War on Freedom Targets Yard Sales, Lemonade Stands, Fuel Cells
by Al Remington | November 28, 2009
America will not stand…, for messing with their yard sales.
When government shows up at your yard sale and says you can not sell what is yours, to someone else, where is the end to which invasion of private property stops? Of all places…, my yard sale.
I bought everything in my yard sale. I don’t want it or need it and better yet, some of the items have an increased value. Tools hold value to a degree. They are usually available early, at a lot of yard sales and are fairly priced.
Tell me you don’t go to yard sales and I will ask you; why you turned your head as you drove past one. Turn around and go to the yard sale. You’ll come away with something; hopefully, it won’t be jail.
The federal government is poised to intervene in yard sales, flea markets, and against individuals selling any used goods that could be unsafe. Americans who slap even $1.00 price tags on used items are in danger of violating a new YARD SALE RULEBOOK being issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
CPSC says yard sale violators or vendors at Sunday afternoon flea markets are now subject to fines of up to $100,000 per transaction and up to $15 million for the related series of infractions. Such federal insanity is mirrored on the state level as well: In California, eight-year-old Daniela Earnest of Tulare was ordered to shut down her lemonade stand by the city council.
Environmental extremists are being given guns and arrest powers. As a New York Times article acknowledged, environmental police officers are now fining and routinely arresting people for the smallest of infractions – from busting stores that don’t promptly redeem deposits on cans and bottles, to measuring the length of fish in public markets and arresting merchants whose fish are too small, to stopping trucks and fining their drivers if too much smoke is coming out of their exhaust pipes.
After facing a secret indictment by the Fish and Wildlife Service for making a mistake on tulip importation forms, Kathy and George Norris’ home was raided by a six-member SWAT team. The house was ransacked, and their computers were taken away and examined. George Norris spent two years in a federal penitentiary because he could not produce all the paperwork for the orchids he had imported.
In a recent hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on crime, entrepreneur and inventor Krister Evertson told the amazing story of how the feds prosecuted him on a felony for failing to put a federally-mandated sticker on an otherwise legal UPS package he shipped with some of his supplies. After the fuel cell inventor was acquitted by a jury, the feds invented new charges that he had “abandoned” his fuel cell materials. Before Evertson got his life back, he spent nearly two years in prison.
I found this in a yard sale today:
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