Say “Sieg Heil!” to the nice people.
A bunch of bullying bureaucrats in a Maryland community tried shutting down a lemonade stand run by some local kids to raise money for pediatric cancer.
BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA) — You can make a fortune selling parking spots outside the US Open, but don’t even dream of setting up a lemonade stand.
A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd., right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500.
“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott told us, her voice trembling.
The kids can’t seem to understand it. “I don’t agree, I think the county is wrong.” ”We’re sending the money to charity.”
These guys must either have been the school bullies and never outgrew it or were picked on and bullied all the way through school and are just itching for a chance to use their power to bully others.
We’ve seen the same attitude of bullying bureaucrats in Villa Rica, Ga. and Hazelwood, Mo. toward Girl Scouts doing nothing more threatening that selling Tagalongs and Thin Mints without saying “Mother, may I?” to the bureaucrats. Apparently, in some communities it’s illegal to exist without a government permit. This type of fascist state is brought to you by the same people who brought us federal regulation of garage sales. We saw Portland, Ore., bureaucrats inform a 7-year-old girl she needed a $120 permit to operate a lemonade stand.
Here’s the head bullying bureaucrat:
Jennifer Hughes, the director of permitting for the county, says it’s technically illegal to run even the smallest lemonade stand in the county, but inspectors usually don’t go looking for them. She said this one was unusually large. Hughes also says they’ve warned all kinds of other vendors they couldn’t operate near the US Open because of concerns about traffic and safety.
I bet she’d look right at home with a Hitler mustache. It’s always concerns about the safety of the little people over whom they feel they have the right to rule. Someone needs to remind Hughes that she is a public servant, not a ruler.
Here’s the real stupidity: the county allowed people to sell parking spaces on their lawns for fans attending the U.S. Open but chose to bully some little kids. Why? Because. They. Could.
Eventually the bullying bureaucrats relented but still not without admitting what they did was wrong.
It’s about time to take this country back from the fascist tyrants working for government at all levels who believe they’ve been awarded the divine right of kings to rule over us.
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A long time ago those kind of local jobs were reserved for those with handicaps of various sorts. They didn’t have to work as hard or as long as others, nor were they expected to interfere with others’ work. And the unwritten agreement with the rest of us was that they wouldn’t be fired and their pay was lower than the rest of us. Gradually things changed, so that these jobs became sought after by people who wanted to do some good things for the rest of us. What this amounted to in many places was harassment of Girl Scouts.
It is harassment. As I pointed out, these bullying bureaucrats attacked defenseless kids because they can. They have the power. We have almost willingly surrendered it to them. Our Founding Fathers would not be pleased to find out that as a general rule, we are willing to be ruled by people unaccountable to the public.