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Anybody check with the Branch Davidians before doing this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2060041" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>Texas militant’s 12-year standoff with the law now on its fourth reluctant sheriff</p><p></p><p>For 12 years running, a Texan named John Joe Gray has been in America’s longest standoff with law enforcement.</p><p></p><p>[In 2000, the wanted, anti-government militant and his family barricaded themselves in a 47-acre parcel outside Trinidad, population 1,100, and told the cops to “bring body bags” if they tried to enter his property.</p><p></p><p>Wary of provoking another Waco-like shootout, Henderson County’s then-sheriff, Howard “Slick” Alfred, listened. Instead of sending deputies to seize Gray, he decided to wait them out.</p><p></p><p>More than a decade later, Alfred has retired, as have two of his successors - and Gray has still not left the property.</p><p></p><p>Current Sheriff Ray Nutt said he sees “no reason right at this minute to storm a compound where officers could get killed.”...]</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/20/022012-news-longest-standoff-1-3/" target="_blank">http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/20/022012-news-longest-standoff-1-3/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062479/John-Joe-Gray-How-Americas-longest-running-police-standoff-shows-signs-ending.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062479/John-Joe-Gray-How-Americas-longest-running-police-standoff-shows-signs-ending.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2060041, member: 1294"] Texas militant’s 12-year standoff with the law now on its fourth reluctant sheriff For 12 years running, a Texan named John Joe Gray has been in America’s longest standoff with law enforcement. [In 2000, the wanted, anti-government militant and his family barricaded themselves in a 47-acre parcel outside Trinidad, population 1,100, and told the cops to “bring body bags” if they tried to enter his property. Wary of provoking another Waco-like shootout, Henderson County’s then-sheriff, Howard “Slick” Alfred, listened. Instead of sending deputies to seize Gray, he decided to wait them out. More than a decade later, Alfred has retired, as have two of his successors - and Gray has still not left the property. Current Sheriff Ray Nutt said he sees “no reason right at this minute to storm a compound where officers could get killed.”...] [url]http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/20/022012-news-longest-standoff-1-3/[/url] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062479/John-Joe-Gray-How-Americas-longest-running-police-standoff-shows-signs-ending.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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