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Has anyone else heard about this?

Full Article from The Morning Journal

That is insanity. I'd be retaining a alwyer and suing the socks off of everyone involved. This is America not Soviet Russia, or at least it use to be America.

Guess it wasn't tainted with enough USDA approved melamine.

Well if this is true, the govt violated these peoples Constitutional rights, didnt show any Warrant to search the house and unjustifiably searched and seized things they had no apparent warrant for.

And another thing, this:



What this boils down to is, the govt telling people, you cant have food stocks, sell food stocks and engage in sharing food stocks with anyone without the express permission of the govt and also have to pay the govt to 'allow' you to be able to do business that doesnt need govt approval.

In effect the govt is acting worse than the Mafia, terrifying this family and telling them that family needs to give payola to the govt in order to conduct business that most normal people have done for ages, trade foods, and barter and sell foods.

This is govt overreach into an area they have no reason to be into, unless this family opens up a legitimate business in a storefront, they have every right to share their food with any they see fit.

Also taking their private foodstocks puts an undue hardship burden on this family and abuses the children who rely on their parents to feed them.

in effect the govt's heavy hand has hammered down on this family and is in the process of forcibly starving that family in order to get their extortion payola in order for that family to be able to feed itself let alone sell or barter or share food to others they see fit to.

My advice to this family is to get a lawyer and sue the hell out of that police and their raid, take the lawsuit up on Constitutional and civil Rights charges as that family was never served a warrant, was not given any reading of rights and had their posessions taken from them without justifiable reason.

Hidden wealth and illegal Income? Yup this is the govt telling this family they want payola in order for that family to be able to feed itself and live.

I'm astonished they didnt shoot the parents dead and take the kids and take over their property in this 'raid'

Go raid Obammy's house, I'm sure he has all kinds of illegal stuff.

The father is in Iraq...a Navy Seabee. And AFAIK, food co-ops are NOT required to be licensed.

As for the warrant, I dunno how legal it was, but the story did say that a warrant was shown.

They had better have a damn good reason for this, other than pushing for payola they dont have a right to since its a co-op.

On a side note, this family is also a homeschooling, Christian family.

They don't need a reason.

You know what the govt is trying to do with this, the govt is behind the NAIS food tracking program that tags and tracks EVERY single farm animal from cows, chickens, geese and more to backyard chickens and more even your dogs.

NAIS is The most invasive form of govt tracking of our food supply ever devised and this food raiding and harrassment of co-op farms and Amish and private farms and Christian homeschoolers growing their own foods is proof the govt wants ALL control of ALL America's food supplies to the point they dont want ANYONE outside their uber controls.

This should tell you everything, besides wanting payola:

Sounds like Soviet Russia.

Sounds WORSE than Soviet Russia.

Indeed.

It's going to be intresting to see how much of this the American People are willing to tolerate.

THAT is the real reason for the raid I'll bet.

BTW-food co-ops are very popular in many homeschool groups. I was in one myself. They need to leave us the he&& alone.

Welcome to the land of government licensed pasteurized milk and processed honey.

May you live long and be taxed to death.

Something tells me it has only just begun. After January 20th we are going to see things we never thought we would ever see in this country in our lifetime.

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How does a co-op work?

Is this mostly about taxes? Was it a government SWAT team? or was this some sort of fringe bunch with arms?

Around here, and as a general I believe, food co-ops are "bought" into. You invest in a share, and then the amassed shares are used to purchase on a larger scale, which means at a lower price. It makes it possible to buy much larger amounts of food, at a much lower cost. Thus, you get more for your buck. Another way it is done around here, are working co-ops. You invest in a share to combine with other shares for purchases of seed, animals like chicken, etc. Then, you also agree to invest a certain amount of time in cultivating, the husbandry of the animals, etc. In return you receive a fair share of any goods sold, as well as a fair share of the goods, for personal consumption.



Not certain. It has been suggested due to no licensing, but as they were not selling retail, there should have been no need for licensing. That said, even if it was required for them to have a license, their not having one is only a third degree misdemeanor in Ohio. The ODA actions seem to be quite over the top for a third degree misdemeanor.



Yes. The Ohio Dept. of Agriculture.



See previous answer.

http://www.localharvest.org/food-coops/

It's like the barter system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter

In many homeschools we have "co-ops" where each family will exchange their surplus or services for something else. In my group, one lady had access to a deli where she got day old wonderful loaves of exotic breads. Every Monday and Friday she would bring the bread in big bags and we all helped ourselves to what we needed. Another lady taught Spanish twice a week. Another family had chickens and they brought eggs. Each family takes what they need from the kiddie and in return they give. There is never any money involved. This only works if each family is faithful to pull their weight. This is just one example. Some food co-ops are pretty large with over 200 families involved. There is no overseer or any one person in charge. All the families must be responsible on their own for it to work.

Interview w/ the Stowers family, after the raid.







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From what I heard the police took things that were NOT on their search warrant's list, i.e. they violated the LAW!

These people need to get themselves a lawyer and sue the blazing crapo's out of that police dept and more.

They have, and are.

Keep us informed I wanna see that bunch hurtin financially for this jackbooted UnConstitutional raid.