Posted on 10/08/2014 9:30:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk
CBSLA.comFellow libertarians, we may be observing peak bureaucratic cruelty in Santa Fe Springs, California. City officials told Jessica Torres and Felix Miranda to destroy their backyard playset—a gift to their handicapped 10-year-old daughter from the Make-A-Wish-Foundation—because it is a "public nuisance," according to CBSLA.com.
Young Tiffany suffers from seizures and can't play at the public park, so the Make-A-Wish-Foundation gifted her a personal playground. It sits in her backyard, on Miranda family property. Nevertheless, the city thinks it has the right to force the family to disassemble the playset. When Torres approached a city official, she was treated as courteously as would be expected by anyone else who has ever gone up against the tyranny of local government. According to CBSLA.com:
“When I asked the city, ‘So where do you expect my daughter to play?’ they said ‘Well, the city’s not responsible for your daughter’s disability,'” Torres said. “They said ‘Your Tiffany is not our problem.'”
The city's rationale for ruining a little girl's happiness is that the playground area is cluttered and dangerous. Local reporters called shenanigans on that verdict:
But Torres, who’s an oncology charge nurse at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, showed CBS2/KCAL9 reporter Adrianna Weingold the backyard, front yard and the inside of the family’s home and things looked relatively neat and tidy.
Torres showed Weingold some of the tickets the city’s issued, calling on the family to remove all items from the backyard and front yard, including all playground equipment.
After Weingold approached city officials, they changed their story. Now it's perfectly fine to keep the personal playground up and running, they said—despite what is explicitly printed on the numerous tickets the Mirandas received for hosting unauthorized fun in the privacy of their own backyard.
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Santa Fe Springs I’d think would be heavily Democrat. They feel the power.
You forgot to add us conservative purists to your list. You know -- us folks who oppose liberal establishment sell-outs like Romney, McCain, Graham, Boehner, McConnell, Cornyn, etc.
Complain to JimRob. He's a 'purist' too.
I vote for conservative Republicans. Period.
As the editor of Concealed Carry Magazine put it,
(paraphrasing) “There is one salient issue: the right to keep and bear arms.”
Some Yahoo from Kansas wrote saying he was offended to have to defend being a Democrat and gunowner.
He was reminded that wherever Democrats have taken power, that state’s citizens became second-hand citizens.
CA and east coast Republicans, like most Democrats, disagree with conservatives on a number of issues: safeguarding the 2nd, securing our southwestern border, preserving the middle class and any number of other important issues.
You can listen to their insults, and lick their hands, vote for the McCain’s, Bloomburgs, Rubios, Lugars, Cantors and Grahams. Listen to what they say. Go ahead, send them money.
I’ll watch what they do. I plan to fight them, like their allies, Democrats of all stripes. Don’t try to get me to crawl with you to truckle to statists, to kowtow like Obama, just because they claim to be on my side.
So it is OK for the GOPe to attack conservatives and push them out like what was done in Alaska and Mississippi but not when conservatives do it. There are many many instances were the GOPe has hung the conservative candidate out to dry and you have the nerve to claim that it is the conservative who are getting dems elected.
You and you ilk are pathetic. I am tired of going Along with people like you. Enough is enough move along your song don’t play with me a many others.
So, you want us to vote for Dumb, but not Dumber, is that it?
Ok.
And if we vote for Dumb, the party will begin drifting right, and will start supporting constitutionalist candidates because the voters got the message through to them, right?
No? You mean they'll just give us more RINOs to vote for, if we VOTE FOR RINOs???
Geeez, who'da thunk it?
will you juvenile thread high-jackers take your argument somewhere else?
Why don’t YOU and your arguing partners take it somewhere else - or start your own thread.
High-jackers
File your complaint with the one who started this at post number 3.
It’s not about right or left. It’s simply about another little fascist shyt of a loser using his govt job to harass people who are better than him.
ARF!
The important thing in this election is to stop the Democrats cold. Period. That’s job one. I don’t think this country can survive even another couple of years of Democrat “leadership.” Job two is getting the RINOs in line. That’s important, but not as important at the moment as job one.
Thanks for taking a perfectly good thread and running it completely off topic with a personal pet cause - one that obviously burns within you to the point of neurosis.
good one lol
The CratRoach always runs for cover when the light of publicity shines on it.
You only think you own property comrade!
Tell it to the Romneybot. Here. Perhaps you might see yourself in this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s
We recently remodeled our 5 year old daughters bedroom from baby/toddler to child. My wife bought a bunk-bed (without a bottom bed) that had a slide. I took one look at the picture on one of the boxes and said: Ahh-haha No.
I sold it and bought a very nice bed with no danger of falling from a height and taking so much room.
—>>> Any one IGNORANT enough to purchase any property that has a HOA ... sheesh
well..... Don’t relocate to Florida.
These stories always remind me of Mel Gibson’s line in The Patriot, “Why should I trade one tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants one mile away?”. There’s no tyranny like the petty tyranny of small men (and women) given a little bit of power.
wha? newsflash - your Pub bendovers in the senate and house have had everything to do with statism... eff off...dem lite
you keep voting McCain/Romney and every other boot licking elitist dem repub
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