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Title: Minnesota Man Arrested, Sentenced to 6-Months in Jail for Having a Windmill On His Property
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ja ... -property/#if8HP4JKsLZ0XMKz.99
Published: Oct 3, 2015
Author: John Vibes
Post Date: 2015-10-03 14:58:03 by Deckard
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Comments: 4
Orono, MN – For more than a year, we have been following the story of a Minnesota man, Jay Nygard, who is routinely risking jail time because he refuses to remove a wind turbine from his property. Nygard has been in and out of court over the years, and despite a short-lived victory in October, he was recently back in front of a judge facing a contempt of court charge for refusing a court order to remove the turbines from his property. He did eventually remove the turbines, leaving only the cement bases because removing them would cause structural damage to their house. This was not good enough for the local government, who ignored the advice of three different engineers and demanded that they remove the bases, despite the risk of damaging the home. This is all that remains of the windmill on Nygard’s property, a concrete footing, in the ground. On Friday, Nygard was arrested and, according to his son, has been given six months in prison for refusing to remove the base. According to Kahler Nygard, Jay’s son, his father even attempted to make peace with the county and compromise on a number of different issues, but they ignored his appeals. “The choices for my dad were to potentially destroy our foundation in the house or go to jail, he even offered an olive branch saying he would add an easement to the deed saying when the house is demolished the pad must be removed, but that was ignored also,” Kahler said in an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project. “The base was level with the ground and 4 feet cubed. We removed the top half of the concrete and used a metal cutting tool to remove the top half of the bolt assembly, rendering the structure unusable,” Kahler explained. “They say that we have to remove to footing 100% and have it inspected by the city, which we have three different engineers all saying we should just leave it, one of them even does contract work for the city,” he added. Kahler said that although there are no ordinances against windmills, the county has a personal vendetta against his family. Nygard has the right to do whatever he wants with his own property, but unfortunately in a democracy such as the United States, the property rights of an individual can be overridden according to the whims of politicians and the demands of uninvolved third parties.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Most likely some or all of the country board members have stock in the local electric company,and see windmills as a threat to their dividends. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Big Brother is only happy when they are given total, complete, unquestioning, and immediate obedience. Kinda like the Gestapo. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
The city had an ordinance banning all windmills. A judge ruled that the ordinance was too broad and conflicted with state laws allowing windmills. Therefore, the ordinance and was null and void. But the judge also said that the city has the authority, under the statute, to "regulate the siting and construction of SWECS for such things as safety, noise and visual impact". So while it's true that there are no ordinances against windmills, there are ordinances covering their construction and location. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/244303602/Fourth-Judicial-District-Court-Decision-in- Nygard-v-Orono)
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Kahler said that although there are no ordinances against windmills, the county has a personal vendetta against his family.
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#3. To: Deckard (#0)
"Kahler said that although there are no ordinances against windmills"
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