Grand Prairie, TX — A hard-working Texas man was thrown in jail after a warrant was issued for his arrest for an overgrown lawn.
Protecting and Serving Texas Man Thrown in Jail for Weeks because his Lawn was Overgrown The Free Thought Project
Rick Yoes is the campus electrician for Tarrant County College and usually works from before sun-up to after sun-down.
In September of last year, he and his daughter had been hard at work and were unable to cut the lawn on their Grand Prairie home. The local government then claimed that because Yoes could not mow hiss lawn, he now owed them $1,700 for his grass that achieved a height of over six inches.
1700$ only because you didn't cut the lawn... Damn, i understand that some stupid laws were "born" because there were incidents(Of course i'm talking about stupid laws, like Alabama's prohibition on playing dominoes on sunday)
This guy is just average worker, just average citizen who wanna live good, but should work on bad job to earn some... Why government is spitting in his face?
Shameful. There should be protests in the streets and riots. People better wake up and stop the damn law ( law enforcement ) from taking over this country. Our entire judicial system should be wiped out and completely over-hauled. Dumb laws, cowboy cops, corrupt courts, and marshal law are destroying this nation. I hope someone realizes that you can only push people so far before all hell will break loose. The American people need to take control of this country before it's too late.
It is too late.
"Famously, eight years before Lincoln's speech, during the Senate debate on the
Compromise of 1850,
Sam Houston had proclaimed: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand."
Lincoln s House Divided Speech - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Yes, we are very much divided, and I preach about that every single day. A people divided, plays right into the hands of those doing the damage. As long as the government can keep us divided, they win, we lose. But, try telling that to citizens and see how far you get. I see division every single day on this forum, in almost every post and comment. I see posts and comments about slamming those that are labeled "liberals", "conservatives", "moderates", "Republicans", "Democrats", "right wings", "left wings", and "independents". And, no one ever stops to think that the government is enjoying every single minute of it. The worst fear of our government is a united citizenry. They know that if we ever unite as Americans, and trash those ridiculous silly labels, then they'll be forced to do their job, which is fairly, equally, and justly representing ALL AMERICANS.
What's so amazing to me is that there are so many well educated and brilliant minds in this country, yet they leave their brains at home when they go to the polls to vote on election day. Another thing that amazes me is the fact that we're flooded every single day with news about the problems in this country, and we actually see it and experience it on Main Street America all across this nation. Yet, voters forget everything they've seen and experienced, and continue to elect and to re-elect professional politicians to run this once great nation. Go figure. In addition, they vote the self-serving egotistical power hungry crooks into office, then spend the next four years complaining. Voters aid and abet the crooks, then wonder why we have growing poverty, a declining economy, injustices in our judicial system, unfair taxation, disrespect from our many allies, rundown infrastructure, an astronomical and rising national debt, illegal immigration issues, government corruption, senseless deadly costly wars, lose of privacy, unaffordable health care, the rising cost of higher education, low wages, import dependency, cities going bankrupt, troubled pension funds, out-of-control law enforcement personnel, lost industries and lost skills, and millions receiving some form of government assistance.
Americans have let America down. American voters have allowed our government to become an entity unto itself, answerable to no one except itself. The power of the people is now so weak, that the power rest with the government. We don't tell the government what to do, they tell us what they're going to do. The government exerts its will, and not the will of the people. Yet, we run to the polls every election cycle and allow them to continue to send this once great nation down into the abyss of ruin. And the main cause for all of this, is "DIVISION". Division is weakness, and we're very weak.
