The dream of many Americans is to get out of the hustle and bustle ofthe daily city grind. And what better dream to have then to move yourfamily outside of city limits to the countryside so that you can growyour own food, produce your own electricity with solar power, and liveoutside the purview of an ever expanding government apparatus?That was the goal for hundreds of residents living on the outskirtsof Los Angeles. Many own their land outright and have been living on itfor decades without so much as a peep from their localgovernment. They’ve built their homes using whatever means they hadavailable to them. They planted their own fruits and vegetables. Theyeven set up their own personal power production stations using solarpanels and miniature wind farms.And they’ve lived peacefully without violating the rights of thosearound them and leaving a very small “carbon footprint” to boot. For allintents and purposes, they achieved a life of independence and freedom.But the tentacles of tyranny are everywhere and no one is protected from their grasp.Recently, agents of the Los Angeles county government started payingvisits to these rugged individualists. They claimed they were “here tohelp,” as one resident puts it. But, as is generally the case when thegovernment comes knocking, they were there for exactly the opposite.What was once a dream come true for many quickly turned into the new American nightmare.Code enforcement agents for the county showed up in droves. But theydidn’t come alone. Along with them came heavily armed “NuisanceAbatement Teams” who raided the homes and land of these peacefulresidents as they would those of a terrorist.The collection of rugged individualists who [want to live here] are being chased away.Last year the county began performing unannounced inspections on his property.Gallow says he cooperated with the county – clearing brush, then moving his shed, then getting rid of his motor home.Finally, the county made a demand that shocked him.“They told me… you have to get off the property. I said get off the property?’ They said ‘yeah, you can’t live here.’ ”Gallow says county officials told him that neighbors, whom they wouldnot identify, had complained about unsightly structures on hisproperty.He could keep his land, they told him, but would not be allowed to live on it.“I said, for what? My closest neighbor is half a mile away.We’re not living in Beverly Hills here, this is my home. All of suddenyou got police at my front door – bullet proof vests, guns, and thenthey surrounded the place. Everything I worked for was just melting awayfrom me.”“I don’t know where I’m going to go.”Mr. Gallow is not alone. County enforcement officials withmilitarized Nuisance Abatement Teams in tow have made similar threats toother residents, ordering them to destroy everything on theirproperties and to get off their own land.Watch this shocking, yet unsurprising account of the plight of these Americans who want nothing more than to be left alone:In the new America, everyone is criminal.