Posted on 01/20/2015 1:34:50 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
Watch this entrepreneur explain how he was targeted and raided by the federal government for breaking a law, despite language in the law that explicitly said he was acting legally.
Bradford Councilman had a business, Interloc, Inc., that utilized an internet database for customers to upload their inventory of rare and out-of-print books while other customers could search the database for books they could not find elsewhere.
One day, armed federal agents burst into Councilman’s office and forced him to wait while they searched the premises. The government charged him with creating a separate copy of an email every time he made a purchase, despite the law saying that, as an internet service provider, he was allowed to do so. After six years of appeals, Councilman was finally acquitted of his charges, but significant damage to his life had already been done.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanlegislator.org ...
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Some companies I was dealing with in the early 90’s told me they could not use my outsourcing services because the IRS had in some cases seized their accounts and in other cases threatened to seize their accounts. The IRS forced these companies (all under $4 million in income) to sign a contract stating they would only hire full time employees to do their work and not contractors. This contract was because there was no law stating companies could not outsource labor. (This may be one reason that many of these companies went overseas.) The IRS, using tactics that would have gotten the Mafia RICO’d out of existence, can get away with anything. If they seize your accounts, most businesses would have to close their doors immediately. That’s the way our government works now; criminals with credentials.
Disgusting. Only thing that will stop this is to obtain the names, photos, and addresses of whoever decided to launch this raid and make them feel the same fear.
Also those who participated in the raid wearing military gear instead of business suits.
And its a sure bet that his business was reported by a better connected competitor who has learned to use the government gunmen in lieu of honest competition. The government isn’t smart enough to figure this out on their own.
Id like to know exactly how he appeared on their radar screen in the first place.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hmmm. Something happened in America 6 years ago. Now what COULD that be?
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I wish we could get rid of the dept. of labor.
I have a buddy who is a Federal Court Judge. This will be in his inbox in a couple minutes.
We can — Pray.
| Judicial Reform Amendment |
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| Section I No court or tribunal shall deny inquiry into its jurisdiction or the authority under which it operates; any misrepresentation thereof shall result in the judge and all staff being vacated from their offices and charged with malfeasance. Section II The Constitution may always be used as a defense, the interpretation presented may or may not be correct but the court cannot prevent it from being cited. Section III The Fifth amendment’s prohibition against being tried for the same offence twice is hereby recognized as applying to the offense and not the jurisdiction; therefore no federal case shall be made against a person for actions already tried by the state or subdivision thereof. However, nothing is to prevent a State from trying persons for Treason against their own sovereignty. Section IV The Sixth amendment’s guarantee of a speedy trial is hereby recognized: for every week after the six months from the start of the trial the accused shall be paid the national average wage for one week’s pay, this payment shall be the responsibility and liability of the officers of the court. Section V The Eighth amendment is hereby recognized as preventing excessively long imprisonment: no term of imprisonment shall exceed ten years. The Eighth amendment shall not be held to prevent capital punishment. Section VI The Second amendment is hereby recognized: no court shall bar a juror from wearing his weapon, as he is a free man. Section VII The text of the Constitution should not be arbitrarily reinterpreted and, as the judiciary does such with its doctrine of incorporation, the Fourteenth amendment is hereby repealed. |
That won’t work for legislators. It can be read and understood in one pass without diagramming it...: )
Anyway, I have several other ideas for constitutional along with justifications/rationales for them:
Amendment Booklet
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