Posted on 09/13/2010 8:29:16 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.”
Fig trees, broccoli and cabbages are among the many greens that line the soil on Steve Miller’s more than two acres in Clarkston, who said he has spent fifteen years growing crops to give away and sell at local farmers markets
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Welcome to the Obmanation!
Here is the video: http://www.wsbtv.com/video/24981915/index.html
Years ago I worked with a Chinese woman who tended to laugh at inappropriate times (I’m told this is very Chinese).
At one point (for some reason) I mentioned pumpkins, which I consider a very New England type of vegetable and I said that she may not have eaten one — “Oh no!” she said, “In China we grew many pumpkins! My district in China was famous for pumpkins! My grandfather grew more pumpkins than anyone else in our village!”
Then she started giggling and added “That’s why they killed him.”
Reminder: Obama hung pictures of Chairman Mao on his Christmas tree.
You mean besides "progressive" taxes?
Well said!
I pronounce this world insane.
I’ve heard that laugh.
It can mean anything BUT humor.
This farmer is in Georgia???? Where’s his congressional delegation looking out for his rights. In 1998, the entire delegation (led by NEWT) demanded the Clinton administration STOP all workplace raids of illegal aliens because their big donor, big ag vidalia onion growers wanted cheap labor.
But this is an individual USA citizen farmer, with no rights in this society.
In Georgia a while back the Revenooer would of been tarred feathered and run off. I hope the South Rises Again before it is too late.
I say, the more vegetables people grow on theri property — the better!
The farmer should have filled his butt with rock salt.
This is ‘getting the job done’ to all bureaucrats. Wait’ll they get their hands on healthcare.
One of the reasons the dumb as stumps Carter fambly didn’t starve to death was that old, old man Carter had/got one of the few federal PERMITS to grow and sell....peanuts. Yes, you are not free to grow and sell peanuts. So, the fambly in its slow generational decent into imbecility had a license to print money.
As it has been for 70 or so years, growing anything is held by the fedgov paid judges to be engaging in interstate commerce, even if the crops don’t leave your land, and so fedgov, it’s minions, agents, hacks can tell you what to do.
In short, we are serfs on rented fedgov property. ( You just think you own it. You don’t. You exist there at the pleasure of fedgov, stategov )
On their own property!
The people of the U.S. are no longer a free people.
FDR began the insanity of paying farmers not to plant.
The ‘progressives’ wanted to control every aspect of our lives.
Sound familiar?
You gotta be kidding??? Why in the world would anybody care how many veggies a farmer grows? That’s what farmer do y’know!
Where have you been since the first Great Depression?
See Wickard v. Filburn...
Uh, 1942, not the First Great Depression.
The Supreme Court, interpreting the United States Constitution's Commerce Clause under Article 1 Section 8 (which permits the United States Congress "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;") decided that, because Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn's production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce, and so could be regulated by the federal government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
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