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From an article in the local paper, not the National Media.
WE Are Not Trayvon, We Are Andrew Wordes
Google Andrew Wordes, Roswell, Ga
Have you heard about the tragic and remarkable case of Andrew Wordes
of Roswell, Ga., who set his house on fire and blew it and himself up
as police arrived to evict him from his foreclosed-upon home.
Andrew was like all of us living under the despotism of our time. He
resisted and resisted as long as he could. But rather than finally
complying, he decided that a life that is not his own is not worth
living.
It is a dramatic and deeply sad story that should raise alarms about
the least-talked-about cost of a state-run society: the demoralization
that sets in when we do not control our own lives.
The whole ordeal began only a few years ago, when Wordes began to keep
chickens in his backyard. His property was on 1 acre, but it was
surrounded by secluded woods. He loved the birds, sold and gave away
eggs to people and enjoyed showing kids the animals. He was also very
good at this job, and being something of a free spirit, he chose to
make something he loved his profession.
The city objected and came after him. In 2008, the zoning department
issued a warning about the chickens on his property. This was odd
because he was violating no ordinance at all; indeed, the code
specifically approved chickens on properties of less than 2 acres.
Even the mayor at the time, a lawyer, objected to the department's
claim, but the department went ahead anyway. A year later, and with
the assistance of former Gov. Roy Barnes, Wordes won in court!
One would think that in a just society that would be the end of the
story. Not so, my Amerikan comrades. I guess the city council didn't
like someone standing up to them. Didn't care for someone defying
them. Couldn't stand to lose. So the city council rewrote the law
with no grandfather clause. It forbade more than six chickens on any
lot, and specified that all chickens have to be in a permanent
enclosure.
Andrew tried to get approval for an enclosure, but because his house
was on a flood plain, the city would not issue an approval. The
interesting fact about this flood plain is that it was not natural.
Due to poor city planning, run off from near by developments was
directed to Andrew's property. The city turned his property into a
flood plain and in the midst of this controversy, a flood did come to
his house, and he had to use a Bobcat to move dirt around to save his
house and his chickens.
Sure enough, the city then issued two citations for moving dirt
without a permit and having illegal, unrestrained chickens. Then,
after stabbing Andrew in the back, the city twisted the knife by
refusing to submit to FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) his
request for reconstruction funds after this storm (individuals on
their own cannot get money of this sort).
The city then contacted Andrew's mortgage holder, an 80-year old
woman, who was a friend and who had carried his mortgage for 16 years,
and pressured her to sell the mortgage to stay out of legal trouble.
Imagine that. The state using terror against an 80-year old woman to
get's its way.
Do you get the sense from this that Mr. Wordes was being targeted?
Absolutely. And he knew it, too. The Roswell Police Department pulled
him over constantly and issued as many tickets as possible for
whatever reason, tangling him in more difficulties.
Police cars would wait in front of his house and follow him. And when
he didn't cough up enough money (he was nearly bankrupt after all
this), they would book him and throw him in jail. This happened on
several occasions. Meanwhile, the city itself filed several more suits
against him.
It gets worse. The city planners came up with a "Roswell 2030 Plan"
that placed a park area exactly where his home was. Hearing of this,
Wordes offered to sell his home to the city, but the city refused.
They clearly planned to drive him out of it with this legal barrage.
Why pay for something when you can extort it for free?
It didn't matter that Wordes won every legal challenge or managed to
get the suits thrown out in court -- that only made the city angrier.
Andrew posted on his Facebook account that he was going to be a
attending a political event. While he was gone, his chickens were
poisoned. Also poisoned were the baby turkeys, 10 of which were
actually owned by the mayor, who was a friend. At this point, he had
lost his means of support. While panicked about what to do, he missed
a probation check-in. He was ordered to serve the remainder of his
probated sentence in jail for 99 days.
While in jail, his home was ransacked and looted. Of course, the
police did nothing. In fact, they probably approved it. Also while in
jail, the new mortgage holder foreclosed on his home. His entire life
was now in shambles.
The final episode came on March 26 this year. The police had come for
the final eviction. Wordes locked himself in the house for several
hours. He then came out and told all authorities to step far away from
the house. He lit a match, and the gasoline he had doused all over the
house created a gigantic explosion. Wordes' own body was charred
beyond recognition.
Maybe you think that Wordes was some sort of freak who couldn't
somehow adjust to normal life with neighbors. Well, it turns out that
he was just about the greatest neighbor one could ever have. At his
funeral service, person after person testified how he would come to
anyone's aid at a moment's notice, how he fixed things and gave away
eggs and was incredibly generous to everyone around him.
Listen to the interview at-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D0Md7aIudZE
If this interview doesn't put a fire in your belly to stop the
jackboots of the state, then don't expect anyone to stand up for you
when you those boots march to your door.
This man did nothing wrong and the law hounded him because some
bureaucrat had made a plan for a park and they wanted his home- cheap.
They carried out that plan. They made Andrew an enemy of the state.
