Posted on 07/21/2011 9:47:50 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Remember the story of sisters Caitlin and Abigail Mills, the St. Louis-area girls who were told to close their cookie stand by local bureaucrats who insisted they were violating city ordinances? Well, the girls — 16 and 14, respectively — are back in the news and headed to court.
On Thursday morning, according to attorneys Dave and Jenifer Roland at the Freedom Center of Missouri, St. Louis County Judge Maura McShane will hear arguments on Hazelwood’s motion to have the Mills’ cookie stand case thrown out.
I reported the basics of the case in a post April 8:
Each February and March for the past six years, Caitlin Mills, 16, and Abigail Mills, 14, have put a card table in front of their home in Hazelwood, Mo., and sold Girl Scout cookies to drivers passing by. This year, however, the city of Hazelwood notified their mother, Carolyn Mills, that the girls’ cookie stand violated city ordinances and must be shut down.
Despite much national media attention, including coverage at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, city officials have, according to the Mills’ attorneys, “dug in their heels.”
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Aptly covered on Big Government.com. "High-Five" to the girls for defending their rights. The pic says it all! Feel free to add additional keyword tags :)
a government of bullies
Gov ignorance. Before you know it people in wheelchairs or who use scooters will have to have a license. It sounds farfetched but the way things are going anything is possible. Jerks!
I hope these kids win.
If you look at the pic, they look determined :) I hope they win too!
Things have certainly changed! Can’t do any at-home business, no matter how small, without permit and government approval :(
Started with school bake sales and moved down to home lemonade and cookie sales. Unbelievable!
I think that determination will hold. I just feel sorry children have to go through something like this. It’s shameful.
Don’t forget garage and yard sales. Can’t even put something out in front of your house on the weekend and sell it without a permit.
I agree! Parents want to teach their kids about money, business, etc. and they can’t. I wonder how many people have died or gotten sick from drinking a 25-cent glass of lemonade or a 50-cent home-made chocolate chip cookie?!
You are from Cali...Sadly, I am not surprised. For the most part, in fly-over country midwest I think one can still sell a non-food item by displaying with a sign.
Back in the day you could have a lemonade stand with no problem. I wonder if I’d get in trouble if I made a sick neighbor some chicken soup? The cops would arrest me because I have no permit. Makes one wonder.
One has to wonder...probably only a few years away...
I am always making food for sick friends and I have truly wondered if at some point there would be a regulation. I was also thinking about the Great Depression... People could make things and sell to travelers or neighbors. Now that is not legal :( How many businesses started in the home selling to neighbors? Probably not very many any more.
But the (black) Detroit college student hawking bottles of cold water from the curb to passing traffic gets a lauding newspaper write-up & is shown admiringly on national TV newscasts, and no harassment from the cops or officials.
Link for the written story; couldn’t find a link to the network story we saw.
Not saying this is right or wrong; but just pointing out the other end of the spectrum:
Minority; adult; loudly harassing/haranguing/distracting drivers; people stopping in a travel lane (already stopped for lights, MAYBE) and buying water through the passenger window, gets a pass. Young, non-minority girls quietly selling from a table in their yard get shut down. BOTH selling sealed, commercial products, not home made.
Am I wrong to infer discrimination stalking the land?
“Don’t forget garage and yard sales. Can’t even put something out in front of your house on the weekend and sell it without a permit.”....
Lemonade stands, cookie stands, yard sales, ebay sales, etc.......It’s all about taxes folks. The gubment doesn’t get their share when these small enterprizers go around the gubment.
mardi59: I think that determination will hold. I just feel sorry children have to go through something like this. It’s shameful.
Perhaps one good may come of this: These young women having been mugged by leftist big-government goons may grow up to be sane...
Momma, don’t let your daughters grow up to be leftists.
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