Our Scott Martelle, who write regularly for AOL News, has this piece on a showdown in San Diego County between tax officials and a veteran living off the land who refuses to pay a lien filed after a private contractor for the local fire district cleared brush from his land without permission. From the story:
Supporters are painting Diliberti's troubles as a principled stand over individual rights against a local government that overstepped its bounds, and centering on a back-to-nature enthusiast overcome by exurban sprawl.
Local officials say Diliberti's overgrown property posed a communal risk in a place acutely sensitive to the power of wildfires. They also say that his failure to reimburse the county for the expense of clearing his land passes an unfair burden along to fellow taxpayers.
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