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<\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\nShellie Smith, the owner of Arlington’s “Garden of Eden” says police\r\nand code enforcement agents “destroyed everything” in a raid on\r\nAugust 2, 2013.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nYou might be irked, too.\r\n
\r\nRadley Balko wrote for Huffpo Thursday,\r\n\r\nTexas Police Hit Organic Farm With Massive SWAT Raid<\/a>,\r\n
\r\n\r\nMembers of the local police raiding party had a search warrant for\r\nmarijuana plants, which they failed to find at the Garden of Eden\r\nfarm. But farm owners and residents who live on the property told a\r\nDallas-Ft. Worth NBC station that the real reason for the law\r\nenforcement exercise appears to have been code enforcement. The\r\npolice seized “17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo\r\nplants … native grasses and sunflowers,” after holding residents\r\ninside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie\r\nSmith said in a statement. The raid lasted about 10 hours, she said.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nLocal authorities had cited the Garden of Eden in recent weeks for\r\ncode violations, including “grass that was too tall, bushes growing\r\ntoo close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood\r\nthat was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing\r\nfrom the side of the house, and generally unclean premises,” Smith’s\r\nstatement said. She said the police didn’t produce a warrant until\r\ntwo hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name\r\ntags so they couldn’t be identified. According to ABC affiliate\r\nWFAA, resident Quinn Eaker was the only person arrested — for\r\noutstanding traffic violations.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nThe farm posted\r\n\r\nThe Fight for Our Rights- An Overview of the Situation and Issues at Hand<\/a>:\r\n
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<\/a>\r\nSince February of 2013, the alleged City of Arlington has been\r\nengaged with the Garden of Eden in a dispute over city code\r\nviolations on the small community’s land. The situation came to a\r\nboil on Friday, August 2nd of 2013 when an early morning SWAT raid\r\nwas conducted by the Arlington Police at the Garden of Eden, during\r\nwhich the grass was cut and many trailers full of materials were\r\nremoved from the premises by the City.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nIt’s not just that the SWAT team was there to mow the grass.\r\nAccording to the farmer,\r\nthe city of Arlington had agreed beforehand not to take action against the farm about the citations,\r\nand the farmer had
aplealed<\/strike> appealed to the sheriff to ensure that.\r\nInstead the sheriff raided the farm:\r\n\r\n\r\nIn her lawful notifications on record to the County Sheriff, Dee\r\nAnderson, Smith declared that her safety and property were being\r\nthreatened unlawfully by the City and individuals in their official\r\nand individual capacity and that her family was in danger. She\r\nrequested that the Sheriff intervene on her behalf to see that due\r\nprocess of law was followed. However the Sheriff did not respond nor\r\ndid anyone from the Sheriff’s office.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nAccording to established, lawful documentation filed with the\r\nArlington Municipal Court, the City of Arlington has made prior\r\nagreement with the Inhabitants of the Garden of Eden that this issue\r\nwas already resolved. There are multiple signed, bonafide documents\r\non the record wherein the City agrees that they neither could nor\r\nwould take action of any kind in the matter of the city code\r\nviolations at the Garden of Eden.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
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<\/a>\r\nYet those agreements were disavowed then the City conducted their\r\nraid and forcibly took action to abate the alleged city code\r\nviolations. Furthermore, due process of law was NOT followed in\r\nenforcing code compliance at the Garden of Eden. There was never any\r\ntrial to bring evidence or give testimony before a judge and jury,\r\nas is every man and woman’s right under the law. Instead, several\r\ndozens of government employees, paid by the people, showed up\r\nunannounced, uninvited, raped the land and held captive every human\r\npresent at gunpoint.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nHint: this is not marijuana.\r\n
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\r\nAa MSNnow put it,\r\n\r\nTexas cops can’t tell their tomatoes from their THC<\/a>.\r\n