Gardening and crime don't really sound like they go together, but when faced with an overbearing government bureaucracy anything is possible. This video is a prime example of what happens when the government gets out of control and the corporate grocery industry has it's tentacles around the local city politicians. Julie Bass was fined and charged with a misdemeanor for planting an organic garden in her front yard.
A more in depth look at Julie's situation
THIS IS COMPLETELY STUPID! THE CITY HAS SINGLED HER OUT AND BULLYING HER! THERE ARE LAWS AGAINST BULLYING. I HOPE SHE SUES THE PANTS OFF ALL INVOLVED! DON'T ANYONE MOVE TO MICHIGAN!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree this is just awful what is this planet coming to.. to grow your own food is the way it should be... how many of us have side gardens... back gardens.... plant Pot Gardens just to get away from the GM0.. Hot House grown foods from the Grocery Store.!!! I believe that fallowing your City Counsel members home and just find out what they are up to.. and I would do that... !!
DeleteAMEN!!! You hit it right on the nose Susan!!!
DeleteAMEN!!! Susan, you hit it right on the nose!!!
DeleteAyup!! Civil Rights dammit!!
DeleteWhat about Mark Baker and his hogs. That's in Michigan too.
DeleteWhen you look at the history of the front lawn..it was from French nobles thumbing their noses, saying I am NOT poor, I don't need to grow food. The fact that a city already strapped for cash is doing this is beyond dumb, senseless and silly.
Deletelmao this guy with the comb over gray hair and suit said the word suitable ment common in the dictionary. He probably has like, what, a harvard degree or something? fucking idiot. It means "Right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation."
Deletethat ignorant fuck with the gray hair and suit said that suitable means common? nice expensive degree you got there botard, it means, according to the dictionary you named. means adapted to a use or purpose or able and qualified or Right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation.
Deletelmao this guy with the comb over gray hair and suit said the word suitable ment common in the dictionary. He probably has like, what, a harvard degree or something? fucking idiot. It means "Right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation."
Deletethis is 2 years old why are we just hearing about it?
DeleteThis is just the George Bush "new world order" It bugs me that Obama hasn't taken a stand against stuff like this....
DeleteUN Agenda 21 - read it. You will understand this insanity!
DeleteUN Agenda 21.
DeleteRead it & learn that this is part of a grander socialist scheme.
This is not a conspiracy theory. Read & learn!
He needs to reconsider looking up suitable in Webster's....def 1. is an obsolete (and not the def he gave)
Delete2a : adapted to a use or purpose
b : satisfying propriety : proper
c : able, qualified
As b and c obviously do not apply then I would say a is a perfect fit. She has made the plants suitable for human use.
THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE GOVERNMENT PUTTING THEIR NOSE WHERE IT IS NOT NEEDED OR WANTED .. LET HER BE!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is complete bullshit.
ReplyDeleteMayor needs a rake shoved up his ass! City needs to get a life and look for real criminals...FOOD is good to grow and you can't eat grass dumb ass!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely ridiculous. It's certainly more attractive and useful than an unkempt lawn, and uses less water than a highly maintained one. If flowers are allowed, why not flowering plants that produce vegetables? Land of the free? This is overweaning big-nanny state politics. If anything, in this economy cities should be encouraging more pride in self-sufficiency!
ReplyDeleteonly in America
ReplyDelete....would people agree with you.
Deletethis is happening in other countries too.
only in America.....
Delete...would they agree with that dumb comment.
what is happening there is happening all over the world
Maybe, it has to do with Monsanto. If everyone follows, it would hurt his business.
DeleteDo you think Monsanto is involved? Just imagine if everyone was growing their own food???? I kind of like this idea.
Delete@Jimmy: You're free to post a video of unlawful front yard gardening somewhere in Asia because I can't find one right now
DeleteThis is absolutely ridiculous. I was considering planting a garden in my front yard...it seems ridiculous that people can't grow food in their own yard. Why should I waste gas to mow useless grass???? Julie should be left alone. The food she grows is being shared and kids are helping from the neighborhood. That is wonderful experience and education for those kids.