Demoralized and beaten down, with no where to turn, he finally had no
way out. He ended his life.
Note, too, that he had the support of the high-ranking members of the
political class, including the current mayor and a former governor.
Bear in mind what this signifies: The political class is not really
running things. The political class is only the veneer of the state;
it is not the state itself. The state is the permanent bureaucratic
structures, those untouched by elections. The automatons. These
institutions make up the real ruling apparatus of government. These
institutions that were designed to serve the people now rule the
people.
It is hard to say that Wordes made the right decision. But it was a
courageous one --at least I think it was. It is a difficult moral
choice, isn't it? When the police come to take all you have and are
determined to cut out your heart and soul and reduce your life to
nothing but a sack of bones and muscle, without the right to choose to
do what you love -- and you really see no way out -- do you really
have a life? Wordes decided no.
The rest of us need to think hard about this case, and perhaps you can
also spare a few thoughts in memory of his good life, and even a
prayer for his immortal soul.
The very State we all foolishly turn to for justice is the same State
that used its power to destroy a man because that man did not fit into
the State's plan. Do you really think this same State is going to
give you a pass when it decides it wants what you have? The question
is simply- who's next?
In this State the US Department of Homeland Security is openly
purchasing up to 625 million rounds of ammunition. It's buying up to
450 million .40 caliber hollow point rounds and up to 175 million .233
caliber rounds. That's enough to double-tap every man, woman, and
child in the land of the free, the home of the brave, the USA.
In this State the NSA's new $2 billion Utah Data Center (at more than
one million square feet) will collect, archive, and analyze
'yottabytes' worth of data-- your Google searches, phone calls, email
traffic, etc.
[Note- a terabye (TB) is about 1,000 gigabytes (GB). A yottabye is
about 1 TRILLION terabytes. To put this in perspective, the entire
iTunes store constitutes about 250,000 GB... so the Utah data center
should be able to host the equivalent of about 5 - 10 BILLION iTunes
stores. With this in mind you may want to rethink those porn sites
you've been visiting.]
If you are a Republican, the Democrats are not your enemy. If you are
a Democrat, the Republicans are not your enemy. Your enemy is the
State they both pretend to control. Your only hope is to shrink the
size of the State to something you can drag to your pool and drown.
However, with near 50% of US citizens now receiving some type of State
assistance, the State knows the odds are in its favor.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wordes' Family, Friends Plan Memorial Service
Andrew Wordes, also know as Roswell's Chicken Man, will be buried Friday in Milton Fields, just north of Roswell.
WE Are Not Trayvon, We Are Andrew Wordes
Google Andrew Wordes, Roswell, Ga
Have you heard about the tragic and remarkable case of Andrew Wordes
of Roswell, Ga., who set his house on fire and blew it and himself up
as police arrived to evict him from his foreclosed-upon home.
Andrew was like all of us living under the despotism of our time. He
resisted and resisted as long as he could. But rather than finally
complying, he decided that a life that is not his own is not worth
living.
It is a dramatic and deeply sad story that should raise alarms about
the least-talked-about cost of a state-run society: the demoralization
that sets in when we do not control our own lives.
The whole ordeal began only a few years ago, when Wordes began to keep
chickens in his backyard. His property was on 1 acre, but it was
surrounded by secluded woods. He loved the birds, sold and gave away
eggs to people and enjoyed showing kids the animals. He was also very
good at this job, and being something of a free spirit, he chose to
make something he loved his profession.
The city objected and came after him. In 2008, the zoning department
issued a warning about the chickens on his property. This was odd
because he was violating no ordinance at all; indeed, the code
specifically approved chickens on properties of less than 2 acres.
Even the mayor at the time, a lawyer, objected to the department's
claim, but the department went ahead anyway. A year later, and with
the assistance of former Gov. Roy Barnes, Wordes won in court!
One would think that in a just society that would be the end of the
story. Not so, my Amerikan comrades. I guess the city council didn't
like someone standing up to them. Didn't care for someone defying
them. Couldn't stand to lose. So the city council rewrote the law
with no grandfather clause. It forbade more than six chickens on any
lot, and specified that all chickens have to be in a permanent
enclosure.
Andrew tried to get approval for an enclosure, but because his house
was on a flood plain, the city would not issue an approval. The
interesting fact about this flood plain is that it was not natural.
Due to poor city planning, run off from near by developments was
directed to Andrew's property. The city turned his property into a
flood plain and in the midst of this controversy, a flood did come to
his house, and he had to use a Bobcat to move dirt around to save his
house and his chickens.
Sure enough, the city then issued two citations for moving dirt
without a permit and having illegal, unrestrained chickens. Then,
after stabbing Andrew in the back, the city twisted the knife by
refusing to submit to FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) his
request for reconstruction funds after this storm (individuals on
their own cannot get money of this sort).
The city then contacted Andrew's mortgage holder, an 80-year old
woman, who was a friend and who had carried his mortgage for 16 years,
and pressured her to sell the mortgage to stay out of legal trouble.
