[screaminsunshine]

Liberalism is a mental disease.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No problem.

All they have to do is ask for a waiver.

Washington hands them out like party favors.

[Iron Munro]

It's probably safe to assume these are not some of Holder's Peiople.

It has been well said that really up-to-date liberals do not care what
people do, as long as it is compulsory. -- George Will

[dblshot]

That's what's wrong with bureaucrats, they are breeding like rabbits.

[MrB]

If you’re self sufficient, and not dependent on government and liberals,

you’ll have a big ol’ target on your back.

You’re one of those people that will have to be eliminated before their utopia can come to fruition.

[C210N]

There has to be a bit more to this story for there to be justification of a $90k fine by the USDA. Perhaps the family *has* gone over a guilty line, and thus the find. Some possibilities that might explain this:

1. Taking republican ballots in previous primaries?

2. Donations to conservative political campaigns?

3. Running for office, local or otherwise, on the republican ticket?

4. Serving on a local Republican Town Committee?

[Rebelbase]

$200/year.

I made about the same in the 8th/9th grade selling mice and rats to the pet stores for snake feed.

[The Great RJ]

Why can the USDA intervene if no interstate commerce is involved? This fine should be appealed in the courts.

[B4Ranch]

I’ll bet the $90,000 is not a figure snatched out of the air. It’s how much the USDA spent investigating the case.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Puts me in mind of Rhonda the Rabbit Lady, who appeared in Michael Moore’s first film, Roger and Me. She was the one selling rabbits out of her home “for pets or meat”.

Turns out that not only did Moore not share his enormous riches gained from the film with her, but it also caused the state to shut her down since she did not have the proper permits to sell meat for human consumption.

I met her a short time afterward. She had been forced to take a job slinging hash in a Kmart cafeteria.

[John S Mosby]

Notice, if you look at the main letter copy, that the signer is someone named Sarah Conant. However... the signature of this person reads...... “C~~nt” as far as is legibly discernable.

Interesting how federal bureaucrats self identify. Helps them with later federally paid therapy.

What sheer idiocy. I would say that these folks would have had a better chance if they did this through 4H, at least no fines.

[reegs]

Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? ...We want them broken... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

(Dr. Floyd Ferris, Atlas Shrugged)

[FourPeas]

The whole story at Big Government is worth reading.

The government admits wanting to make an example of them.

[Peter from Rutland]

Don’t sell animals for food unless they are inspected and tagged by the state/USDA.

My chickens were inspected, tested and tagged. Nice and legal. No fines, no nothing. Granted, I sell the eggs not the meat.

[Vaduz]

Things must be real slow at Department of Agriculture.

[EternalVigilance]

Outrageous.

[rolling_stone]

Cruel and unusualo punishment comes to mind...excessive fine by 150 times..

[Robert Lomax]

I’ll bet they know where each and everyone of those rabbits are. ICE (Immigration Custom Enforcement) could probably learn a few of their techniques.