Minnesota Man Arrested, Sentenced to 6 Months in Jail for Having a Wind Turbine On His PropertyBy John Vibes He did eventually remove the turbines, leaving only the cement bases becauseremoving them would cause structural damage to their house. This was not good enough for the local government, who ignored the advice of three different engineers and demanded that they remove the bases, despite the risk of damaging the home. On Friday, Nygard was arrested and is now facing six months in prisonfor refusing to remove the base. According to Kahler Nygard, Jays son, his father even attempted to make peace with the county and compromise on a number of different issues, but they ignored his appeals. The choices for my dad were to potentially destroy our foundation in the house or go to jail, he even offered an olive branch saying he would add an easement to the deed saying when the house is demolished the pad must be removed, but that was ignored also, Kahler said in an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project. The base was level with the ground and 4 feet cubed. We removed the top half of the concrete and used a metal cutting tool to remove the top half of the bolt assembly, rendering the structure unusable, Kahler explained. They say that we have to remove to footing 100% and have it inspected by the city, which we have three different engineers all saying we should just leave it, one of them even does contract work for the city, he added. Kahler said that although there are no ordinances against windmills, the county has a personal vendetta against his family. Nygard has the right to do whatever he wants with his own property, but unfortunately in a democracy such as the United States, the property rights of an individual can be overridden according to the whims of politicians and the demands of uninvolved third parties. Please share this story with your friends and family in hopes of keeping a good man, whose only crime was self-sustainability, out of jail. Image Credit John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter-culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work, he organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance at bookpatch.com. Pretty much squelches the .govs credibility on them wanting us to have a small carbon footprint.. We could be burning alcohol in our cars much cheaper and cleaner but they arent wild about that idea either. alcohol is less efficient than gasoline or diesel, and costs more to produce. It requires more petroleum products to produce enough alcohol to replace the petroleum burned in cars, so it is a losing proposition. See above Read what I stated. Ill break it down for you. In order to produce the vegetable matter that is fermented to make alcohol for fuel, more gallons/pounds/tons of diesel, gasoline and other petroleum products are consumed to produce the alcohol as fuel. the ratio is about 1.15 gallons of diesel and gasoline, and motor oil burned to create each gallon of alcohol produced. Hemp oil is better Why? Because you can get high on the emissions? Defend this man, where? The article itself only states MN. I live in MN and havent heard this story. Too much info is missing. why dont you ask your local news why they are not reporting it? Same impression I got and I dont live in MN. Lo and behold, apparently this wind turbine has been up since 2010 and allegedly certain behaviors like suing neighbors who complain over a certain strobing light effect of a spinning shiny turbine against your window - may have something to do it. Maybe So he makes the turbine out of non-reflective material. Will that get your little panties out of a wad, comrade? Oh, Im sorry little tweety-bird landed a shit-nugget on this thread. Douch Your a douch Well, at least he didnt have a pellet gun in his glove compartment or hed be looking at 5 years from these thugs. Or the guy with the pellet gun didnt have a chunk of concrete with him,,,,,, Who should the militias shoot? The local cops? All of the local cops, or just the ones involved in this case? Should they shoot the judge? Or perhaps use their guns to shoot all of the prison guards and break this guy out? Tell us who the militias should shoot to resolve this issue once and for all. Shooting is not the answer but neither is govt. oppression. If we all would open our pie holes and start telling these officials we wont stand for it then it might change. Recall the judge or municipality employees..they can be fired, and should beDEMAND IT No Janice you are correct, shooting is not necessarily the answer. His local militias should have been there though along with everyone around him to help back him up. The people to stand up for his and by extension their own rights to do with their property as they see fit. The militias to ensure that the government does not sick armed men in uniform on them. This stopped being about a wind generator YEARS ago . nothing but a pizzing contest . people talk a womans scorn absolutely nothing compared to a gooberment official that got a finger poked in his eye . Whoever is behind the whole revenge crusade must have some real juice otherwise that judge would have stopped this bullshit looooong ago . You are 100% correct. I have not walked into a courtroom where I was not prejudged, Jay Nygard Half a story. At least give the reason the county offers for its actions, so we can judge if there is any grey area. I dont like this type of journalism, which pre-supposes agreement so much that it ignores part of the story. my head just spins, so theres no law against turbines, yet he has to remove them, as well as the cement base? Make the base a patio for the dog or something, we never hear all the story on these things nor the outcome. I did check sources on this and appears to be all correct for those questioning the story. Good idea, put a dog house on it. I repurposed the area with compost bins, did not matter. Nothing mattered that day to the judge, I was going to jail, period. Jay Nygard In Idaho there are govt subsidized turbines on private land. There are hundreds, if not thousands of government subsidized turbines on private land in Texas, which claims to have the most wind turbines of any state in the US. Guess the government subsidized monopolies dont like a little private competitition. THIS IS WHEN YOU LOCK AND LOAD AND GET READY FOR WAR thats a little harsh..how about just fire them.thats what I want. Where is the Democracy Constitutional Rights to look after your self NOT be hinderance to the country.. own self enterprise If theres no ordinance against it, it must be Center Point Energy throwing its weight! Local codes exist for a good reason. In fact, codes are humanities earliest regulations dating back 4000 years. If he wants his windmill then he has to move to an area where he can do it. Sheep Alert. We must obey the shepherd, who protects us from wolves so that we can be fleeced and eaten by the authorized party. I suspect you are exactly they type of person that motivated the creation of codes; youre a pompous, slobbering know it all that would run and hide after your substandard construction collapsed and kills someone. Zoning codes are unconstitutional. Unless someones actions on their property, directly threaten your property (dumping sewage or hazardous waste close to shared water/ground water, or recklessness with fire/HazMat materials/firearms), its no ones business what they build. Stop trying to run everyone elses lives and mind your own business. Like I said, codes are humanities oldest regulations and for good reason. The irresponsible actions of people like you that affect innocent parties are why we have codes. And personally as far as Im concerned, you can build whatever you want, but if you ignore codes then you cannot sell the property with that structure on it. MN law allows for all to harvest the wind, outlawing them is illegal as I proved when I sued Orono and won when they had a total ban on turbines. Jay Nygard How did they enforce a non existent ordinance ? The ACLU would not talk to me because I am white. Jay Nygard Answer your own questionwhere are you? Are you sitting out front of this guys place with YOUR rifle? just cut off the rebar jutting out. Problem solved. I did, I cut of the anchor bolts, did not matter to the judge. Going to wreck my foundation, did not matter to the judge. Again I repeat: codes are humanities oldest regulations for good reason. It was learned 1000s of years ago that far too many people are unscrupulous and love to lie especially by omission (yes, not disclosing facts is a type of lying). So maybe you think its OK to lie because it is natural? I used to be a contractor. I have seen the type of sh*t people like you are capable of. And as I have mentioned, humanitys earliest writings dealt with get ready ta da! building codes. And please cite your source for you own self serving proclamation that unsafe behavior has been halted in areas without codes. 