Posted on 01/07/2009 4:42:14 PM PST by SvenWaring
In what's been referred to as a black hat and bearded version of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Bobby Sands political prisoner movements, Old Order Amish activists are rallying behind Andy Swartzentruber, who is facing persecution from Pennsylvania's extreme sanitation police.
Swartzentruber was asked by the sewage enforcers not to deposit human sewage near his home and farm.
Proper human waste disposal, according to Jacob Crapzengruber, chairman of the Free-eth Swartzentruber Committee Agin' Sewage Imperialism and Poop Hubris, is contrary to the Old Amish sect's strict religious practice of self-denial and annoying neighbors.
(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...
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