After sacrifice; jail time, Amendment to Protect OTG “outlaws” Squashed as City moves forward with plans of “Pure Evil”
A Florida woman faced an embittered battle with the City of Cape Coral, the courts, and the Florida Constitution for living independently from the city’s water and electric system.
As a result of her “noncompliance,” Robin Speronis was jailed–as political prisoner sacrificing herself for her beliefs and her way of life. After her release, she took the fight to the Capitol spearheading a campaign to pass an amendment to the Florida Constitution protecting off-the-grid residents to be protected instead of persecuted.
Now, with the legislative session at close, facing budget and financing constraints, her fight may have been in vain.
You can learn more about Ms. Speronis and her battle for justice in her recent book,Notes From The Jailhouse: My Time Spent As A Political Prisoner In The Lee County, Florida Jail
“I was exercising my First Amendment rights of free speech in discussing living off the grid,” –Robin Speronis
Excerpts from an essay by Guiles Hendrick
Think you are still free to make choices in your life? Do you think the government will allow you to live independent of their utility monopolies?
A Florida court ruled this off-the-grid living illegal. Further, officials in the city of Cape Coral have justified this by deeming Robin’s home “unsanitary,” citing the International Property Maintenance Code. First of all, since when did we begin to locally recognize “international codes?” Where in the US Constitution does it provide for international jurisdiction over local codes? [emphasis added] Ironically, this “international” code mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a running water source, even though most of the world lives without reliable electricity and municipal water and sewer. Further, the code is outdated and obsolete because it was written without consideration to both old and new technologies that relegate the need for grid tied power and municipal water as unnecessary and expensive; especially, in locations where it simply isn’t feasible to have grid tied utilities.
All too often now it has become blatantly clear that our governments will stop at nothing to control every aspect of your life and demand by force of law that you are dependent upon the system. Why dependent? Simple, because dependent people can be controlled. Nothing screams of totalitarism more than irrational government demands to conform to nonsensical and inefficient systems when better options that may suit an individual are available. Today, living off the grid allows one to become in a large part independent of the government and as such, has now been targeted as criminal behavior. Of course governments are not going to directly say this.
How scary is it that in today’s society common sense, logic, and reason are excommunicated by bureaucrats in favor of mindless adherence to ineffective, dated, and or obsolete codes and regulations that were allegedly designed to help not hurt the public? As you have witnessed and will witness going forward, this is a recipe for a national collapse. The United States has hit the point where intrepid trend setters, inventors, pioneers, industrialists, and builders are no longer able to lead this nation forward, but instead, unaccomplished and dimwitted individuals with titles such as inspector, social worker, tax agent, appointee, consultant, and compliance officer are leading this nation into ruin. I hope you are prepared.
Sources: WBBH-NBC2, FOX4, Yahoo! News
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