Imagine that. The state using terror against an 80-year old woman to
get's its way.
Do you get the sense from this that Mr. Wordes was being targeted?
Absolutely. And he knew it, too. The Roswell Police Department pulled
him over constantly and issued as many tickets as possible for
whatever reason, tangling him in more difficulties.
Police cars would wait in front of his house and follow him. And when
he didn't cough up enough money (he was nearly bankrupt after all
this), they would book him and throw him in jail. This happened on
several occasions. Meanwhile, the city itself filed several more suits
against him.
It gets worse. The city planners came up with a "Roswell 2030 Plan"
that placed a park area exactly where his home was. Hearing of this,
Wordes offered to sell his home to the city, but the city refused.
They clearly planned to drive him out of it with this legal barrage.
Why pay for something when you can extort it for free?
It didn't matter that Wordes won every legal challenge or managed to
get the suits thrown out in court -- that only made the city angrier.
Andrew posted on his Facebook account that he was going to be a
attending a political event. While he was gone, his chickens were
poisoned. Also poisoned were the baby turkeys, 10 of which were
actually owned by the mayor, who was a friend. At this point, he had
lost his means of support. While panicked about what to do, he missed
a probation check-in. He was ordered to serve the remainder of his
probated sentence in jail for 99 days.
While in jail, his home was ransacked and looted. Of course, the
police did nothing. In fact, they probably approved it. Also while in
jail, the new mortgage holder foreclosed on his home. His entire life
was now in shambles.
The final episode came on March 26 this year. The police had come for
the final eviction. Wordes locked himself in the house for several
hours. He then came out and told all authorities to step far away from
the house. He lit a match, and the gasoline he had doused all over the
house created a gigantic explosion. Wordes' own body was charred
beyond recognition.
Maybe you think that Wordes was some sort of freak who couldn't
somehow adjust to normal life with neighbors. Well, it turns out that
he was just about the greatest neighbor one could ever have. At his
funeral service, person after person testified how he would come to
anyone's aid at a moment's notice, how he fixed things and gave away
eggs and was incredibly generous to everyone around him.
Listen to the interview at-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D0Md7aIudZE
If this interview doesn't put a fire in your belly to stop the
jackboots of the state, then don't expect anyone to stand up for you
when you those boots march to your door.
This man did nothing wrong and the law hounded him because some
bureaucrat had made a plan for a park and they wanted his home- cheap.
They carried out that plan. They made Andrew an enemy of the state.
Demoralized and beaten down, with no where to turn, he finally had no
way out. He ended his life.
Note, too, that he had the support of the high-ranking members of the
political class, including the current mayor and a former governor.
Bear in mind what this signifies: The political class is not really
running things. The political class is only the veneer of the state;
it is not the state itself. The state is the permanent bureaucratic
structures, those untouched by elections. The automatons. These
institutions make up the real ruling apparatus of government. These
institutions that were designed to serve the people now rule the
people.
It is hard to say that Wordes made the right decision. But it was a
courageous one --at least I think it was. It is a difficult moral
choice, isn't it? When the police come to take all you have and are
determined to cut out your heart and soul and reduce your life to
nothing but a sack of bones and muscle, without the right to choose to
do what you love -- and you really see no way out -- do you really
have a life? Wordes decided no.
The rest of us need to think hard about this case, and perhaps you can
also spare a few thoughts in memory of his good life, and even a
prayer for his immortal soul.
The very State we all foolishly turn to for justice is the same State
that used its power to destroy a man because that man did not fit into
the State's plan. Do you really think this same State is going to
give you a pass when it decides it wants what you have? The question
is simply- who's next?
In this State the US Department of Homeland Security is openly
purchasing up to 625 million rounds of ammunition. It's buying up to
450 million .40 caliber hollow point rounds and up to 175 million .233
caliber rounds. That's enough to double-tap every man, woman, and
child in the land of the free, the home of the brave, the USA.
In this State the NSA's new $2 billion Utah Data Center (at more than
one million square feet) will collect, archive, and analyze
'yottabytes' worth of data-- your Google searches, phone calls, email
traffic, etc.
[Note- a terabye (TB) is about 1,000 gigabytes (GB). A yottabye is
about 1 TRILLION terabytes. To put this in perspective, the entire
iTunes store constitutes about 250,000 GB... so the Utah data center
should be able to host the equivalent of about 5 - 10 BILLION iTunes
stores. With this in mind you may want to rethink those porn sites
you've been visiting.]
If you are a Republican, the Democrats are not your enemy. If you are
a Democrat, the Republicans are not your enemy. Your enemy is the
State they both pretend to control. Your only hope is to shrink the
size of the State to something you can drag to your pool and drown.
However, with near 50% of US citizens now receiving some type of State
assistance, the State knows the odds are in its favor.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wordes' Family, Friends Plan Memorial Service
Andrew Wordes, also know as Roswell's Chicken Man, will be buried Friday in Milton Fields, just north of Roswell.
