May I suggest this model instead which handled 38 at a time? It was successfully tested in Mankato, Minnesota less than three years earlier.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The problem is, the "Federals" are feral.
It’s called LYE
Just checking the box for ground in this case not enough. Did UPS know what was in it? Special labels are required on the package (by the shipper/not UPS) and I would bet there is regulations on the packaging of such a material. Also a special permit and trainings required BY UPS and Fed x.
“then the government managed to convince twelve jurors of his guilt. “
Given that a lot of people — too include some FReepers — brag about getting out of jury duty, it is not surprising that the jurors impaneled are easily led by the government/prosecutor.
One of the most quoted passages because it is one of the most true . . .
No one even HAS 20,000 lbs of sodium!
though a nuclear reactor might!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
Didn’t the article say he checked the “ground” option with FedEx, and that FedEx then shipped via air?
And it was in a jar filled with kerosene; too.
Right?
And then there was the day that iodine crystals were added to ammonia, the purple precipitate filtered out and left to dry...
The point of the article is administrative regulations that carry criminal penalties do not take criminal intent into mind. You can be arrested, tried, convicted and sent to prison for a crime you didn’t know you committed and its perfectly legal.
There are so many regulations on the books no one can possibly know all of them or figure out how to comply with them. Even if you’re careful, you inevitably end up breaking some of them because if you literally obeyed them, nothing would get done.
To stop overcriminalization, we need to include a mea rens intent in applying administrative regulations and the government has to prove you willfully and recklessly violated them to harm others or defraud someone, not just an honest mistake. As it stands, we’re all guilty because there is no way we can’t break some rule. Its true “ignorance of the law” is no excuse but no one can possibly know every law. Its impossible.
Like Jamie says, “Do NOT try this at home!”
http://science.jrank.org/pages/6218/Sodium-How-metal-obtained.html
May I suggest this model instead which handled 38 at a time? It was successfully tested in Mankato, Minnesota less than three years earlier.
According to the link posted back at #44, the EPA says he had 10 metric tons of it.
He was convicted of abandoning it. He was acquitted of charged relating to shipping.
Proposed Constitutional amendment:
Only Congress, with the signature of the President, shall pass a law .....
[oh wait] Never mind.
Or the presiding judge convinced the jurors that "The law is what I say it is, and I say the law says the defendant is Guilty!".
Why would you want to get rid of perfectly good sodium?
Uhhh, noooo. Alaska Airlines, for one, operates 'combi' aircraft - half cargo, half passenger.
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