[Robert357]

WTF? “...According to reports, police officers removed legally cultivated plants such as blackberries and okra...”

This was the police, not the noxious weed board right?

I mean we have to stop this illicit growing of blackberries and okra. What morally upstanding youth would eat okra? It is a gateway food that will lead to corruption of the soul!

This is just too much to believe. Don't the police have any common sense?

[sport]

Don't the police have any common sense?

No, but they have guns and an unlimited supply of ammunition and are not bashful about using their guns and expending large amounts of ammunition on the serfs.

[kingu]

Going from the Garden of Eden's website, it appears it was code inspectors who actually removed items from the property, including plants which weren't in growing beds, mowed the property, removed (their claim) debris (which Garden of Eden people claim as being resources), etc.

Actually, reading their website, their views on property are heavily conservative and anti-government. Which is likely why the raid was conducted - can't let anyone stand up to the government.