Terry Hoskins of Moscow (OH) owed $160,000 on his $350,000 home when the RiverHills Bank began foreclosure proceedings on his house.  He recently received a $170,000 offer from someone to pay off the house, but the bank refused the offer, saying it could get more money selling the home in foreclosure.  About a month ago, Hoskins used a bulldozer to level the home he had built, saying he did it to “make the banks think twice before they try to take someone’s home, and if they are going to take it wrongly, the end result will be them tearing their house down like I did mine.” (WLWT, 2/19/10)

Thankfully, Hoskins didn’t go the route of A. Joseph Stack III, who flew his plane into an office building housing IRS workers, partly because of the “unthinkable atrocities” committed by big business and the government bailouts that followed, but the take away is similar.  Some people are angry and taking what they perceive to be the serving of justice into their own hands.

Eric Zavolinsky