Discussion: Man Charged In California Wildfire Refuses To Go To Court

system1 · August 10, 2018, 12:50pm

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clauscph · August 10, 2018, 12:54pm

Smart move, then they can’t convict him ! Is this a Sovereign Citizen, perhaps ?

gargoyle · August 10, 2018, 1:46pm

I hope Trump and Giuliani don’t read this news item (on Fox or Breitbart, they wouldn’t read TPM). They might use the “No no no I won’t go! You can’t make me!” defense, and if they install enough pliant judges, it might work.

erik_t · August 10, 2018, 1:48pm

He sounds like a genius (and very stable!).

fess · August 10, 2018, 2:27pm

More likely a fan of Laura Ingraham.

…telling them he had been terrorized by gangs and that “they told me they were going to send eight Mexicans, big Mexicans, and they were going to kill me.”

patl · August 10, 2018, 2:35pm

According to JJ MacNab, this guy is a sovereign citizen who is into all the conspiracy theories. Check out her twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

patl · August 10, 2018, 2:40pm

Check out this guy’s Facebook page before it goes away.

jaybeeraybee · August 10, 2018, 2:43pm

Well, our former Governor Reagan proudly began the conservative process of dismantling the state’s mental health system 40+ years ago. Fast forward to the present, add a little global warming, a drought or two, some matches, and voila!

26degreesrising · August 10, 2018, 2:55pm

You have to scroll to the bottom to find his affinity for Trump, but it’s there.

paulw · August 10, 2018, 3:10pm

This is why we can’t have nice things. Like livable planets.

robcat2075 · August 10, 2018, 3:56pm

Forrest “Forest Fire” Clark Speaking to the press…

Reaction of firefighter…

capital2 · August 10, 2018, 4:08pm

So angry nutcases now have an alternative to mowing people down with bullets – destroy the neighborhood with fire instead! Terrifying and appalling.

alyoshakaramazov1 · August 10, 2018, 4:25pm

Holy Jim, Batman!! A forest fire has been set by Forrest in Holy Fire!!!

patl · August 10, 2018, 4:37pm

Not amusing to those of us who live near burning fires. Just saying.

sooner · August 10, 2018, 4:46pm

Should tRump be inclined to name a new head of EPA or chooses to replace Zinke at Interior this man would be a natural fit.

midnight_rambler · August 10, 2018, 5:15pm

Infowars/QAnon fan. Why am I not surprised? They’re deliberately designed to attract mentally ill people. There are a bunch of people I know like this, some of them also potentially violent.

thx1138 · August 10, 2018, 5:22pm

I used to live right near where this fire is burning. We used to hike the Holy Jim trail, which went right past where this guys cabin is. It doesn’t surprise me that someone like him would have lived in one. The place always creeped us out, and we’d often joke about who (or what) lived in those cabins. That exact area was inspiration for Dean Koontz’s ‘Watchers’ novel, if that tells you anything.

deadlyspoons · August 10, 2018, 5:43pm

What’s the over/under on Trump giving him a full pardon?

trustywoods · August 10, 2018, 7:04pm

So he’s waivings his rights and going straight to jail? Do I have to RTFA?