What freedom? Kids today

learn to bend that knee in servitude.

First they came for the lemonade. Next, they went after the pumpkins. Then the cookies being peddled by the Girl Scouts. Those evil dealers. Now, lets get those basketball hoops.



You have to keep those kids in line.



http://consumerist.com/2011/03/delaw...all-hoops.html

http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...-hoop-incident

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...hoops-deldot/1

Now on to the cupcakes.

If they had come to steal my basketball hoop it would have ended a lot differently. I would probably have been killed in the hail of bullets LOL. But, someone has to stand up against this tyranny.

I'm sure the government would be tickled pink if permits were required for every thing we want to do. That is the ultimate form of control. You have to ask the government's permission to be permitted to do something. Which, of course, they can deny on a whim. And attach all kinds of hoops that you need to jump through in order to get your "permit". It's pretty much coming down to that you have to assume that anything you want to do may not be legal without the proper paper work involved. You virtually need to check with local authorities to see if what you are intending to do is legal or requires any special permits.

What kind of CRAP is this? Where did our RIGHTS go to? If you need permission to do something, it is NOT a right at all. If it can be denied or taken away from you, taxed, regulated or in any way limited based on what the government wants, it is NOT a right. So tell me, what exactly is it that we have left that is REALLY a right and not a government bestowed "privilege"?

Alert*** Alert***


Lemonade on the move. Watch for these little capitalist in your area.
Don't worry we will have a new federal department to deal with these little thugs soon.

CORALVILLE, Iowa -- Police in Coralville shut down at least three lemonade stands run by children over RAGBRAI weekend. According to Dustin Krutsinger, police shut down his four-year-old daughters stand after just 30 minutes. Krutsinger said the officer told his wife, “this isn’t the first time I’ve had to do this.”

Krutsinger said his daughter was selling lemonade for 25 cents a glass, and had made less than $5. According to the city of Coralville, 4-year-old Abigail Krutsinger was in violation of a two day ordinance, which required all vendors to have permits when RAGBRAI rolled into town.

Josh Schamberger, President of the Iowa City/Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the ordinance was passed to protect riders from possible health risks. Similar ordinances have been adopted in other host towns for years, he said. Now Schamberger said he fears that the work of 500 volunteers may be forgotten, and lemonade stand shut downs will be remembered.

Krutsinger said he understands why the city drew the line, but thinks they took it too far.

“If the line is drawn to the point where a four-year-old eight blocks away can’t sell a couple glasses of lemonade for 25 cents, than I think the line has been drawn at the wrong spot,” Krutsinger said.

A mother of six also said her kids had their lemonade stand on 18th Avenue shut down after just 20 minutes.

Bobbie Nelson said she laughed when a police officer told her that a permit to sell lemonade would cost $400.

"The kids were devastated," Nelson said. "They just cried and didn't understand why."

Nelson said her 4-year-old and 6-year-old sons were the driving force behind the stand.

She said they stayed up late to work on signs to advertise, and that they "had a hard time sleeping" the night before.

"They didn't know what was going on, they just thought their signs weren't good enough," Nelson said.

Coralville City Administrator Kelly Hayworth said the city was only trying regulate hundreds of vendors in order to stay up to code with the county health department.

"The question is who do you enforce it against, and who do you not?" said Hayworth.

A phone call to Coralville Police Cheif Barry Bedford wasn't immediately returned Tuesday.

Mitch Gross, a member of the Coralville City Council, said he believes the city will learn a lesson from this. Gross said he expects future ordinances to apply only for vendors who set out to "make a profit."

"It was never our intent to shut down kid's lemonade stands," Gross said. "We never really thought about it."

Got another out of control group of kids in Midway, Ga.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43769978...ews/?GT1=43001

Three girls trying to raise money to go to a waterpark thought that a lemonade stand would do the trick. But then they met the long arm of the law — their local police chief.


The girls had started up their stand in Midway, Ga., when Police Chief Kelly Morningstar and a deputy drove by.

"They told us to shut it down," 10-year-old Skylar Roberts was quoted as saying by The Coastal Source news website.

"It’s kind of crazy that we couldn’t sell lemonade," added 14-year-old Casity Dixon. "It was fun, but we had to listen to the cops and shut it down."

Morningstar defended his action and received the support of Midway's mayor. "We had told them, 'We understand you guys are young, but still, you’re breaking the law, and we can’t let you do it anymore,'" Morningstar said. "The law is the law, and we have to be consistent with how we enforce the laws."

That city law requires a business and food permits ($50 a day), even if the stand was at the home of one of the girls.

Health issues were also a concern, Morningstar said. "We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” he said.

News of the bust caused an outpouring of local support for the trio — and The Coastal Source said it had given the girls tickets to the waterpark.

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The War on Lemonade

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Creating new little libertarians.

Police in Coralville shut down at least three lemonade stands run by children over RAGBRAI weekend. According to Dustin Krutsinger, police shut down his four-year-old daughters stand after just 30 minutes. Krutsinger said the officer told his wife, “this isn’t the first time I’ve had to do this.”

Krutsinger said his daughter was selling lemonade for 25 cents a glass, and had made less than $5. According to the city of Coralville, 4-year-old Abigail Krutsinger was in violation of a two day ordinance, which required all vendors to have permits when RAGBRAI rolled into town.

Josh Schamberger, President of the Iowa City/Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the ordinance was passed to protect riders from possible health risks . . .

“If the line is drawn to the point where a four-year-old eight blocks away can’t sell a couple glasses of lemonade for 25 cents, than I think the line has been drawn at the wrong spot,” Krutsinger said.

A mother of six also said her kids had their lemonade stand on 18th Avenue shut down after just 20 minutes.

Bobbie Nelson said she laughed when a police officer told her that a permit to sell lemonade would cost $400.

“The kids were devastated,” Nelson said. “They just cried and didn’t understand why.”