While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Andrew Wordes, a rural chicken farmer after a two-year harassment campaign by the government of Roswell, georgia, commits suicide over the peaceful use of his own property.  A decade previous, the city had laid out plans to seize his property as part of a large park.  On December 14, 2009 the city passed an ordinance forbidding roosters and limiting the number of chickens he could have.  Wordes was cited for not stacking his firewood properly.  Wordes was arrested for having a non-operating “vehicle” (a legal term for an “automobile or truck” bearing goods, services or persons in commercial transit); then he was sentenced to community service; and jailed when they said he had not completed the hours in a timely manner.  The lienholder on his property was coerced into selling his mortgage to the city for 40 “cents” on the “dollar”; once the city owned his mortgage it began foreclosure proceeding against him.  On his way to court to defend his property rights, statute enforcement officers (acting under-color-of-law) arrested Worde, causing him to miss his filing deadline, which resulted in the loss of his property.  Wordes’ last act of defiance is to blow up his home, with himself in it, while it is surrounded by SEOs.

       [added 5/23/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.