“......but Miller, who traveled extensively, obtained others legally or before laws affecting them were on the books...”
I can just imagine that crap the Obama’s and Clinton’s have confiscated over the years...
Many comments regarding this farcical abuse of authority here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3140315/posts
Just a wild thought but maybe he turned himself in for Heath reasons...
GEE, I FEEL SO MUCH SAFER NOW THAT i KNOW THE fbi IS PROTECTING US FROM HOARDERS.............
Talk about having nothing better to do. Too many of these heavy handed responses to offenses comparable to jay walking.
Welcome to the United Socialist Police States of America.
Now that the FBI has prevented 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing from happening, and have totally eliminated the threat of muslim terrorism, they have time to seek out the criminal element who rip off the “Do Not Remove” tags from their mattresses.
When I was a kid the FBI was held in awe.
Now they are on the way to becoming another BATF.
I’m so behind. I had no idea that the war on terror was over and that we won, that Canckles and obama are in Leavenworth, the IRS has been banished and the fair tax adopted, unemployment is under 5%, we have gold to back our greenbacks, and the EPA has been put on a very short leash. What times we live in that the FBI has the time, manpower, and resources to investigate this.
Here’s a link to a 2011 WSJ compilation of such raids including one by the weather police (NOAA) confiscating coral from a store in Florida.
Very puzzling. He seems to have acquired most of them legally - he claims he acquired all of them legally - so I don’t see what right they have to do this or even why they would do it. He wasn’t hiding illegally obtained items and selling them on the black market, but apparently let people go through his “museum” and look at them.
He may be somewhat of a hoarder, but that’s a whole different matter (and doesn’t require FBI intervention!).
They were in the hands of their "rightful owner" before the government stole them.
Irrational hatred of antiquarians. Motivated more by a distaste towards affluence and private property than any reasonable desire to preserve history, culture, or context.
I’d rather see a well-loved and well-cared-for collection of antiquities in private hands than rotting away forgotten in some agency’s or institution’s cellars, or worse yet, handed off to some unthinking, uncaring, and unfunded government workers in an unstable third-world nation just to end up in a 21st century midden.
The FBI finds Indiana Jones.
again, following the past of least resistance. . .
or a form of mission creep . .
F U .GOV
“Indiana Jones, The Sunset Years”
Could it be this guy?
If he possessed ONE EAGLE FEATHER amonst his collected item, he would be facing a huge fine and jail time.
Well DUH!
He had high capacity quivers that held more than 10 arrows.
However now seagulls (the disgusting sea rats) are now a protected species.
So one day armed federal agents from some federal agency raid the place and take away the stuffed bird in front of terrified customers.
What a bunch of morons. I think you need an IQ below 80 to work for some of these agencies.
So they just stole his stuff.