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Oyster Farmer: ‘We Are Terrified’ Of The Government
dailycaller.com ^ | 4/29/2015 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 04/30/2015 7:54:39 AM PDT by rktman

The National Park Service used falsified data to shut down an 80-year-old oyster company in Point Reyes, Calif, its owner claims.

Drakes Bay Oyster Company operated in Point Reyes for decades until National Park Service officials used falsified data to force Kevin Lunny’s family-run oyster farm to shut down. The experience has left its mark on Lunny: “We are terrified,” he told lawmakers during a hearing Thursday.

“Let me be clear, we did not fail as a business,” Lunny said in his prepared testimony. “This was not bad luck. Rather, the Park Service engaged in a taxpayer-funded enterprise of corruption to run our small business out of Point Reyes.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: blueoystercult; bullying; california; drakesbayoyster; epa; irs; kevinlunny; nps; oyster; oysters; pearls; pointreyes; youdidntdestroythat
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To: rktman

Hmm.

Oyster ranches now.

Cattle ranches next.

...Oh wait. They already tried that.


21 posted on 04/30/2015 8:31:33 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: rktman
This is another real life example of the runaway government that is trampling on our liberty. The tactics used by abusing agencies in California are not exclusive to that area. They go on throughout the country and through out the government.

I think an important element to interject into the conversations surrounding the coming presidential election cycle would be whether or not any of the candidates would support criminal prosecution for abusive of authority and deny the perps government (taxpayer) paid attorneys.

The scumbags like Lois Lerner (IRS), Lisa Jackson (EPA) and Eric Holder (DOJ) that ruin lives of hones people and then retire when the heat is turned up should be living behind bars, not lives of luxury paid for by us!

22 posted on 04/30/2015 8:35:09 AM PDT by Baynative (We are experiencing the type of government the founders warned us about.)
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To: Perseverando
I remember during Reagans term the IRS had a change of tone towards the public.
Their attitude was "we own your ass" at the time, but something Reagan
said to them had put the fear of god into them and publicly said they were
going to start respecting the public and changed their approach.

The Alphabet agencies reflect their boss, POTUS.

23 posted on 04/30/2015 8:39:40 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Hardens Hollow; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; Foundahardheadedwoman; ...

CWII Spark ping — Article: “the Park Service engaged in a taxpayer-funded enterprise of corruption to run our small business out of Point Reyes.”

If the government makes it impossible to make a living, people will necessarily have to consider it an enemy of their well-being.


24 posted on 04/30/2015 8:41:31 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
If the government makes it impossible to make a living, people will necessarily have to consider it an enemy of their well-being. ~ OneWingedShark

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25 posted on 04/30/2015 8:44:11 AM PDT by null and void (Is a crunchy spicy tuna roll with eel sauce too much to ask for?)
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To: George from New England

yeah, Daily Caller and National Review getting horrible about that.


26 posted on 04/30/2015 8:46:40 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: defconw

Huh? Can’t by Forest Service land. Do you mean next too or inside a forest?


27 posted on 04/30/2015 8:47:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

In some forest areas if the place is already built you could. This was awhile ago now, so they probably changed the rules.


28 posted on 04/30/2015 8:50:44 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: onedoug

“When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.”

“When the government fears the people, you have liberty.”

Thank God for the Second Amendment (and the Founding Fathers).


29 posted on 04/30/2015 8:52:24 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hitlery Rotten Clinton should be in a federal prison, NOT in the Oval Office.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I already consider it an enemy to my well being.


30 posted on 04/30/2015 8:57:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Huh? Can’t by Forest Service land. Do you mean next too or inside a forest?

There are private residences on Forest Service-controlled land. People own the homes, but do not own the land they sit on. There are also limitations as to how much time per year you can live in them (usually less than 180-days/year). There was a big adjustment in the fees charged to have these homes on Forest Service-controlled land recently, most likely to get folks out of them, permanently.

31 posted on 04/30/2015 8:59:51 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: defconw

“We were thinking about buying a property on national forest land. I am very glad we decided not to, now. “

One of the properties were we looking at when escaping Mexifornia had the access to it via federal land. No way would I trust the feds enough to sink $400K into a house on that land. I could see the time when they wouldn’t let us get to it. Especially after we were deemed terrorists by having a US flag up.


32 posted on 04/30/2015 9:25:09 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Drango

“After forcing them out of the oyster business, the government demanded they bake cakes for local gay weddings.”

Maybe the feds heard they refused to sell oysters to gays.


33 posted on 04/30/2015 9:25:53 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Hardens Hollow
Exactly. We decided it was not worth the risk.
34 posted on 04/30/2015 9:26:27 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: GraceG

There was a sausage maker, in San Francisco I believe, who shot a health inspector to death over this kind of harassment. No complaints, no illnesses, just a petty bureaucrat who decided to “make an example” of a guy using “unapproved” old world methods.

I cheered when I read about it.

L


35 posted on 04/30/2015 9:28:02 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

“They go after gold panners, cattle ranchers, private property owners . . anyone who seeks to make a living outside the parameters of govt control.”

The thing that made this country great - the entrepreneurial spirit - is dying because of government controls.

We are thinking of opening 2 small businesses -but after looking into all the regulations, licenses, fees, taxes, inspections....maybe not.


36 posted on 04/30/2015 9:31:28 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: defconw

Sad thing is, it was the prettiest, most isolated property we found. It would’ve been ideal. But it’d be liking having a hammer hanging over our heads - and finances.


37 posted on 04/30/2015 9:33:32 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Hardens Hollow
We managed to find a suitable place in the woods not to far from national forest, but with out all the rules. It is sad, because we, and I am sure you would have taken good care of the forest.
38 posted on 04/30/2015 9:44:04 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: rktman

And the Feds are wrong


39 posted on 04/30/2015 9:44:17 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2nd Amendment

“They go after gold panners, cattle ranchers, private property owners . . anyone who seeks to make a living outside the parameters of govt control.”

That’s a fairly profound point you made.


40 posted on 04/30/2015 9:50:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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