Following is an email from LD Shannon of Peyton, Colorado. I think it’s a glimpse into a world into which America is now going — a world in which Big Government bureaucrats control everything. I’m glad BHM was helpful in this case.

We are recent subscribers & now ardent fans!  The advice in Backwoods has, literally, saved our lives as we had a major shock hit us this week.

We received a letter from the State of Absurdity (names changed to protect the guilty) that they had placed liens on all of our accounts because we had not paid enough in taxes to the tune of $81,000.  Problem is – we have not lived in that state for four years and their information was flat dead wrong!

Correcting faulty information would be simple enough …  if a ‘police’ state followed due process and had actually NOTIFIED us prior to these illegal seizures.  We had NEVER heard a peep from these bureaucrats before in our lives!

I am a disabled vet and have days where I can barely get out of bed.  We have four children, one  a son with down syndrome who requires plenty of extra care, ie, we have enough on our plate without this brand of bs dropping out of the sky!

Now comes the good part.

After our initial shock, after our calling these nut-cases in the state of absurdity with no success at all in explaining their irrationality, well … after all that my wife and myself looked at each other and began to laugh!

That is because we have built a heck of a pantry to feed our family.  We have chickens laying near a dozen eggs a day.  I am pretty handy with a rifle and have put down a deer and in the next few weeks expect to harvest a buffalo and two elk.  We have gallons of homemade wine.  And finally, and most importantly, we have cash.  Not in the bank … cash in hand!

We’ll straighten out the nut-cases.  And yes, we’ll probably have to pay some lawyer to prove our innocence and never get an apology or that fee refunded when we prove them wrong.

But because we have read and followed the great advice from all of you at BHM we have the best sleep-at-night insurance one can buy – self reliance!

This illegal seizure of property is a sign of the times, Dave.  The Federal government created this mess and is now taxing the bejesus out of us all to try and bail out a sinking ship.  State Governments are feeling the trickle down choke and are deciding to take it out on the citizenry.  And this is just the beginning of this g## damn mess.

Thank you for showing the way, Dave … thank you and all your writers and staff for helping all of us build our ‘ark’ so we can survive and thrive these coming bad times.

God bless you and all the staff of BHM, Dave.

LD Shannon
Peyton, CO

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