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Judge tosses Seattle ordinance requiring garbage-can searches for food waste [SANITY!]
Washington Times ^
| 04/28/2016
| Valerie Richardson
Posted on 04/29/2016 12:17:00 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
A state judge threw out a portion of a Seattle ordinance requiring garbage collectors to snoop through residents trash in search of food waste, calling the provision unconstitutional.
King County Superior Court Judge Beth M. Andrus issued an injunction against the garbage inspections but not Seattles residential food-waste ban, which forbids throwing away food scraps and compostable paper.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bethmandrus; kingcounty; nannystate; seattle; washington; wasshingtonstate
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
When they started those garbage inspections, I started telling everyone that now the city had hired a bunch of “Garbage Pickers.”
Not satisfied that Seattle is a sanctuary city with huge homes camps under the freeways, now the city actually pays folks to pick garbage.
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posted on
04/29/2016 12:19:56 AM PDT
by
angry elephant
(Endangered species in Seattle)
To: angry elephant
These people are crazy. Don’t they have garbage disposals?
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posted on
04/29/2016 12:34:07 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
They have to keep stale bread and moldy lunchmeat? How progressive.
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
What are they supposed to do with the food scraps?
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posted on
04/29/2016 12:45:53 AM PDT
by
Bodleian_Girl
(Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
To: Bodleian_Girl
What are they supposed to do with the food scraps? The lawn at City Hall?
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:07:00 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Ethan Blevins, attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of eight Seattle residents, called the ruling a victory for common sense and constitutional rights. A clear message has been sent to Seattle public officials: Recycling and other environmental initiatives cant be pursued in a way that treats peoples freedoms as disposable, Mr. Blevins said in a statement. Seattle cant place its composting goals over the privacy rights of its residents. The lawsuit argued that the ordinance essentially allowed warrantless searches, which Mr. Blevins described as an invasion of privacy and a policy of massive and persistent snooping.OMG! Common sense! Legal protections of privacy rights over enviro nazis! And in Seattle nonetheless. Amazing. May the tide be turning on the fascists. We'll leave the Seattle commies and race baiting, police haters for another day. This is a beginning. Thanks for posting KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle. I know how happy you are. :) It's a bright spot for us all.
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:11:58 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Good Gawd liberals are stupid.
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:13:38 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
To: GOP Poet
Apologies for my messy last post. It's late here and I didn't preview my HTML tags. Always a regret. lol. But the content speaks for itself. Well kinda. If you can get over the lack of italic quotes. :D. Have a great night!
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:17:45 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: GOP Poet
. The lawsuit argued that the ordinance essentially allowed warrantless searches, which Mr. Blevins described as an invasion of privacy
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I’m a bid I.D. fan and cops search garbage cans all the time, looking for D.N.A. or other evidence as long as it is sitting out on the street side to be collected, it’s no longer private property.
To: Graybeard58
England has garbage “spies” who watch people throwing away things and the report them....
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:46:11 AM PDT
by
Therapsid
(eagan)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I keep a bucket for my food waste. It gets loaded with fly larvae and I am sure they hatch somewhere on their way to the city compose. I wonder what the city compost pile is like. It must be loaded with flies.
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posted on
04/29/2016 1:54:56 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
To: Bodleian_Girl
Send it to hungry children in Africa?
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posted on
04/29/2016 2:59:52 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
To: Therapsid
It would be really bad if i caught an “official” going through my garbage
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posted on
04/29/2016 3:21:10 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Gamecock
Have convicts sort through garbage as a way to pay back their debt to society. Kind of a Cool Hand Luke, but with garbage instead of cutting weeds.
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I can not imagine living in such a progressive hellhole where the "state" thinks picking though your garbage looking for ways to fine you and guilt you into recycling garbage food is perfectly OK..
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posted on
04/29/2016 3:36:18 AM PDT
by
Popman
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Heh, all my old stuff [what little there is] goes right down the crapper. Beats walking 100 yards x2 to the dumpster.
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posted on
04/29/2016 3:37:55 AM PDT
by
W.
(Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
We’ve composted for 30 yrs. It keeps from having to keep
a garbage disposal running (we don’t have one); also keeps
the trash can from stinking like a hog pen. As it is, just
the “trash” has enough residue on it to keep it smelling
bad enough. You get used to composting & it becomes just
second nature. We keep a decent compost container (an old
ice bucket) on the kitchen counter. It has a lid & is
acceptable. Also, we do put a small amount of food scraps
in the compost as our compost bin is now covered so that
animals can’t get into it. Once fished a mad possum out
of the old bin with a pitchfork. Rinsed him off with a
pitcher of plain warm water & he waddled off gratefully
into the woods.
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posted on
04/29/2016 3:42:58 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
To: Bullish
It’s appalling that the judge had to oppose this instead of the people themselves,
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posted on
04/29/2016 3:42:58 AM PDT
by
relictele
(Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
What was the goal of this ordinance?
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posted on
04/29/2016 4:17:15 AM PDT
by
abclily
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