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Amen, Noumenon.
My backyard gardening is a prelude and training exercise for future larger-scale growing. Regulations like these must be fought tooth and nail; hopefully without loud noises and scattered chunks of airborne lead oxide.
Remember, Stalin starved millions with a fabricated famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. And the Ukraine was the "bread basket" of the Soviet Union.
Of course, they say things like that couldn't possibly happen here ...
From Wikipedia: “On 7 August 1932 a law came into force that stipulated that all food was state property and that mere possession of food was evidence of a crime. Among the most enthusiastic enforcers of the law were urban members of youth organizations, educated under the Soviet system, who fanned out into the countryside in order to prevent the “theft” of state property. They constructed and staffed watchtowers (over 700 in the Odessa region alone) to ensure that no peasants took food home from the fields. The youth brigades lived off the land, eating what they confiscated from the peasants. They often humiliated the starving peasants by forcing them to box each other for sport, or forcing them to crawl and bark like dogs.”
The supposed American kulaks will have a say...