Friend of the Treehouse, Peter Duke, introduced me to this story and it is blood-boiling, yet awesome.
A young man named Lucas Lepejian is in a battle with Burbank authorities who are trying to run him out of business. Lucas is the 20-year-old son of Baret Lepejian the proprietor of a long-standing western-themed restaurant called Tinhorn Flats; a well known place to dine in Burbank, California.
Local authorities have attempted to shut down Tinhorn Flats repeatedly. Each time Lucas defies the orders and reopens.
Lucas has been arrested three times in defiance of the ridiculous COVID shutdown.
The issue now is personal, the authorities are intent on destroying his business… Lucas, and a small battalion of supporters, remain defiant.
TIMELINE & DETAILS: Tinhorn Flats is the oldest bar in Burbank. In March of 2020 they shut down in compliance with state guidelines. They reopened in November 2020, and when the second lockdown was announced their defiance began.
Burbank authorities first cited and fined Tinhorn Flats. Lucas refused to pay and stayed open. Burbank authorities cut their utilities. Lucas brought in generators and stayed open. Burbank authorities Red tagged his restaurant and locked the doors. Lucas cut the locks and reopened. Burbank authorities boarded up the doors and ‘red tagged’ again as unsafe. Lucas sawed off the boards and reopened his business. Burbank police then arrested Lucas. Lucas made bail and was released.
Regular protests then began to support Lucas. Burbank authorities came back and replaced the boards (thicker w/ security nails). Lucas sawed off those boards and reopened business. Burbank police then arrested Lucas the second time. Lucas made bail and was released. Burbank authorities again replaced the boards on the doors and added sand bags; (police later announced that anyone moving a sandbag would be arrested). Lucas removed the sandbags. Lucas was arrested, made bail and was released.
Today the city of Burbank installed fences around the property…. the battle continues.
Lucas and Baret Lepejian are being represented by attorney Mark Geragos [SEE HERE].
MSM Story HERE
Diana West Covers Story Here
Daily News Covers Story Here
** GoFundMe to Support Lucas Lepejian HERE
Diana West puts it well:
“As anyone can see from the Tinhorn Flats’ Instagram page, the restaurant supports freedom, capitalism and President Trump, and reviles tyranny, socialism and Governor Newsom. No wonder they are in the crosshairs — but no wonder they are in the fight!
If you can’t show up, you can support the Tinhorn Flats Legal Defense Fund here.”
https://twitter.com/peterdukephoto/status/1380991752387981316
https://twitter.com/peterdukephoto/status/1380778668566319108
There are so many lessons in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life George Bailey “.
This is just a ” land grab”, a ” we’ll put you out of business and my friend will open up something else on this historic site”. This is just 1 instance in the continual Government shutdown and opportunity for the rich and powerful to push people off and out of their businesses and homes. It’s the same as a run on the bank with a twist. As George Bailey Said, ” In the whole scheme of things, you’re nothing but a scurvy little spider Mr. Potter”.
Is there any relief money in the covid2 stimulus package for businesses? Or is it a handout for the government to give to their families and friends? IS there any relief for homeowners who haven’t had rent paid to them in over a year?
Gonna donate to TCTH, DTR, and this great cause. The government wants to take as much of my money as they can so I might as well donate it to a great cause or 3!!!
Ya’ll have a blessed Sunday
I’m reluctant to donate because if the California Supreme Court can overrule Proposition 22 passed by more than 60% of the CA voters then what chance does Lucas really have? Not much is my guess. The leftist activist judges in California will support the City of Burbank period as it imposes its totalitarianism over its residents! It’s how Democrats maintain rule via a corrupt leftist judiciary! Nontheless good luck Lucas!
Buy guns and food instead. Winter is coming.
No wonder the press won’t cover this.
I’m sending in a donation.
This has to stop. Thanks for posting this. I had no idea this was happening. Now I do.
i think we all need to start throwing some sand.
Not sand but lead. It is not only our right to abolish tyranny but it is our duty as spelled out plainly in the DoI which even traitors in government can understand, if they would ever read it.
‘Sand in the cogs, sugar in the gas tanks, we don’t need to start with lead (although it may be a necessary alternative)!
That is the unpleasant truth.
Everyone of us need to support someone like this.. ( I donated).. If we do not help people like this, you know the ones with ba**s to fight back, then we are all full of crap and things will only get worse IMO.. #RESIST
Donations are great… but if you are actually there or within drive distance, we should be there, in person, with our bodies in the way of injustice. Literally.
