John and Jacqueline Stowers run a small family food co-op for their friends called Manna Storehouse. Folks in the co-op pool their resources and buy organic goods from local farmers, as well as trade their own goods with one another. In the past we would have thought of this as a community bonding together to provide healthy food to one another. Now, apparently, it is illegal and requires police to use military inspired SWAT tactics to hold a peace loving family at gun point while their personal goods were confiscated.
Read about the event here.
See an interview with the victims here.
Posted by Robb (LP) 