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Couldn’t the county simply have paid him for the damage to his well?

That’s the question that urges itself upon me as I sift through the rubble of last Spring’s confrontation in rural Wisconsin between Robert Bayliss and … well, at last count, roughly two dozen local, county, and state agencies.

The anti-Bayliss coalition included elements from no fewer than six SWAT teams and the prominent use of three BearCat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response and Rescue Counter Attack Truck) military assault vehicles.

Surely, Mr. Bayliss must have been a singularly fearsome fugitive in order to trigger such a huge deployment. One would think as much. And one would be wrong.

The post is from late June but I just heard about this story update from Free Talk Live’s August 16th, 2008 show.

This story is particularly disturbing given the situation. Property owned for 30ish years, the township’s tax screwup, the blowing up of his pump and the extreme response to his legitimate defensive actions. The librarian’s description of the man makes what occurred feel all the more horrible.

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