ReplyDeletewell if they only want her to grow a lawn, i8 say put up a fence and barriers and grow a lawn and raise bunnies on it... lol.. there, a suitable lawn that is growing food.
DeleteWhats common in Oak park MI?? MAybe she should start up a crack house, toss a couple bums in the front yard and board the place up! It will fit in just fine.
ReplyDeleteBy growing your own food you are becoming less dependant on (pick your favorite oppressive group) but shows others how easy it is to grow food and they have to put you down.
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ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is wrong with growing vegetables in your front garden? What kind of dumbfuck law is that? Anybody who finds a vegetable garden offensive is on the wrong fucking planet. It looks well maintained and orderly to me and it is entirely suitable, suitable to self sufficiency, suitable to feeding your family, suitable to potentially inspiring people who pass by to grow their own vegetables. Just because it's illegal doesn't make it wrong, similarly just because it's written as law doesn't make it right. Are we all to live in matching houses with uniform gardens, are we all to look the same, act the same, think the same, conform to somebody elses idea of what is 'suitable'? I'd rather fucking die. Whoever passed that law must have been an unimaginative moron who probably starches his fucking underwear to make sure its 'suitability' isn't marred by an errant crease. Leave the poor girl alone for fuck sake, it's a fucking vegetable garden, not a meth lab. Ffs.
ReplyDeleteWell if "what's common" is "suitable," why don't all their neighbors put gardens in their front lawns?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. If each person in that area saw this news report and planted their own garden, then that make her harden suitable, does it not? Sometimes, we citizens need to fight back to protect our rights from idiotic stuff like this.
DeleteThe thought of this article is great but you really do it no justice by posting a video from Alex Jones, who is ultimately nothing more than paid opposition. The man does nothing for the cause but make your average nitwit think that those who really know whats going on are crazy..
ReplyDeleteI feel, that if it is YOUR house, or YOUR property, then YES you should be able to plant a garden. If you were renting, I could understand, but the Landlord, would have to have complained. WOW why does the government care...LOL they shouldn't...
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as Your property. Look at yours or a friends deed. You are listed as a tenant.
DeleteIf someone wants to plant things in their front yard they should be free to do so. When did this country forget to fight for our freedoms in such a case as this? This is a small issue but if you allow the government to control the small things, you're leading the way for them to control our more important freedoms. So I commend Julie for standing up to them.
ReplyDeleteSooo, I looked up suitable in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Doesn't say anything about 'common'.
ReplyDeleteI think the definition he was looking towards was
Delete[ obsolete : similar, matching ]
As in, it follows suit.
However, notice the word obsolete.
[ a : no longer in use or no longer useful ]
This guy is a wacko, who should have just turned down the case for something more meaningful.
"we don't think it's suitable in OUR yards"... so what are you saying then? Are you saying that YOU have more jurisdiction in MY yard? Or that I don't OWN my yard? Or that a political subdivision has jurisdiction over the land?
ReplyDeleteAre you saying that YOU have the judicial capacity to practice law from a limited capacity? (show me) Does the tail wag the dog? (show me) Does the creation have more authority than the creator? (show me)
You guys need to wake the hell up! This is what you get for allowing them to govern your "mind" aka "govern-ment". They govern your mental faculty, because you don't know how to do it your selves. You play in their sand box, you must play by their rules.
You gotta understand, they don't OWN the land. NO ONE owns the land, they believe you are a "POLITICAL SLAVE" and rightly so. Since when do you know anything about law? So why are you politically swayed to believe anything they say in the first place? THEY are like the waves of an ocean, tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine. Were you not warned about them? Does your own law (bible) not say "They are liars, thieves and hypocrites"?
Does the law not say "He who knows not how to assert his rights has none" and "One who avails himself of the benefits conferred by statute cannot deny its validity" and "Any one may renounce a law introduced for his own benefit"? Do you not know "law is contract, contracts make the law, and consent makes the contract"?
