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(Excerpted with permission from Eddie’s Corner, the blog of Eddie Rose, at www.eddierose.org).
I never cease to be amazed at the extent to which certain city “fathers” (or maybe it should be city “fuhrers”) will go in order to impose their perverted sense of Political Correctness (PC) upon us.
Now comes a story out of Oak Park, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit), where city “leaders” have decided to prosecute a woman for having the audacity to plant vegetables in her front yard!
First the woman was given a written warning by the city’s code “enforcers”. Then came a citation. Next was a a misdemeanor charge that could put her in jail for 90 days!
Apparently, the city of Oak Park, in its twisted “logic”, thinks only grass, and n0n-fruit and non-vegetable bearing plants, bushes, and trees are “suitable” for front yards. Sounds like something right out of a Homeowner Association (HOA) manual or a Karl Marx manifesto!
Just think. In the same week when a psychotic young woman who murdered her two-year old daughter in Florida was given a “get-out-of-jail card” by an incompetent jury, another woman could go to jail for growing vegetables in her front yard!
The Honorable Eddie Rose
Former Laguna Niguel (CA) City Councilman
“A Voice—Not an Echo!”
We have religious nutcase Larry Gilbert here in the Orange County, CA who is strict HOA socialist and will also not tolerate vegetables in his neighborhood.
I think he is fright that someone may mistake him for a vegetable and fertilize him.
From the exile.
While not addressed in our HOA CC&R’s we do in fact have vegetables growing in our yard. Want some?
Every once in a while someone tries to enact and enforce commie HOA laws in Costa Mesa. Luckily they are usually shot down. Jim “Mr. Irvine” Righeimer tried to ban people from parking small boats and campers on their own property not too long ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if he reads this article and will try to stop people from growing their own food as well.
You can’t trust Republican or Democrat endorsed council members with civil liberties or freedom of choice or expression. Unless someone is spraying a ton of pesticides on their garden that blows directly into your house, this shouldn’t be an issue at all.
It is illegal to do organic farming in certain states. The states make you abide by the regulations of having to purchase and use corporate manufactured pesticides etc.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Corporations give corporate lobbyists tons of money every year to make sure they get what they want.
Food grows for free right out of the ground. But the government doesn’t get their cut (on free food). So laws had to be passed.
Great country.
I know. It’s hard to say we are the freest country in the world if you can’t grow your own food. Corporate lobbyists would love to force us to buy genetically modified food engineered by a corporation grown on corporation owned land. Soon Monsanto will own nature herself if we don’t take action.