Posted on 08/14/2013 8:59:24 AM PDT by Southern by Grace
Arlington, Texas — A family with a passion for gardening and conscious living was raided by the Arlington SWAT team early Friday morning. All 8 adults present in the house were initially handcuffed at the gunpoint of heavily armed SWAT officers, including the mother of a 22 month old and a two week old baby who was separated from her children during the raid. I had a chance to interview Quinn who gave me his first hand account of the raid and the background behind it all.
(Excerpt) Read more at bobtuskin.com ...
Enough to roust 'em with automatic weapons?
/johnny
No marijuana or other drugs were found on site and the inhabitants of the premises were all unarmed.
They were, however, required to mow their lawn and pull up okra plants. This went to a disagreement between the city and the group regarding city landscaping regulations.
I'm sure you would agree that using a SWAT team, drones and helicopters to ensure a group of weird people meet a city's landscaping standards is exactly the way taxpayers want their funds used. It would also make the Founding Fathers proud. Without landscaping standards enforced by SWAT, we'd be living in anarchy. Even if they weren't doing anything illegal, it's okay to harrass them with law enforcement because they are just too weird.
I wimped out on my morning chore of pulling garden weeds today. The night temps didn’t get out of the 80s so it was too hot. Guess I better make an effort to get out there in the morning before SWAT shows up. Ya know, there has been a helicopter circling the past few days. On second thought, they’re more than welcome to take all the samples of my weeds as they wish as it’d make less work for me. About 20 of them could get it all weed free in about 5 minutes. I’d have to have a heads up to get the dogs housed elsewhere though.
To get back some common sense in law enforcement, all military equipment should be banned from police stations, and no ex-military personnel should be allowed on a police force until they have lived as a civilian for ten years after being honorably discharged. Too many have been psychologically warped.
What we have in our police forces are too many GI Joe wannabes who want to show how tough they are, and who have no respect for the weakest members of our communities...or their dogs. If they treated the citizens of other countries as poorly as they treat their own, no wonder the U.S. military isn’t respected around the globe.
There are freepers that actually believe that.
/johnny
To get back some common sense in law enforcement, all military equipment should be banned from police stations, and no ex-military personnel should be allowed on a police force until they have lived as a civilian for ten years after being honorably discharged. Too many have been psychologically warped.
What we have in our police forces are too many GI Joe wannabes who want to show how tough they are, and who have no respect for the weakest members of our communities...or their dogs. If they treated the citizens of other countries as poorly as they treat their own, no wonder the U.S. military isn’t respected around the globe.
NAILED IT!!!!
yep.
Here’s their FB. Yes, strange and out there but I’d rather have a bunch of hippies next door than Trayvons or Obamas. There was no cause for SWAT to raid the place. This could be you tomorrow.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Garden-of-Eden/243170885706672?fref=ts
And we can't have that, it could be sinful. Quick! Call SWAT! Someone is having a heck of a party!
I personally support the use of SWAT when a group of weird people do things I wouldn't do, regardless of whether or not they are breaking any laws. I mean, come on, if you don't choose to live like me, you should be in prison.
I live in Yakima, which is in Central Washington State. We are hoping for temps in the 80’s. It has been in the mid- to upper 90’s for nearly 7 weeks. Do dry there are lots of fires.
Having a dog actually seems to make it less likely that you will get shot by police when they raid your house for not mowing your lawn or for maybe parking your car on the street. Shooting the dog is to terrorize the human subjects so that they will break their own bones throwing themselves down on their faces when ordered to get “ON YOUR FACE M********KER!” when late on their property tax.
80’s are our night time temps. Daytime temps are in the 100s. It hit 110 a few days ago.
“Enough to roust ‘em with automatic weapons?”
No, and I believe the city will pay. These things are a problem despite neighborhood covenants, which they agree to abide by when they buy or rent the house, or city ordances. We’ve had a problem in our neighborhood of several hundred houses with one neighbor who has had trouble keeping up his 3 pit bulls who ended up killing a neighbors dog who was in her fenced in back yard and and continued to work on other people’s cars in his front yard on a daily basis. His house was finally re-possessed. I’m glad to see him gone, his cars had the only obama stickers in the neighborhood. This is a desirable neighborhood and despite some temporary slow down of sales and loss of equity a few years ago, what few houses that are offered, sell quickly for good prices.
Of course you will be on your face in the dirt while they pull your weeds and ransack your house and the circulation to your hands will be cut off for a few hours and your dog will be a bloody corpse and that nosy old lady down the street will smile in satisfaction because she always knew you were shady.
What’s that supposed to mean?
Yeah... too bad. I think it’s kind of neat but it could cause offense to certain neighbors and you’d do well to try to live in peace with them.
We are so negative minded today. It’s reflected in the loss of sense of community. Love has gone down the drain.
Spend a few days pulling weeds and dripping sweat and you’ll welcome anyone’s help.
Ever heard of sarcasm?
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