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Title: Court Officials Who Jailed a Veteran for Living Off-Grid Were “Just Doing Their Jobs”
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Daily Sheeple
URL Source: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/cour ... e-just-doing-their-jobs_122016
Published: Dec 15, 2016
Author: Daisy Luther
Post Date: 2016-12-15 10:36:58 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 46468
Comments: 123
Here’s an entry for the “Job-Doing Hall of Fame.” What if your job meant that you had to go arrest a guy who just wanted to live off the grid on his own land? What if that guy was a veteran? What if his only crime was refusing a service that he was supposed to pay for, like public water or utilities? Is it actually acceptable to go to his place, kidnap him, and hold him against his will for that? If YOU are the person who takes any of those actions, are you to blame if you’re “just doing your job?” Meet Tyler Truitt Tyler Truitt is a veteran who owns two acres of land in Madison County, Alabama. He and his girlfriend live off-grid. They have a clean, well-cared-for home with solar panels and a rainwater collection system. They don’t have loud parties, deal drugs, or do anything else that could be deemed anti-social. Well, except refusing to tie into the grid. And the government can’t have that. So, in the interest of keeping law and order in Indiana, a guy who served his country is being harassed by his local government because they deem that not having public utilities makes his home unsafe. I don’t know about you, but I think the unsafe part is the government officials that commit such crimes as trespassing, kidnapping, and extortion. Truitt and his girlfriend aren’t hurting anyone. They aren’t endangering the welfare of their neighbors. They aren’t stealing, causing a public health hazard, or damaging anybody’s property. They’re just living free. Here’s an interview with Tyler Truitt. After this interview, Tyler ended up going to court and was put on probation for his “crimes.” It gets worse. During his probation, he had the audacity to return to his home. His probation was revoked and last month, he was re-arrested. He spent 10 days, including Veteran’s Day, in jail, as punishment for living in his own home. Here’s a screenshot of his booking paperwork. This saga has been going on for months and months. Can you imagine living in your home, minding your own business, and waiting every day for the knock at the door that turns your life upside down and deprives you of your liberty because you choose to live on your own land without public water and electricity? “Stop abdicating the personal responsibility for your own actions.” Truitt posted this powerful message on his Facebook page regarding his time in jail: A Message from Tyler Today is November 20, 2016. As many of you know, I spent the week before last in jail. The judge had ordered me to serve a 10 day sentence in addition to fines. This was in relation to the trial last year which has been under appeal for some months. The ultimate outcome of which we lost and I was ordered to serve the time. This concludes all pending legal action at the time, but what we expect to happen is for the city to come cite us again and start this process all over again. I’m not sure exactly what they’re planning to do, but I’m sure this won’t be the end of it. As for my experience in jail, there is one aspect of all this I briefly wanted to mention. Most of the jail and court, city, county etc. employees seem to be on our side. I had numerous guards tell me they thought our situation was messed up and apologize for what is happening to us. The deputy at the courthouse even said “Hey, aren’t you that guy who was on TV living off grid? I can’t believe they are doing this to you. That’s really messed up.” As he proceeded to carry me out without a word of protest to anyone else. That seems to be the common sentiment, and what I want you to notice is the key word “they”. People always say “they”, as if that person, “just doing their job”, has nothing at all to do with this. Just a bunch of little cogs in a big machine all doing their little part with no control over their own actions. The best thing about jail is that when you are in there, you know you’re a prisoner, no questions about it. Complete with orange jumpsuit, metal bars, and bland, hastily prepared prison food. But what about the people on the outside? All those little cogs just doing a job with no control over their own actions? Going to a job they hate every day and doing exactly as they are told even when it irks their own moral conscience. I think this begs the question, “Who is the real prisoner?” And what kind of invisible walls inside our minds force us to act this way? Many people are living like a prisoner, and yet still believing they are free. Because we have this grand illusion of freedom, a prison without walls, and so many choices (Should I go to Burger King or Taco Bell for lunch today?) we continue on touting how much freedom we all have, as we compliantly and unquestioningly carry out our orders. Because we have bills to pay and obligations that must be upheld. Obligations so pressing that we would do things which violate our own values and sense of self. Now maybe some of you out there (especially law enforcement or military) are saying to yourself, “Sure I have to do things at work which make me feel uncomfortable, but I would never do anything too bad. I could stop myself before I do anything seriously unethical or unspeakable.” Possibly, but just where do you draw the line? Maybe for you that line isn’t drawn at incarcerating someone just for living peacefully on their own property (like my situation). But where is it? Is it when you are told to mace protesters? Or lie to cover up the actions of other officers? Is it when you’re asked to round up millions of Hispanic people for deportation? Or when you are ordered to force all Muslims into a concentration camp? Is it when you have to torture