Your reaction is exactly why I grow it in the backyard only. 
Posted on 08/14/2013 8:59:24 AM PDT by Southern by Grace
Arlington, Texas — A family with a passion for gardening and conscious living was raided by the Arlington SWAT team early Friday morning. All 8 adults present in the house were initially handcuffed at the gunpoint of heavily armed SWAT officers, including the mother of a 22 month old and a two week old baby who was separated from her children during the raid. I had a chance to interview Quinn who gave me his first hand account of the raid and the background behind it all.
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In rural areas there is no code that you must comply with regarding how long you can grow your grass, straw, hay or whatever. That’s the whole point of living in a rural area where you are able to grow crops.
I agree. These folks would be better off out in the country. Still a SWAT team is an insane answer to code violations.
Jim Stafford from ‘Wildwood Weed?’ I think that’s the song name.
I looked at their home on the map. It is rural.
7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd, Kennedale, Texas 76060
Never was a Star Trek fan, I was probably too much of a “Herbert”.
Your reaction is exactly why I grow it in the backyard only.
Family Raided by SWAT Team for “Weeds”
The Bob Tuskin Radio Show ^ | August 12, 2013 | Bob Tuskin
Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:59:24 AM by Southern by Grace
Arlington, Texas — A family with a passion for gardening and conscious living was raided by the Arlington SWAT team early Friday morning. All 8 adults present in the house were initially handcuffed at the gunpoint of heavily armed SWAT officers, including the mother of a 22 month old and a two week old baby who was separated from her children during the raid. I had a chance to interview Quinn who gave me his first hand account of the raid and the background behind it all.
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Police Mistake Tomato Plants for Marijuana, Destroy Farm (Video)
Opposing Views ^ | 08/14/2013 | By Michael Allen
Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:23:23 PM by Responsibility2nd
Several residents at the “Garden of Eden” sustainability garden in Arlington, Texas, claim that local police raided their farm because they thought tomato plants were marijuana plants.
The police reportedly damaged the garden's property and the crops during the Aug. 2 raid, which included a SWAT team (video below).
A SWAT team is an insane answer to everything that doesn’t include a hostage in the reason for its presence.
-PJ
Come on. Lighten up.
Eight adults in one house is a lot—unless you are in a mansion of some sort.
Maybe we’re only seeing one of a few test situations. There may be waves of such cases in the near future—tens of thousands of them. Special, watchful constituents in the social circles behind those cases aren’t spending enough on law enforcement or legal services. Necessary revenues should go into the millions for the average case.
The alternative—an effort to silence and make examples of those with gardens, etc.—will be a saturation of the populace with interesting reports about what will happen to everyone on private properties, whether cases of legal, paid possession in leases or ownership. One can’t help but also wonder whether those whose private property rights are violated won’t begin keeping records on NIMBYs. Anyway, without incomes from debt, many gossips would no longer have time for busybody activities. So the debt problem will lead to more peace, quiet, and yes, front yard mechanics, etc. So, cheers for the debt regime, or rather, the period afterward.
You must be referring to CA, OR and WA. NV is mostly owned by the Feds but it is also the state with the least restrictions pertaining to individuals. I think UT is also a ‘good’ state.
CO
I believe in private property rights, I also believe in being considerate of neighbors and honoring an agreement I’ve made and others honoring theirs. Despite my being pissed off about the shade tree mechanic and the obvious disdain he had for neighbors and the agreement he signed I wouldn’t have wanted him or his family to be subjected to what those in Arlington were. Or even his disregard for the safety of neighbors and their pets with his pit bulls, we are able to deal with that. One of my other neighbors shot and killed one of his pit bulls that was killing a miniture dauchsand, the other two went home. He got these three after another three had been uthanized by the county because he wouldn’t pick them up and they were deemed dangerous. He wouldn’t pick them up because his insurance company wouldn’t insure him if he didn’t upgrade the fence. It was cheaper for him to let them be uthanized, not upgrade the fence and get three more. The county uthanized the remaining two and within a few monts he had three more, yes that makes nine, five uthanized, one shot and now three in waiting. I’m glad he didn’t put me in the position of having to shoot any his dogs. He’s a POS, I’m glad he’s gone. Did I mention that his were the only cars in the neighborhood with obama stickers.
When the balloon goes up - and the collapse of the economic one is guaranteed - you might get hungry if you can’t grow food. Don’t come to my farm or any of my neighbors’ farms or you’ll end up like the rest of the zombies: as chunks of slop for the pigs to metabolize into bacon.
Who'd a knowed okra was a dangerous weed that has to eradicated by an armed SWAT team?!?
It would take more than one SWAT team to clear this place out; we've been working on getting rid of feral horehound, burdock, shepherd's purse, purslane, various amaranths, and catnip for years. And that doesn't include the real weeds: bindweed, buffalo burr, mullein, giant horseweed, cow parsnip, snowberry, skunkbush, poison ivy, ... . 25-30 years of abandonment after a Hippie commune folds will do that to a large acreage.
At least we, and the local fire chief, sees a lot of progress since we bought it, and he had to stop sneaking down the hill to steal apples...now, he just gets them given to him. ;-')
His loose pit bulls were violating the rights of his neighbors. His auto repair was not. His Obama campaign bumper stickers were not (disgusting as they are). HOAs are illegal governments. Nearly all of the properties of some states are governed by HOAs, giving property buyers no alternative other than living under harpy landladies or harridan HOA tyrants. If a property owner wants nothing but her choices in aesthetic pleasantries as far as her eye can see, she should buy much more property and leave the properties of her neighbors alone. Communism is not the answer.
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