Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds
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“Woman Convicted of EPA Crimes Released from Prison”: http://www.winonatimes.com/view/full_story/9813731/article-Woman-convicted-of-EPA-crimes-released-from-prison
EPA case files: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/criminal/highlights/2006/bighillacres.pdf
“3 Individuals and 2 Corporations Found Guilty”: http://www.greenenvironmentnews.com/Environment/Agriculture/3+Individuals+and+2+Corporations+Found+Guilty+in+Mississippi+Wetlands+Case
“41 Count Indictment in Mississippi Wetlands Case”: http://www.greenenvironmentnews.com/Environment/Agriculture/41+Count+Indictment+in+Mississippi+Wetlands+Contamination+Case
“Fifth Circuit Upholds Wetlands Conviction”: http://masglp.olemiss.edu/Water%20Log/WL28/28.1wetlands.htm
Ocie Mills
“After beginning construction on the foundation of his waterfront home, federal agents cited Ocie for polluting navigable waters of the United States. Ocie had previously secured a county permit for his house and state inspectors had marked the area of shoreline that was protected. This evidence was disallowed on the basis of the supremacy of the federal agency over the local and state governments. Ocie and his son each served 21 month prison sentences. Later a federal judge determined the property was ‘probably never a wetland for purposes of the Clean Water Act.’ ” “Ocie’s ‘Land of the Free…’ ”: http://www.wnd.com/1999/09/5415/
Ocie Mills and Carey Mills v. United States of America: http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2000/0responses/2000-0722.resp.html
“Ocie Mills’ Government Fight Covers 20 Years: Heads Back to Court”: http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/ocie_mills.htm
“Fined, Convicted and Locked Up for 21 Months”: http://www.couldyoubenext.com/ociemills.htm
Marinus Van Leuzen
“After Marinus Van Leuzen, a 73-year-old immigrant from Holland, attempted to build his retirement home on a bit of property he had owned for more than 20 years, Van Leuzen was charged with depositing illegal fill material on the property. The Army Corps of Engineers cited Section 404 of the Clean Water Act which requires a person to obtain a permit before filling a “navigable water” of the United States. Mr. Van Leuzen was forced to pay significant fines and restore the property and faced further charges after Corps deemed Mr. Van Leuzen had not planted the proper vegetation while restoring his property.” “A Sign of the Times”: http://cei.org/op-eds-articles/sign-times
“The photos below illustrate the documentation of the bizarre, cruel order by Judge Samuel B. Kent, US District court, Galveston, where he compared Marinus Van Leuzen’s supposed infringement on a 0.4 acre wetland to the ‘genocidal treatment of this continent’s indigenous peoples.’ ” “Marinus Van Leuzen Courageous in Youth and Old Age”: http://prfamerica.org/vanleuzen/VanLeuzenPhotos.html
“Wetlands Reform and the Criminal Enforcement Record: A Cautionary Tale”: http://lawreview.wustl.edu/inprint/76-1/761-06.html
Bill Ellen
“Ellen served 6 months in jail for failing to comply with regulations regarding wetland use. Bill Ellen was attempting to alter the wetland to make it a more attractive environment for geese and ducks in hopes of establishing a hunting reserve, and in doing so caused no irreparable damage to the wetland. Instead of being forced to repair the wetlands to original condition, he was sentenced to spend the holidays in prison.” “Clinton’s Next Task: Free Bill Ellen”: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-01-25/news/1993025170_1_muskrats-wetlands-ellen
“Swamp Rules: The End of Federal Wetland Regulation?”: https://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv22n2/swamprules.pdf
“Protection Against Federal Regulatory Abuse”: http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/protection-against-federal-regulatory-abuse
John and Judy Dollarhite
“But now, selling a few hundred rabbits over two years has provoked the heavy hand of the federal government to the tune of a $90,643 fine. The fine was levied more than a year after authorities contacted family members, prompting them to immediately halt their part-time business and liquidate their equipment.” “USDA Fines Family $90k for Selling Rabbits Without a License”: http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/24/usda-fines-missouri-family-90k-for-selling-a-few-rabbits-without-a-license/
“Dollarhite Story Tells Us All We Need to Know bout Our Government”: http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2011/05/missouri-dollarhite-bunny-farm-tells-us.html
