Posted on 05/18/2012 4:22:53 PM PDT by bgill
Two years after his home and the tunnels beneath it were seized by the city, Joe Del Rio is suing.
“The police lied to me and took me out of my house,” said the 72-year-old Del Rio, who spent 36 years serving his country in the Army and Air Force.
In May 2010, code compliance officers responded to neighbor complaints and discovered what they called a series of tunnels dug beneath Del Rio’s home on Canterbury Street in East Austin.
On Friday, Del Rio gave KXAN a tour of the home and says the tunnels were actually a fallout shelter that had been there for decades without any structural issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/work-begins-to-fill-tunnels-under-home
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/city-fill-hole-or-tear-down-house
Moral to story - Big Brother will confiscate basements in lib Austin. Seriously, east Austin has much more pressing problems than this house.
Don’t tell anyone if you’re building a fallout shelter.
The City of Austin is such a douchenozzle. The guy did nothing wrong. Bunch of liberal pukes.
You know what they say. The nicest thing about Austin is how close it is to Texas.
“Don’t tell anyone if you’re building a fallout shelter.”
Exactly.
I believe there was a Twilight Zone about a family who had a fallout shelter and when the big alert came, all of their neighbors, who had ridiculed the father, showed up demanding shelter . . . of course being a bleeding heart liberal Hollywood production, the father eventually gave in to his pleading family.
In New England we call those cellars :)
On the video he said, in essence, ‘I let them in, I have nothing to hide”
How many times do you hear people say that type of phrase? thud
I have an idea.
Let us make Travis County Texas, Boulder County Colorado, Cook County Illinois and the District of Columbia their own state. Give them their two Senators and wish them the very best.
And then target the drones. . . Only dreaming.
The Shelter
(part 2 of 3 parts)
Are you insane? 3 more democrat reps at least, and 6 more democrat senators? Think, man, think!!!
This is why I switched to a SHTF treehouse redoubt. They look right, I move left!
I think you’re missing his math on this one. He means put them all together as one state, so 2 dem senators for the lot. With those counties gone, you get at least 4 more rep senators in exchange, from the states that would go completely red with those counties removed.
They would be ONE STATE.
My variation on that is a county based electoral college system. Each county will receive an elector to go to a state convention and elect the senator, presidential electors, etc. Within the county the districts and election processes will remain the same. This will give the sensible people of rural Montana the same say in national politics as the morons in Manhattan.
I also think we should institute a system that bars anyone who receives government money in any way shape or form from voting. This would end the current practice of vote buying.
Ah. Still, it’s still nuts to give this new weird beast two more perpetual democrat senators.
my concept reduces them to 2.
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