On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:07:38 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

Brooklyn1 wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

But noticeably absent is anything considered by Miami Shores to be a
vegetable. That's because earlier this year, after tending her
garden for 17 years with nothing from the neighbors but
compliments, Ricketts was ordered to dig up her veggies.
She says she was surprised several months ago when a zoning
inspector stopped by.

"He told me I was not allowed to have vegetables in the front yard,"
she says.

Under a zoning ordinance tightened last spring, residents in Miami
Shores are not allowed to have vegetable gardens in their front
yards. In August, Ricketts went before the town's code enforcement
board to protest, but board chairman Robert Vickers was less than
sympathetic.

The board ruled the vegetables must go. The zoning inspector told
Ricketts which plants she had to pull up. She complied, but wasn't
done with her fight.

Home of the brave, land of the free...

Where rules are established to serve the majority.
Miami Shores is an association with many rulz... if you don't like
rulz don't live there, couldn't be simpler. There are plenty of
places to live where one may plant crops in their front yard. And in
fact Miami Shores permits vegetable gardens in rear yards... search
gardening:
http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=11252

The principle that society is entitled to make rules for its collective
betterment that may disadvantage some individuals is not in dispute.

The point that you have missed is the ridiculous scope and impossibility of
clear definition of the rules that some people believe they are entitled to
foist on to others. There are some rules that should not be made because
the test that the betterment of society exceeds the loss of individual
freedom is not met. There are some that should not be made because defining
them unambiguously and enforcing them equitably is not possible. This one
is both.

For a country whose public mythos features freedom of the individual very
strongly there seem a great many who are ready to declare that you may be as
free as you like as long as you agree with *their* way of life and *their*
view of right conduct. This is a good recipe for a conformist authoritarian
society which those same people spend their energy railing against. How do
they justify such illogical behaviour? Simple. They are right and the rest
are wrong so everybody shut up and do as you told. Or as you put it, if you
don't like it move away.

You sound like a moron, which is what you are.