“Dollarhites’ Testimony: Property Wrongs—10/12/11”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzJ1cn0-oT0
“Update on the Dollarhites”: http://www.iheardthepeoplesay.org/2011/11/25/update-on-the-dollarhites/
“USDA Stands Behind Hare-Raising Fine”: http://bobmccarty.com/2011/05/19/usda-stands-behind-hare-raising-fine/
Daniel Allgyer:
“FDA Wins two year fight to shut down Amish farmer for selling raw milk across state lines. Mr. Allgyer was subject to an unannounced 5 A.M. inspection by the FDA, a “straw purchase sting operation,” and faces significant fines if he continues to violate the law.” “Feds Shut Down Amish Farm for Selling Fresh Milk”: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/13/feds-shut-down-amish-farm-selling-fresh-mi/
“Farmer Ordered to Stop Interstate Sales of Raw Milk”: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/139373933.html
“Amish Milk: The Latest Target of the Obama Regulatory State”: http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/30/amish-milk-the-latest-target-of-the-obama-regulatory-state/
“Raw Milk Rebellion”: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/raw-milk-rebellion
“I Got Hooked on the White Stuff Back in the ’70s”: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/i-got-hooked-on-the-white-stuff-back-in-the-70s/
“Should This Milk be Legal?”: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/dining/08raw.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&ei=5087%0A&em&en=0d797ce6edce7564&ex=1186804800
“President Obama’s War on Fun”: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/president-obamas-war-fun
Honduran Fishermen
“In 1999, agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service, acting on a tip, seized one of McNab’s shipments in Alabama. They found that about 4 percent of the lobsters were undersized, 7 percent were egg-bearing, and all were packaged in plastic bags rather than boxes. In consultation with the Honduran Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the federal agents determined that the shipment was in violation of Honduran (not American) law.” “Pardon Libby? Maybe, but Not Alone: Why David Henson McNab Deserves Clemency”: http://reason.com/archives/2007/04/02/pardon-libby-maybe-but-not-alo
“Case Studies: McNab v. United States”: http://www.overcriminalized.com/casestudy/McNab-Imprison-by-Foreign-Laws.aspx
“McNab to Continue Serving Federal Prison Sentence for Lobster Smuggling”: http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2004/mar04/noaa04-r119.html
United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus David Henson McNab, United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama: http://uniset.ca/other/cs3/331F3d1228.html
McNab v. United States of America and Blandford, Schoenwetter, and Huang v. United States of America:
http://www.forestlegality.org/files/fla/lacey_case_mcnab_vs_us.pdf
“Begging His Pardon”: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/begging-pardon
“Four Involved in Lobster Harvesting and Distribution Found Guilty in Illegal Import Scheme”: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2000/November/647enrd.htm
Foreign Bullies
“It’s fairly appropriate, then, that one of the defendants, Freedom House Egypt director, Nancy Okail, was captured by the European Press photo Agency reading George Orwell through the black bars of the cage where the accused stand during trial. Orwell is famous for his anti-authoritarian works, Animal Farm and 1984, as commentaries on thought control and government surveillance and propaganda.” “Egypt: Reading Orwell in the Dock”: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-middle-east/egypt-ngo-trial-orwell-freedom-house
“Defendants accused of working for unlicensed non
-governmental organizations (NGOs) and receiving illegal foreign funds, stand in a cage during the opening of their trial, in Cairo, Egypt, 26 February 2012. Most defendants stay away as NGO trial opens in Cairo on 26 February, just six of the 43 defendants turned up in court for the first session of the trial. In December 2011, Egyptian police raided the offices of 17 NGOs across the country, detaining employees and seizing computer files.” “Egypt Opens Trial That Has Strained Ties with US”: http://www.vosizneias.com/news/photos/view/830245833
“Egypt Says It Will Lift Travel Ban, Allowing American Defendants to Leave”: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/middleeast/egypt-says-it-will-lift-travel-ban-allowing-accused-americans-to-leave.html?pagewanted=all
