The open letter to them that I posted on my FB page:
Dear Dervaes Family,
There is never a reason for "death threats" and I hope you're hyping that, and that it's baloney. Or if it's not, I hope they find the bastards who issued the death threats, and I hope the government you're so buddy-buddy with now takes care of them for you.
But let me tell you, I am FULLY p-worded off about the fact that you've trademarked the phrases "urban homestead" and "urban homesteading". You've lost my business, my recommendations, and - most importantly - my respect. I expected better out of you, but I guess the Califungus worked its way into your pockets as well.
Look, the bottom line is this:
Either you need to retract your nonsense, or you need to go out of business the ol' free market way. And believe me, people WILL stop spending their money with companies that try to corner the market on freedom. I'm just shocked that you even considered doing it, or worse, that you considered it, thought it was a great idea, and then FOLLOWED THROUGH.
You need to address this candidly with your former fans. You owe us an explanation.
I'm just so disappointed. I have this sick feeling that you'll use the "death threats" BS to make a stand on the subject of taking away others freedoms (as a reporter on South Park was once want to say, "If irony were strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of daiquiris right now"), and that people will actually back you for no reason other than the fact that you won't back down from a death threat.
Forget the fact that what you're doing goes against every single thing you've ever taught. Forget the fact that you're raping the entire concept of freedom by doing this. Forget the fact that what you're doing goes against every moral fiber of my nature.
What you're doing is WRONG. You're hurting the urban homesteading (oooh, I said the words! better sue me!) community, and you're hurting yourselves in doing so.
You need to stop, backpedal, apologize, and explain how you took so many wrong turns in the first place. Bring the death threats to the authorities and let THEM deal with it. Don't cry-whine about it on your twitter page and delete every single conversation about the situation you created on your Facebook pages.
You're abandoning everybody who has ever supported you, and everything we stand for. I hope you're happy with that, Path To Freedom. And I hope you understand just how disappointed I am, and just how much I will talk about this, and about what sort of a "path" you really are to every single person I meet here in California, and every single other place I ever go where your names are collectively or individually brought up. You're no different from the government here. Corrupt from the toes up. Greedy to the core.
I'm disgusted, and I hope you realize just what a huge mistake this was.
-[name redacted even though most of you already know my name lol] - an urban homesteader who refuses to stop speaking or typing those words for anybody's sake.
