What the @#$% does the federal gov’t want to know this for? The store should have copied the credentials of the agent before taking any questions.
Just WOW.
A guy heard it from a veteran who heard it from a store owner........
Keep your powder dry guys.
I was under the impression based upon another article you posted that the Mormon canneries have stopped allowing non-Mormons to purchase from the canneries due to increased demand from the general public and wildly fluctuating commodities pricing in the last year and a half.
Do you remember that article?
Is this facility run by a church?
Is the work of the facility a religious endeavor?
Or is it commerce?
A church can engage in commerce, but then it has to follow the rules of commerce.
Selling food and supplies in bulk is commerce.
The government typically requires those engaged in commerce to keep records what is sold and to whom and at what price.
The government requires the local meat packing plant, and Nabisco and Sams Club to keep records of what is sold and to whom and at what price.
It seems these laws also apply to bulk sales of food, regardless of why the food is being sold.
As a minimum, revenue has to be tracked for IRS purposes, even if they sell one apple at a time.
Is the federal govt trying to enforce the law?
Has this facility been following the record keeping requirements?
1. Are you mad because the laws seem intrusive?
2. Are you mad because the laws are being enforced?
3. Are you mad because this facility is being singled out?
4. Are you mad because the law finally caught up with this facility?
Its hard to tell.
Upon any such visit, the first question MUST be:
"Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? If not, please get off my property right now, before I call 911 and report a defiant trespass".
And you should call your attorney immediately and put him on speakerphone to talk to the agents.
“... federal agents had visited the facility and demanded a list of individuals that had been purchasing bulk food...”
Happy to comply if you have a statutory authority and warrant. No? Sorry, have a nice day, and the door is thataway.
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What kind of "federal agents" were these? Is it likely they would just leave after "several minutes"? Wouldn't they have a warrant?
They’re trying to identify “domestic terrorist”.
The Obama adminstration has recently added “has stockpiled food as emergency rations” as a warning sign that someone is a potential domestic terrorist.
Other warning signs on the list include:
* Owns a gun
* Has a Gadsden flag bumper sticker on their car
* Is a fundamentalist Christian
And while the door-to-door preparedness assessments in Tennessee appears to be well intended (and we spoke with a friendly state preparedness officer who said it was motivated by the recent natural disasters in Tennessee), Americans are well justified in being concerned about such efforts and how that information may be used in the future, in light of these other well documented and confirmed incidents of federal law enforcement collecting information on those who purchase preparedness items and indicating that the purchases of those items may be “indicators of terrorist activity.”
Yup, Mr. Whitey McCrackerhonkey is the terrorist and not Muzzies like the Ft. Hood one that went on a jihad and murdered 17 infidels. His act was one of “workplace violence.” It could have been a “man-made disaster” too if it had turned into something more than that.
Confirmed report of an uncomfirmed report received from an unknown person at an unknown cannery involving an unknown manager and unknown federal agents in an unknown town or city.
=8-)
Makes perfect sense to me that this would happen. Homeland Security’s only terrorist concerns are now all focused on the “domestic” nature thanks to the new administration.
There really isn’t any domestic terrorists so this enormous agencies’ assets have to do SOMETHING with their time. Doing things like this, or making up terrorists charges against old white men in North Georgia over castor beans seems to be the new plan.
This is simply about the administration using Bush’s Homeland Security creation to crack down on white folks. Obama gets off on it!
Doesn’t that legislation just passed by the Senate which allows for holding terror suspects without trial identify the stockpiling food as one indicator of a possible terrorist?
What Do Executive Orders Say About Storing?
From my initial quick scan of the link above, it appears to revolve around Executive Order 10998--Federal seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private and all farms and equipment
Here is what the analysis at the link concludes:
Bottom line, even though federal legislation does not directly address anti-hoarding, goods can be seized if national circumstances are felt to warrant it whether or not amounts stored are deemed excessive in your state's eyes.