I still do not think our side has learned the slightest bit about actual resistance – we are still unwilling to make it real, and its why these fascists are not afraid of us.
Did we not notice? One side was willing to put their bodies on the line for what they believed. The other side lost.
You are 100% right, there should be thousands in front of his business protesting.
It’s time for persecution of the China Communist Party Democrats and Kung Flu hysteria creators.
When Lucas survives this, any of the Communists from the Burbank gubment or other California gubment entities who dare show up to eat or drink should be refused or given second class treatment.
The day when the clown show ‘leadership class’ can’t walk down the street or is treated sec0nd class should be a goal.
A Hunter Biden book burning. Mask burnings. Chinese embassy protest. I can dream.
Be horrified. Tell me how bad I am. These people should be hated. Period.
It is not persecution that needs to happen but PROSECUTION which is the lawful response to tyranny. Persecution is what those traitors are doing to We the People.
Now that it has been shown that the “virus” dies in sunlight, sunny CA has little actual reason to continue this bogus lockdown. Their beach veto was a total sham, as most already realized. The beach is probably one of the best places to go to avoid COVID. If you get it, take Ivermectin and be well. How long are we willing to endure these draconian rules?
IMPRESSIVE!!!! If everyone did this, there would be no shut downs.
This tyranny MUST end! Governments at all levels are out of control, persecuting Americans based on lies and politics. The entire C19 nonsense is nothing less than genocide backed by acts of intimidation and violence without any basis in law.
Stop the Tyranny NOW!!!
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Voco…I agree with you…the courts and their ilk are not willing to follow the Constitution and have stomped out any legal rights for our side. Would love to stop the tyranny and hang these reptiles in the public square but right now that seems impossible due to the biden administration. Our time will come soon to turn the tables and oh boy, will that be a great day. BELIEVE
They are doing it in Canada too. They have even confiscated a church in Alberta.
Watch the Feds get involved and turn Tin Horn Flats into Ruby Ridge and burn it down like Waco.
That can be arranged with 10 well placed and timed detonations. Tesla figured out the resonant frequency of the earth and detailed how much explosive power would be required at precise intervals to fracture the the earth irreparably and possibly break the planet into pieces. The formula is still available if you look hard enough. Ten thousand pounds of ANFO is all that is necessary to get the job done.
Be careful what you wish for…
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.“
–C.S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters”
How much money, time and hate has the city/state spent to put down a small business? A fence, then a wall? Boarding up the place? This is insanity! It all started with covering our faces and then this?
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Burbank doesn’t deserve them. Patrons yes. The community? No. They should cut their losses and move where they would be welcome. Especially with their western themed restaurant. I’m sure there are some good American communities who would give them/$0 lease of some town property to get folks to come to town.
People can not run or move. It will just continue to follow them..
People need to stand up. It it won’t ever stop.
It will just continue in to the next phase.
I am thinking people do need to move. I think it would be helpful to have conservatives move to red states and make them more red and liberals move to blue states. That way we could split up which is where I think this is going. I do not think the center is holding. I know the blue states think they are the rich ones, so be it. That way our tax money won’t go to bail out NY or California.
Has Burbank brought in Janet Reno as a consultant yet ?
Good for him…. Sad part is there are people who agree with this man that still wear masks…
If I were one of these people,that agree with this man and still wore a mask..
I would very seriously have to question myself.. In my mind you can’t support this guy,if you still wear a mask..
Sometimes ya gotta crack an egg to make an omelette. You shouldn’t depend on others to do it all for ya!
It’s that simple.
Happy Sunday Treepers. Hope everyone enjoys the day.
Weather is fair here may just have to grill out and have a drink or two.
Anyhow enjoy the day.
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“The issue now is personal, …”.
Everything is personal to leftists. Every thing. Every act. Every word. Every thought. Every existence.
Why do you think leftists murder so many people every time they take full control? And keep murdering more and more as long as they stay in control?
Why do their policies enslave the masses? Leftists NEED control over everyone.
Why do they brainwash? Leftist need full control, even over thoughts.
Even when it has absolutely no effect on any leftist,
your failure to do what they say,
your failure to say what they think,
and your failure to think the same way,
are all taken extremely personally by each and every leftist.
They have no ability to not take things personally. Some can hide it and act reasonably in public, but they burn mad in private and fill themselves with venom on the inside.
Your very existence is a personal affront that requires reeducation camps to make you right or kill you in the attempt. Or gulags, or concentration camps. The list is long.
