To Be Safe From Texas SWAT Attacks Arlington's Garden Of Eden Should Move To The Skagit Valley

Today we have another entry in our popular series of bloggings about something I see in a west coast online news source which I would not see in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

This morning it was my old home zone's online news source called the Skagit Valley Herald, in its online version called GoSkagit, that I saw something one would not see going on in Texas.

That being anything to do with legal marijuana, since nothing to do with marijuana is legal in Texas, not even medicinal marijuana.

The "changing landscape" part of the article's title refers to the limbo Skagit County pot growers have been in due to the county commissioner's multiple changing of interim pot growing ordinances en route to finally approving permanent regulations, sometime soon.

The changing ordinances were things like it is okay to grow your weeds outdoors, to not being okay to grow your weeds outdoors, that type thing.

The guy above, standing by his pot plants, at his Sugarleaf pot farm, applied for a pot license from the Liquor and Cannabis Board on the day it became legal to do so. A year later he got his license and has been growing cannabis ever since.

If I correctly understood what I was reading, the Sugarleaf pot farm can continue to grow its weeds outdoors, something to do with the outdoor patch being grandfathered in before the new ordinance banning outdoor pot plantings.

When I saw the photo above of the Sugarleaf pot farmer standing by some of  his plants, while it did cross  my mind that one would not see this in Texas, that thought was soon followed by thinking how bizarre it is that in one state something like growing pot is legal, while in Texas, in the town of Arlington to be specific, a  SWAT team terrorized a commune type farm known as the Garden of Eden.

Arlington police surveillance drones had determined that the Garden of Eden was growing marijuana, hence the fully armed SWAT raid, tearing apart the Garden of Eden, handcuffing the farmers, terrifying the children.

Turned out that which the police thought to be marijuana was tomato plants.

The SWAT team tried real hard to find something illegal going on at the Garden of Eden, to no avail. After a few hours the handcuffs were removed. If I remember right the police charged the Garden of Eden with some bogus thing to justify their SWAT attack. I think the complaint was the Garden of Eden's foliage was too dense, making difficult to see what was going on behind the wall of vegetation.

The leader of the Garden of Eden tried to negotiate a settlement with the City of Arlington. The City of Arlington should have been ashamed, embarrassed and apologetic, pledging to repair the damage done.

But, the City of Arlington did not do the right thing, so the town is now being sued by the Garden of Eden.

I hope the Garden of Eden gets millions in the eventual settlement. And then uses those millions to move the Garden of Eden to the Skagit Valley, where they will find fertile soil that can grow anything, including pot plants, free of any fear of a SWAT team invading their space...

A Visit To The Garden Of Eden In Texas May Be In My Future Later This Month

On the left you are looking at a picture of the Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden is located in Kennedale.

Kennedale is a town south of Arlington in the state of Texas.

Less than a year ago the city of Arlington invaded Kennedale with a SWAT team sent to attack the Garden of Eden.

You living in Free America, where the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still the law of the land, probably have a difficult time with the idea that within America's borders there are areas which are ruled like a Police State, where individual's rights are trampled, where property can be stolen by subverting the legitimate concept of using eminent domain to take property for the public good, such as building a highway, school or hospital.

In the Dallas/Fort Worth Police State Zone eminent domain can be abused to take people's homes to build a sports stadium or a parking lot for a mall or to build an un-needed flood diversion channel for a public works project the public has never voted for.

If you are not familiar with the crimes against humanity committed in Arlington to build Jerry Jones a new football stadium, well, you can read all about it on my Eyes on Texas Dallas Cowboy Stadium Scandal webpage.

So, why am I harping on this subject today?

Well, a few minutes ago on Facebook, via Allen Patterson and the Tarrant County Libertarians, I read the following interesting information about the Garden of Eden, which also included a poetic reference to the Dallas Cowboy Stadium Scandal....

Back in August of 2013, the city of Arlington TX conducted a full-blown SWAT raid on Quinn Eaker's organic farm and community - The Garden Of Eden.

It was a drug raid, thinly disguised as a response to zoning violations. Arlington's henchmen took mothers away from nursing babies. The raid lasted for 10 hours. The SWAT team found "17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers," and nothing else. Quinn Eaker got a citation for "improperly stacked firewood" and was ticketed for a lingering traffic citation.

In response to this absurd violation of property rights, the Tarrant County Libertarian Party is running Quinn Eaker for the Texas House of Representatives! (District 96)

We're getting together with Quinn and his extended family on Sunday, June 22nd, at 3:00 p.m. 7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd, Kennedale, TX You'll get to see the farm, meet the family, and around 6:00 they will serve up some of their famous organic food.

What people do on their own property is no one else's business. Quinn Eaker doesn't live his life in the way that most of us do, although our lifestyles are far more likely to harm him than vice-versa. (And please remember that Arlington is the city most opposed to "Open Carry", and the city that took property from landowners by force, bulldozed the houses, and built The Temple Of Jerry Jones on the spot of their theft.)

Come get to know this fascinating young man and support his candidacy for Texas House. Sunday, June 22nd, from 3 til 7, at "The Garden Of Eden" 7325 Mansfield Cardinal Rd, Kennedale, TX.

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I am not a big fan of attending these type things due to my tendency to quickly get bored. However, I'm thinking a visit to the Garden of Eden on June 22 might be interesting enough to hold my interest.....