City Arrests Music Teacher for Lawn Grass Being Too High

[Seth M.]

They should have mowed the grass themselves and sent her the bill. Imprisoning a citizen to extort money from them IS wrong. Cruel and unusual punishment anyone? After the fact the grass is still high and nothing was made corrected by this. Its all about the money... You know that was the whole point, right?

I say torch it and put up a sign in the dirt that reads:

"Growing healthy green grass is illegal in my yard. I was arrested by the healthy green grass police. Knock and ask if you do not understand or believe it."

 

[toddwj86]

You are missing the point entirely.

This isn't about proving anything. I have all the proof needed.

This is an example of over-Governance and bureaucracy and is exactly in line with Paul's position.

We don't need the Government, at any level, telling us to do simple things like bathe, eat, sleep, and brush teeth.

 

[awigo50]

An example that he would leave alone. Which is why this is a negative issue to raise about his platform.

He would. He gets few precious moments. Keep things to the best points. Sell to the mainly inattentive public. We have all day. It's in the middle of our fourm. Freedom, prosperity, peace. We can(and should) talk about them on the local level too. Ron's campaigning on a national level. But the ideas are not restricted to the federal government. Obviously states play a much different role. But I don't see any reason why those roles' cannot be discussed.

 

[Ibtz]

I feel for you. A little over a year ago at 5 a.m. my house got raided by swat become someone said we were a crackhouse. So myself (a student and tax paying worker) and my middle aged mother (an english professor at a local college) got roused out of bed by people in face masks and carrying a collection of UMP .45s and MP5s. After having us sit in handcuffs in the living room for a few hours, they left not even having found a trace of residue.

It's hard to fathom, but things like this happen every day. SWAT teams are deployed over 40,000 times a year, for example. One resource I would suggest looking to and explaining your experience to is Radley Balko over at TheAgitator.com. Balko is a respected journalist and spends all of his time covering situations like this.

Three years ago this month I had the pleasure of having the local sheriff's department and police department knock my front door down and have my wife and I put on the floor with guns in our faces and handcuffed while they went searching room to room while my four children were asleep in their beds.

All of this transpired because of some illegals who lived down the road told law enforcement that one of the drug dealers lived at my home - which was obviously not the case. Law enforcement had the wrong address.

I still think about this nearly every day and was reminded yet again when I read the story today about the family who was terrorized and shot at by their local police department based on erroneous information.

It seem to be happening more frequently and it's got me very disturbed.

 

[torchbearer]

We're not arguing over right or wrong.

It's about federal policy, and whether Ron Paul's philosophies would do anything to stop this from happening. Unless a constitutional right is being violated, Ron Paul will always side with local government.

You're spreading a message about a problem, and you're doing it in the name of a candidate who would side against your cause.

I state a fact, not an agenda... you assume...and you know what happens when you assume.

If my facts are wrong, correct them. Tell me that is not a collectivist policy.

 

[Cinnaboo]

You are missing the point entirely.

This isn't about proving anything. I have all the proof needed.

This is an example of over-Governance and bureaucracy and is exactly in line with Paul's position.

We don't need the Government, at any level, telling us to do simple things like bathe, eat, sleep, and brush teeth.

Since you called it unconstitutional, that means this contradicts something stated in the Constitution. Someone should prove that, before we extol Paul as the patron saint of unkempt lawns.

If you're not willing to show a working knowledge of the document you claim to hold in esteem, go join Huck's army.

 

[Cinnaboo]

He would. He gets few precious moments. Keep things to the best points. Sell to the mainly inattentive public. We have all day. It's in the middle of our fourm. Freedom, prosperity, peace. We can(and should) talk about them on the local level too. Ron's campaigning on a national level. But the ideas are not restricted to the federal government. Obviously states play a much different role. But I don't see any reason why those roles' cannot be discussed.

Ron Paul believes that local governments should be as sovereign as possible, even when they diverge from his personal beliefs.

Saying that our outrage should override an unjust but constitutionally permissible local law is not something to do in Ron Paul's name.

If you want to rally popular opinion to help rectify the injustice, please do so -- elsewhere.

 

[torchbearer]

Ron Paul believes that local governments should be as sovereign as possible, even when they diverge from his personal beliefs.

Saying that our outrage should override an unjust but constitutionally permissible local law is not something to do in Ron Paul's name.

If you want to rally popular opinion to help rectify the injustice, please do so -- elsewhere.

Says the person who "speaks for ron paul".

 

[toddwj86]

Again, Right to Property.

If you can't see that, you are dense.

Go to Huck's army?

With attitudes like yours, I can see why others would.

 

[Drknows]

Damn this video really pissed me off!!!

good speech !!

 

[ErikBlack]

Although Ron Paul would not have the authority to fix this problem if he were president it is still a great video that draws a nice parallel between two different types of government intrusion. I think most people get what you are trying to say. Besides, if Ron Paul were to be elected president that would only be because a very large group of Americans were fed up with the way government works on all levels. The same people who voted for Ron Paul would vote for congressmen, senators, mayors, city council members, etc. Ron Paul can't become President in a vacuum. If he is elected it will be because the political landscape has shifted and that will have an effect on local governments as well as federal.

 

[Cinnaboo]

Again, Right to Property.

If you can't see that, you are dense.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en...YLuF&sig=8JAo5TCDeY7QihixC4L5NEK26Go#PPA11,M1

 

[toddwj86]

AWESOME! SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHICAL BANTER!

The conclusion of that writing falls more in favor of my argument.

 

[NewEnd]

AWESOME! SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHICAL BANTER!

The conclusion of that writing falls more in favor of my argument.

dont sweat it dude. The common viewer will understand perfectly. Big laws go broken, tall grass gets punished.

You remind me of my roommate in your demeanor. He rants exactly the same way. Alot of people will click with this video, if they see it.

 

[toddwj86]

Well, thank you friend.

DIGG IT!

http://digg.com/politics/City_Arrests_Music_Teacher_for_Lawn_Grass_Being_Too_High

 

[paul_v]

LOL at Highway 5 illegal immigrant day care. A friend of mine lives in McKinney and I drove by that a couple months ago.

 

[garrettwombat]

thats the city that arrested your mother... not the federal government... nothing we can do about this.

if you live inside city limits no matter what your going to have to fall into some ridiculous ordinance

 

[toddwj86]

The point is, if the city will arrest someone for grass, what will the Federal Government do?

It falls in line with Ron Paul's view on limited Government - not just at the Federal Level, but at ALL levels.

 

[toddwj86]

Damn, this thread died quickly, thanks to being moved.

 

[CelestialRender]

Wow.