[bamahead]

"Tragically, the Virginia ABC has become Nucky Thompson of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, with a crew of 120-plus armed agents working the state, looking for potential competitors who would dare get in on their business"



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[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s a club of the distilleries. They don’t want every joe blow winemaker in on their party. This regulation is thoroughly antique by now and needs to be dashed.

[Paladin2]

We apparently need Whiskey Rebellion II to get rid of Feral Taxation of alkyhaul. How much do they get off of it anyway?

[DemforBush]

Bad craziness! I’m glad the guy ended up getting his license approved.

The other case mentioned in the story, the one of the college student named Elizabeth Daly, appears to have turned out well, too.

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/06/uva-student-elizabeth-daly-cleared-of-charges-from-water-buying-incident—90722.html

Still, neither case should have gotten this far. Way too much power and “hard charging” over minor issues. In the case of the coed, I can’t say I would have reacted any differently. If six armed men started walking up on me in a parking lot, I’d be pretty freaked about it, too. (Why it takes six big, strong armed ABC agents to question a 20 year old girl about her case of bottled water is beyond me, btw).

[Rodamala]

All this because the son was selling weed.

[wintertime]

Bowles insists he was trying to comply with the hefty volume of federal and state regulations that date from the end of Prohibition, and says he had no idea the eight-ounce sample bottle sitting on his desk when ABC agents came in would lead to a felony charge that could jeopardize his mom-and-pop business.

Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... 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 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. ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957) {WMail Issue #23}

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Moonshiners, he points out, already know how to distill liquor, but the veteran winemaker did not ***

Mix some water with grain alcohol, put in some tobacco, Pepper, rattlesnake heads if you have them.

Oh wait! That’s Indian whiskey made back in the 1800s!

Now if I could just remember the recipe for “bitters”.

[thoughtomator 2.0]

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

[Calvin Locke]

Saw some show on moonshiners/descendents thereof going legit to make legal shine, KY maybe.

One of them showed his shed (looked to be ~10x12) in back of the house, marked with a "B" for "bonded", about 4" of paperwork in binders, along with all all other requirements to make 60gal batches (iirc).

He also mentioned that BATF also had his shed's GPS coordinates...

All I could think of was a Predator drone.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like a case that deserves a little jury nullification.

[Flick Lives]

Welcome to Fascist America, where everything you do is not just a crime, but a felony.