prisoners? Or is it when you’re made to confiscate weapons from your fellow patriotic Americans? How about when they tell you to shoot anyone who offers the least bit of resistance? The point is that every time you’re forced to do something you feel is wrong without putting up the least bit of resistance, you only further train your mind to be compliant. Now is when it’s easy to say no. Do you think it will be any easier when people are rioting and there is chaos everywhere to make the right decision when you only have a moment to decide? Let’s remember, all the people at the Nuremburg trials were just following orders too, and I’m sure most of them never imagined themselves doing the types of things they did. I guess what I’m asking all of you to do is remember that the choice actually is yours. All those invisible walls only exist in our minds, but we can tear them down and see what real freedom feels like. Stop living like a slave or prisoner to some giant system. Instead of “they”, it’s “we”. Stop abdicating the personal responsibility for your own actions. If you can do that, then you will truly be free. We don’t need to depend on some presidential savior, Trump, Bernie, Hillary, Obama, etc. to make America great again and make all our choices for us. America is the people, all of us. Only through our own actions, taking personal responsibility and making ourselves great, can each of us do our part to make America great. If you read all of this, thank you for your time. Tyler Truitt There is nothing I can add to that. Go here to help fund Truitt’s legal battle and here to follow the story on Facebook. Related Reads
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I'm with you on this one. He should be allowed to live on his own land without tapping into the grid.
True. He purchased two acres of land. But then he parked his mobile home on it. Oops. He was told that trailers are not allowed in the city limits unless they are located in a trailer park. The Zoning Administration informed Mr. Truitt that he could apply to the Board of Zoning adjustment for a possible variance. He refused. He has no sanitation system. His neighbor complained. His trailer is now condemned property and posted as "Unsafe".
I agree. He should be allowed to live on his own land, park his mobile home on it and even install in his own well system if he chooses. The whole idea of purchasing land is to be self-reliant which includes living off the grid. And it does not sound to me like his land was in the city limits.
It's his land. Why is it that you always come down on the side of petty bureaucratic functionaries? He was told that trailers are not allowed in the city limits unless they are located in a trailer park. Do you not see the absurdity in that regulation? His trailer is now condemned property and posted as "Unsafe". It was deemed "unsafe" because they didn't like the fact that he is self reliant and doesn't need or want to be hooked up to their system. Pretty ironic that he served in the military to protect our rights, then comes home to find out you have no "rights" unless you ask permission from the government. What exactly is it about the concept of freedom that you abhor so much? Well, I don't want some beat-up trailer home parked on blocks next door to my $500,000 house with the owners dumping the contents of their toilet into an open pit. That has an effect on the value of MY property. Or is your attitude, "Tough shit". How about that? That's my attitude also.
Pay close attention that the author only mentioned the “two acres of land” were located “in Madison County, Alabama.” Why do you think the author. Miss Daisy, did that? Well, Miss Daisy wanted you to believe this land was located far out in the boondocks away from all the hustle and bustle city life with all the dog gone pesky municipal zoning regulations. Ah Ha! Guess what … If you research and read the local news, you find that Tyler Truitt and Soraya Hamar “live in this off-the-grid trailer on Hood Road within the city limits of Huntsville, Alabama. So, you can agree if you want to with this couple’s right to live there in their trailer….because you don’t live in a half a million dollar home next door to the trailer that Tyler and Soraya moved onto their property. If you did, maybe you would still say that’s okay….but the residents in the city of Huntsville decided long before Tyler and Soraya bought their property that it was not okay and issued a city ordinance prohibiting it. Notice one important missing thing missing from the article and probably intentionally omitted? That one important item is where the couple drains the sewage water from the toilet they use in the trailer? There are places in Madison County, Alabama, where the couple can easily live off grid, just as can be found in Blount County, Alabama. Like this: No Alabama Power bills, for solar panels electrify the stately home they built from straw bales and stucco. No water bills, for they drink from a vast system that captures and filters rainwater as it flows from the roof of their barn. They keep chickens and ducks for eggs, grow corn and potatoes, onions and figs, fruits and berries and vegetables of all description to set a bountiful table. They buy a tank of propane for cooking every few years, but that's about the extent of it. I let out a snicker when I learned Alden Brindle was a nuclear engineer retired from Alabama Power's mama the Southern Company. I read too much into it. "Oh," he said. "I was off the grid even when I worked for them." The Brindles are part of a community that calls itself Common Ground, a group of friends who decided years ago to invest in Blount County land together, to form a sort of co-op for people who wanted to live "gently" on the earth. Click HERE to read the remainder of this story. People can find a place to live off-grid if they want to. But they simply cannot expect to establish “squatters right” inside a city limits that has long ago established ordinances for people choosing to reside within that city limits.
