An Open Letter To Oak Park, Michigan
by Amy Lindorff
Dear Oak Park, Michigan,
You are nuts. Since when are food plants not ‘suitable?’ You know people have to eat to stay alive, right? And that this lady was letting neighborhood kids help her, which is probably keeping them out of trouble and teaching them some valuable life skills? And that it is absolutely ridiculous to send a woman to jail for planting vegetables instead of a front lawn? You think she should move it to the backyard or something? What if the back is already full of vegetables? What if the back is dedicated to fruit trees, or herbs and vegetables only fit in the front? Plus, she is doing this organically. There is not even a risk of poisoning anybody with chemicals. I fail to see any real issue and jail time is in no way an appropriate ‘punishment’ for growing food. I do not care what the city code says, change it. This is ridiculous.
Love, Amy
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Good posting.
Express your outrage directly to those most involved in this bureaucrat grab got power and punishing a woman for doing the right thing!
City Manager Rick Fox:
rfox@ci.oak-park.mi.us
Assistant City Manager: Diane Lemanski
dlemanski@ci.oak-park.mi.us
As the saying goes, “Common Sense is not Common”.
Let me get this straight: are you saying, with all the crime, corruption and evil going on in our communities; that they PUT A WOMAN IN JAIL FOR GROWING VEGETABLES???????? Does ANYBODY think this is ok??? WHAT ABOUT HER family? dOES SHE HAVE children??? PLEASE SOMEBODY start a petition, or whatever it takes to HIGHLY PUBLICIZE this and get the INSENSITIVE ROBOTS that carried out this Horrendous act OUT OF PUBLIC SERVICE!!!
Oak Park, you ought to be ASHAMED!