Is the government coming to confiscate our garden produce?

[BanzaiBonnie]

Is some talk show lunatic telling people that the government is going to take their garden produce away from them?

Just before the election last year, my brother told me that Obama was going to send people out to take the food he grows in his garden. I almost fell over. Sadly my brother watches and listens to faux news and the RightWingnut radio entertainer known as Lars Larson. :puke:

Today my elderly father was showing me a little patio they're making and a small raised bed to plant a bit of garden. Just enough for them "so they won't come and take it."


Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

What am I missing? Is this the kind of fear that's being spread? That someone from the government is coming for the garden produce? :crazy:

[Cleita]

1. They'd better hurry in my case cause the

rabbits and deer will be getting there first. :-)

[cutlassmama]

9. We've got a half dozen deer up here eating our crops this year.

[kestrel91316]

2. No. Somebody's been smoking crack. SOP.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. What, you haven't heard about the Cucumber Cops?

[leftofcool]

5. Stop it I say! I can't take any more late night coffee through my nose!

[Cha]

4. It's people who believe stuff

like that who are missing something..sorry.

They're easily brainwashed.

[BanzaiBonnie]

10. Brainwashed and paranoid

I;m going to talk to my mother and see if she can get the guys to stop listening to faux news.

[Cha]

18. It mitght help to have some

facts to back it up. Thanks for trying..:)

[BanzaiBonnie]

19. And I have tried. I've brought them other sources of news, but

Well, if I don't know where they heard it... That's why I was wondering if anyone else had heard crap like this. And I'm hesitant to ask my dad and brother where they heard it because this whole political thing has them so on edge that... I'll just go through my mother. The monsters that feed this fear to elderly and isolated people are... well, they're monsters.

What usually happens is some of these "assholes for a mouth" get some piece of truth and then spin it until you don't recognize it.

[sandnsea]

6. Argh. Neighborhood Harvest programs

Where people in a community get together and take care of the fruit trees, and then split the harvest and give a portion to local food banks. They have all kinds of different names around the country. I haven't heard that Obama is planning on helping to implement these programs, but it would be a good idea if he did. It drives me crazy to see rotten fruit on the ground in the fall.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Ignorance seems to be going viral in this country.

[old mark]

8. First I have heard of this - It is important to us because we grow

terribly liberal garden crops including organic figs.

I guess the baggers will be breaking our windows in protest.

I'm not worried about the produce police, but the RW backlash has me fearful indeed :scared:

mark

[whistler162]

11. Wouldn't surprise me.... the local cable company just

sent a letter telling us and every other subsriver that unless we get digital cable we can't have any oxygen!

[timo]

12. he better not

My wife is gonna be pissed if ANYBODY jacks her tomatoes, and her zucchini ???? forget about it.

[barbiegeek]

13. Are they going to take the White House Garden of Michelle's first?

[Vinca]

14. After I get my garden going, if anyone wants to raid it,

I suggest you pick the ground cherries. They're amazing. (What, specifically, is your father listening to? Tell him the black helicopter people don't have time to steal vegetables.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I heard it's about Monsanto not wanting people to grow their own stuff??

[Teaser]

16. they can have my rhubarb

when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

[and-justice-for-all]

17. That is some dumb shit...PARANOID!

[PatSeg]

20. And yesterday my daughter heard someone say

that if Obama stays in office, the statute of limitation on murder will only be two years. Where do they hear stuff like this? And why do they believe it?

[bunnies]

21. Its HR 875.

and a healthy dose of paranoia. :hi:

edit to add link:
http://delauro.house.gov/files/HR875_Myths_Facts1.pdf

[BanzaiBonnie]

22. I bet that's it

Yeah, a healthy dose of paranoia:-(