There also are mass murder facilities to torture and kill in every country with full leftist control. That rage and venom needs to be sated.
But the true believers in leftism make sure to involve all the people in these crimes. Accusal, condemnation, judgement and even execution at the hands of the people. Nobody orchestrated this better than Mao. And Mao is the one Obozo and his clowns honor more than any other murderous star of the left.
By the way, the idea of a spectrum from left to right is nonsense we try to impose to make sense of the Left and their opponents. But who are these opponents? To the French Revolution it was Royalists. To Marx it was ‘Capitalism’. Now, if you are against the left, you are a NAZI. Not much in common between those groups.
And I defy anybody to define a single spectrum using all four points. You can’t even keep them in one plane. And the Left has had many more enemies than just those three.
To the Left, the Left is just an identity. It defines one as being either in the group or outside the group. And if you are not in the group, you are their enemy. Yes, the identity was formed in the run up to the French Revolution. And it came from where each group sat. But that doesn’t mean the Right are all supporters of the French Monarchy.
By the way, who uses point of view dependent terms to define things? Turn around and all the labels switch. In our House, from the Speaker’s dais, the Left sits on the right side and the RINOs sit on the left side.
I bet if he was black they would give him a billion dollars in reparations.
They release murderers and child molesters, allow illegal aliens to destroy our country, and punish those who want to work.
The DemoNazis are the enemies of America.
In an actual case of government tyranny, the city of Gardena seized the resort of Charles and Willa Bruce abusing eminent domain and forced black beachgoers out of town 100 years ago. The family’s descendants will finally have their property restored to them. That is the kind of reparations I can support, not just checks given out to people indiscriminately… like people are advocating for here, because the business owners who broke the law are white.
further infuriating reality of the fascists known as the so falsely so called progressive democrats.
I have believed for quite awhile that outside of the whole hollywood district, that elections were stolen by dems.
I wonder which city/state gov’t official or their kin has eyes on the property to purchase.
Large amounts of manure need to appear overnight at those in gov’t whose signatures are tied to harassing this guy.
The internet has shown us the wastefulness and pure hatred for all rights. Government at every level seem to believe they are the only ones who know what is best for citizens. I remember a time when the representatives actually listen to the people but those times are a thing of the past. Once, some time back. our votes counted. Now we are blinds covering the crime of robbery. We need more people like this young man. We need leaders and not just doers and talkers. States must unify under a common cause. Its not enough they stand up for the rights of their people. They need to fight for the rights of all people who are willing to follow.
I love this guy! Fight on! If I lived in Burbank, I’d be there every day for lunch. Make the city supply the ‘science’ behind their lockdown rules. There is none. When that comes out, he should sue them.
Here are the sadistic, communist, fascist, Nazi Burbank City Council members:
https://www.burbankca.gov/about-us/city-council
Worthless pieces of excrement. I wonder how many of them are illegals, or were illegals. I wonder how many of them have truly served our country in any meaningful way, besides being Nazi Overlords for Delusional Joe’s Communist party. This is what Californians must end pronto, illegals in any and all governing bodies large and small.
#1 reason, they are blackmail red meat bait for the JoeBama Chicago crowd. Big signs all over their backs, “I am compromised, I will do anything you ask to stay here and keep my flunky high-priced lackey job.”
TF should spend some of this publicity and capital on ousting them from their jobs, recall the commies STAT, since they are not doing their jobs and fulfilling their duties in any way shape or form.
Why do you need a closed door session on a very public matter? NO GOOD REASON, that’s why.
Finally, TF should also be making a diary scrapbook of articles in the papers that carry their stories, left or right. For instance, at this link:
https://myburbank.com/burbank-police-arrest-tinhorn-flats-defendant-for-the-third-time
Look at all of the headlines and photos of other stories on this same page. Boys and Girls Club Ribbon Cutting ceremonies, ball games, local and major league, etc. How is it that that is all good and this is bad. It is RIDICULOUS AND BASELESS, MIND-NUMBING STUPIDITY AND CRUELTY TO HUMAN BEINGS.
One more thing, Build a Bigger Ladder. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Isn’t that what the criminal naysayers always said, “The wall won’t work because criminals will just build a bigger ladder.”
BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME. Get creative. Make it a competition. Make the news have to cover it, and then get your story out. Take petitions there to recall all these FOOLS ERRAND BOYS & GIRLS, hiding behind closed sessions. Pink hatted pansies.
