Classic Alex Jones City Health Dept Hypocrisy & Roland Ellingson 1999 [4s3TStBMI3I]

00:00 I could see that you've lived here what since 1947, you said? May of that year. May of 1947 and look at these nice trees it's it's nice it's pretty... They were real small when when I first came. Yeah oh and then there's pretty English ivy growing here in the trees and you've got a nice shield around your tree over there to keep it healthy. I could see why the city really really wants to get its hands on this property like they've done countless others. Like a parking lot owner, perhaps? Oh yeah or you know get some rent from you know from a good liberal lawyer. Yes! This little loving letter right here I'll just read part of it Austin Health and Human Services Travis County Health Department Environmental Human Services that's gangsters calling themselves service agents it says

00:41 This is an inform you that a condition in violation of ordinance or state law exist on property located at 407 West 37th Street. If they want to come by and see the evil property that you live on, see I came back before when you first faxed me this and you told me that since then you raked up a few leaves, that's all you've done to straighten out the property. And it is still shocking to me its your property! That's not the argument You should be able do what you want on your property unless you signed a homeowner clause and as far I know over here on 37th there is no homeowners clause

01:17 To my knowledge, I don't recall what. So you exercised your constitutional right? You've gone to city council, you've written letters, you made phone calls and now you're being singled out and being harassed for no reason That does seem to be...I mean cause-and-effect reason it does seem to be prudent How long have you lived here since May of 1947. Well how dare you be a hard-working arborist and uh, and uh, and a person that's engaged in other... I mean that just... How dare you? A bourgeois member! A member the bourgeoisie! That's right Here is his property there and he did nothing to it Uh, that's exactly how it was. I drove by through four days before we did this story And saw it and the grass was uncut unwatered It was like three inches high and had dead spots in it Like any other place with a lot of trees

02:06 And the place was well painted, nice indoors. I didn't see a tarp on the roof or anything... ...or danger to any children or anything There's some of his evil right-wing cats Those are actually his cats and he's got a dog Oh! He also has a parrot back in this two story little house in the back Lived there since 47' I actually built those houses himself His wife died You can just see the problems that he has been causing It is obvious that he is bad And you can see the, and there's the arborist a little trailer. They give him a little bit of trouble about keeping that there See maybe if he was just like Goodman and became a... I'm sorry Maybe if he was just like some of the people in government around town nothing would happen to him Maybe he would just be left alone! Here is the backyard Just the complete evil You can see some lumber where he does a little bit of carpentry He didn't even straighten up when we came over That's just the way it has been There's the terrible

03:06 Long grass, just the worst thing I've ever seen. It was a little bit taller in back it was probably four and half inches tall in back and see we're not hiding anything we're showing you the back You know just a bad man trying to live his life there he is God! He's got be stopped Oh man And there's the letter he got on July 17th We were on the story by uh...by the 25th By 26th and the statesman had countered by 31st with a story about how, you know it was all East Austin. It was all crime. It was all broken sewage, broken sewage every buzzword they could think of There's the little citation threatening liens on his house and $2,000 a day fines Here we are at a council member's house home down here in Austin

03:52 And I'm not going to tell you their address or who they are, but you oughta see how overgrown their house is. This is just ridiculous! Very nice little neighborhood over there, I will tell ya. I think it makes me mad as to how the paper countered with that story. We came out and did a story about Mr. Ellingson being harassed by the Health Department and Environmental Services, and two days later there was a front page thing on the health department saying how wonderful they are stopping crime sewage uh helping the children in East Austin everything health department did it this is a council member Now we should probably slap up some footage later of Mr. Ellingson's and show you that this is ten times more overgrown than his property Selective enforcement, selective enforcement And we're not attacking this council member We're just saying hey maybe they should know about the hypocrisy in their city that they run That we've elected them to protect us from their own minions Even the driveway is overgrown I mean look at that

04:52 And folks, the camera can't even catch what's going on in this yard. And it's not our business! We don't care I don't think it's a problem But the statesman does The health department does They agree $2,000 a day fines for noncompliance Better take their home Better bulldoze it The council member owns two houses on that street. The one you're looking at right now is supposedly where the neighbors told us she lived, and that's what the hot tip told us she lived and then we checked it out and that is where the council member lives And we asked five different neighbors they all said yes the council member lives there Then they pointed us to the rent property across the street I don't mean to laugh but it looks like You'd see a great macaw parrot or something flying through or Tarzan

05:29 It's unbelievable. Totally overgrown, you can't even see the front door and it's a nice neighborhood you can see the neighborhood there I mean she definitely has the worst properties in that area we drove around a few streets and We were just...it was just unbelievable! Bureaucrats are all the same. I mean, they'll tell us how to do everything when you go look at them They're slobs she owns that property That's the rent house across the street holes in the roof They have a tarp over it You can't see how the woods rotting and and I wish we would've got a bigger camera shot of the entire property It's you there must be a little trail with the door It's unbelievable. And I'm saying leave her alone, leave the council member alone but if this doesn't make us act... If this doesn't make us... Now there is her actual property where she lives and the camera just does not catch it. Unbelievable! The air was just swimming with mosquitoes. I was being bit on my head and on the back of my neck and on my hands

