America's low-level mindless no-no governments

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When in doubt, tell people whatever they are doing is illegal.

If challenged, say your sorry and repeat the same b.s. next week.




"A Virginia woman said she feels `harassed and angry` after being slapped with a $535 fine after her daughter rescued a baby woodpecker from a cat.
Alison Capo of Fredericksburg said her daughter, Skylar, 11, saved the bird from a cat in her father`s backyard and she agreed to take the bird home to make sure it was not seriously injured, WUSA-TV, Washington, reported Tuesday."
http://thesop.org/attachments/2011-002/woodpecker-26470.jpg
Alison and her daughter stopped at a Lowe`s on the way home, and they had the misfortune of running into an officer with the Virginia Department of Fish and Wildlife. The wildlife officer cited the young girl for transporting a species that is protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Act.
Alison should be commended for teaching her daughter to have compassion for animals. Skylar is a sensitive young girl with a bright future.
The wildlife officer is teaching the young girl that adults, especially bureaucrats, can sometimes be a pain in the butt.
Alison and her daughter did the right thing, and the law should stop harassing them.
http://thesop.org/story/20110802/outrage-little-girl-fined-for-rescuing-baby-woodpecker.html

Three girls trying to raise money to go to a waterpark thought that a lemonade stand would do the trick. But then they met the long arm of the law — their local police chief.
The girls had started up their stand in Midway, Ga., when Police Chief Kelly Morningstar and a deputy drove by.
"They told us to shut it down," 10-year-old Skylar Roberts was quoted as saying by The Coastal Source news website.
"It’s kind of crazy that we couldn’t sell lemonade," added 14-year-old Casity Dixon. "It was fun, but we had to listen to the cops and shut it down."
Morningstar defended his action and received the support of Midway's mayor. "We had told them, 'We understand you guys are young, but still, you’re breaking the law, and we can’t let you do it anymore,'" Morningstar said. "The law is the law, and we have to be consistent with how we enforce the laws."
That city law requires a business and food permits ($50 a day), even if the stand was at the home of one of the girls.
Health issues were also a concern, Morningstar said. "We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” he said.
News of the bust caused an outpouring of local support for the trio — and The Coastal Source said it had given the girls tickets to the waterpark.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4376997...s-busted-illegal-lemonade-stand/#.TjmuIWGIrv4


$500 ticket issued for illegal lemonade stand
A $500 ticket for not having a vendor’s permit issued to…six kids running a lemonade stand? Yup.
The kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, who set up shop outside the Congressional Country Club where the U.S. Open is being held, had hoped to make a few bucks from thirsty passersby. But the fun quickly came to an end when a cameraman from a local news station caught a county inspector issuing the kids a ticket on tape.
By the end of the golf tournament’s opening day, after an outcry on the Internet, the county had canceled the ticket and moved the lemonade stand down a side street.
Jennifer Hughes of Montgomery’s Department of Permitting Services, told the Washington Post, “It wasn’t that we were the big hand of county government trying to come down and squash anything…We were attempting to do what a government is charged with doing, which is protecting communities and protecting the safety of people.”
The kids were, naturally, confused. Thirteen-year-old Isabella, who was tasked with watching over the younger kids selling the drinks, said, “I just think the whole thing was kind of insane that they made such a big deal about a small problem. In the first place, I don’t know how a 10-year-old could get a permit.”
Hughes said that the vendor laws are in place to stop illegal sales that often take place on the streets outside sporting venues, and that those laws don’t distinguish between adults and kids operating a lemonade stand.
But the kids and their supporters aren’t backing down. Family friend Carrie Marriott told the Washington Post the kids have learned an important lesson: “When something’s right, you stand up for your beliefs. That’s what America’s about. It’s about free enterprise. It’s about taking an idea, making it happen and making it successful.”
The kids have taken what America is about to heart. They’ve decided the profits from their lemonade stand will go to charity.

Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/18/500-ticket-issued-for-illegal-lemonade-stand/#ixzz1U02alQie



The East Fork of the San Gabriel River is a favorite spot for people who enjoy panning for gold in the Angeles National Forest – public lands owned by the People of the United States. Panning for gold is a fun recreational activity for many people, but sluicing for gold flakes and nuggets is a legal remunerative activity allowed on all public lands not in a national park, under the Mining Act of 1872.

Nevertheless, since January 2009, the Department of the Interior people have been telling everyone that “mineral extraction anyplace in the Angeles National Forest is illegal.”

When asked what law, rule, regulation made it illegal, they shrug and simply say that the people in D.C. told them to stop all the people panning and sluicing in the Forest.

One of the reasons is that, when one is legally extracting gold from the river, he or she need not purchase an “Adventure Pass.” Since the feds make money selling Adventure Passes, and since prospectors aren’t required to buy them, they decided to invent a new rule outlawing their presence on the river – unless they agree to buy an Adventure Pass, but then they area allowed to park and look at the river but not do any panning.

Legal authority? None.

 
My parents remedy for government assclowns was a private detective. FOLLOW THE ASSCLOWN TILL HE STEPS IN SHIT, AND GET A PHOTO OF IT.
 
So now they are saying that they don't want people cooking food or splashing around in the river.
 
Yeah, and no more farmers markets either.

That's just plain capitalism.

If it isn't union-run or taxed and regulated to the point of being dysfunctional, they declare it illegal.

No, not the legislature, not the Congress, necessarily....

.... just the cops. Anything that doesn't have a weekly envelope for them needs to be shut down.
 
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