We need a daily # of people stuffed onto airplanes, public and private, to fly people around the country and world. BTW, when did the airlines “re-open”?
We need a daily number of children attending school vs the grand total of those who should be attending school.
We need a daily number of businesses lost to the unlawful lockdowns.
We need a daily number of suicides by children and adults.
I could go on and on, but please feel free to add…
BTW, DO NOT READ the COMMENTS SECTION of the article I linked above. It is frightening.
We need a daily # of how many cities have been burned down by the left.
“I wonder how many of them are illegals, or were illegals.”
Jess Talamentes is a former firefighter who has lived here since 1962. Former Boy Scout Bob Frutos served on the police force for 28 years before becoming mayor. I’m sure you’re not referring to Sharon Springer or Nick Shultz. Konstantine Anthony? He grew up in the Bay Area, is a left winger and wants to bring more affordable housing to the area. I don’t like his politics, and I’ll be voting against him next election. But none of these people are “illegals”. This area by Griffith Park called the Rancho district is one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the state of California. The valley has always had a large Latino population, and I wish you people would quit embarrassing conservatives with your ignorant racism when you don’t even live here or know anything about the community, to which the owners of Tinhorn Flats contribute nothing. The actual owner stays in Thailand for whatever reason, and the kid only stepped into the picture to wage a PR campaign / cash grab.
Get paid by the word, huh? What’s your job title. Fireman? Put out social media fires, or at least try to dirty them up with your words and intimidate them into submission? Like you are gonna’ embarrass me or anyone else here. Please.
OK, so you partially answered one question. Now, how many illegals voted for them to be in power?
BTW, I am a student of history every day. I don’t need your 2 cents worth unless, of course, it is worth at least 2 cents. Sell your soulless racism crap somewhere else. Got it?
I’m not running for City Council, as another comment claims, and I’m not paid to post. I do pay Burbank property taxes and have a vested interest in this drama. How about you, President-Elect Dipshit?
My wife and I have been steady customers of the Tin Horn since the lockdown. (Been going there for many years.) during election met many LA Democrats who were voting for the first time Republican for their conversion to MAGA. California was stolen.
I have lived in Los Angeles my whole life and NEVER since before Reagan was there ever the overwhelming support for a Republican President and ZERO support (yard signs/bumper stickers) for the Democrat in Los Angeles in my 57 years.
I know the state was stolen; when I went to vote I was told I had already voted by mail. Of course I hadn’t. I filled out a provisional ballot. A week afterward, I called the Sec State office to find out if my vote had been counted. I was told it had—2 weeks before Election Day vote by mail. Same thing happened to my brother and wife.
These guys are local heroes and we all need to support this!
When I say we met many dem switch voters, it was in line and on the Tin Horn Flats patio.
You should all file charges for identity theft. Local, state and federal. It is a federal crime to steal someone’s identity. IF more people did this, they would have no recourse other than to investigate, and file charges. And they would no longer be able to say that it just happened to a few people when it was truly massive numbers.
I have sent the largest donation I can afford to support this man… we cannot spare him -he fights
Fauci is pure evil. He can’t even keep his endless lies straight.
Those sandbags would make great defensive positions
This is all about how the demirats use the government as a weapon against its citizens. They are the CRIMINALS! Tyranny is their end and loss os freedom is their game.
Burbank is fascist.
Most of LA County is fascist.
California ( aka Calimexistan ) is a State that has overgrown the political system, it is simply too large with too many people.
There are more conservatives in California than the entire population of half the states, think about that. Talk about taxation without representation: in the last two US Senate elections the candidates were both Democrats… I did not vote. Yet, I get taxed.
I live in The OC (Orange County), despite what the vote theft for the US House would seem to say, we are conservatives and our local politicians are conservatives. We are constantly getting bombarded with people from LA County who are fed up, plus corporatist propaganda on LA TV stations (we don’t exist to them) and the crazy rules promulgated by San Franciskovich and enforced by Sacramentograd.
Then, people from other states put us in the same bucket as those commies and their useful idiots.
If we move elsewhere, they call us “Californians”… ignorant of the facts in our State.
We would be best served to break up the State into three: Jefferson, East California, and Soviet Calimexistan. But they won’t let us because the conservatives in the State are the ones that pay the taxes, see?
It would be nice, really, in people in other states would stop dumping on “California”, start helping us on our desire to bring back the California of just 20 years ago and perhaps breaking up the State.
Taxation without representation.… today’s California.
