Here is the address of City Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Please
let them know your thought on their actions taken against a citizen on America in Oklahoma .... This may seem small folks, but this is just one more incidence of 'bullies and thugs in blue suits with Kevlar".....  Let the city hall know you are stunned and shocked too.
Denise Morrison was stunned and shocked as she pulled into her driveway and saw that the city of Tulsa had come and removed all the plants and a few trees from her property. Now, she has filed a lawsuit against the city code enforcement officers for cutting down her garden without cause.
Ms. Morrison had more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards. The yard was filled with flowers, lemon, stevia, galic chives, grapes, strawberries, apple mint, spearmint, peppermint, and several fruit and nut trees.
She claims that many of the plants were for everyday use, while some were used to treat her diabetes, arthritis, and high blood pressure. She also made sure that when growing the plants she followed the city’s code.
The code reads that no plant shall be above 12 inches tall, unless it is for human consumption. Even though she told city code enforcement officers that all the plants were for consumption, it seems the officers did not care to hear about the law being obeyed but rather were intent on being tyrannical.
Though she wanted to meet with the city inspectors, and had taken pictures for that purpose, they refused to listen. She claims that they said “Everything, needs to go.”
“Every word out of their mouth was, ‘we don’t care,’” Morrison said.
She called the police and the officer issued her a citation so that she could work things out in court. She went to court on August 15, but the judge told them to return in October, but the very next day men were out cutting down her plants and trees.
Written on June 20, 2012 at 8:37 am by Tim Brown

Woman Sues Government For Cutting Down Her Garden

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Denise Morrison was stunned and shocked as she pulled into her driveway and saw that the city of Tulsa had come and removed all the plants and a few trees from her property. Now, she has filed a lawsuit against the city code enforcement officers for cutting down her garden without cause.
Ms. Morrison had more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards. The yard was filled with flowers, lemon, stevia, galic chives, grapes, strawberries, apple mint, spearmint, peppermint, and several fruit and nut trees.
She claims that many of the plants were for everyday use, while some were used to treat her diabetes, arthritis, and high blood pressure. She also made sure that when growing the plants she followed the city’s code.
The code reads that no plant shall be above 12 inches tall, unless it is for human consumption. Even though she told city code enforcement officers that all the plants were for consumption, it seems the officers did not care to hear about the law being obeyed but rather were intent on being tyrannical.
Though she wanted to meet with the city inspectors, and had taken pictures for that purpose, they refused to listen. She claims that they said “Everything, needs to go.”
“Every word out of their mouth was, ‘we don’t care,’” Morrison said.
She called the police and the officer issued her a citation so that she could work things out in court. She went to court on August 15, but the judge told them to return in October, but the very next day men were out cutting down her plants and trees.

According to Ms. Morrison, “I came back three days later, sat in my driveway, cried and left.”
Since many of the plants had medicinal value and this came during a time when Ms. Morrison was unemployeed, it was tremendous blow to her financially and physically.
“Not only are the plants my livelihood, they’re my food and I was unemployed at the time and had no food left, no medicine left, and I didn’t have insurance,” Morrison said. “They took away my life and livelihood.”
She finally was able to go to court just last week and while she plead no contest to having an inoperable truck in her driveway, the garden portion of the citation was dismissed. She has now filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing the inspectors of overstepping their authority.
I hope she wins.