And just what would that be?
Posted on 06/19/2012 4:41:21 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
A woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma is suing the city’s code enforcement teams after they illegally cut down her entire survival garden. Denise Morrison, who started the garden after becoming unemployed, had over 100 medicinal and edible plants in her front and back yard.
She told local Tulsa reporters that she started her garden, after becoming unemployed, as a way to feed herself and treat a variety of medical issues. Instead of relying on government handouts, this woman took matters into her own hands and decided to become self sufficient. She filled her yard with things like, fruit trees, berries, nut trees, and a wide variety of edible and medicinal herbs. She used these herbs to treat her diabetes, high-blood pressure and arthritis.
Is the Self-Reliant Lifestyle Now a Crime in America?
All her hard work ended when the local code enforcement team showed up to her house and forcibly removed her entire survival garden. Morrison says that she tried to explain how everything in her yard followed the local code enforcement rules. You see, she had problems with these people in the past and this time she was determined to do things by the book.
She obtained the local ordinances and followed every rule to the tee. She made sure that everything in her garden had a purpose, and that her garden looked its best at all times. Local ordinances stated that no plant could be over 12-inches tall unless they were being used for human consumption.
Morrison made sure every plant in her garden could be eaten, but that didn’t matter to the city. They could care less about what the law actually said, they were determined to take out her garden. “Every word out of their mouth was, ‘we don’t care,’” Morrison said.
Over 100 plant varieties were removed by the code enforcement team leaving her with no way to feed or medicate herself. They took almost everything, including a number of her fruit and nut trees. She told local reporters in Tulsa, “I came back three days later, sat in my driveway, cried and left.”
Government Crack Down on Liberty
While this case is extremely sad, it’s also becoming more and more common throughout the country. From “nuisance abatement teams” that have been forcing Off-Griders in California to hook back into the grid, to the heartbreaking story of Andrew Wordes who took his life after code enforcement teams seized his home, this country is making it harder and harder for self-reliant people to live on their own land.
While some dismiss these cases as localized issues, I believe they’re part of a larger movement to control anyone who dares to live a self-reliant lifestyle. I think evidence of this can be seen in the federal governments attempts to regulate small farms out of existence, their use of the EPA to seize private land, the formation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Green Police Force, their attempts to seize control of the Great Lakes, oceans, and waterways, and their use of organizations like The National League of Cities to take control of local governments.
What’s up with this???
I could see this happening in California, New York, or Maryland, but Oklahoma?
I thought Oklahoman’s were a well-grounded and sane bunch.
Yeah, the money quote is that “she had problems with these people in the past”. There is likely more here than is being reported.
In other words, she should sue the crap out of the taxpayers.
There. Fixed it.
I'm trying to get my head around what's happening in America and everything I see is just making me more and more confused.
Just what harm was this woman doing to anyone? What was their justification for this horrendous abuse? How in the Hell did America decay into this state?
It's obvious that things are spinning out of control. What the spark will be, where it will occur, and when... those are still unknown... but I don't think things can continue like this much longer.
Absolutely. And it starts with the property tax. A friend of mine wanted to buy, iirc, a 100-acre spread in the foothills east of Sacramento. He could afford 100 acres but he could not afford the yearly property tax on 100 acres without coming up with some way to supplement his income to pay the tax.
He told me that every single one of his neighbors who had purchased larger pieces of land had been forced to become cattle ranchers to pay the tax as that was the easiest way to do it.
You could raise some kind of crop but that's even more work, and most of them already had jobs they couldn't leave.
When you get older and can't manage the cattle ranching business you've been forced into, nor pay the tax any longer, you either sell your property and move into Wrinkle City or the government will swoop down and take it all away from you.
The self-reliant lifestyle in America disappeared a long time ago. And the SOBs mean for us never to get it back.
I would like to see some pictures of her garden. If it was anything like what the guy next door is growing I would have cheered to have it removed.
IF as she said it was well maintained then this is absolutely awful.
IF it is the rat trap that is next door—— burn it to the ground.
What!? There must be at least a Trillion plants that are not eaten and are over 12" and are commonly used in yards across the US. I'm thinking of Iris's, well-fed daffodils, tulips, rhodies, lilacs, roses, and on and on. What's next... light bulbs?
It's not that government is edging towards tyranny, away from soft tyranny, or whatever.... it's here folks. We're living it. The only thing the gov't can do in response to stopping this krap is to institute Hard Tyranny.
Well, yes. That’s the unfortunate effect, but the city officials should be held accountable, rather than being allowed to run amok.
In regards to Mr. Worden, see monteen’s comment in the link. There are always two sides to every story.
Wordes
I would like to see some pictures of her garden. If it was anything like what the guy next door is growing I would have cheered to have it removed.
IF as she said it was well maintained then this is absolutely awful.
IF it is the rat trap that is next door—— burn it to the ground.
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You know, if you really would like to see the garden in question, you could click the link.
By doing that, you would become informed, and decide if the lady should be able to have a garden, or if you think the local authorities should vandalize it.
Yeah those thumbnails were stunning.... which is why I don’t consider them pictures.
SHow me the house front and back....
Self reliance is a serious threat to the tyrants that wish to control every aspect of your life. That's why the tyrants will make an example of anyone that attempts any form of self reliance as a lesson to any others that would dare to imitate such behavior
It's a question of which is more important to Oklahomans ~ neat lawns or live babies.
I'm afraid they've made their choice.
SHow me the house front and back....
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I’ll get right on it!
While, of course, you are trying to figure out the point.
How does that help anything, as the damages would be paid from taxpayer funds - yes, the woman harmed gets damages, but the public officials that did this have no consequences, and no incentive to not do it again.
The lawsuit needs to target the individuals that violated her rights. Perhaps then, things might change.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=298&articleid=20120519_298_0_TheChu923348
They should have been dodging bullets.
And just what would that be?
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