06:23 You know, I try to make jokes out of it and make it so we can handle them but really its scary. And then to see the Austin American Statesman come out with a front page story on the cover saying Tall weeds cause crime! East Austin all these buzz words No... Its $2000 a day folks they love it They're making tons of money out of this squeezing people in environmental services Im not trying to cause much trouble for this person im saying their running our city and there going around harassing people And then they're just hypocrisy, man. And then people called the show last week and called my radio show too and said oh you know we gotta cut that grass it's for them you know hurting crime bugs breeding I'm like he had three inch grass Oh the city wouldn't do it unless it was needed well alright if Ellington lands bad get over there city put liens against her $2,000 a day their own Last Thursday's Osprey Estate had in there two thousand dollars a days is needed its important to keep us safe

07:16 Yeah, safe from what? We were leaving Mr. Ellingson's place and less than 150 feet from where he lives right in the middle of the street some giant pothole See the city won't even wipe its own nose but it'll abuse older people in town and force them terrorize them into giving more money for their bureaucrat behavior See all the money is going to bureaucrats salaries It's not actually going to do work for the city Now they have to force us to do everything Here, let's see the loving pothole. Here we are just right down the road again and look they're telling him to mow his yard when his grass is three inches high and he hasn't mowed it when this kind of stuff is going on about a six inch deep pothole and there's more down here so ask yourselves what kinda country is this?

08:09 That's the truth of it. All they do is harass the citizens, push the people around We're losing more and more of our personal rights and they're making despotic inroads into private property while at the same time not taking care of the essential services You see? They dangle essential services in front of your head Oh you want the pothole spilled! Oh you want the EMS to have radios don't you?! See they pay for the essentials last And pay for all their greed and strange bureaucratic behavior first I'm talking about the people that are under the control of our federal government, that want to pay homage to them. Here we are at the loving caring city Austin Health and Human Services Travis County Health Department Environmental Health Services Division down here on 15 Waller Street look at all the weeds over there! Look it's

08:54 It's worse than, much much worse than Mr. Ellingson ever was. Now that air conditioner look! That is six inch grass Oh I'm going to take the city building if it doesn't fix it We'll have to put a lien against the city building oh my gosh...oh this is just the worst oh my gosh...now folks I know this seems really stupid doesn't it? What is the big deal about weeds growing much less on somebody private property Oh yes, the city's being well taken care of. Look how nice the city buildings are! Mmm boy! This is where little terrorist activities are launched from in abusing the citizens of Austin people that pay for their homes like Mr. Ellingson who has had his home since 1947 owns his home outright they can't stand that look at it but its this power

08:09 That's the truth of it. All they do is harass the citizens, push the people around We're losing more and more of our personal rights and they're making despotic inroads into private property while at the same time not taking care of the essential services You see? They dangle essential services in front of your head Oh you want the pothole spilled! Oh you want the EMS to have radios don't you?! See they pay for the essentials last And pay for all their greed and strange bureaucratic behavior first I'm talking about the people that are under the control of our federal government, that want to pay homage to them. Here we are at the loving caring city Austin Health and Human Services Travis County Health Department Environmental Health Services Division down here on 15 Waller Street look at all the weeds over there! Look it's

08:54 It's worse than, much much worse than Mr. Ellingson ever was. Now that air conditioner look! That is six inch grass Oh I'm going to take the city building if it doesn't fix it We'll have to put a lien against the city building oh my gosh...oh this is just the worst oh my gosh...now folks I know this seems really stupid doesn't it? What is the big deal about weeds growing much less on somebody private property Oh yes, the city's being well taken care of. Look how nice the city buildings are! Mmm boy! This is where little terrorist activities are launched from in abusing the citizens of Austin people that pay for their homes like Mr. Ellingson who has had his home since 1947 owns his home outright they can't stand that look at it but its this power

09:48 Look at those bureaucrat notebooks and things up there. Think of all the wonderful harassment that goes out of this little mobster building. Words and pictures can't describe, you have to be out there in the health department just see how run down and messed up it was with trash on the ground and thousands cigarette butts and weeds growing up everywhere and walls falling down it was just really depressing And again from council members to the health department that does the citations $2,000 a day for not having your grass cut if its over 3 inches It's out of control. It's hypocrisy and something scary about that letter was it said, objectional material Well I mean they had trash all over the place and cans laying around on the ground And just piles of cigarette butts and diseased looking birds hopping around I mean that's not...and nobody is faulting them Why are they faulting? You know then the paper comes in after we did that story and comes in defending The Health Department They're shaking people down man! They're shaking em down Plain and simple