The devil (THEY) are a roaring lion going to and fro throughout the earth seeking whom they may devour.
You BETTER wake up.
Its her yard and her property, if she wants a garden in the front she has every right to do it.
ReplyDeleteIts her yard and apart of her property. She has every right to do as she pleases. Its not hurting anyone, their probably just mad because that's less money in their pockets. And are afraid more people will start to grow their own food.
ReplyDeletethe webster's dictionary definition of "suitable": "adapted to a use or purpose."
ReplyDeleteI'm confused, did dude just LIE!?
The word has an archaic, or obsolete meaning. That being the same as suit, as in the same or similar. The issue is that is obsolete, and no longer used in that manner.
DeleteOMFG what is the world coming to prosecuting people for growing vegetables? whats next on the nwo agenda prosecuting us for breathing air? christ sake wake up this is getting ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteactually now they want to make water "not a human right" rain water is illegal to collect in most states and several people with artisan wells and natural aquafirs and streams on their grandfathered property are facing fines and jail times for having water on their property. and the amendments to the constitution also states that if we have anything the government needs or finds useful, esp in times of war (when is the US not at war with someone?) that they have full rights to come take it from us. the US government has already tried to pass several riders in recent bills over the last 10 years which would make it illegal for private families to grow their own food. their argument is that it is illegal importation of goods into the Us, that growing food is illegal because it is importing food. just what are they afraid of?
DeleteIs there nothing better for this city to do?
ReplyDeleteGoogled "suitable" -
ReplyDeletesuit·a·ble /ˈso͞otÉ™bÉ™l/ Adjective - Right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation.
Synonyms - fit - appropriate - proper - fitting - convenient
The use of "suitable to mean similar" is considered OBSOLETE by Merriam-Webster Dictionary and is clearly marked as such. Here's the link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suitable - Please feel free use to dispute the City's NONSENSE in court. 1 Neighbor in 4 didn't like it. Boo-hoo. It's a well maintained garden. I guess if it was a "flower garden" that would be acceptable?! So then, it's not about "gardening" it's about what's "prettier". Yep, total waste of time and money by the City.
Start a petition so we can support you
ReplyDeleteThe lawyer in the first video says that "suitable" is defined as "common" but this is simply not true. From Merriam-Webster:
ReplyDeleteSuitable
• adapted to a use or purpose.
• right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation.
I hope the good people of Oak Park didn't pay too much for a lawyer who doesn't know what words mean.
another lying politician, go figure...
DeleteAgreed! I looked it up myself, that guy was so childish. It's an opion and they NEED to look at it this way... She's not growing illegal drugs, she's educating her community and it's children free of charge, and is doing a very good thing for the environment. I hope she wins, this is sad and pathetic of those city officials...
DeleteShameful! I would suggest everyone start attending your city council meetings. Sit on a few, learn the ropes and then begin your changing. If your city council won't budge it's time to vote in new members.
ReplyDeleteShe should demand a jury trial and pray the jurors know what Jury Nullification means.
This is terrible !!! My American friends be very very careful of your government officials. they don't care about you at all. they care for the guns, the oil and Monsanto..
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad, but your evil politicians are destroying your country. rapidly.
this is terrible !
ReplyDeleteMy American Friends - your politicians are working against you.
They only care for Monsanto, the gun sales and the oil. They Really Don't Care About You.
Stay away from republicans and democrats. they only pretend to be different.
Be Careful. they are working against you.
why does the rest of the street not support her and start planting veg in their front garden, this way it will "suitable" or "common" which is total BS as Marchelo has already pointed out.
ReplyDeleteWhen people can not afford to fight they are run over all the time by the government, cities, etc. I know I have been there.
ReplyDeleteYes, Everyone should conform. Live the same way. Wear the same fashion. Eat the same junk foods. Work like slaves complaining everytime it's monday and looking forward to Friday. It's about control.
