Comments on: A Florida judge has ruled that it is illegal to live completely off the grid.

By: wade

wade — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:24:12 +0000

My “over-all” thought and point stated in regards to the news story is in fact ; IF they have a Reason to or Interest to strip You of everything that you worked for and Saved, then our Federal Government can and will. We are Property to Them. So there in , any , Any property we Acquire through out our Lives is actually Borrowed even if we made On-time Payments and was handed a Title or Deed.

By: wade

wade — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:09:17 +0000

In reply to Cotour. Well there is A Lot more . As in, when we die, we are not dead until a government official declares us dead and our family members Must abide by Federal Regulated burial methods and Approved agencies

By: wade

wade — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:00:46 +0000

In reply to Cotour. good point. Yet, the reference within the article as to "living off the grid" also reminds me of the Required law of an electrical utility hook-up Even when your dwelling is self sufficient through solar and wind and /or other power supply.

By: mpthompson

mpthompson — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:46:14 +0000

To be fair, I believe there are details in this story that are missing. It seems the woman’s home was connected to the sewer line which she was indeed using. In her area it seems payment for sewer services is attached to the water bill. Therefore, by not paying for a water connection meant she was able to avoid paying for sewer services for a number years. Without payment her sewer service was capped which enabled the city to declare her property “uninhabitable” for unsanitary conditions.

The obvious answer is to fix the billing issue that allows a person to use sewer services without a water connection, but there is more to this story than local government harassing a person for simply living off the grid.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:44:11 +0000

In reply to wade. That actually makes sense, I am not so sure that it applies in this case though, this is an existing home.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:36:36 +0000

So now there are two mandated things that a naturally born human being born an American must do to remain a law abiding citizen and not run afoul of the law.

1. You must own a healthcare insurance policy

and

2. You must have a hookup to utilities?

By: wade

wade — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:20:09 +0000

I spent a great deal of my life in Florida and up to a few years ago, owned a dwelling that i no longer had time or expense to maintain. I believe the water source hook up law goes back to the mid ’60s as a legal act to squelch roadside squatters from living in broke down automobiles along the roadside.