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South Carolina Man Faces Death Penalty for Shooting Home Invaders

Steven Bixby shot and killed a police officer and a Constable who entered his home after he had already warned the local government not to take any of his land so as to widen a highway while claiming eminent domain.

From the CNN Law Center:

His family was upset because the state wanted to take about 20 feet of land near their home to widen a highway. Witnesses said Bixby and his father, who is awaiting trial on murder charges, had threatened to gun down any officer who set foot on their land.

Steven’s 74 year old mother is being charged as an accessory despite not being present:

On the stand for the defense Saturday, Bixby’s mother agreed. “He has the right to protect his property by any means necessary,” testified Rita Bixby, 74.Although she wasn’t home during the gun battle, she was charged as an accessory because authorities say she knew her husband and son planned to harm police officers.

Bixby’s admittedly mentally unstable, having previously threatened neighbors and friends with death. The government still wouldn’t extradite him after he moved to South Carolina since he didn’t stand to face more than a year in prison, and the law does not provide for the right to extradite with potential penalties being any less. Bixby also only stood to lose about a square foot of his property.At either rate, the government certainly wasn’t going to compensate him for the air and noise pollution from the expanded highway, nor promise not to make him pay for the maintenance and policing of the highway.Eventually, there was a three hour stand-off in which hundreds of shots were fired at Bixby’s house, tear gas used, an armored vehicle smashed through his front door,a robot and S.W.A.T. team sent in.The lesson is clear: You must never defend yourself against the state. If you do, you will be branded crazy and an extremist, and will have overwhelming force and severe penalties brought to you and your family. Let this be a lesson to you that the state exists for your own good, whether you like it or not.

CNN’s story is here. A more detailed (and statist) account is at the Southern Poverty Law Center here.

The fourth page of the SPLC article is particularly disturbing in the consequences to follow for anti-government Confederates and anti-government literature in South Carolina.

“There have been a number of events around the country in recent years that indicate when you start hearing this inflammatory language, like ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ you better take it seriously. You can’t just dismiss people and say they’re wackos.”

Though the Bixbys took their hatred of government to a shocking extreme, their paranoid beliefs were clearly no aberration in upstate South Carolina. If Arthur, Rita and Steven are allowed to choose their own epitaphs, in fact, it should surprise no one if they quote directly from the tall Confederate monument in the middle of Court Square: “THEY KNEW THEIR RIGHTS AND DARED MAINTAIN THEM.”

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February 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
In a bit of tangential irony, it was Abraham Lincoln who wrote a letter attempting to assuage the grief of a Mrs. Bixby of Boston on the loss of her four sons in Lincoln’s abomination, praising her “great sacrifice on the altar of freedom.”

Not sure if Old Abe the Mass Murderer would write the same letter to the present-day Mrs. Bixby.
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