KEVDOG77

They're going to need to petition to become a protected reservation.

Onesevensevensix

Time to send a carrier pigeon to Lebanon Levi

binrobinro

"14 Amish families threaten to demolish county health department."

pop1453

amish are allowed to have their own communities but whites are not..

ardvarcus

Sounds like a straight forward case of religious persecution to me.

RageAgainstTheAmish

OH BOY are the amish about to become like the IRA?

llegendary

They will learn not to fuck with the Amish.

TwitterBannedIt

Yea nobody wants to fuck with pacifists.

Terrifying.

llegendary

You don't know Amish do you? They aren't pacifists when you fuck with them.

cT9NlRLhxlyr

That's a horrible article. It doesn't even cover the basics of Journalism 101: who, what, where, when. It doesn't tell you who, specifically, is doing this to the Amish. It doesn't tell you where these 14 homes are. It doesn't tell you why the county is doing it, and it doesn't tell you when this shit happened. What shit writing.

LexOrandiLexCredendi

Meh. The Amish are a strong ethnic community that has successfully stood their ground for homeschooling rights, medical rights (including home births), conscientious objector status against paying income tax, and probably a lot more I can't think of. Moreover, they have more millionaires in their ranks than most people know because of their businesses being almost entirely cash-only, so they have the money to lawyer up. I'll bet a fair amount of Jewbucks they'll beat this.

GetWoke

Good for them

Tekedo

The ACLU defending white conservatives? We've seen it all

cT9NlRLhxlyr

That's nothing. Check out these cases the ACLU defended. They used to be a principled organization.

http://archive.is/odwNC

clamhurt_legbeard

Problem is, the Amish are pacifists. They have no way to defend themselves against the government.

They will lose, unless somebody else steps in to defend them.

GritD2

They are looking at the "lost" tax money from lack of public utilities, and if they confiscate those properties, they can get additional revenue from selling the land

Sosacms

Finally going after the homefull to show support to the empowering homeless.

Michigan would lose their minds if they ever found out what Kentucky building laws look like. It is illigal, unconstitutional, and cruel/unusual punishment to deny someone there fruits of their labor and their basic need for shelter.

Tekedo

but but but that shelter might hurt someone, like a retarded trespasser or a wild mouse or something. You can't be free to do what you want on your* land, goy.

Tsilent_Tsunami

You can't be free to do what you want on your* land, goy.

Not if you live near me. Might be fine if you're not mounting attacks on me from your land, but keep your 'music', smoke, debris, bullets, garbage, stench, or whatever on your own land. Otherwise there'll be a problem.

KikesOnTrikes

Hence, "on his own land". It is not a complicated sentence.

Tsilent_Tsunami

And yet you're not understanding the concept... Are you imagining that "land" comes with barriers on all sides that block sounds, air movement, and solid material from passing through or over that arbitrary legal line on the ground?

Sounds like you might be "that" neighbor.

KikesOnTrikes

If sound comes onto your land then the neighbor is not "on his own land". Its called noise pollution and it's a common issue with many resolutions not requiring government. This is off topic though because the comment you replied to the guy was talking about doing what he wanted on his land. Not coming onto your land with any sort of trespass or pollution.

Think of it as pissing in drinking water upstream as an activity on your neighbors land, even if it takes a while to get there. Same with noise.

Tsilent_Tsunami

the guy was talking about doing what he wanted on his land.

Not everyone recognizes or cares that their activities can negatively affect their neighbors.

version7

This is just an attempt at a money/ land grab and has nothing to do with health issues.

i_scream_trucks

man thats not nice. arent the amish actually not cunts?

Heathcliff

A lot of them are cunts, but I still don't want their houses torn down.

cT9NlRLhxlyr

It's America. They are free to be cunts.

Envision69

I don’t think the Amish people are hurting anything is this because I don’t have like electricity in their house so it’s not up to code they don’t want electricity they want a peaceful simple life let them fucking live it

iunno

People in favour of laws like that would never let anyone live a peaceful simple life if they can help it.

TwitterBannedIt

Peaceful living is not profitable for your masters.

m_1

They should do a bunch of terrorist shit so they can get the same protection as Mudslimes.

i_scream_trucks

... amish terrorism...

building a barn upside down?

loosening the spokes on buggies?

a loud talking to about the evils of alcohol?

im not sure how this is going to work...

AdmiralEnchilada

Amish just cant use electricity and the like... ARs though....

iunno

ARs would be just as off limits, if not more so. Amish people are as pacifist as they are anti-technology.

High_Sierra_Trail

You want to get shunned?? That's how you get shunned, bigot. If they ever see your post, you're screwed.

TwitterBannedIt

Quick cut off their internet... oh..waiii..

I see what you did there.

m_1

They could build barns blocking major highways. It only takes them a few minutes to throw up a barn.

i_scream_trucks

nice nice now we are getting somewhere.

do they have any moral objections to, say.... siege towers? I guess they could throw a couple of them up to the walls of a couple of high security prisons and let out them MS-13 members that just got taken down.

KrustySpork

rumor has it that there is an underground faction of trebuchet builders one county over. think they are called the Hillsdale Rouger's or something to that effect

Jock_Sniffer

From the Toledo Blade, a more mainstream source:

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/courts/2019/12/18/aclu-sues-lenawee-county-over-treatment-of-amish-residents/stories/20191218101

In a case touted as a precedent for religious freedom and fair housing, a team of lawyers representing at least 14 Amish households sued the Lenawee County Health Department on Wednesday (Dec 18th) for what some of those attorneys claim is an unreasonably aggressive, unconstitutional action and an abuse of government power.

Three attorneys and other staffers from the Wright & Schulte, LLC law firm in Vandalia, Ohio, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, assert their clients — dozens of Lenawee County residents who practice the Old Order Amish faith — are being discriminated against by the county health department.

The county apparently wants each of the Amish households equipped with flush toilets and fully functioning septic systems. That would require those residents to install modern technology and electricity, which goes against their faith. This order of Amish uses outhouses with simple holes dug in the ground for human feces and urine.

It’s been more than a suggestion, though. Earlier this fall, county health officials posted condemnation notices on each of the houses in question, serving owners with a demand to install the technology or risk having their households bulldozed.

According to 14 separate complaints filed in Lenawee County Circuit Court, county health officials contend the Amish practices are unsafe when it comes to disposal of human feces and urine.

A 15th household is about to be served, attorneys said.

The county alleges that health problems associated with unsanitary conditions is “probable and imminent unless this nuisance is immediately abated by the removal of the buildings.” It cited the health of children in particular being at risk.

heygeorge

This piece is completely devoid of factual information.

heygeorge

That one was much better. It has nothing to do with OP tho