It didn't take a year to remove the squatters. In fact, it probably took about 10min.

It took a year to remove the squatters without risk of government violence being applied to the owner.

There's a subtle difference.

What's the point of what you wrote here?

Think about that a little more.

	▲	amanaplanacanal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not uncommon to be able to illegally do something very quickly that would take longer to do legally. I'm sure most of us are already aware of that.