DesertSage wrote: SquidInk, maybe you should have called this thread 'Homegrown FREEDOM?':D
Maybe I should have. However, "legislation" like the Farm Bill of 2007, and articles like THIS ONE concerning subsidies, which appeared this month in the New York Times, show the government painting "home-growers" in a different light.
Dervaes is circumventing the system completely. He does not use Fortune 500 companies in order to procure (terminator, round-up ready) seed, finance, process, transport, or distribute his veggies. It's a local, nearly closed loop micro-economy. Mix in a little wind power, or (in a different location) a water wheel, and this guy might be nearly self-sufficient - and not living like a feral human, holed up in some remote location! Since the federal government taxes economic transactions of every type, in order to fill it's war chests, in order to go appropriate oil fields, this model of behavior is startling. Believe me... such an ad-hoc network of subversives is 100% unacceptable to the system. He may even be... get ready... BARTERING!
Remember, in the government's opinion, the way to fight terrorist attacks is to go to the mall and spend money. So, the opposite must also be true, in their opinion.
He has completely cut out the parasitic middlemen, and provided a healthy, sustainable food source for his family, and a few others. Very soon such activity will be openly labeled "terrorism". And any person caught opting out (economically) of the system of government agencies and Fortune 500 corporations will be delt with very harshly. Thus, H.R. 1955 style "Homegrown Terrorism"!