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Storm
09-02-2011, 08:54 PM
Source - http://offgridsurvival.com/livingoffthegridcrime/

Apparently living off the grid, off the land and without government assistance is now a crime that can land you in jail and cause you to lose your home.

Government officials across the country are forming so called “nuisance abatement teams” to intimidate people into giving up their land or conforming to the governments demands and hooking back into the grid. Counties across the country are actually jailing people for living the way they want to live.

I was alerted to this video by a reader and was troubled and sickened by what the poor people in the California Desert are being forced to deal with. From being threatened with jail time if they don’t hook back into the grid to being thrown in jail because the county didn’t like the look of their homes, the people in the deserts of Los Angeles County are being terrorized by their government.

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Aces High
09-02-2011, 09:25 PM
I dont think its a question of these people not being able to live off the grid but more a case of building violations.
The places they have built look like tips really with lots of outbuildings growing on without any sort of logic or respect for the local surroundings or any thought given to the aesthetic look of the buildings.
Its not like you can buy a cheap piece of land and then go and do what you want on it....even though the desert looks like a barren wasteleand it has its own beauty and should be free from settlers ruining it.

These people should go to Petrocelli to represent them...he always won defending the humble working person against "the man".

rhiannon
09-04-2011, 01:46 PM
Only if you're the Unabomber:p