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I digress a bit. I mentioned Joseph Mercola earlier in the week, an osteopathic doctor who publishes a health newsletter. Today I got this rather disturbing edition<\/strong><\/a> about a family that endured a police raid for organizing an organic food coop out of their home.\u0412\u00a0 The YouTube video is worth watching, though the code on the newsletter page not quite working so you may need to go directly to YouTube<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>to watch it.<\/p>\n Nobody wants to call this tyranny because it’s “too scary” to do so. But we have a little problem because the police are too powerful, there are too many laws, and certain individuals in positions of power know there are unlikely to be consequences if they do anything wrong; who polices the police? Anyone who might (such as the District Attorney) is already their friend.<\/p>\n When I look at the Stowers family and their story of starting a family food co-cop, I think of this as being the agrarian spirit of my country, and of my European foremothers and forefathers. And when the journalist in me runs through the hundreds of ways that a local municipality could intervene, I could fill pages without even referring to the policy regulations.<\/p>\n Now, you may think this could never happen to you. You may think it’s ridiculous to think that this will happen to you for using organic shampoo. That may not be the issue; it may end up getting thrown in jail for a tail light bulb going out. I am pretty sure something like this happens to everyone at least once, only to a greater or lesser degree. And I don’t mean for smoking a joint. We all know when and when not to do that. I am talking about for minding one’s own business.<\/p>\n Here is the contact page<\/strong><\/a> for the Lorain County, Ohio (home of Oberlin College) Sheriff. I just called and said I was aware of the issue. I plan to get the street address and mail them a copy of the Constitution. Please spread the word<\/strong>. Posting it to the cover of Planet Waves seemed the least I could do.<\/p>\n Dear Friend and Reader: I’m going to intrude on the vibe of Beltane with a bit of political truth about our rights and freedoms being eroded in the United States. For those who think Europe is better, the difference where food and supplements are concerned only looks better because no European government in this day … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[456,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Eric](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&ssl=1\" "\\"Planet")
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