Gov't SWAT Teams Target “Rugged Individualists” in the Desert

Kim Fahey's desert home was torn down by Big Brother

Battle for the California Desert:

Why is the Government driving folks off their land?

The dream of many Americans is to get out of the hustle and bustle of the daily city grind. And what better dream to have then to move your family outside of city limits to the countryside so that you can grow your own food, produce your own electricity with solar power, and live outside the purview of an ever expanding government apparatus?

That was the goal for hundreds of residents living on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Many own their land outright and have been living on it for decades without so much as a peep from their local government. They’ve built their homes using whatever means they had available to them. They planted their own fruits and vegetables. They even set up their own personal power production stations using solar panels and miniature wind farms reports Infowars News.

And they’ve lived peacefully without violating the rights of those around them and leaving a very small “carbon footprint” to boot. For all intents and purposes, they achieved a life of independence and freedom.

But the tentacles of tyranny are everywhere and no one is protected from their grasp.

Recently, agents of the Los Angeles county government started paying visits to these rugged individualists. They claimed they were “here to help,” as one resident puts it. But, as is generally the case when the government comes knocking, they were there for exactly the opposite.

What was once a dream come true for many quickly turned into the new American nightmare.


Asshole Alert
I have known GOP County Supervisor Mike
Antonovich since the 1970s.  He was
an asshole then too.  Mike is one of a
stream of Big Government worshiping
Republicans.  In this case he was the one
organizing the attacks on desert home
owners.  

Code enforcement agents for the county showed up in droves. But they didn’t come alone. Along with them came heavily armed “Nuisance Abatement Teams” who raided the homes and land of these peaceful residents as they would those of a terrorist.

Gallow says he cooperated with the county – clearing brush, then moving his shed, then getting rid of his motor home.

Finally, the county made a demand that shocked him.

“They told me… you have to get off the property. I said get off the property?’ They said ‘yeah, you can’t live here.’ ”

Joey Gallow says county officials told him that neighbors, whom they would not identify, had complained about unsightly structures on his property.

He could keep his land, they told him, but would not be allowed to live on it.

“I said, for what? My closest neighbor is half a mile away. We’re not living in Beverly Hills here, this is my home. All of sudden you got police at my front door – bullet proof vests, guns, and then they surrounded the place. Everything I worked for was just melting away from me.”

“I don’t know where I’m going to go.”

Mr. Gallow is not alone. County enforcement officials with militarized Nuisance Abatement Teams in tow have made similar threats to other residents, ordering them to destroy everything on their properties and to get off their own land.

 

Battle for the California Desert

A must see video.

Property owners have been targeted by Nuisance Abatement Teams (NATs), which were assembled at the request of "Conservative" Republican Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich.

 

PhoneHenge West - Kim Fahey  

A man's desert home is his Castle . . . until Government Thugs show up to crush

your dreams and force you to conform to your Master's wishes.

Individualism is Dead - All Hail Big Brother

Kim Fahey (photo at top of the page) is seen with his at his home in Acton, Calif., in a mountainous arid area north of Los Angeles. Fahey built the eccentric Mojave Desert compound known as Phonehenge West.
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Fahey was been placed on five years' probation, ordered to serve 63 days of community service and pay $84,488 in fines for daring to build a desert home that he loved.
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Fahey was forced to tear down his home of more than 30 years.  He is now homeless, retired on $800 a month and has been screwed by his own government.  

Republicans are Totally Invisible  -  Republicans sit around with their thumbs up their asses totally clueless why they are a minority party in California.  The GOP claims to believe in individualism and freedom, but local Republican politicians either went into hiding or came down hard on Fahey.

As Fahey's fight with authorities has unfolded, some people have come to his defense, praising Phonehenge West as a stunning example of American folk art. Nearly 30,000 supporters have flocked to his Save Phonehenge West Facebook page.
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"It's just terrible what they're doing," said Paul Kerpsie, a neighbor who said he has known Fahey for 30 years. "They're like terrorists."

Once Prized, Individualism is Now Dead.
Forced to demolish his own home of 30 years because he would not bow
down and kiss the ring of his Government Masters.
See these articles from our sister Blog:
1984 - Individualism is Dead
and
Individualism is dead - Guilty of daring to build a home

Freedom - As Old as America.
From the very start of America a man always had the right to build a simple home on his own land to shelter his family.  But that freedom is now gone.  Today bipartisan government drones drive up housing prices by dictating every aspect of your home from the types of windows you are allowed to look out of to the type of toilet that Big Brother will allow you to sit on. 
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Abraham Lincoln's family built a simple log cabin home on their own land.  If you dare to try that today a swarm of armed government agents will invade your private property and arrest you.  Welcome to the "modern" and "enlightened" United States.