Growing Your Own Food at Home is now illegal!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <img alt="growing food" class="attachment-full wp-post-image" height="320" src="http://www.lifeintheknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/growing-food.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 28px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="480" /><br /> <div class="post_content" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span class="wpsr_floatbts_anchor" data-offset="25" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a Disturbing new trend is emerging where people who try and live a sustainable life by growing their own food and harvesting their own energy from the sun and water from rain are now being raided by swat teams and in some cases thrown in jail.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Watch these two videos for more information regarding this new trend and make sure to let us know what you think in the comments.</span></div> <div> <span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://www.lifeintheknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/prison-rainwater.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="prison rainwater" height="349" src="http://www.lifeintheknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/prison-rainwater.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" width="549" /></a></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Oregon man, Mr Harrington who was charged and found guilty for  collecting rainwater on his own property, started his prison sentence today. He has to serve 30 days in jail and pay a $1500 fine.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here’s what he said.</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; margin: 0px 0px 28px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies.”</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We as Americans, we need to stand on our constitutional rights, on our rights as citizens and hang tough. This is a good country, we’ll prevail,” he said.</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Update June 2014:</strong></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The State of Michigan just made it illegal for residents to grow their own food and keep their own livestock at home. If you live in Michigan where there are 13 other homes within an eight of a mile to your house you may not keep chickens, beehives, grow your own food or even a goat or two.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is an all out war on self sufficiency. You’d think that the government would encourage it’s citizens to be more self sufficient like they do in Switzerland and other countries.</span></div> <div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"> <br /></div> </div>

Growing Your Own Food at Home is now illegal!

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