[Mpls] Blowers Unite!

[David Shove]

I like to eat really fresh meat, so I raise chickens in my apartment.
(free-apartment chickens). Then when I get hungry, I look over the flock
and pick one out to be my dinner.

Whether it's chickens, pigs, goats, or anything else -- do not give up
your RIGHT TO SLAUGHTER, at least on private property.

The neighbors I have left put up a stink about this, but it's none of
their business.

-David Shove
Roseville

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Victoria Heller wrote:

>
> Whether it's leaves, smoke, hot air, or anything else -- do not give up your
> RIGHT TO BLOW, at least on private property.
>
> Without thinking about consequences, Minneapolis is gaining momentum as it
> slides down that slippery slope towards tyranny.
>
> If government can "regulate" conduct on private property, what's to keep it
> out of your bedroom?  Based on my own fading memories, bedrooms are far
> riskier than bars.  Bedroom conduct has become a major health issue,
> generating incredible public cost.
>
> ....and blowing leaves for a few minutes each week, one or two months each
> year, is hardly worth regulating.  This sort of government interference is
> precisely what earns Minneapolis its cartoon character reputation.
> [Residents who find themselves annoyed by occasional leaf blowing should buy
> some Toro stock and move to Little Falls.]
>
> ....and for those who completely missed American history in school, here are
> a few comments on the subject from our predecessors:
>
> "There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to
> others." -- Elbert Hubbard(1856-1915)
>
> "But when no risk is taken there is no freedom.  It is thus that, in an
> industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety
> convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become
> self-serving busybodies."  -- Alan Watts (1915-1973)
>
> "All I ask is equal freedom.  When it is denied, as it always is, I take it
> anyhow." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
>
> Vicky Heller
> North Oaks and Cedar-Riverside
>
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