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Phoenix Woman Ordered to Not Give Out Water in 112 Degree Heat Because She Lacked a Permit
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| 08/21/2012
| Brian Doherty
Posted on 08/21/2012 2:06:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is what government is all about. Forget roads, mass murder through warfare, or locking people up for their consumption choices: it's making sure that no one gives out water without a permit.
This is from last week but I believe un-noted here: ABC-TV 15 from Phoenix reports that local Christian proselytizer Dana Crow-Smith was ordered by a "Neighborhood Preservation Inspector" to stop giving out free bottled water last month because she lacked a vending permit, though she was not vending.
She is threatening to sue the city with help from the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group with a focus on religious liberties, if the city doesn't apologize and swear to train its enforcement officers to not make the same mistake again.
Here's the Institute's letter of complaint to the city.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; freewater; government; permit; phoenix; vending; water
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To: SeekAndFind
>>”Neighborhood Preservation Inspector”
Are they armed? Do they have a legitimate LEO badge? Can they issue court orders on the spot?
We have too many commissars in this country.
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posted on
08/21/2012 2:09:48 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: SeekAndFind
The schlagel-meister is toast. In Arizona, it is against the law to NOT give water to someone who requests it. I think the law also provides for the giving of water in case the person is incapacitation. Every year, a restaurant or two or three or four gets into trouble because someone walks in and asked for a drink of water and is refused.
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posted on
08/21/2012 2:22:58 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: SeekAndFind
Looks like communism hits again. When will America realize the communists takeover is rampant. Hate to continue raping about it but somehow it has to be stressed. Communism! Controlling the masses using false government self promoted laws.
To: SeekAndFind
"Neighborhood Preservation Inspector" Is that what they're calling the office of "Gauleiter" these days?
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posted on
08/21/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: righttackle44
I don’t know. As of march 2012, Obama owns all our water, food and resources in peace time and in war time if he so decides.
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posted on
08/21/2012 2:28:51 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: Bryanw92
“Neighborhood Preservation Inspector”
Wait until we see the “Department of Vice and Virtue” as the Taliban once had - and will no doubt have again! BUT I guess that wouldn’t work with libs in charge..
To: SeekAndFind
...local Christian proselytizer Dana Crow-Smith...I've heard of Christian groups in Arizona using this tactic of handing out water and the Word. I wonder if the state is so much worried about the permit as they are about the proselytizing...??
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posted on
08/21/2012 2:51:17 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: SeekAndFind
It seems that a certain “Neighborhood Preservation Inspector” is in need of an @$$-kicking. That is plain stupid.
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:12:49 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yet it’s perfectly ok to set up water stations out in the middle of nowhere for all the illegals hoping across the border.
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:19:20 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Bryanw92
Who believes ABC?
Are these illegal alien rallies?
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:20:59 PM PDT
by
donna
(Republicans wont change their ways until conservatives draw the line.)
To: randog
Organizations are setting up distribution stations in the desert to encourage illegal aliens.
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:23:16 PM PDT
by
donna
(Republicans wont change their ways until conservatives draw the line.)
To: SeekAndFind
I just came back from getting my hair cut and the barber was required to get a permit/license from the nanny state.
As are all the nail salon employees in the state.
There was a church group trying to feed the hungry in Houston, and they were shut down immediately, no permit.
It's never ending...
To: SeekAndFind
Gov. Brewer needs to vocally embarrass the local authorities for this stupidity.
I don't give a crap what “laws” are on the books. Our governments are bankrupt overpaying these fascist bureaucrats, are cities are war zones, illegal aliens running amok and they enforce this?
They all need to be shamed and ostracized. Deny them entry into your places of business. Have your kids bully theirs at school (I'm deadly serious about this - I'm tired of these tyrants not paying a price for their moronic ideas).
Call them out at church (if they bother to go - most tyrants think THEY are God!).
Seriously, when is this fascism going to stop?
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:28:25 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
To: Logical me
When I visited Phoenix in the early 70s it was an awesome place. Then everybody moved there and it became the Chicago of the Southwest.
Atlanta followed a similar path.
To: SeekAndFind
We discussed the heck out of this topic last week ~ the real and only issue is Western Water Rights Law.
It's similar to the Spanish prior appropriation system, and that's derived from the MIddle Eastern and North African experience over thousands of years, and some elements of the idea probably date all the way back to the end of the Ice Age.
Which means one thing ~ it's not a new issue ~ there are lawyers who specialize in it all around the world ~ and, finally, she probably did need a permit!
Some judge with nothing else to do might entertain the case, but those who object to any element of water rights law in any given area usually lose.
Jus' the way it is; planet Earth; year 2012!
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:42:29 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: All
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posted on
08/21/2012 3:45:28 PM PDT
by
az_gila
To: Thank You Rush
>>Wait until we see the Department of Vice and Virtue as the Taliban once had - and will no doubt have again! BUT I guess that wouldnt work with libs in charge..
In the Bizarro world of Obama, the Dept of Vice and Virtue would punish virtue and demand vice in the citizens.
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posted on
08/21/2012 4:02:01 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks SeekAndFind.
...was ordered by a "Neighborhood Preservation Inspector" to stop giving out free bottled water last month because she lacked a vending permit, though she was not vending.
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posted on
08/21/2012 4:07:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Bryanw92
“We have too many commissars in this country.”
Some uninterested bystander should have manned up and slugged the parasite. Of course the City would have found justification to arm them after that.
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posted on
08/21/2012 4:12:40 PM PDT
by
dljordan
("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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