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that's it. Uh it's our school because we work on it. You know, there are trails because we maintain them and cut the brush. You know, it's it's uh it's our community because we do it. That's that's something that I don't think most people have these days.

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It isn't, there's, you know, the sense of alienation is a valid sense for them out here belongs to us. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Work the next one. And if we're going to enforce the building codes this rigidly, then at least one half of new york will be

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torn down. One half of Chicago san Francisco Martinez and all arrests because America is a nation of substandard dwellings right now the power play here is by the on the part of the East Bay municipal utility district to move these people out and then turn it

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over to some commercial purpose, possibly subdivision. What they're saying is that the community doesn't comply with the health standards of the building codes and that kind of thing. Well, basically neither do I and neither do you at all times in all places. For example, they say

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one house doesn't have hot water. I say that you and I have a constitutional right not to bathe in hot water or not debate at all. And no state official or county official can sit there and say to me or to you take a take a

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hot bath or a hot shower. They say that there's not sufficient ventilation that the ceilings are of a certain improper height. This is a lot of nonsense over and above all these so called violations in the code is the preceding clause that these conditions must endanger

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the life, the limb, the health and the safety of the occupants of the houses or the public. There's not a single complaint from any one of these people that they feel they're in danger of their lives or their Children's lives or their property. And of course,

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the public doesn't go into these houses. If the bureaucratic squeeze has done anything to say, the people who live in this beautiful canyon, it has united the community with the will to fight. They came here to escape the crunch of urban life and are determined to

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defend what they feel is a sanctuary against it, becoming just another extension of suburbia. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news from Canyon, mm hmm.