Arlington SWAT Team Raids Commune Looking for Weed, Finds Only Hippies and Tall Grass

[TexasTowelie]

The folks who live there don't call The Garden of Eden a hippie commune. They prefer "small Intentional Community," or sometimes "New Paradigm EcoVillage." Here's how they describe it on their website:

The Garden of Eden ... exists as a showcase to highlight just how easy, abundant, and sustainable life can be. What an amazing blessing and opportunity it is to be alive and how much there is to enjoy in the experience of being alive on this earth. We are not here in these bodies, on this earth, merely to survive, but to THRIVE!

Life in the GOE is a beautiful balance of modern technology and a sustainable lifestyle. Computers, electronics, cars, and other modern devices are indeed a part of life here, and yet there are also composting toilets, wildcrafted gardens, and other creative implementations that make our day-to-day life more ecologically and energetically sustainable.

In order to truly embrace a LIFE of sustainability, one must cultivate a full spectrum consciousness of sustainability that provides the foundation for one's relationship with all daily aspects of life. We provide many solutions for not only the big things like housing and food, but the little things like toilet paper and dishes. By upgrading many little aspects of an unsustainable life, BIG results occur.

More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/08/a_swat_team_raided_arlingtons.php?ref=trending .

[Warpy]

1. Well, at least they got to throw those hippies on the ground and cuff them

and then shout and swagger around before realizing the hippies were clean and sober and the farm was exactly what it said it was.

I do hope there's a civil suit.

[HubertHeaver]

2. Couldn't they go buy their own weed?

Stuff must be getting hard to find if they have to go steal it.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I doubt that.

My connections in Austin and Irving have plenty of catnip!

[HubertHeaver]

4. Then that SWAT team is just plain selfish.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

5. Why did they make them pull their Okra, Lambs Quarters and Blackberries? nt

[hobbit709]

6. For the sheer love of destruction.

same reason they destroy half the house in any bust.
They get to smash things up and get away with it.