A jury decided last year that the owner of a small organic farm, Shellie Smith, still owes $4000 after a raid by SWAT that destroyed her farm.
Garden of Eden, a small organic in Arlington, Texas, was the target of a SWAT raid in 10-hour long search with Smith being held at gunpoint at one point.
Arlington police dept. stated that there were complaints of marijuana being grown on the premises, but none was found on the property. Instead, law enforcement confiscated 17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants, native grasses and sunflowers.
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Possibly some of that psychedelic okra, the latest craze, got to nip it in the bud I tell you! Think of the children, these free thinking types must be stopped at all costs! Heavens, they might even take up art, music and home cooking if we aren’t careful. Thanks the powers that be that the good men of the swat team removed the offending blueberry bushes. I feel so much safer now.
It’s sad to know that these thugs are living and working in the great State of Texas.
YOUR ABUOT STUPI D..
LEAVE THIS FARMERS ALONE.
THERE TRYING TO MAKING THERE OWN FOOD…
This is why we have Militias. One phone call to her state militia would have ended this.
Police State USA
thats pretty bad that you cant call the police to protect your constitutional rights anymore. you have to call your state militia to keep the police from taking your constitutional rights way.
This is what we all should expect soon I think. The world is upside down.
LOVE how the right wing extremists automatically blame President Obama for the raid. What this DOESNT say, he has nothing to do with the cops. This was a STATE issue, namely Texas. The Federal Government has nothing to do with SWAT teams, since those are a local police force. In other words, you SHOULD be blaming Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, not the President. But dont let those pesky facts get in the way of blind stinking hatred. The cops were looking for weed growers, this was not ATF, FBI, or any other federal cops, but LOCAL cops. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/texas-swat-team-conducts-_n_3764951.html
Dumb fucs on juries are a BIG problem.
I am really glad all those friends of mine died in Iraq so we can be free here in the USA!!!!