Was it a slow day in Lorraine County? Is there some sort of quota that if you don't use your SWAT team X number of times/year, they'll take away your night vision goggles and K9 unit?
When I lived in Ohio we had a food co-op that was similar. You paid $30 to sign up, you had to put in I forget how many hours/week of work at the actual storefront, and you filled out an order form to get certain things. Local produce, organic grain, similar to what these folks are doing. I shudder to think what would have happened if the cops had shown up in full battle mode--either a massive protest (this was a college town) with students getting shot, or the whole place would have been busted for being hippie potheads. Or both, possibly.
We had a health dept. certified kitchen in back, too. One of the suppliers, who was also a member, did the nicest toasted pumpkin seeds, covered in soy sauce, garlic and chili powder, $2/lb. I really miss those.
Seriously, Ohio has a very long history of police/National Guard over-enthusiasm. They are like that. The college towns (Antioch, Kent, Oberlin, Columbus) are better, because you'll at least have a bunch of angry hippies and political science and law professors backing you up and making a stink about injustice, but otherwise you can count on a certain amount of ignorant behavior from any petty official of any sort. I moved away for a reason.
