Posted on 12/30/2015 5:41:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Krister Evertson is the type of person we all strive to be: Eagle Scout, National Honor Society member, worker with the deaf and hearing impaired, and all-around law-abiding citizen.
Krister sold raw sodium, which is perfectly legal and used in variety of applications. Raw sodium must be shipped by ground transportation, not through the air. Unbeknownst to Krister, even when he checked off "ground" on the shipping label, UPS may ship by air.
Krister was arrested at gunpoint. He was found not guilty, but the government wouldn't stop there. After spending $430,000 in tax dollars, the government subsequently tried and convicted Krister for abandoning the "toxic" materials he clearly and carefully stored under another's supervision. Krister spent nearly two years in federal prison.
Krister's story is no far-fetched exception to some arcane law. Thousands of law-abiding citizens have been convicted under the more than 300,000 federal provisions, most of them administrative -- in other words not passed by Congress -- that carry a criminal penalty.
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The government looks for a reason to jail people these days.
Something is seriously wrong when cases like this are rampant yet violent criminals walk free.
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 or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
In a totalitarian society, anything not mandatory is forbidden.
If this guy was tried and convicted, then the government managed to convince twelve jurors of his guilt.
Thirty-five seconds to greatness... ;)
It is so way past due.
Once they got away with Waco without a single scalp nothing should surprise us.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Execution_of_the_four_persons_condemned_as_conspirators%2C_Mary_Surratt%2C_Lewis_Powell%2C_David_Herold%2C_and_George_Atzerodt.%2C_-_NARA_-_530503.tif/lossy-page1-746px-Execution_of_the_four_persons_condemned_as_conspirators%2C_Mary_Surratt%2C_Lewis_Powell%2C_David_Herold%2C_and_George_Atzerodt.%2C_-_NARA_-_530503.tif.jpg
Or when Muslim terrorists are allowed to murder innocent US citizens.
Would have been sooner if I wasn’t editing the quotation marks.
It is the primary responsibility of a tyranny to dominate and instill fear in its subjects. Ours is such a government. The authority of bureaucracies is absolute. The minions of tyranny are faceless and remorseless. They seek to cripple the private sector with their power.
Seems he was found by twelve jurors not guilty the first time not guilty
I have no doubt some government goon lawyer was looking for a promotion
----Krister was arrested at gunpoint. He was found not guilty, but the government wouldn’t stop there. After spending $430,000 in tax dollars, the government subsequently tried and convicted Krister for abandoning the â€toxic†materials he clearly and carefully stored under another’s supervision. Krister spent nearly two years in federal prison.----
Lesson for the peanut gallery-
“Ignorance of the Law is no excuse” referred to the Common Law, not administrative law. The Common Law for instance must have a corpus delicti for a crime to have been committed. Corpus delicti: injured party, such as a “corpse.”
The only real solution to the administrative disease is a hot or cold revolution. Levin’s Article V effort would be of the cold variety.
Once they got away with Waco without a single scalp nothing should surprise us.
( that garbage at the end was a string of characters from the IMG SRC URL, a photo of the hanging of the Lincoln assassin conspirators ).
Yeah, no joke...
These must go ground also BUT one needs to complete a course before getting a special permit allowing you to ship Fed x or UPS. We are 6 months in trying to get this settled so we can ship and I don't have to keep getting these dropped shipped.
My tagline for the last couple years now.
We aren’t getting out of this any other way.
“Krister sold raw sodium...”
Raise your hand if you have ever seen sodium?
It’s not salt!
It’s an extremely dangerous metal.
Drop a pea sized piece of sodium in a glass of water and BANG! A very high intensity fire breaks out - in the glass of water.
It’s extremely dangerous stuff!
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