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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

One thing that I have been doing for a number of years is to support people 
like this in the only way I know; I send them money, anonymously.  

I just sent a small paperback book -- with cash inside-- to a couple from 
another list who were caught growing an illedgal few plants for personal use. 

They were busted because a family member was stupid/naiive enough to be 
intimidated to allow the cops in without a warrant (never invite or acquiesce 
to vampires or police coming inside your property without a warrnt).  The 
'state ' will now seize their property - their homestead- ina ll likely hood, 
because of their small time personal use horticulture.  Beofre you judge 
them, remember it could be raw milk the next time. 

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:05 AM
> Ah yes...Mark Nolt. Sort of an icon in PA sustainable
> agriculture. He 
> refused to renew his raw milk license and has been
> repeatedly arrested for 
> selling raw milk. There are others, but Nolt is the most
> notorious....his 
> goal is to "break the law to change it". If he
> lives to be 100, I don't 
> think he'll live long enough to accomplish that.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "sjc" <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
> 
> 
> > Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> >> Bob; there's technically a 'raw milk
> license' in PA, but anyone who has 
> >> one
> >> will tell you that they are harassed beyond belief
> by the PDA. People 
> >> doing
> >> 'cow shate' (where other people don't
> buy the milk, but buy a share of 
> >> the
> >> cow) are regularly dragged into court. I don't
> know if they win or not, 
> >> but
> >> who wants to live that way? Their plan is working.
> >>
> > They have been concentrating in the last few months
> (actually, now that
> > I think of it, probably close to a year ) on a Mark
> Nolt, Amish guy
> > (Beachy or one of those groups, but Amish) somewhere
> south or southwest
> > of Harrisburg.  They've raided him at least twice,
> hauled him off to
> > jail,  and hauled off tens of thousands of
> dollars' worth of cheeses,
> > other product, and equipment, which so far has
> magically been replaced
> > (as well as some pretty hefty fines paid), in support,
> by Amish groups,
> > both his own and others.  As far as I know that whole
> this is stalemated
> > in that stage.
> >
> > The Amish make, on the face of it, good targets:  they
> don't fight back,
> > they generally try and follow "english"
> rules, they are meek and not
> > mouthy, not given to hiring lawyers, they're not
> apt to make a splash
> > about being unfairly arrested or badly treated, etc. 
> And in some ways
> > they really don't "get it"; an Amish guy
> not too long ago told me, after
> > a years' incarceration for a non-crime, that
> "That sheriff guy told me I
> > was the best prisoner they ever had in that
> jail."  So their separation
> > and ignorance of society works for for and
> against.....
> >
> > Currently they (Amish) are scapegoats--that is, they
> would be scapegoats
> > if it weren't all bogus to begin with-- in MI, OH,
> and PA, with some
> > activity reported in IA, but I didn't get the
> whole story on that one,
> > over raw milk/milk product sales.
> >
> > And increased migration to Belize is well
> underway.....
> >
> > SJ
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