Busted for Growing Veggies! Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for September 2010

Nanny of the Month turns one-year-old this month, and it seems that public officials' obsession with minding other people's business has only intensified over the past 12 months. We've exposed meddlers who want to squash other people's right to do everything from sing karaoke, to drink raw milk, and bust a move at ladies night.

What could possibly top all that?

How about the "Greenest County in America" suing a man for growing too many vegetables in his garden?

Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for September 2010: DeKalb County, Georgia CEO Burrell Ellis!

Approximately 1.20 minutes.

"Nanny of the Month" is written and produced by Ted Balaker; Associate Producers: Paul Detrick and Alex Manning; Opening Animation: Meredith Bragg.

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[THAWK3]

@CurtHowland

You would think 5000 yrs of written history would get you to see that "Government" is an open TRANSFER OF WEALTH SCHEME...and to vote gives moral sanction to a coercive,destructive system.

They are stealing evrything from you...family,spirituality,mone­tarly,intellectually-ALL OF IT-Over a "Mental Fiction".

[deadpammy]

This is so stupid, now you can't grow veggies in your own yard? What the hell is wrong with this picture. I'm so sick and tired of these IDIOTS in government.

[TakeYourProfits]

sounds like we spent a lot of money fighting communism overseas when it looks like we got a homegrown problem right here.

[mthargoe]

3 commies disliked this video

[sfuzzyshille]

What a racist bastard

[1980PintoMan]

Even here in Montana a Ravalli County Supervisor wanted permits issued for gardens. He was not re-elected.

[mutilATE718]

@blite13 Americans are so different, of so many different 'cultures', appearances, beliefs, etc... How do you even define an American anymore? I'm from Queens, NY I nod and smile at people who know not a word of English all the time. Who's more American, really? The guy whose family has been here for generations, the "Native" in the teepee, the gay or lesbian (of ANY race or religion), etc etc we barely know where we stand as individuals in this place.. or perhaps Im just speaking for myself..

[mutilATE718]

Wait a minute, CEO of Dekalb County? So a county is a corporation?

The founding fathers and their "slaves" aren't spinning in their graves, they're smoking their weed in heaven and laughing at us.

[NoLongerFooled]

It was almost better to live under Nazism. America is on a fast track to becoming the worst nation in the history of mankind.

[tremben]

@sukumvit I don't disagree about zoning regs, I disagree with, "Oh look at me I did just what I wanted over and over and over again and the nasty nasty nasty Nazis have wacked my peepee" and folk cheer like that's heroic.

FWIW I have a roof garden.

[sukumvit]

@tremben Zoning regulations in most Western countries SHOULD be looser. Come to Japan - where zoning regulations are so lax that there's high rise next door to rice paddies, I was allowed to build exactly the house I wanted, as I designed it, and everyone grows an entire back-yard full of vegetables AND nobody cares and it really doesn't matter. Good stuff!