[Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!

[Reggie Holmquist]

I tend to rely on snopes to debunk that sort of BS.  Sadly, I run across it
all the time.  Earlier this year there was a right-wing e-mail going around
claiming that the HCR bill was going to convert employee-provided insurance
into taxable income.  It wasn't true, of course, but serves as an example of
the many falsities that seem to emanate from the right (many of which seem
to be intentional).  Anyway, here's the Snopes article on HR 875:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

-Reggie

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

>   Yes.
>
> Sue H.
>
>  *From:* Robert Dickow <dickow at turbonet.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 05, 2010 2:50 AM
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!
>
>
> Someone told me today that Congress is about to pass a bill that would make
> backyard gardening illegal, and organic gardening would be prohibited,
> slapped with 500,000 dollar fines, etc. I laughed a good one. But I peeked
> around the web and the notion seems to have taken some root in some corners.
> So, I read the Bill HR 875 which one forum site cited as the source of these
> perceived threats to our favorite heirloom tomatoes and string beans. Lo and
> behold, there is not ONE snip of anything in this particular bill which
> could be skewed to mean that backyard gardens are in any way threatened, nor
> are organic farms under attack by a nefarious plot to eliminate the
> practice. The whole notion is utterly hilarious. One of the sites that
> mentioned this legislation (which is dated Feb 2009, but who reads bills
> these days?) was aligned somehow with Rand Paul, but I’ve lost the URL now.
> Are some folks going totally bonkers?
>
>
>
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
>
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