Zucchini, Melons, Tomatoes, Radishes — The Stuff of Terrorism
1,030 ViewsHere’s another example of asinine stupidity by the State. Interference in the efforts of two children, who were trying to sell some family garden produce:
“They may start out with a little card-table and selling a couple of things, but then who is to say what else they have. Is all the produce made there, do they make it themselves? Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next,” said Manning. California Town Shuts Down Food Stand
Somebody should bitch slap this fool. These 11 and 3 year old KIDS are selling naturally grown FOOD (see the video), and he’s having a conniption fit over the issue.
This is a perfect example of why the State is inept, incompetent and incapable of handling even the smallest issues with finesse, intelligence and fairness. Protecting the vested interest of real commercial enterprises has always been the baliwick of the State and its myriad of laws, ordinance, regulations, permits, fines and fees. And that’s what the cops enforce too, backed up with the power of the gun, intimidation, arrests, fines and imprisonment if you don’t “obey” the whims of the State.
Well, fuck ‘em all I say. I’m dead serious. This is ridiculous. Let them arrest me (them) or whoever. Make the State spend hours and hours prosecuting the case, with tens of thousands of dollars expended “defending” the so-called “law” that says you can’t sell some home-grown food.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 am
Hey Admin, Sure hope you have a bunker full of blood-pressure medication since apparently you’re going to be needing them from here on. We ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Our fucking govt keeps saying “Let them eat cake” over and over again my friend, I do believe, we’re on the eve of destruction.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
My blood pressure is very good considering (110/70 I think), had it checked recently. Going to live a long time if the goons don’t kill me first.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Maybe in cases like this, people should put up their sign saying “Free Produce”. Then have a little can where people can “donate” to the efforts of the two who are manning the booth (personing the booth?). I don’t think there’s a law against giving someone money and calling it a donation.
Or they could “buy shares” in the produce stand, sort of like farmers and their customers get around the stupid and cumbersome laws against selling raw dairy products. The “customers” already own shares in the cows so they already “own” the milk.
It has worked in some states, but in others this type operation is still harrassed to death by worthless bureaucrats with too much time on their hands.
It’s still worth a try.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
CONTROL…………..
The fed/state machine is not owned by the people anymore and it could care less what we think it can or cannot do. We live in a prison of our own making. There is only 1 total way out - death… all other ways are just a illusion, like freezing water to become ice - same thing just a different form…and that is all reform groups, revolutions, peace marches, boycots,etc. do, they do not give a way out just change the forms/methods of CONTROL…
August 25th, 2008 at 4:26 am
This kind of crap seems to vary greatly depending on where you look. For instance, locally there is an elderly farmer who sells produce nearly year round out of a trailer and van on a busy downtown corner in the parking lot of a nearly-empty old shopping strip. The cops never hassle him, and I doubt very much he has the proper “permits” “inspections” or “licenses”, as it is not unusual to see such roadside stands here and there still, a holdover from earlier days.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Let’s see if they change their tune when the trucks stop delivering food to town and all they have left is local produce.