More illegal raids on "dirty hippie" types raising their own organic food.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/texas-swat-team-conducts-_n_3764951.html

A small organic farm in Arlington, Texas, was the target of a massive police action last week that included aerial surveillance, a SWAT raid and a 10-hour search.

Members of the local police raiding party had a search warrant for marijuana plants, which they failed to find at the Garden of Eden farm. But farm owners and residents who live on the property told a Dallas-Ft. Worth NBC station that the real reason for the law enforcement exercise appears to have been code enforcement. The police seized "17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers," after holding residents inside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie Smith said in a statement. The raid lasted about 10 hours, she said.

Local authorities had cited the Garden of Eden in recent weeks for code violations, including "grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises," Smith's statement said. She said the police didn't produce a warrant until two hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name tags so they couldn't be identified. According to ABC affiliate WFAA, resident Quinn Eaker was the only person arrested -- for outstanding traffic violations.

[madashelltoo]

1. This country is out of its rabid-assed mind.

Arrest everybody while you're at it. Old ladies and kids for singing. Hippies for planting f...ing vegetables. Don't think about washing your windows, they'll see you playing with your own kids and raid your house. Please.

[liberal_at_heart]

2. what can we expect? We live in a police state now.

The best we can do now is to fight it. We can't prevent it. It's already here. We have to now fight it to reduce it's power.

[gopiscrap]

3. Fucking asshole cops

this is so typical of pigs!!!

[SoCalDem]

4. "...following complaints by neighbors..."

This is how these sorts of things usually happen.
Towns encroach on rural.barely-rural, and the newcomers suddenly realize that their carefully tended lawns look "prettier" than the "farm-ish" property that was probably there before they came, so the set out to "reform" the farmers..

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Texas? land of the free?

[lpbk2713]

6. Police always act on behalf of the mega corps.

They must think it's the "patriotic" thing to do to protect the mega corps.

They acted because the big chain grocers were losing a few bucks from them growing their own food.

[Rex]

7. Dam dirty hippies get off mah lawn!!!!

Go out and buy all your groceries like real Americans! It's the law! Or it should be!

[nebenaube]

8. it was during the depression...

Though I doubt many gave shit...

[no_hypocrisy]

9. First they came for the raw milk, and I said nothing because . . . . ,

[marmar]

10. As Smedley Butler said, "Gangsters for Capitalism"