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2009-10-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 You Commit Three Felonies a Day

Interesting when you consider the 'three felonies your out' laws which many states have on the books.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-06 00:24|| 2009-10-06 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 New technologies like the Web, he concludes, "scare legislators because they don't understand them and want to control them, even as they become a normal part of life." Our present crop of legislators are not so much fearful control freaks as time-servers, milking their positions for all their worth. Heaven forbid they learn anything new in order to apply it to legislation.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-06 02:13|| 2009-10-06 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Hm, something about this isn't right. Typically you can't get the feds out of bed for anything less than murder. Imprisoned for paperwork problems? This article sounds like one of those one-sided bash stories.

Posted by gromky 2009-10-06 05:12|| 2009-10-06 05:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Wrong, gromky.

Anything that threatens the job security of a public sector employee - particularly a unionized one - is the ultimate crime, and must be dealt with in the harshest terms possible.

Not filling out all the paperwork? Finding some way of doing business that doesn't require some public sector hack's services? You're taking away a profit center from some guy and his work buddies in the Bureau of the Commission of the Agency of Something or Other. If everyone did that, they'd have to get real jobs in the private sector. And that just won't do.

You are a threat to those who worship at the altar of bulletproof job security. How dare you? That's the greatest felony of all.

/sarc

Posted by no mo uro 2009-10-06 06:17|| 2009-10-06 06:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Being in the orchid biz I see what his problem is. He imported plants that were highly protected as another less protected species.USDA inspectors aren't skilled enough to tell what they are looking at. I found it interesting that he said he didn't get the CITES documents from the USDA. USDA keeps the the originals but you get the copies stamped released by USDA. This is your proof you legally imported the plants. The real irony is that he didn't import the orchid they were looking for.
Some background at http://offpollen.typepad.com/pollenatrix/2004/03/online_orchid_d.html

Posted by Don Vito Anginegum8261 2009-10-06 07:31|| 2009-10-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Over the years there has been a proliferation of federal agencies, bureaus, etc. Many of these have their own police or enforcement arm. Washington being what it is, there is a tendency to increase budgets each year to hire more enforcers to "solve the problem" whatever it is. Of course the problem never gets solved. For example the war on drugs has been going on for a long time and it seems to be getting worse. Solution; hire more law enforcement. Immigration a problem; hire more border patrol agents or immigration enforcement officers. Environment a problem; hire more EPA inspectors/officers. Prison overcrowding a problem; build more prisons and hire more corrections officers. Jobs a problem; hire more government workers....and on and on. Who pays for all this? Hmmmnnn.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-06 08:08|| 2009-10-06 08:08|| Front Page Top

#7 "unsealed a secret indictment"

A very bad thing, with very bad precedents.

[From wikipedia]
In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, star chambers.

Posted by flash91 2009-10-06 11:58|| 2009-10-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 It will come to bullets sooner or later if this does not change. People will not submit forever to such injustices. The government officials, judges and police and legislators, who perpetrate such thuggery may find themselves against the wall for things like these, after a fair and quick trial. Some would call it justice.

Posted by M Defarge 2009-10-06 14:06|| 2009-10-06 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 If everyone is a criminal, everyone is controllable.

Straight outta Moscow.

Posted by mojo 2009-10-06 14:16|| 2009-10-06 14:16|| Front Page Top

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