My name is Aziz Ansari, I am 61 years old, retired, I live in Watson, Minnesota, I built four raised beds in my backyard to grow fresh vegetables, I help older people in the community with free vegetables, or sell at farmers market and the proceeds go to the church as offerings. I also teach methods of extensive production on a small space, people have visited from as far as Mexico to see my methods, and was written in Agri news http://webstar.postbulletin.com/agrinews/292207106112658.bsp.

I was also asked by Kandiyohi County Food Systems Steering Committee at there Health and Human Services building in Willmar (town about 40 miles east of me) to give a presentation on the 23rd. of Feb. 2009, Phone Number (320-231-7852) on extending growing season and extreme growing density. I am promoting the concept of building backyard food shelf thereby feeding more mouths at a very low cost, this is all done on a FREE basis as a community service. Three of my neighbors did not like my moving in the neighborhood as I am not White, one of them even bought an old house next door to me and got it demolished as he did not want any riff-raff to move in the neighborhood, as I was told by other residents of Watson, one of them is on record saying to me “go back where you came from”, one of his friends said in the City Council meeting “I don’t know where these people come from, What will he do next, build a barn and put horses” referring to the raised beds I had built, the then Mayor Kylene Olson walked out of the meeting saying “you are going too far”, later she resigned, these are just a handful of people who are in power after Mayor Kylene Olson resigned they appointed one of their friend as the Mayor. Since then they filed a Law Suite against me, they have spent thousands of dollars so far, the town has about 80 houses, a total population of less then 200 people, several people have signed petitions to end this nonsense and stop this waste of money but these people are bent upon teaching me a lesson. The City of Watson, Minnesota has discriminated against me, been unjust to me, and denied my constitutional rights. (FLAG) Farmers Legal Action Group represented me as I did not have enough money, however they told me this year that there funds have been cut therefore they can't represent me any more, in the mean time ACLU-MN told me they are trying to recruit an attorney who will represent me, the problem is I am very far away from St. Paul where ACLU-MN has there office, and they are having a hard time finding  an attorney who will come so far west to help me, I think as long as I am a United States Citizen it does not matter how far I live from a major city, I deserve to be treated justly. ACLU-MN (Teresa Nelson telephone number 651-645-4097) sent me an email saying they are sorry they could not find an attorney for my court date on 25th. of February, but they are trying to find someone to represent me, in the mean time I had to represent myself in front of the Judge, every body including FLAG attorney told me I better have an attorney, just a side note that the person on the Zoning Committee who started all this Mr. Rob Schwendemann is the son-in-law of the county commissioner Kenneth Koenen (district 1) and the brother-in-law of the state representative Lyle Koenen. One of the ex-board member of FLAG (Farmers Legal Action Group) and my hero, from the next town of Milan, Anne Kanten who is 81 years old and a retired Secretary of Agriculture along with the pastor of the church in Watson, MN. Reverend Bob Buchanan (phone number 320-226-2363) have agreed to be the people who will manage the Justice For Tomato Man account, there are several things on record, in writing to show profiling by the sheriff department, prejudicial enforcement by the City Zoning Committee and denying my constitutional rights explained by FLAG, even the City Clerk illegally changed the Council meeting minutes to strengthen their case, which was referred by one of the attorney as Destruction of Evidence and Fraud, but seems like nothing will stop these people. I can go on and on and on, all I will say, it is such a small town with very little resources, I have a petition signed by residents which refers to President Obama saying to Mayors from across the country on February 21st. 2009 that help was on the way-in the form of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan-but put them on notice that he will call them out if they waste the money. These citizens including myself want to bring to the attention of the President of The United States Of America to the utter nonsense, racism, prejudicial practices and WASTE OF MONEY by the city council and the Mayor of Watson, MN. All I want is justice and fairness without having to spend thousand’s of Dollars that I don’t have and the money we raise can be spent on building more raised beds to grow more food to feed more mouths. Thank you