I'll be danged....I had not read your post here before I posted a response below.
It's his land. He was either not smart enough to check the zoning ordinance or he was to stupid and believed he could get away with violating them.
Do you not see the absurdity in that regulation? Tell me why it’s absurd to have a city zoning ordinance that prohibits living in a trailer next door to someone’s $500,000 home and have no sanitary drain for the sewage.
Dumping your sewage into an open pit would be a health hazard, and a law against that is logical. A law against having a different looking and quality of abode, is against all that America stands for. If it were a 60 x 60 foot lot in the middle of a neighborhood in the city, I can see there being restrictions. On 2 acres, tough shit even in a city. If they want better on that property, buy it out.
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
He actually has a pretty sweet set-up. I would live there, but build a big shed/garage, deck around the place. He is not far off from having a really nice place.
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
How do you get away with living in your outhouse (see pic, above) located on the outskirts in Scottsdale, tater?
"The purpose behind these requirements is public safety. It is not to generate funds through permits – the cost is only about $11. The permitting process ensures that occupants of a residential dwelling have safe, potable, running water, and electricity, particularly in the wintertime. These are public safety regulations, regardless of how perceived by some members of the public. The City has posted the property as "Unsafe" for this reason. The absence of a connection to a sanitary sewer system (whether a septic system or sanitary sewer outfall line connected, ultimately, to a treatment facility, is not only a health and safety issue for the occupants, it's a health and safety issue for others who may live nearby." -Letter from Huntsville mayor on Tyler Truitt
Are you communist? Don't you support private property? You don't you support renting land only. Ok here it is. Some truth for you to swallow. It is none of your fucking business what your neighbor does on their land. It is theirs not yours.
A chemical toilet works just fine, or rent a sani-kan. Governments do it all the time, in bunches of dozens at a time.
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
Which brand was he using?
I support law and order. Don't you? And, according to the law, trailers are only permitted in a trailer park.
Why not simply move outside city limits where he can simply take a shit in his front yard?
paulsen, don't you have any manners? I'm going to take my morning shit in the back yard.
And you have tried to chastize me to clean up the language on this forum? Hypocrite!
Zoning was ruled constitutional 100 years ago. Would it be OK with you if I set up a pig farm next door to your house? A manufacturing plant? A strip club? Casino? Amusement park? Hey, it's my land.
Your selective faux outrage should have been directed at paulsen. Hypocrite! Project much? Strawman, my ass. Without zoning (which is what this story is about) those possibilities exist.
Oh - so you really believe that if the "authorities" don't nip this in the bud, there will be a plethora of pig farms, manufacturing plants, strip club, casinos and amusement parks being built on this guy's two acres of land??
How do you know?
Don't forget his untreated sewage.
Okay, whatever sympathy I might have had for the guy was lost right here. He sounds like just another leftard whining about Mrs. Bill Clinton losing. All the asshole had to do was apply for a variance, and he probably would have gotten it.
Two reasons. 1. I said so. 2. I'm smarter than you are. Besides it is the concept of private property. If someone owns something they get to control it. You may take the communist approach and not allow private property or you may limit the use of property. Again that is if you have communist leanings. So are you a communist or do you support true private property rights? Hint if you are for the assholes who want to tell someone else what to do on their land. Then you are the commie. If you are with the man with the trailer who owns the land and wants to be free. Then you are a red blooded real American. So again are you a commie or an American?
If it is just him, and not a whole community of idiots that he invites in, I would say his untreated sewage is a lot less than the the rabbits, squirrels raccoons, opossums, and other critters that occupy the area anyway.
So was Obamacare. You support Obamacare.
Hey, it's my land. That would be fine. It is your land.
If it is just. Abortion is law and order. You better support it. Or you are a hypocrite.
So if there is a river flowing through my property, I have the rights to dam it up to prevent you from having water anymore? Seems like I've seen a lot of Western shows and movies based on this concept.
No one owns the rivers or beaches. Did you not know that? The land is owned around the river but not the river itself. So if someone wants to build a wall on their land they should be able to do that. But not the river itself. They don't own it. I'm in the minority on this. I know the reasons that others give for zoning. But I'm a purist. If you own it it is yours. If you believe in leases with restricted rights. That is ok, just don't pretend you own it.
All the asshole had to do was apply for a variance, and he probably would have gotten it. The mayor told him to apply for a variance and he said he would rather go to court. Which shows me he is one of those "I'lll do it my way and no one can tell me any different" libertarian assholes. So he went to court, and guess what...HE LOST! He also proclaimed tht the "ordance was unconstitutional." He does sould lika a "Deckard"....doesn't he?
