.
After the War with Mexico, many Federal troops and other European settlers squatted on Mexican land around Healdsburg and in the valleys of the old Mexican estates.
Our friend Gala Norton's great-grandfather Louis Norton was sheriff of Sonoma County after the War with Mexico. His job was to remove squatters from Mexican-owned land.
Louis Norton was a huge bear of a man with a disciplined attitude—kind of a John Wayne type. Louis would approach the squatters and tell them to git! Sometimes, there were altercations, but most of the squatters were forced to buy the land from the Mexican owners, who were all too happy to sell. The owners went to live in Mexico or Spain.
Louis Norton was also famous for facing down a grizzly bear that had climbed the huge redwood tree in the front yard of their house in Healdsburg (the tree is still there.) Norton came out of the house, stared at the big bear, and told it to git! The bear climbed down out of the tree and headed for the hills.
When Louis Norton died, the coroner found 12 bullets in his body from old gunfights. He probably died of lead poisoning. Louis Norton is buried in Oak Mound Cemetery here in town.
I enjoyed watching today's RPLR (Ron Paul Liberty Report). The segment about the squatters in the NYC house was fascinating, but I'm not surprised that the homeowner was arrested for changing the locks on her property. NYC doesn't respect property rights.
Here in Sonoma County, CA there is a history of squatters. When the USA declared war on Mexico in 1848, the Mexican landowners, ranchers, and businessmen fled to Mexico. It's a similar situation to the Palestinians fleeing their homes in Israel during the 1967 War.
After the War with Mexico, many Federal troops and other European settlers squatted on Mexican land around Healdsburg and in the valleys of the old Mexican estates.
Our friend Gala Norton's great-grandfather Louis Norton was sheriff of Sonoma County after the War with Mexico. His job was to remove squatters from Mexican-owned land.
Louis Norton was a huge bear of a man with a disciplined attitude—kind of a John Wayne type. Louis would approach the squatters and tell them to git! Sometimes, there were altercations, but most of the squatters were forced to buy the land from the Mexican owners, who were all too happy to sell. The owners went to live in Mexico or Spain.
Louis Norton was also famous for facing down a grizzly bear that had climbed the huge redwood tree in the front yard of their house in Healdsburg (the tree is still there.) Norton came out of the house, stared at the big bear, and told it to git! The bear climbed down out of the tree and headed for the hills.
When Louis Norton died, the coroner found 12 bullets in his body from old gunfights. He probably died of lead poisoning. Louis Norton is buried in Oak Mound Cemetery here in town.
TJM
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