A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a mother from Texas who sold tamales to her neighbours.
Dennise Cruz from Carrollton, Texas was shocked to receive a yellow postcard from the City of Carrollton demanding that she pay a fine in order to stop them from throwing her in jail.
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Activistpost.com reports:
“That has to be wrong. I don’t have any tickets under my name. That’s just my first reaction. Never would have I thought, tamales,” said Cruz in an interview with CBS DFW. “To know that somebody can be arrested over that, that to me is unbelievable.”
The yellow ticket was a “warrant arrest notice” stemming from Cruz’ illegal activity a few months prior. Cruz, obviously a hardened criminal worthy of police action, decided to make her famous tamales and post them on the app Nextdoor for sale. Her neighbors loved them.
“It’s just so common. That’s why to me, I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal,” said Cruz.
However, because Cruz did not pay the state to operate this business, their procedure is to rob her under the threat of violence. She was hit with a $700 fine.
“When it hit me, I was like that is a lot of money,” said Cruz.
When Cruz called the city to protest her extortion, the clerk told her that someone reported her for not having a food permit. However, this is not likely as only the government would know such things.
“I don’t understand because if anything I would have rather them come to me first if they had any concerns,” said Cruz.
The city of Carrollton maintains that extorting Cruz is in the interest of the people. According to a city director, tamales are a danger to society. A director said a fine was issued and not a warning because tamales are considered “potentially hazardous food” due to the cooked corn and meat being used, according to CBS DFW.
This absurd arrest warrant comes on the heels of an equally asinine incident, also in Texas, in which two young girls had their lemonade stand shut down by local cops for not having the correct permit. The good news is that, like Cruz, the girls refused to roll over and opened their stand up again the next weekend.
Apparently, Texas officials take their motto Don’t Mess with Texas quite literally. Aside from threatening to arrest a young mother attempting to make ends meet by selling tamales and shutting down little girls’ lemonade stands, they’ll also throw you in a cage for having tall grass on your own property.
Don’t take our word for it, however. Ask 75-year-old Gerry Suttle, who was stunned when she received a call from the local police chief, informing her that she had a warrant issued for her arrest — because her grass was at a length not desirable for the state of Texas.
In April of last year, another Texas resident, Rick Yoes, was sentenced to 17 days in jail for the length of his grass.
And some folks still have the gall to call this country the Land of the Free.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
The Fed’s bailout system created billionaires out of the banker-speculators who crashed the US economy. It continues today. Neoliberalism, the untaxing of the FIRE sector, the Creditors, the monopolists and 1%, rentier predators, to the detriment and ultimate destruction of a productive economy, is out of control. Mothers and Labor cannot carry the national tax burden and their own unpayable debts. It’s the cause of the national security crisis, the Greatest Depression ignored. Something has to be done, political leadership must see to the end of the debt crisis problem.
sorry but since democrats and liberals have taken to the streets more and more freedoms are gone .