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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Pro-police: Illegal marijuana grow operation seized in Maine
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:23:35 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>In Maine, in which those holding a state license may grow marijuana, an
>>unlicensed grow operation was busted.

>>Why were police suspicious?

>>1) Cardboard-covered windows

>>Yeah, 'cuz no one who wants to maintain privacy is ever not doing
>>something illegal.

>>2) High electricity consumption

>>Serves the perpretrators right for not going green with solar and
>>battery storge and staying entirely off grid.

>>Gotta love those smart meters. Now, I don't think there was privacy in
>>electrical consumption but those were monthly records. These meters
>>allow remote access and provide detailed real-time analysis of
>>electrical consumption. This helps burglars know when you aren't home

>Well, burglars presumably don't have access to the Dept of Water and 
>Power's usage meters.

I'm sure the Russians have never met a system they cannot hack.

>>and gives police all sorts of interesting information about your habits,
>>all of which are presumed to be crimes.

>And you can't even choose not to be hooked up to their surveillance 
>system.

>Government is increasingly cracking down on anyone who tries to live 
>independently and free of "the system".

>Like the woman in Cape Coral, Florida, who was threatened with eviction 
>from her own home for daring to live "off the grid". She was generating 
>her own electricity and using a rainwater shower and said she had no 
>need for city utilities. The court ordered her to hook up to the grid or 
>be evicted.

>http://www.naturalnews.com/044102_Orwellian_nightmare_off-the-grid_living_code_ordinances.html

Oh my ghod

Why is the magistrate required to enforce an international code? Why
would this be in the code to begin with?