Did anyone hear this SWAT raid on the family in Ohio? All because of their choice of food, storage and sharing. Why is it not in mainstream media news?
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On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse http://www.mannastorehouse.com on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.
There were agents from the Department of Agriculture present, one of them identified as Bill Lesho. The search warrant is reportedly suspicious-looking.
Agents began rifling through all of the family’s possessions, a task that lasted hours and resulted in a complete upheaval of every private area in the home. Many items were taken that were not listed on the search warrant. The family was not permitted a phone call, and they were not told what crime they were being charged with. They were not read their rights. Over ten thousand dollars worth of food was taken, including the family’s personal stock of food for the coming year. All of their computers, and all of their cell phones were taken, as well as phone and contact records.
The food cooperative was virtually shut down. There was no rational explanation, nor justification, for this extreme violation of Constitutional rights.
Presumably Manna Storehouse might eventually be charged with running a retail establishment without a license. Why then the Gestapo-type interrogation for a 3rd degree misdemeanor charge? This incident has raised the ominous specter of a restrictive new era in State regulation and enforcement over the nation’s private food supply.
This same type of abusive search and seizure was reported by those innocents who fell victim to oppressive federal drug laws passed in the 1990s. The present circumstance raises the obvious question: is there some rabid new interpretation of an existing drug law that considers food a controlled substance worthy of a nasty SWAT operation? Or worse, is there a previously unrecognized provision(s) pertaining to food in the Homeland Security measures?
Some have suggested that it was merely an out-of-control, hot-to-trot ODA agent, and, if so, this would be a best-case scenario.
Anything else might spell the beginning of the end for the freedom to eat unregulated and unmonitored food. “
The truth of the matter is that we are being policed through our food. We have GMO and irradiated products sold to us without our knowledge and we’re supposed to just ‘take it’ with no rights of our own or questions asked? Sorry. I don’t think so.
Growing our own foods, purchasing from whomever we choose and whatever type of food we choose to consume is something humans have been ‘allowed’ (actually expected) to do since the dawn of time. “By the sweat of your brow will the earth produce what you eat.” Nowhere does it say by the government you will be provided exactly what you are allowed to eat.
Picture if you will the future…did anyone see the movie ‘Wall-e’? Do we WANT to be those flabby, boneless, muscle-less people in chairs with the computer screen in front of their eyes? They only saw and ate what the ‘computer’ prepared for them as ‘sustenance’. If the government chooses what I can and can’t eat, from whom I buy what I choose, we are not far off from becoming a society of spineless tubs of goo.
