Virginia vintners taste the police state
August 12, 2012 | 8:00 pm
While the Obama administration is busy eviscerating private property rights at the federal level, Republican-controlled Fauquier County, Va., has decided to follow suit in its own way. Fauquier’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a winery ordinance that tramples private property rights and some fundamental civil liberties.
The county, which is located about an hour west of Washington, calls itself an agricultural community. Its scenic, sprawling farmlands have become home to a growing number of wineries. Vintners have discovered that Fauquier’s climate and rich soil are ideal for growing grapes.
Most of the wineries are mom and pop operations. Some, though, have been more creative in marketing, employing more people, and generating revenue. The county thinks such success must be punished.
At the center of all this is the county zoning administrator, a bureaucratic czar named Kimberley Johnson, whose bullying and heavy-handed enforcement tactics have resulted in calls for her dismissal by county farmers and residents. Johnson was recently the subject of a citizen-farmer “pitchfork protest” in a matter in which she fined one farmer for conducting a pumpkin carving and a birthday party for eight little girls without the proper permit.
You can read the rest of the article here.
We are seeing more and more stories like this popping up all over America, and as far as I know, not one of the tyrannical bureaucrats, nor their politician enablers, has been held to account for their trampling upon the Constitution.
That must change, and soon.
At least there are some out there who are resisting the creeping tyranny.
But protests alone are not enough, nor is merely throwing these tyrants out of office – it is going to take criminal prosecution and incaration of government officials, elected or otherwise, to get the message across that we in America are not going to tolerate government run amok.
Or are we?
-Dave
(h/t: boortz.com)
Yet the idiots reelect these fools.
Unfreakin believable….
And the drones will be watching us, too. I saw another one last week flying over residential area. Bast*rds…
Listened to an interesting broadcast today.Civil war in the US by 2016 at this rate I think it could be sooner.
The reason they are “tramping the Constitution” is because it has not been in effect since 1871. There was a second constitution that was enacted through coersion in 1871. This second constitution favors international bankers, not the citizens of the United States. This second constitution was signed into law by President Grant and the Congress of 1871. It was called
the Organic Act of 1871. This is an illegal act due to the fact that an act of financial sabotage and coersion was used to turn it into law. This eliminated the former U.S. Constitution signed by General/President George Washington. Thereby rendering the whole United States into a corporate entity instead of a Republic. Now you see why the US government does NOT follow the original Constitution! herefore, Washington DC is not owned by Americans nor does it serve the People of the United States. 98 percent of Americans do not even know about the Organic Act of 1871. Its not taught in government controlled schools (of course!) and it was hidden from public view. This is the very reason why US soldiers wage wars against soverign nations who did not attack the US. They are literally hired killers for the bankers (Illuminati). Every American born in the USA is a slave to these evil stockholders of this U.S. Corporation.
The passage of the Residence Act in 1790 created a new federal district that would become the capital of the United States. Formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the capital territory already included two large settlements at its creation: the port of Georgetown, Maryland and the town of Alexandria, Virginia. A new capital city named in honor of President George Washington was founded to the east of Georgetown in 1791.
Shortly after establishing operations in the new capital, Congress passed the Organic Act of 1801, which organized the federal territory. Congress allowed the cities of Washington and Georgetown to each maintain their own municipal governments. The remainder of the unincorporated territory within the federal district formed the new County of Washington….
Congress passed the Organic Act of 1871, which revoked the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and combined them with Washington County to create a unified territorial government for the entire District of Columbia. The new government consisted of an appointed governor and 11-member council, a locally elected 22-member assembly, and a board of public works charged with modernizing the city.[7] The Seal of the District of Columbia features the date 1871, recognizing the year the District’s government was incorporated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Organic_Act_of_1871
Bureaucracies and bureaucrats are great at playing possum! Most of the time they’re like the Keystone Kops. But when they really want to get things done, they get things done—like regulating and exterminating people! And don’t you just love it about how DEAF they are! Yep, they never hear anyone. (At least, that’s the appearance). And this is an important pivotal point, because deafness is a sign of absurdity.
Well, it keeps getting worse every year, and we don’t do a thing about it!