ReplyDeleteWTF!!! Land was made for growing, not being a useless crappy lawn formerly beautiful and inhabited by wldlife. We lose 30,000 acres of undeveloped and wilderness habitat annually to development. Lawns are useless watersuckers. May as well produce wholesome healthy food and help the pollinators since it's almost impossible to buy at supermarkets. Our pollinators need all the help they can get.
ReplyDeleteThe government and companies like Monsanto are just scared shitless because they thought they owned the food industry which would mean they owned the world, but they are now seeing that people are not standing for their frankenfood anymore! They are panicking and scrambling to fight any battle they can, just to feel like they still hold some sort of power, but they will lose as all tyrants in history have. Keep up the good fight! www.eatnrunfitness.com
ReplyDeleteThis is the dumbest shit I ever heard! These people are morons!!! WTF?!?!?! You can't even grow your own food now??? This is harrassment, and I hope she drags their gonads through the shredder!!!!
ReplyDeleteDisgusting. They want us all to be sheep. And the only person to disagree with having a healthy organic garden in the neighbors yard is... obese. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteGo Julie! Who cares!!! That's so lame that she got sued... WHAT HAPPENED TO LAND OF THE FREE!!!!???
ReplyDeleteGo Julie! I think that is so rediculous! WHAT HAPPENED TO LAND OF THE FREE!!!??? She wasn't hurting anyone! This is all about money and control! Our government run by greedy corporations like MONSANTO are ruining our country! George and Abe would be rolling over in their graves right now...
ReplyDeleteThis is someone's idea of "good government".
ReplyDeleteThe same thing happened in the Salt Lake area of Utah.
ReplyDeleteIf we allow them to grow their own gardens, how will Monsanto make money? (note heavy sarcastic tone)
ReplyDeleteThis is so wrong. The garden is lovely and this family should be commended for keeping it looking so lovely, promoting good health and utilizing the space for something to useful and healthy! The City should leave them alone and ask them to start a program helping other families do the same things in their front yards!
ReplyDeleteWould have loved to support Julie, this case against her was rediculous, and is also 2 YEARS OLD. All of the videos posted are more than 2 years old. I would be more intersted in the update and outcome of this case.
ReplyDeleteThe same thing happened in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada. After a worldwide petition supporting the couple with their vegetable garden initiative, the city changed its bylaw and it is now promoting front-yard vegetable gardens
ReplyDeleteIf I were in the same position, I might try companion planting. If the veggie bearing plants were accompanied by ornamentals...then it's just an aesthetic issue. Of course, that's the problem to begin with, isn't it? I guess some people just don't have any taste (and I'm talking about the city of Oak Park).
ReplyDeleteIn my City, they have in the ordinance codes "Anything not expressly written as permissible is prohibited." In other words "We are your masters, hear us Roar"
ReplyDeleteSimple solution. The town councillor said, and is on record saying that "suitable" is "what is common", so everyone else in the town needs to plant a garden in the front yard.
ReplyDeleteLet me first say that I don't think what they (the city of Michigan) doing to this woman is ok.
ReplyDeleteThat said, a front yard is not a good place for a vegitable garden unless you live where cars don't drive.
The exhaust fumes from cars are terrible for the system and cause all sorts of cancer and free-radical related issues.
Personally I live in the country, and we (my family) still keep our vegi-garden in the back yard. My personal experience with this is that when I was a kid I would pick blackberries, but I soon found out that the ones by the road tasted like aluminum. Sadly, I think I'm the only one in this entire comment stream who has applied some schepticism to this issue, nonetheless I think it's awsome that the woman is standing up to the bureaucracy even if she does get cancer. You should be informed though, go into the forest to find the best blackberries.
Y'all should know: GARDENS SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM ROAD TRAFFIC TO AVOID CONTAMINANTS.
ReplyDeleteThis message has been brought to you by Captain Obvious.
in case you're scheptical here's a link to some info on the subject
http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=177
Furthermore. Julie is awsome anyway. That county official is a dick, and the woman who said that "she could put it in the back yard" was right, but for the wrong reason. Julie, keep fighting, but don't eat those veggies.
so you can carry a gun but not grow vegies?
