Food, Land, and Power

America's Land, Not Government Land

Totalitarianism devours the singular, shears off differences, lays low free will, eviscerates individuality. All must now bow down before the collective, to engage in the excruciatingly tedious worship of the amorphous whole. Independent thought is not tolerated, free enterprise is to be destroyed, the right to private property eliminated and our children born into the collective in service to the state.Like cattle, we are to be herded into the collective, weakened, branded and dependent. Given the election results, I’d say that half the country has indicated that they are willing to take their alloted place in the slaughter and slop pens.

But what about those of us who – no how, no way – refuse to submit to the constraints of Obama’s communist rule? I know for damn sure that my extended family is willing to pool our money, buy some land, build our own homes and raise our own food, home school the kids and fight for the return of America. But that very self-sufficiency is what socialism seeks to destroy. Leaving aside the anticipated heightend thrust against parental rights and home schooling, what if, through a variety of prohibitive restrictions, you will not be permitted to grow your own food, what then?

Perhaps that does indeed sound paranoid, but food production is a topic that keeps nagging at me. I have been intrigued by Soros’ interest in food production, which I posted on in Soros, Famine, Energy, and the End of Sovereign Nations.

We also have Obama on record with this idiocy:

“As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector … and are partly responsible for the explosion in our health care costs because they’re contributing to Type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in health care costs.” ( Source)

In the same post, I lay out the “food dots” that I have collected so far, looking for connections. The rather disturbing article I post below would seem to supply several more dots.

Swat Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio

On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years. [Update]

There were agents from the Department of Agriculture present, one of them identified as Bill Lesho. The search warrant is reportedly suspicious-looking. Agents began rifling through all of the family’s possessions, a task that lasted hours and resulted in a complete upheaval of every private area in the home. Many items were taken that were not listed on the search warrant. The family was not permitted a phone call, and they were not told what crime they were being charged with. They were not read their rights. Over ten thousand dollars worth of food was taken, including the family’s personal stock of food for the coming year. All of their computers, and all of their cell phones were taken, as well as phone and contact records. The food cooperative was virtually shut down. There was no rational explanation, nor justification, for this extreme violation of Constitutional rights.

Presumably Manna Storehouse might eventually be charged with running a retail establishment without a license. Why then the Gestapo-type interrogation for a 3rd degree misdemeanor charge? This incident has raised the ominous specter of a restrictive new era in State regulation and enforcement over the nation’s private food supply.
Continue reading….

A little more reading reveals that this isn’t an isolated incident but prevalent enough that a non-profit, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, has been organized “To defend the freedoms and to broaden the rights of sustainable farmers and their consumers to produce and consume local, nutrient-dense food.” You’ll find advice on “How to Survive a Farm Raid”, or how to recognize government regulators and how to prepare for their strategies. I’ll refer you to The Bovine for more links and far more insight.

It bodes ill for those of us who will seek to move ourselves as far as possible from the claustrophobic and invasive reach of Obammunism.

Part II next post.

Related:
Manna Storehouse
Manna Storehouse Family Update

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