Chris
Matthews and guests characterize concerns about Obama, gun control,
open borders, 9/11 and the Bilderberg Group as a mental illness......
http://www.prisonplanet.com/msnbc-implies-people-skeptical-of-government-are-psychologically-insane.html
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You're (Probably) a Federal Criminal
Federal
law now criminalizes activities that the average person would never
dream would land him in prison. Consequently, every year, thousands of
upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible
federal law and end up serving time in federal prison........
......Consider small-time inventor and entrepreneur Krister Evertson, who
will testify at today's hearing. Krister never had so much as a traffic
ticket before he was run off the road near his mother's home in
Wasilla, Alaska, by SWAT-armored federal agents in large black SUVs
training automatic weapons on him.
Evertson, who had been working on clean-energy fuel cells since he
was in high school, had no idea what he'd done wrong. It turned out
that when he legally sold some sodium (part of his fuel-cell materials)
to raise cash, he forgot to put a federally mandated safety sticker on
the UPS package he sent to the lawful purchaser.
Krister's lack of a criminal record did nothing to prevent federal
agents from ransacking his mother's home in their search for evidence
on this oh-so-dangerous criminal.
The good news is that a federal jury in Alaska acquitted Krister of
allcharges. The jurors saw through the charges and realized that
Krister had done nothing wrong.
The bad news, however, is that the feds apparently had it in for
Krister. Federal criminal law is so broad that it gave prosecutors a
convenient vehicle to use to get their man.
Two years after arresting him, the feds brought an entirely new
criminal prosecution against Krister on entirely new grounds. They used
the fact that before Krister moved back to Wasilla to care for his
80-year-old mother, he had safely and securely stored all of his
fuel-cell materials in Salmon, Idaho.
According to the government, when Krister was in jail in Alaska due
to the first unjust charges, he had "abandoned" his fuel-cell materials
in Idaho. Unfortunately for Krister, federal lawmakers had included in
the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act a provision making it a
crime to abandon "hazardous waste." According to the trial judge, the
law didn't require prosecutors to prove that Krister had intended to
abandon the materials (he hadn't) or that they were waste at all -- in
reality, they were quite valuable and properly stored away for future
use.
With such a broad law, the second jury didn't have much of a choice,
and it convicted him. He spent almost two years locked up with real
criminals in a federal prison. After he testifies today, he will have
to return to his halfway house in Idaho and serve another week before
he is released......
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/heritage-house-law/