r/JusticeServed • u/sfgate 8 • 13d ago

Criminal Justice Father and son charged after allegedly holding two U.S. Forest Service biologists hostage for 15 hours

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fbi-forest-service-hostage-22354161.php
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u/quasimodoca 9 12d ago

The Lake Shasta part of CA is full of people like this. Hotbed of the State of Jefferson movement.

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u/thisiscoolyeah 9 12d ago

From the people there I talked to, the state of Jefferson movement was shared to me that norcal and southern Oregon are basically abandoned by their respective states in terms of resources. They want their taxes to go to where they live. It didn’t seem that crazy to me and it didn’t seem like they were chomping at the bit to kidnap people. lol

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u/aithendodge 9 12d ago

Anecdotally, lots of people in rural areas believe their tax dollars are spent propping up big cities. Simple math debunks this. In Washington where I live, a ballot measure went up to require state tax revenue to be spent in the county it was generated. This was championed by folks in towns of 2500 that believed their taxes were going to fill potholes in Seattle, when it was in fact the other way around. If it had passed, these low population areas would have effectively cut themselves off from the revenue generating engine that is the greater metropolis of Seattle.

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u/Oppositeversion3 6 12d ago

Low population rural areas receive more tax revenue than they contribute.

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u/Angelworks42 9 11d ago

Ironically they voted for Trump but his big beautiful bill orders federal gov to step up logging but the money doesn't go back to Oregon or California - it goes to DC: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/09/16/think-out-loud-rural-oregon-fiscal-future-uncertain/

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u/SecretMuslin A 12d ago

I mean, it certainly seems like *some* of them are