Posted on 10/12/2016 11:32:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Criminal laws and regulations in the United States have increased to absurd proportions in the past few decades, posing a growing threat to our constitutional liberties.
There are nearly 5,000 criminal laws and an estimated 300,000 or more criminal regulations at the federal level alone. In fact, there are so many possible criminal offenses that Harvey Silverglate, a civil liberties attorney, contends the average American probably commits at least three felonies a day, most without knowing it.
In April, the perils of overcriminalization were on full display when Brian Everidge traveled to Michigan with more than 10,000 bottles and cans, seeking to capitalize on Michigan’s generous 10 cents-per-bottle refund program. He stood to make $1,000.
Everidge was pulled over for speeding and found himself facing a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison after the state trooper discovered his cargo. As it turned out, transporting more than 10,000 bottles into Michigan with the intent to collect a deposit is a felony. …
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Stealing $1000.00 in more traditional ways is also a felony.
Everything has to have the inside clean. They it with peanut butter. Toilet bowl cleaners have plastic nozzles that require pliers to remove.
Thanks, guess I’ll finish up next spring :D
Note to self. Only pack 9999 bottles to Michigan
This is really “stealing”?
Oh yeah; because the government charges it. Even when they get something of equal (or most likely greater) value in exchange. Confiscation would be penalty enough, if one wants to be pedantic.
It’s stealing from the people who actually paid the bottle deposits and stealing from the taxpayers who must make up the difference. This should be obvious.
The only thing worth recycling are metals. everything else is a waste of energy and resources.
For bottle and cans I drop them off at one of my favorite charities that puts out large bins for drop offs.
This reminds me of one of my trips to the Alps of Italy. The Europeans are absolutely insane about recycling. There will be 6 to 10 cans and people will gather around to sort everything from used napkins (in the paper? nope, that goes in the dirty paper bin) plastic forks go in a different bin than plastic bottles, and on and on. I was sitting out drinking some wine and enjoying the scenery when up drives Mario and Luigi and they proceed to empty all the bins in to their truck, co-mingled, and off they go. It’s enough to give any German a heart attack.
When the gestapo enforcers are worried about returning home in bodybags, the gestapo “law” will not be enforced.
Or as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said more eloquently than me:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
For about a year or so, there were a couple of recycling bins that a 3rd party emptied once in a while.
There was so little because most things got tossed in the regular trash it wasn’t worth their effort. Nobody misses it.
When I worked at an IT department run by a left-wing phbette, you better believe she checked the bins at each desk regularly. I think most got dumped in the regular trash afterwards though.
That’s what the government says. It’s actually the government doing the stealing. And then imposing remarkably draconian penalties for someone who wants to trade goods for money; never mind police arresting people for merely transporting bottles, of all things. No reason for the government to be in this business in the first place, unless they are looking to act like thugs.
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