Posted on 06/17/2016 7:00:21 AM PDT by expat_panama
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS understood that tyranny wasn’t likely to come from a foreign invasion but from the step-by-step erosion of our freedoms by an expanding government. This is what we are facing today....
...ominous trends threaten us...
...the typical professional in this country unknowingly commits several federal crimes during a typical workday.
If Uncle Sam wants to get you, he can.
– An 11-year-old girl in Virginia, who saved a woodpecker from a cat, was hit with a fine for “transporting” a protected species.
– A fisherman who threw back some undersize fish he had caught was hauled into court and convicted of violating the antishredding clause of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
– A Maryland developer, James Wilson, was prosecuted and sentenced to prison for violating the Clean Water Act, when he improved a piece of land the Army Corps of Engineers claimed as “navigable water,” even though the nearest river was six miles away...
– An outdoorsman named Tom Lindsey and several others began rafting down Idaho’s Snake River at 7 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. and used gas stoves for cooking at their campsite. The feds hit Lindsey with several indictments...
– An Alaskan fisherman sold ten otters to a person he thought was an Alaska Native. Selling otters to non-Alaska Natives is a felony, and the fisherman, who was hardly rich, pleaded guilty to a felony.
– A chief engineer at a retirement home diverted backed-up sewage to a storm drain. Unbeknownst to him, the drain wasn’t connected to the city’s sewage system but to a stream that emptied into the Potomac River, a “protected” waterway. Result: a felony conviction and probation.
Bureaucrats and prosecutors love this criminalization binge...
...reform enjoys widespread support in the House, it’s meeting stiff resistance among several Senate Republicans...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
...reform enjoys widespread support in the House, it’s meeting stiff resistance among several Senate Republicans...
What this country needs is a binge of gallows building, lots of rope, and a few tyrants necks placed into rope loops.
— If Washington Wants To ‘Get’ You, It Now Can
Always could...nothing new.
Someone “in the know” please refresh my memory - wasn’t it Ayn Rand who wrote that, ultimately, everyone will be a lawbreaker or something of that nature?
bttt
That will definitely have an effect on improving their attitude.
Overreaching government bump for later....
...the typical professional in this country unknowingly commits several federal crimes during a typical workday.
If Uncle Sam wants to get you, he can.
– An 11-year-old girl in Virginia, who saved a woodpecker from a cat, was hit with a fine for “transporting” a protected species.
– A fisherman who threw back some undersize fish he had caught was hauled into court and convicted of violating the antishredding clause of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
– A Maryland developer, James Wilson, was prosecuted and sentenced to prison for violating the Clean Water Act, when he improved a piece of land the Army Corps of Engineers claimed as “navigable water,” even though the nearest river was six miles away...
– An outdoorsman named Tom Lindsey and several others began rafting down Idaho’s Snake River at 7 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. and used gas stoves for cooking at their campsite. The feds hit Lindsey with several indictments...
– An Alaskan fisherman sold ten otters to a person he thought was an Alaska Native. Selling otters to non-Alaska Natives is a felony, and the fisherman, who was hardly rich, pleaded guilty to a felony.
– A chief engineer at a retirement home diverted backed-up sewage to a storm drain. Unbeknownst to him, the drain wasn’t connected to the city’s sewage system but to a stream that emptied into the Potomac River, a “protected” waterway. Result: a felony conviction and probation.
Bureaucrats and prosecutors love this criminalization binge...
...reform enjoys widespread support in the House, it’s meeting stiff resistance among several Senate Republicans...
Inner city salves and urban serfs deserve no more or better than their masters, the ruling political class allow them.
What good is the Constitution and especially the Second Amendment if the serfs and slaves would use the weapons they have?
It all started with the abrogation of the Tenth Amendment. States, instead of being the sovereign entities envisioned and portrayed in The Constitution, are little more than vassals of the Federal Government. This is due to the Feds controlling purse strings and federal courts continually seizing power for the federal government. Now bureaucrats in any of the obscure agencies in DC can issue decrees that have the force of law.
Uncle Sam is a nice moniker, but he doesn’t exist. They are petty bureaucrats who behave as they do because they fell safe in doing so.
Seems to me that too many of the petty little bureaucrats working for Uncle Sam think they are Uncle Joe Stalin.
I like to say I commit half a dozen crimes before breakfast, and it’s a slow day when I don’t have a felony or two before lunch.
There is a law to bag everyone of us from the moment we step out of bed and surely while were in bed,asleep
Everyone on FR proudly proclaims that they would never live under HOA control but the Federal government is just a larger version of the petty know it alls running the HOA.
Selective enforcement of laws against those who can afford it.
Republicans, at least in the Senate, are not our friends or allies.
(See here.)
What this country needs is a binge of gallows building, lots of rope, and a few tyrants necks placed into rope loops.
There's a poem about this.
living under an HOA is a voluntary choice.
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