Health department raids community picnic and destroys all food with bleach

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[isthisnickcool]

She is pretty well paid:

http://www2.8newsnow.com/salaries/detail.php?id=92772

[B4Ranch]

As I to read this I could feel the indignation and anger building inside of me. How dare government official abuse citizens this way!

Then I started looking for the authors name. This has been omitted. So, I looked for the date of the alleged agency abuses. This too has been omitted. This is starting to smell like an emotion filled marketing scheme. No thanks

[The Sons of Liberty]

Please Help By Signing the Petition!

Petition, hell. Jack boot thugs pay no attention to petitions! That's why the Founders demanded, and got, The 2nd Amendment!

[AnTiw1]

i haven’t seen George Washington on his white horse around
anywhere

think i’ll continue readying the sailboat for a little trip just in case...

[thesearethetimes...]

I am on a whole foods group online, and did a search on our website since I had not seen this specific raid mentioned. It did indeed really happen in October of 2011 : |

Sad to say, there are raids on farms and dairies that happen more than most folks would ever believe.

Our freedoms are being attacked from all sides : \

May God give us strength.
Tatt

[Utilizer]

While I am sympathetic as to their horror at seeing perfectly good food destroyed, their main mistake was in so readily obtaining a 'permit' for their private gathering. Had they gone ahead with their PRIVATE dinner with personal guests with their PRIVATELY grown and prepared food on their own PRIVATE property; absent any obvious evidence of any laws being broken during the event, the EH nazis could rant and scream all they wanted -from the public street or sidewalk.

Unless she had at the time a valid Warrant (signed by a judge and with the name and identity of the complaining party legibly printed therein) at least during the episode referenced above with the stipulations presented, at the very least they could have had her legally arrested for trespassing, and if she really became a wanker about it, then move everything indoors and serve the meal in smaller groups. Inside the house out of public view means she could not legally justify attempting to enter uninvited and anything she viewed during any such attempts would be inadmissible in court.

[dforest]

That has nothing to do with food. Also, all Santorum was doing was saying he would see to it existing laws on that issue were enforced.

Cheesy cheap shot.

What does porn have to do with this?

[Digger]

Call me when the revolution is about to start.

....Crickets chirping.

[muawiyah]

We had an earlier thread on this particular event. People paid a fee to attend.

That makes a lot of difference in most jurisdictions.

When my next door neighbor started running a dive on her balcony I turned her in.

Lest you get all tangled up in your boot stomping and clothes rending, she'd earlier filed a complaint with the board of health about my backyard garden!

Yup, I passed muster, and she didn't.

So, did they serve wine or distilled beverages?

[21twelve]

I’m not sure how “private” it is as she said guests paid money and came from a long ways away. It sounds like they were members of their Organic Farm club or whatever.

Not that it excuses the food Nazis. I suppose that might apply to the next Men’s breakfast at church - although that only has a “Donations” jar.

BTW - those vegetables in the bucket look amazing!

[Myrddin]

Sounds like a commercial event organized with paying customers, not a private event with "guests" invited at no personal expense outside of personal travel to the location. The manner in which the food was destroyed by the busybody bureaucrat was inexcusable. The bureaucrats should bear the full financial burden for compensating the operator for the food destroyed. Criminal penalties proportional to the damaged property should also be assessed. If it was truly a private event, the operator should have never applied for the permit and should have required a written invitation be presented to private security to enter the property.

[gitmo]

Isn’t this how Stalin killed the farmers off in Siberia?

[BubbaJunebug]

Go to the bottom of the web page and see you the petition is being run by...here is the link

http://www.change.org/

Now look to the right of the change.org page and you see the causes they support...which are the following listed under TOP CAUSES...

Animals
Criminal Justice
Economic Justice
Education
Environment
Gay Rights

Health
Human Rights
Human Trafficking
Immigrant Rights
Sustainable Food
Women’s Rights

No sympathy from me...I see a scam

[sockmonkey]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/12/farm—table-event-turns-sour-when-inspector-crashe/

Here’s the Las Vegas Sun story on the incident. The event was back in November 2011. The place was Quail Hollow Farm, and the owners are named Bledsoe.

[X-spurt]

Same here. Something akin to a dark gentleman in the woodpile. Otherwise another good reason to not live anywhere near Las Vegas.

[Cboldt]

There are other sources covering the same event ...

Unaware of their rights, the Bledsoes initially complied with Oaks' unlawful demands and destroyed the food. But shortly thereafter, Laura's husband Monte remembered that they had an emergency contact number for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) on their refrigerator.

Shocked that they even had to resort to this desperate measure, the Bledsoes called FTCLDF for advice and spoke with General Counsel Gary Cox, who instructed them to ask Oaks for a search and arrest warrant, which of course she did not have. The Bledsoes then asked Oaks to leave the property, upon which she allegedly stormed off in anger and screamed that she was going to call the police.

Police eventually arrived, but unaware of why they had been called and what the alleged crime was, they, too, left and offered their apologies to the Bledsoes. Fortunately, the Bledsoes were able to improvise with the chef to create a whole new meal for their guests, which ended up turning out to be a type of blessing in disguise, according to Laura.

Health department tyrants raid local 'farm to fork' picnic dinner - November 11, 2011

[gogogodzilla]

Ahh, I see. Having governmental control over an aspect of your personal life is okay (porn)... but having government control over an aspect of your personal life is not okay (food).

Like I said:

Don’t look for sympathy from “conservatives” anymore. They’re just as happy to see the government control every aspect of your life as the liberals.

All that matters is whose ideology will be enforced, now.

[I see my hands]

To: Quail Farm Owner

Did you vote for Obama?

If your answer is 'no' then I am sympathetic. If it is 'yes' then you deserve what you have condemned others to.

[muir_redwoods]

I wonder how many of these organic farmers gleefully voted for people like Obama and Harry Reid. Payback’s a bitch.

[dforest]

That is not the argument. Enforcing existings laws is something that isn’t done much anymore.

Immigration laws regarding illegals. It is bad because existing laws have been unenforced for far too long.

Besides, the only reason you focus on that is to push a false notion as though it is the truth in order to boost Newt.

Good luck wit dat.