Military Veteran Taken to Court by City
Over ‘Off-Grid’ Lifestyle
Authorities demand man's property be connected to city utilities
by Paul Joseph Watson |
June 17, 2015
27-year-old Tyler Truitt and his
girlfriend have become totally independent of reliance on city
utilities, hooking up solar panels and rainwater collectors on their two
acre property, but the city of Huntsville, Alabama claims the structure
is unsafe because of sanitation issues.
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“They came and they condemned our
house and told us if we stayed here we’d be arrested for trespassing on
our own property, and the reason why is, they said, it was unsafe living
conditions because we don’t have city utilities hooked up,” Truitt told WAFF48.
The city asserts Truitt’s property
must be connected to the city’s treatment facility for the safety of
Truitt and his neighbors and to comply with health codes.
“The absence of a connection to a
sanitary sewer system (whether a septic system or sanitary sewer outfall
line connected, ultimately, to a treatment facility, is not only a
health and safety issue for the occupants, it’s a health and safety
issue for others who may live around him/her,” said Kelly Schrimsher,
communications director for Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle. “There are
both benefits to be obtained, and compromises to be made,
when people
choose to live in an urban community.”
Truitt has vowed to stay on the
property until he is physically hauled away by police, asserting that he
is upholding the oath he swore to protect constitutional rights.
“You have to stand up for what you
believe in,” he said. “They could come out here today
if they wanted to
and take us to jail for trespassing, if that’s what they want to call
it. …
That’d be fine with me. I’ll still come back the next day and the
next day and the next day because it’s my home and because I live here.
Where else am I supposed to go really?”
Huntsville officials claim
that living off grid is not illegal, but that Truitt has violated an
ordinance which states that he cannot live in a trailer that’s not in a
designated trailer park. Truitt’s next court date is set for July 29.
As we have previously reported,
the clash between Americans choosing to live off-grid lifestyles and
city authorities who insist they comply with sanitation codes has been
intensifying.
All ten of the children seized
from “off grid” parents Joe and Nicole Naugler in Breckinridge County,
Kentucky remain in state custody 6 weeks after they were first taken.
The children were removed from the
family by Sheriff’s deputies on May 6 as a result of the Naugler’s
“free range” lifestyle on a rural 27 acre property. Photos posted on the
family’s Facebook page
suggested the children were growing up in an idyllic environment, but
authorities claimed that living and sanitary conditions on the property
were dangerous.
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