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Successful Amish father and farmer Amos Miller has been targeted by bureaucrats in Pennsylvania for highly visible shaming, discrediting, accusation and destruction. Miller's farming operation is being raided and closed down because it has not been licensed by the state.
But the goal isn't the closure of one farm which happens to sell clean, unadulterated product to neighbors. The goal is the closure of Miller's Christian and homeschool lifestyle as a threat to others living independently from state control. Killing Miller's livelihood is the quickest way to do that.
One judicial order was delivered today, attached below. Appeals will continue.
Miller's defense attorney Robert Barnes said, "The Secretary of Agriculture of Pennsylvania considers himself the Pope of food for all Americans; unless he blesses it, you can't eat it, or even possess it. That isn't his right to begin with. The state's actions violate the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as the Supremacy Clause, the Commerce Clause, and the Privileges and Immunities Clause. This case will become the defining case for Food Freedom in America."
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