“Nancy Okail Discusses Egypt’s NGO Crackdown”: http://www.freedomhouse.org/blog/nancy-okail-discusses-egypts-ngo-crackdown
“Why Egypt Moved Against Unregistered NGOs”: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-egypt-moved-against-unregistered-ngos/2012/03/05/gIQAEHrf1R_story.html
“Egypt’s War on NGOs”: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/05/egypt-cracks-down-on-ngos.html
“Egypt’s NGO Crisis: How Will US Aid Play in the Controversy?”: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2106420,00.html#ixzz1znetLpAR
“Egypt NGO Law Could Undermine Freedoms: U.N. Rights Chief”: http://w03O18J20120425
Gibson Guitar
“ ‘Can you imagine a federal agent saying, “You’re going to jail for five years” and what you do is sort wood in the factory?’ said Mr. Juszkiewicz, recounting the incident. ‘I think that’s way over the top.’ Gibson employees, he said, are being ‘treated like drug criminals.’ ” “Gibson Guitar Wails on Federal Raid over Wood”: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903895904576542942027859286.html
“Gibson Case Drags On with No Sign of Criminal Charges”: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/12/gibson-guitar-case-drags-on-with-no-sign-criminal-charges/
“Why Gibson Guitar Was Raided by the Justice Department”: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/08/31/140090116/why-gibson-guitar-was-raided-by-the-justice-department
The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed”: http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/23/the-great-gibson-guitar-raid-months-late
“House to Vote on Easing Environmental Regulations After Gibson Guitar Raid”: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/229545-house-to-vote-on-easing-environmental-regulations-after-gibson-guitar-raid
“Whose Axe Made Your Axe? You Better Find Out”: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/whose-axe-made-your-axe-you-better-find-out/
“Reason.tv on Gibson’s Ongoing Battle with the Federal Government”: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/reason-tv-on-gibsons-ongoing-battle-with-the-federal-government/
“Gibson Guitar CEO Slams US Raid as ‘Overreach’ ”: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/us-guitar-idUSTRE79B7PT20111012
John Moody
“Just after New Year’s Day, the Obama administration gave its official response of ‘No!’ to the 6,078 signers of a petition on WhiteHouse.gov who requested federal-level legalization of all raw milk sales.” “Obama Administration Says ‘No Raw Milk for You’ ”: http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/obama-admin-says-no-raw-milk.htm
“FDA Throws Raw Milk Freedom Riders a Bone, but What We Really Want…”: http://www.foodclubsandcoops.com/fda-throws-raw-milk-freedom-riders-a-bone-but-what-we-really-want/51/
“Food Freedom Legal Battles Rage”: http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/02/22/food-freedom-legal-battles-rage/
Steve and Cornelia Joyce Kinder
“Steve T. Kinder, 51, and Kinder Caviar Inc. with illegally harvesting paddlefish from Ohio waters and falsely reporting to the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources that he caught the fish in Kentucky; and Cornelia Joyce Kinder, 53, as well as Kinder Caviar Inc. and Black Star Caviar Company with providing false information about the paddlefish eggs to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in order to obtain permits to export the paddlefish eggs to foreign customers, including the amount of paddlefish eggs to be exported, the names of the fishermen that harvested the paddlefish and the location where the paddlefish were harvested.” “The Great Kentucky Caviar Criminal Caper Comes to an End in Ohio”: http://www.forbes.com/sites/billsinger/2012/01/18/the-great-kentucky-caviar-criminal-caper-comes-to-an-end-in-ohio/
“Husband-Wife Team Admit Illegally Selling Paddlefish Caviar”: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2012/2012-01-17-093.html
“Kentuckians Convicted of Lacey Act Crimes for Illegally Harvesting and Making False Records for Ohio River Paddlefish”: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-enrd-059.html
Kentucky Couple Charged with Lacey Act Crimes Based on the Illegal Harvest of Paddlefish from the Ohio River”: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/March/11-enrd-325.html
TSA
“A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. ‘I wouldn’t wish this experience upon anyone,’ Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. ‘My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way.’ ” “TSA Forces Woman to Remove Nipple Rings”: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/travel/main3976376.shtml
