Posted on 06/05/2014 1:42:41 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
BRADENTON -- There's no greater symbol of personal freedoms than the American flag, which is why a Bradenton homeowner has painted one across his 100-year-old house -- to protest what he says amounts to harassment by city code enforcement officials.
In late February, the city received a complaint about a live Christmas tree that was placed on the family home of Brent Greer at 3102 Riverview Drive.
The tree had fallen over, and Greer complied with a code enforcement officer's request to remove the tree, which was followed up by code enforcement in early May. It was during that visit that Greer said the situation became unacceptable.
"That's when he told me, 'We aren't done,' " said Greer. "He said he had other issues. And keep in mind, this was said during the post-inspection for the tree. I asked what the issues were, and he said he forgot his list."
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"I told the code enforcement officer that the Constitution gives me rights, and he told me that the city's laws trump the Constitution," said Greer. "I said, 'Well, no, it doesn't.' This is America and what rules America is the Constitution." LOL..Cool move painting his house.. Like right back at ya!...City's laws trump the Constitution.LOL..How can you not laugh at that..?
I had a home on the market. I was living in my new home when there was a wind storm that brought down a few (one arm load) of branches in the backyard of the unoccupied house. My former neighbor of thirty years, a man who had eaten and drunk at my backyard BBQ many times, filed a blight complaint with the town three days after the storm.
I cleaned it up in about ten minutes.
Later, I got three roughly equal offers for the house; I accepted the one from the unmarried Hispanic couple with the six kids.
I hope the complainant enjoys his new neighbors. Just doing my part.
Sounds like Volker missed his calling in a prior war.
Their worried about that house!? There are some really really rundown areas they should be spending time in. Probably too scared to go into them.
“”I told the code enforcement officer that the Constitution gives me rights,”
Ummm.. no..
GOD gave us our rights.
The Constitution PROTECTS those rights.
I hope the complainant enjoys his new neighbors. Just doing my part.
Excellent ! Sounds like "just desserts" were served.
I hope they are friendly, with fiestas every weekend inviting their buddies from miles around... and of COURSE the neighbor... might get him to loosen up a bit, Mexican style....
Joie d’officie?
It can become America again, if more people get their heads out of their anal exit passageway and see what’s going on.
City ordinances don’t trump the Constitution but most likely they are constitutional. Google street view shows the house did need paint. He lives in a nice older neighborhood.
:: I told the code enforcement officer that the Constitution gives me rights, and he told me that the city’s laws trump the Constitution ::
OK...at that point I would have FORCEFULLY ordered this jack-wagon off my property and told him to come back with a court order/warrant.
If he lingered, he would have become ^^intimately^^ familiar with my 2nd Amendment Freedoms.
Sometimes, being cordial may work. Stupdity needs to be met head-on with Liberty.
If continued harassment by the code enforcement people force the homeowner to move out, he should advertise the house in the College Hill neighborhood of nearby Tampa, or in East Tampa.
Cinco de Mayo will be especially fun. Be sure to your naybor a card every May 5.
code enforcements seeks the victim of least resistance.
I once heard someone threaten to sell his house to the person he thought “most likely to be a crack dealer.”
“...Later, I got three roughly equal offers for the house; I accepted the one from the unmarried Hispanic couple with the six kids.
I hope the complainant enjoys his new neighbors. Just doing my part.”
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You COULD have done better. You could have sold it to an investor who wanted to rent it out as Section 8 housing. That would have really hit home with the previous “good neighbor”.
It got paint all right?
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