Bad day near Bailey

[Legion Troll]

He had the right​

A man who lost ownership of his home two years ago and sued to stop his foreclosure opened fire on three law enforcement officers trying to serve an eviction notice Wednesday near this Colorado mountain community, killing one and wounding the others, authorities said.

The officers fired back, killing the gunman. One of the wounded officers was undergoing surgery for life-threatening injuries, and the other suffered less serious injuries, Colorado Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Medina said.

The man opened fire with a rifle after the deputies from the Park County Sheriff's Office went to the home in a forested mountain community north of the town of Bailey, about 45 miles southwest of Denver.

A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation says the shooter was Martin Wirth. Wirth owned the wooden two-story home until March 2014, when Fannie Mae took ownership, according to the Park County Assessor's Office.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to release information about the investigation.

After Wirth lost a state court battle over his home's foreclosure, he sued Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, the state attorney general and a state judge in 2013. The federal lawsuit claimed that Colorado's foreclosure laws are unconstitutional and that Wirth and his unnamed guests were "in imminent danger of being wrongfully deprived of home and property while also being threatened with an armed and forcible entry onto the property and into the home."

He asked a federal judge to block Park County from selling his home, evicting him or forcibly entering the house and to strike down several state laws. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit last September.

A website by a group called the Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition includes undated posts that say Wirth had lost a legal fight against foreclosure and was facing eviction. The website lists his name and address and called for others to join Wirth in "eviction resistance."

It also included a video of a man identified as Wirth railing against mortgage companies as criminals.

The nearby town of Bailey is where a gunman took several girls hostage in a high school classroom a decade ago, killing one of them before himself.



http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/officials-man-lost-ownership-home-shot-deputies-37172800

 

[RockX]

Wirth was also one of the leaders of the Occupy Denver movement, an anti-government and anti-banking-industry protest that came out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, according to the Denver Post.

During his run for office as a Green Party candidate, he spoke out against corporate welfare, big banks, party politics and eminent domain, according to the Post.

Another nutjob liberal with a gun.....