ReplyDeleteDefinition of SUITABLE- Merriam-Webster.com
ReplyDeleteadjective
1
obsolete : similar, matching
2
a : adapted to a use or purpose (suitable for kitchen use)
b : satisfying propriety : proper (suitable dress)
c : able, qualified (a suitable candidate for the job)
Example of SUITABLE
We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.
No where does it say 'common'
Merriam-Webster.com
ReplyDeletesuit·able
adjective
Definition of SUITABLE
1 obsolete : similar, matching
2 a : adapted to a use or purpose (suitable for kitchen use)
b : satisfying propriety : proper (suitable dress)
c : able, qualified (a suitable candidate for the job)
Examples of SUITABLE
The dress was a suitable choice.
We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.
What can we do to help now? I wrote the city of Oak park when I first heard about this a year ago.
ReplyDeletewhat can we do to help now? Wrote city of Oak Park when first heard about this about a year ago.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.change.org/petitions/government-stop-arresting-people-for-growing-their-own-garden?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign
ReplyDeleteAnd what about that man in womans clothing whose face was not shown...Betcha he/she sells sod and decorative bushes for a living. lol. You go girl. People are tired of bureaucrats telling us how to eat, when to sleep, and how to care for our bodies. Garden On, its the single most revolutionary act in America today.
ReplyDeleteDefinition of SUITABLE
ReplyDelete1
obsolete : similar, matching
2
a : adapted to a use or purpose
b : satisfying propriety : proper
c : able, qualified
That definition of suitable is no longer used. Per Merriam-Webster.
Hopefully it DOES go to jury trial and the jurors have the common sense to rule "Not Guilty!" This guy is a prime example of what is wrong with our country. "Home of the free"? It is a lot more environmentally friendly to use water on plants that grow food, so you don't have to use your pollution-producing combustion engine to go to the grocery store all the time, than to expend water and fertilizer and chemicals on maintaining the "common" lawn.
ReplyDeleteKeep on keeping on, Julie!!! You are being bullied! Get yourself a really good lawyer and tackle this bull by the horns!!!
ReplyDeleteWTF??!! This terrible! "suitable" is something "common." But suitable is also something that is "convenient" and a veggie garden is def convenient!!
ReplyDeleteWTF??!! That is terrible! "suitable" is something "common." But suitable is also something that is "convenient" and a veggie garden is def convenient!!
ReplyDeleteThese people that think all things should be the way they want them to be, and since they have the money and the power, they get away with it... But why are they so Fuckin Anal like that.. I mean... really.. come on.. its a fuckin garden, and these fucks that make shit loads more than the rest of us say it cannot happen.. why?.. rich greedy fuckheadz.
ReplyDeleteThe rich and powerful fuckheads.. they "think" differently than we do.. they "think" everything should be the way they want it. Too Anal .. Way too Anal..
ReplyDeleteIs it really true that no one noticed that this is actually something that happened 2 years ago (look at date of the first YouTube video)? The charges were dropped a week later.
ReplyDeleteJulie Bass summed the whole story up on her blog: http://oakparkhatesveggies.wordpress.com/about/
She also has a Facebook page which is still active: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oak-Park-Hates-Veggies/184553881597878
The general issue seems to be quite broad, so even though this is "old news", it's just an example (seemingly the first one that got public) and probably that insanity is still happening ... and if it's happening near you, it would certainly be wise to step in and make sure that people trying to prevent others from growing their own food simply don't get through with it.
But be a little cautious with information. Everyone getting really upset about something that happened 2 years ago and no one pointing that out does leave a bit of a funny feeling. Is everyone asleep and dreaming?
try not to say the wrong thing, we all might get thrown in jail for that too, I can foresee that as the next step from our big government, Why not? they've already taken away most of our constitutional rights, why not the freedom of speech too?
ReplyDeleteThe example of orvelian country, you guys are Monsanto's guinea pigs.
ReplyDelete