Woman given summons for growing vegetables
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Woman given summons for growing vegetables
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=1D577A9747A66FE9316E584F7E781867
Blueeyes posted this on fb. This is happening in a town about 20 minutes away from me. Disgusting, but knowing how it is around here hardly surprising.
The woman has a lot of support, and has a blog on the subject:
http://oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.com/
Blueeyes posted this on fb. This is happening in a town about 20 minutes away from me. Disgusting, but knowing how it is around here hardly surprising.
The woman has a lot of support, and has a blog on the subject:
http://oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.com/
Nucky- Admin
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Re: Woman given summons for growing vegetables
Well, just like here, the publicity and outrage caused that city to back down. All charges have been dropped. But she is still being harassed for any small code violation they can find. That too will soon end as long as the spotlight remains on this. Publicity is her friend.
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Re: Woman given summons for growing vegetables
This is story is a thread over at INTJf and at The Oil Drum. It's a very old (my reading history goes back more than 4 years) topic at TOD.
As MC points out, it takes participatory democracy to make change in government. Publicity is her friend - maybe. I hope that is the case in this saga.
As MC points out, it takes participatory democracy to make change in government. Publicity is her friend - maybe. I hope that is the case in this saga.
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Re: Woman given summons for growing vegetables
Nucky wrote:...Blueeyes posted this on fb. This is happening in a town about 20 minutes away from me. Disgusting, but knowing how it is around here hardly surprising.
The woman has a lot of support, and has a blog on the subject:...
There is also a related video:
Amusing
That is, if you're not the city planner there.
waterdragon7- Posts : 727
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Re: Woman given summons for growing vegetables
melodiccolor wrote:Well, just like here, the publicity and outrage caused that city to back down. All charges have been dropped. But she is still being harassed for any small code violation they can find. That too will soon end as long as the spotlight remains on this. Publicity is her friend.
She's not off the hook yet, as she clarified in her blog (it's publicly viewable, so I'm just copying it here.)
i would really like for people to read the post i wrote last night. i think it clears up misunderstandings, and it does a pretty good job of giving our position.
but some people still seem not to have the facts. i will try to briefly, and without too much commentary
1- the charges against us were not actually “dropped”. they were dismissed by some judge we have never heard of or seen. we hope this person is a real judge, and had the real authority to dismiss our case, but we are going to double-check on that today
2- the dismissal without prejudice means that the prosecutor can come back at any time and reinstate the garden charge as well (he has already reinstated the dog license charge, but i will get to that in a minute). there has been no final disposition of the case, so we can’t take a deep breath and relax.
3- the prosecutor wants more time to review the ordinance. not that he has given up on the garden charge. to the contrary, he wants more time to look things over. i think usually the prosecutor in normal cases would ask the judge for a continuance or an adjournment or something. why they handled it this way is a suspicious mystery…
4- we still have our same court date- july 26th. we still have to appear for a pre-trial, only this time it will be for 2 misdemeanors (the dogs), instead of 1 misdemeanor for the garden.
5- when we got the citation for the dog licenses we cleared it up right away. we went in that friday, only to find that our government is closed on friday due to budget cuts (!). we went back as soon as we were able the following week and took care of it. we paid the license fees. we paid late fees. we got proof from them that the dogs were current and paid up, and we took this proof to court and we showed it to the prosecutor.
6- our current and valid dog licenses were shown on at least on TV news program, and i’m sure were re-broadcast many times over. there is no controversy about whether or not our dogs are licensed. they weren’t current and now they are. that’s it.
7- i can’t think of anything else to clarify, but please keep the word out there that we are not off the hook. a lot of places have been printing and posting “charges were dropped!”- but that’s only part of the story, and gives the incorrect impression that we have won. that’s not true, and i really worry that if the focus goes away, they will renew their prosecution/persecution of us. please take it upon yourself to correct errors in other places and to spread the truth.
we can’t do this without you!!!! thank your continued support!!!!!!!!!!!! -julie
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