This is one of N reasons (where N is large and increasing exponentially) why respect for bureaucrats no longer exists.
Whoever issued the arrest warrant (whether deserved or not) should be fired, tarred, feathered, and dropped into the nearest lava pit.
Give an environmentalist a badge.
Incidents like these are why I don’t fly the American flag or celebrate “Independence Day” anymore. They used to symbolize freedom. This is not a free country anymore.
This is why the mad rapid expansion of government power must be halted.
I once represented a young man in the following circumstances:
He worked at a hardware store in an affluent suburban community. An elderly lady with a raccoon problem asked for advice on how to get rid of them, so he sold her a sizeable trap (the kind with the closing door on the cage, not the bear claw trap kind).
Next day the lady brought him back the trap, with a live raccoon inside. He asked his boss what to do with it, and he advised to drown it, just as they did with mice/rats. So he did.
The city police caught wind and arrested him, and charged him with cruelty to animals, as a Class D Felony.
Fortunately, the deputy prosecutor was a sensible man, along with the Sheriff’s Department animal control officer, who agreed that invasive raccoons were pests, and that unless they were killed, transplanting was not an option as they would just return. The charges were dismissed.
But it’s still a travesty that the State does stuff like this to perfectly law-abiding persons.
A fawn is reasonable, but there are lots of people who illegally feed deer here in Virginia in the fall and early winter. The law is mostly intended to preclude hunting over bait. People don’t consider the ill effects of overpopulation and the areas with no hunting are the worst for bleeding heart suckers and their welfare wards.
Combined, their work incomes couldn’t total $2,600 a month? Bulls**t.
So, an enforcer for pinhead bureaucrats was stung by pinhead bureacrats. Just deserts, as far as I’m concerned.
And not only is a family better off with $29,000 in ‘benefits’ from welfare, there is the equivalent of one full-time government welfare worker for each family.
So,... $100,000 a year to pay a government worker $70,000 to give a welfare recipient %30,000 to sit on his ass.
Now THAT’s good government!
Just more proof that the legislative overburden spread on legislation by regulatory bureaucrats stifles new ideas and unjustly enriches the maggots and termites of our society.
Drug Warriors should feel so proud:
"'When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail. She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer’s wife also chipped in, as did his brother and two sisters. On Feb. 29, a judge set Greer’s bail at $7,500, and his mother called the Brown County jail to see where and how she could get him out. “The police specifically told us to bring cash,” Greer says. “Not a cashier’s check or a credit card. They said cash.” So Greer and her family visited a series of ATMs, and on March 1, she brought the money to the jail, thinking she’d be taking Joel Greer home. But she left without her money, or her son. Instead jail officials called in the same Drug Task Force that arrested Greer. A drug-sniffing dog inspected the Greers’ cash, and about a half-hour later, Beverly Greer said, a police officer told her the dog had alerted to the presence of narcotics on the bills — and that the police department would be confiscating the bail money.'
"You probably can figure out the rest of the story. Radley’s column has a lot of additional details, but here are a couple of passages to whet your appetite.
"'The Greers had been subjected to civil asset forfeiture, a policy that lets police confiscate money and property even if they can only loosely connect them to drug activity. The cash, or revenue from the property seized, often goes back to the coffers of the police department that confiscated it. It’s a policy critics say is often abused, but experts told The HuffPost that the way the law is applied to bail money in Brown County is exceptionally unfair. It took four months for Beverly Greer to get her family’s money back, and then only after attorney Andy Williams agreed to take their case. “The family produced the ATM receipts proving that had recently withdrawn the money,” Williams says. “Beverly Greer had documentation for her disability check and her tax return. Even then, the police tried to keep their money.”'"
The first time I was ever “arrested” was by DNR officers. They sat in their truck at the marina and watched as my brother and I unloaded our canoe and put it in the water. Yes, canoe. Once we got in the canoe and paddled out into the river, they left the truck, got into a DNR boat, hauled ass over to us, and arrested me because we didn’t have proper flotation devices in the canoe.
Since I was in the back of the canoe, I was considered “Captain of the vessel”, and I was, I swear to God, handcuffed, and taken in a DNR vehicle to the sheriffs office where I was “booked”, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a jail cell. I had to call my mom to come get me and pay the 50 dollar fine.
DNR don’t play. Them boys is some serious “Law EnFORCEment” ...
Naturally, the whole experience shaped the utmost respect I hold for “Law EnFORCEment” officers to this day.
I have a great solution!
Move Indiana’s DNR folks down to the border with Mexico; and send the INS folks up here!
Just another in a long line of government tyranny and abuses. Our ancestors would be shooting by now.