We all need to start fighting back against the rabid lefties like Lucas. We must stop the Democrats from forcing us into communism.
Anyone remember the stilt house in Lethal Weapon 2? Fence? What fence? Oh, the one on city halls’ lawn!
I just donated $100 – good for Lucas! We need 75 million more just like him!…oh, wait…we HAVE THEM!
Donated
The only way any of this ends is when normals have had enough and everyone steps up and refuses to obey. Open defiance en-mass by the majority of people. They cannot ignore We The People.
I fully agree with Jbrickley. We have to stand together (United) against this. Government is only afraid if we do. We have a second amendment put in place by the smartest people that walked this earth, that was installed for this very purpose, to protect ourselves from government. They want to destroy the one amendment that is designed to destroy them. Well we all must band together and make them fear us again, because they are not the power, we are.
“Pilgrim” Fence Company. Yeah. Not so much!
Yep. Blood is boiling.
Have there been any “non-essential” state employees laid off?
So… is it safe to assume the freedom to engage in commerce is on the brink? I cannot wait to see all of the patriotic LEO and the military, “sworn to defend the constitution, rise up and defend the rights of the people.”
I have been assured for decades now, that our men in uniform will abandon their paychecks and their pensions to protect and defend the people they are sworn to serve. I’ve been vilified and attacked (as a NAVY vet) for doubting the willingness of the many to come to the aid of the few. It will not happen. Four (4) even five (5) generations of public educated men has come down to this moment in time.
If you really believe you will be rescued in by a moment of turmoil or trespass on your rights as a citizen, I hope you have more faith in
God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit than you have faith in your electric company. LEO will not protect you. They will kill you quicker than you can say, “stay back, don’t tread on me.”
“There is nothing new under the sun.” And ,
“ judgement begins with the House of the Lord.”
It has been my observation that law enforcement is there to “protect and serve” the law and lawmakers. If there is no conflict, then the people too.
When a donor to politicians wants your business corner or thinks you business is unsightly this is what they do. Chase you out of town. Seen it many times, burning down buildings in the inner city is a way to chase away vagrants and to clean up the area so the owner can build a new skyscraper or somewhat. It’s all about the money, always.
These California municipalities have no legal standing. There is no law to break. Newsom said some stuff. The legislature never passed laws on lockdowns. Also, legal precedence states “state of emergency” declaration does not suspend the constitution so no excuse for them there either.
When you go to court and ask them for the code violation they can’t produce one. Then they drop the case. Check out Peggy Hall’s videos on the subject. Several restaurants have already pushed back legally and the cases get dropped.
where’s Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon when you need ’em ?!?!?
The Liberal Democrat view point:
Allowing small business owners and their employees to make a living during the China Bug Scare even with reasonable conditions: BAD!
Allowing Lefty trust fund babies in ANTIFA and BLM to run rampant and destroy small businesses as the small business owners and their employees watch helplessly during the China Bug Scare: GOOD!
And people wonder why many of us have lost all respect for law enforcement officers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9459681/Burbank-puts-fence-restaurant-owner-arrested-violating-lockdown.html
Don’t worry folks, Conservatism, Inc. is going to come save the day!
Tinhorn Flats is one step of a bigger agenda. They are showing they will force and squash you. They are telling us what they are going to do…Ice Age Farmer lays it all out.
Totalitarianism, Technocrats, Surveillance…
Public officials who abuse their authority should be shunned from restaurants, repair shops, salons, etc. Up to individual business owners to decide, but there has to be a price. Publish a “Do Not Buy” list in your area to publicly shame ’em.
Lucas Lepejian is my hero! We need a national of Lucas Lepejians! Stat! The least I can do is to donate to the Tinhorn Flats Legal Defense Fund!
Note how the locals respect the police tape. Can’t imagine BurnLoot&Murder or Antifa doing that.
“Uphold & defend the Constitution of the United States of America” means nothing as long as those who swore to uphold that oath take orders from O’Biden’s tyrants. And as long as the public turns a blind eye to the situation.
The time for court battles and voting are over. Those in power have clearly stated that we have no standing.
More than ready to donate, but only thru PayPal. I will not put my credit card info on the open wires. Set up your donation system to work thru PayPal.
I have a separate ” internet account” card just for online stuff, easy to shut down, I keep a low balance in it…
PayPal are one of the multinationals companies just like Walmart, Amazon, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Coke Pepsi, Levis, Target and etc, etc, etc.
I used PayPal for decades but I cut myself loose.