Is the land subject to contractual use limitations in the form of covenants, conditions and restricted recorded by an earlier owner or owners? Is there a homeowners association with proprietary rights in the property? Is the land subject to a mortgage requiring compliance with local laws? Property ownership is a bundle of rights. Rarely is it absolute. You don't appear to know very much about the nature of real property at all.
So much for water rights.
There is an old saying about liberties and ownership. That is "your rights end where my nose begins." If what you do on your property affects my standard of living on my property, then no, I don't agree you have the right to do it.
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#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"Tyler Truitt is a veteran who owns two acres of land in Madison County" Alabama.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
He purchased two acres of land. But then he parked his mobile home on it.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
"What exactly is it about the concept of freedom that you abhor so much?"
#6. To: goldilucky, Deckard, A K A Stone, misterwhite (#3)
And it does not sound to me like his land was in the city limits.
That is because of the way the authors of these yellow journalism articles like to structure their wording to solicit sympathy from bleeding hearts who don’t bother to get all the facts before arriving at a conclusion. 
Alden and Mari Brindle are off the grid in Blount County.
#7. To: misterwhite Deckard (#5)
Well, I don't want some beat-up trailer home parked on blocks next door to my $500,000 house with the owners dumping the contents of their toilet into an open pit.
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
He purchased two acres of land. But then he parked his mobile home on it.
Yes, it is his land….and it’s the city’s ordinance that prohibits him from living in his trailer on that land.
#9. To: Deckard (#4)
He was told that trailers are not allowed in the city limits unless they are located in a trailer park.
I don’t …
#10. To: Deckard (#4)
It was deemed "unsafe" because they didn't like the fact that he is self reliant and doesn't need or want to be hooked up to their system.
You of course can supply a link to that charge….right?
#11. To: misterwhite (#5)
#12. To: Deckard (#0)
#13. To: Gatlin (#6)
#14. To: jeremiad (#11)
Dumping your sewage into an open pit would be a health hazard, and a law against that is logical.
#15. To: misterwhite (#5)
Well, I don't want some beat-up trailer home parked on blocks next door to my $500,000 house
#16. To: Roscoe (#14)
#17. To: jeremiad (#16)
A chemical toilet works just fine
#18. To: A K A Stone (#15)
"Are you communist? Don't you support private property? You don't you support renting land only."
#19. To: jeremiad (#16)
"A chemical toilet works just fine, or rent a sani-kan."
#20. To: misterwhite (#19)
#21. To: Fred Mertz, misterwhite (#20)
I'm going to take my morning shit in the back yard.s
#22. To: jeremiad (#11)
"A law against having a different looking and quality of abode, is against all that America stands for."
#23. To: misterwhite, jeremiad (#22)
Would it be OK with you if I set up a pig farm next door to your house? A manufacturing plant? A strip club? Casino? Amusement park?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#24. To: Gatlin, Fred Mertz (#21)
And you have tried to chastize me to clean up the language on this forum?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#25. To: Deckard (#23)
#26. To: misterwhite (#25)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#27. To: A K A Stone (#15)
It is theirs not yours.
#28. To: Deckard (#26)
Oh - so you really believe that if the "authorities" don't nip this in the bud, there will be a plethora of pig farms, manufacturing plants, strip club, casinos and amusement parks being built on this guy's two acres of land??
#29. To: Deckard (#0)
Is it when you’re asked to round up millions of Hispanic people for deportation? Or when you are ordered to force all Muslims into a concentration camp?
#30. To: Roscoe (#27)
It is theirs not yours. How do you know?
#31. To: Roscoe (#28)
Don't forget his untreated sewage.
#32. To: misterwhite (#22)
Zoning was ruled constitutional 100 years ago.
#33. To: misterwhite (#22)
Would it be OK with you if I set up a pig farm next door to your house? A manufacturing plant? A strip club? Casino? Amusement park?
#34. To: misterwhite (#18)
I support law and order. Don't you?
#35. To: A K A Stone (#30)
Besides it is the concept of private property. If someone owns something they get to control it.
#36. To: no gnu taxes (#35)
So if there is a river flowing through my property, I have the rights to dam it up to prevent you from having water anymore?
#37. To: no gnu taxes, misterwhite (#29)
Okay, whatever sympathy I might have had for the guy was lost right here. He sounds like just another leftard whining about Mrs. Bill Clinton losing.
#38. To: A K A Stone (#30)
If someone owns something they get to control it.
#39. To: A K A Stone (#36)
The land is owned around the river but not the river itself.
#40. To: A K A Stone (#36)
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