“The TSA’s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people’s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-busting airport security measures.” “TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants”: http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-now-putting-hands-down-fliers-pants.html
“Bully TSA Agents at LAX”: http://www.tsascanthis.com/2010/11/17/bully-tsa-agents-at-lax/
“Daniel Rubin: An Infuriating Search at Philadelphia International Airport”: http://www.tsascanthis.com/2010/11/29/daniel-rubin-an-infuriating-search-at-philadelphia-international-airport/
“TSA Grabs Junk”: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/tsa-grabs-junk/
“Former Miss USA: I Was Molested by TSA Agent in Dallas”: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/former-miss-usa-i-was-molested-by-a-tsa-agent-in-dallas/
“TSA Agent Spills Grandfather’s Ashes in Confrontation with Passenger”: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/26/tsa-agent-spills-grandfathers-ashes-in-confrontation-with-passenger/
“ ‘They Were Staring Me Up and Down’: Woman Claimed US Airport Security Staff Singled Her Out for Her Breasts”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333090/Woman-claimed-TSA-security-staff-singled-breasts.html#ixzz1zqubrr88
“More TSA Misery as Wheelchair-Bound Woman in Lingerie Gets Hour-Long Search and Misses Flight”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334937/Tammy-Banovac-wheelchair-bound-woman-wearing-lingerie-gets-hour-long-airport-search.html#ixzz1zquni1TL
“Why Pick Me for a ‘Nude’ Security Scan?: Ex-Baywatch Star Claims Airport Staff Were Leering at Her Contours”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336331/Baywatchs-Donna-DErrico-picked-nude-TSA-body-scan-airport-staff-leered.html#ixzz1zqv1YPC0
“TSA Under Fire After Businessman Boards International Flight with Loaded Handgun”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339513/U-S-security-comes-businessman-boards-international-flight-loaded-handgun.html#ixzz1zqvFKTdM
“My Sex Life with the TSA”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/my-sex-life-with-the-tsa_b_868020.html
“Breaking News: Rand Paul Detained by the TSA”: http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-news-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa
“4-Year-Old Gets TSA Patdown After a Hug from her Grandmother”: http://www.examiner.com/article/4-year-old-gets-tsa-patdown-after-a-hug-from-her-grandmother
“Senator Rand Paul Detained After Refusing TSA Pat-down at Nashville Airport”: http://www.examiner.com/article/senator-rand-paul-detained-after-refusing-tsa-pat-down-at-nashville-airport
“TSA Patting Down a 3-Year-Old in a Wheelchair”: http://www
.examiner.com/article/video-of-tsa-patting-down-3-year-old-wheelchair
“Newark Airport Security Screener Charged with Stealing $495 from Passenger’s Purse”: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/security_scanner_at_newark_air.html
“Baker County Woman Sues After Rolex Goes Missing at Norfolk Airport”: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-05-23/story/woman-sues-over-missing-24000-watch-after-airport-security-check#ixzz1zqzLuhrf
“TSA Supervisor Allegedly Stole Cash from Passenger Bags”: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/michael-arato-tsa-supervisor-allegedly-stole-cash-passenger/story?id=11927122
“Another Terrorist Stopped by Vigilant TSA Officer: 4-Year-Old Boy in Leg Braces”: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6212730-504083.html
“TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old”: http://www.newser.com/story/105351/tsa-pats-down-3-year-old.html
“TSA Stands by Officers After Pat-down of Elderly Woman in Florida”: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/index.html?iref=allsearch
“TSA Has No Decency”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/7786/blog/2012/06/26/tsa-has-no-decency
“Recapping Rand’s TSA Encounter”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/7786/blog/2012/01/24/recapping-rands-tsa-encounter
“The TSA Is Bad for Your Health”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/node/11534
“Are You Feeling Safer?”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/7780/blog/2011/08/22/are-you-feeling-safer
“This Could Be Your Grandmother!”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/7786/blog/2011/07/15/could-be-your-grandmother
“Just How ‘Secure’ Is Airport Security?”: http://www.campaignforliberty.org/profile/7788/blog/2012/03/13/test