04/08/2021
81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in a small cabin along the Merrimack River in the New Hampshire woods for nearly 3 decades. Despite minding his own business and not causing harm to anyone, he was arrested and jailed since mid July on charges of contempt for not obeying a court order to leave the cabin. The landowner wants him gone, and the judge, though somewhat sympathetic to Lidstone, holds that the man must follow the law regardless. According tot an AP report, Lidstone was quoted as saying to the judge, “You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you’ve got all my possessions. You keep ’em,” “I’ll sit here with your uniform on until I rot, sir.”
81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in a small cabin along the Merrimack River in the New Hampshire woods for nearly 3 decades. Despite minding his own business and not causing harm to anyone, he was arrested and jailed since mid July on charges of contempt for not obeying a court order to leave th...