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October 3rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
Oct 3, 2011
The US government’s assault against innocent American citizens continues to get more aggressive and just plain strange, with new reports of harassment against honest owners of ordinary lemon trees.Health Freedom Alliance(HFA) reports that officials from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are now spying on people whom they suspect are in possession of ordinary lemon trees, and threatening them with excessive fines and even federal raids if they refuse to surrender the plants on demand.
Several years ago, Bridget Donovan, who has now been dubbed “The Lemon Tree Lady,” purchased a Meyer lemon tree from meyerlemontree.com. A resident of Wisconsin, Donovan purchased the tree legally and in full accordance with all federal and state laws regulating citrus transport, and had lovingly cultivated and cared for her indoor citrus plant for nearly three years.
Then, out of nowhere, Donovan received an unexpected letter from the USDA informing her that government officials were going to come and seize her tree and destroy it — and that she was not going to be compensated for her loss. The letter also threatened that if Donovan was found to be in possession of “regulated citrus” again, she could be fined up to $60,000.
Donovan was shocked, to say the least, as her tree was not a “regulated citrus.” The store from which she purchased it is fully legitimate, and she had done absolutely nothing wrong. But it turns out Donovan and many others who had also purchased similar citrus plants had faced, or were currently facing, the very same threats made against them by the USDA.
Most of those targeted simply surrendered their trees without trying to fight back, Donovan discovered. And while she, herself put up a hefty fight in trying to get honest answers in order to keep her tree, Donovan was eventually forced to surrender it as well. And worst of all, many of those who were told that a replacement tree would be in “compliance” later had those trees confiscated, too.
Why has the USDA been targeting lemon tree owners? The answer is unclear, other than that they are a supposed threat to the citrus industry. And a USDA official admitted to Donovan that the agency has been spying on those suspected of owning lemon trees, and targeting all found to be in possession with threats of fines and raids if they failed to give them up — and the agency has been doing this without a valid warrant.
“I felt utterly violated, angry, and upset,” Donovan is quoted as saying by HFA. “I pay my taxes, I obey the law, and this is how I was treated? I did nothing wrong. I would expect these action (sic) toward someone running a drug house, not someone who owned a lemon tree.”
Be sure to read Donovan’s entire shocking story here.
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While I think the USDA was heavy handed with this, and truly believe our government has gone beyond “mismanaged” to “nefarious”, I did do some research on this.
Turns out the tree was supposed to be quarantined and was sold in violation of a standing order at the time. While it seemed healthy, you really can’t be too careful with the spread of crop diseases, so I understand their desire to recify the situation.
Was the USDA overreacting? Probably. But the fault was on the grower and the onus on them to replace it (they did). I can imagine her outrage at having her tree taken, but I understand the reason. It was not, as the article seemed to imply, simply an “unregulated” citrus growing operation. It was a quarantine violation on part of the seller.
They explicitly tell you that their end goal is to preempt private cultivation of food, and they use the same justifications as you are using, here.
There are effective, harmless, home remedies for these diseases, which I assume factory farms are more than capable of treating.
If they can keep track of every last tree, to the extent that it can be recovered several years into the future, yes, this is a case of being too careful.
this is all slight of hand and mind tricks meant to condition the general population so that government intrusions are a normal way of life. the government(yes it is a beast of its own) knows that it cannot just up and confiscate all the firearms, and in this point in history the government also knows that it cannot just confiscate gold and silver as well so what does the government do to solve this problem? well they start out confiscating lemon trees, raw milk, outdated dog food, hell anything but guns, silver and gold. it conditions the general population to these kinds of big government/unconstitutional violations. within a few years this will be the norm as opposed to the exception. you will have government regulators walking into your home unannounced to check the potential microwave leaks in your microwave oven, you will have government regulators walking into your home to check the heat setting on your hot water heater, they will go into your garage to check the tread depth on your car tires-anything they wanna check they will and the public will eventually become so accustomed to this that BAM! the day will come when they just waltz in and take your guns, silver and gold. All without a shot being fired. well they will do that to you.
Well it’s good to see the war on lemonade stands has finally gotten around to attacking the source of this evil!
The Lemon Tree Lady said, “I did nothing wrong.”
What she did wrong was not dealing under the table, although most the private parties around me are regrettably too useless to do something like propagating food plants.
Wholesale nurseries do sometimes offer sick and dying plants at a higher discount. Nursing them back to health is about a 50/50 prospect, can be done with low tech and high discipline.
Though seeds saved from produce are not necessarily true-to-type, their offspring can be very productive, when well maintained.
I can go on like this, endlessly, but believe everything is a possible resource.
When you recieve letter send it back with a simply response:
“F-ck you and suck my ding dong”. Any vistors over this issue will be met with deadly force if necessary. The Department Agriculture’s outragious behavior will not be tolerated. Any attempts to put a lien on the property for 60k fine will be met with offensive armed force. The orginators and the immediate enforcers of Dept. Of Agriculture will be the targets. I hope that any employees of the Dept of Agricuture had better get their life insurance polices up to date or initiated before implementing this absurd behavior on citizens.
Yes I think we should all buy a lemon tree and have our guns close. When they come by, give t
Does anyone have a link or can we get the letter from the USDA posted here so we can analyze it?
Next it will be tomato plants.
I’m going to go buy some lemon trees today. And an AK-47.
that is a commendable display of fake bravado…..a. if you don’t already own a rifle (ar, ak, m1, m-14, FAL) you are just pretending to be a patriot, but b. you correctly connect the idea of owning weapons, and possessing the ‘God-given’ right to defense of life, family and home….not from wild animals, but criminals…or….more specifically, agents of UNITED STATES INC. the illegitimate crime syndicate that has hyjacked your government…which is now (by the way) killing your country. sadly, while Americans possess many firearms, to admit publically just why the founders codified their right to possess them, is itself now and act of domestic terrorism.
America….i’m afraid you’re TOAST.
“I pay my taxes, I obey the law, and this is how I was treated?”
The American sheeple are so poodle trained that they think just because the pay taxes, somehow they have rights.
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