[Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!

[Joe Campbell]

Is this what they meant by smaller government in the last election?

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> Sue H.
>
> From: Robert Dickow
> 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?
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>
>
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
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