A Michigan farm rights activist and his family are lucky to be alive after a possible arson attack in the early morning hours of Thursday, March 6, 2008. Phil Morosky and his family were sleeping in their beds in their rural Michigan home when a passerby knocked on the door around 3 AM and told them the house was on fire.
After the fire department poured thousands of gallons of water into the house, thousands of legal documents were nothing more than icy mush. The central part of the house where the records were stored was gutted and Morosky suffered severe burns to his hands trying to save them from the fire.
Morosky’s friends and many area farm rights activists believe the fire was arson. They point to a one foot trail of fire damage which trails off the roof in a one foot wide line down to the side of the house—right over the room where Morosky kept his home office and stored legal research documents and information on the cases of thousands of black and white farmers from around the country, many of whom have lost farms in what they claim are illegal foreclosures.
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