Posted on 10/28/2004 10:09:50 PM PDT by johnnyb_61820
"ST. HELENS, Ore. - So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie Cox hasn't been passing any state secrets to sinister foreign governments, or violating obscure clauses in the Patriot Act."
"So she was taken aback by a mysterious phone call from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to her small store in this quiet Columbia River town just north of Portland. "
" Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement complaint filed in the agency's intellectual property rights center in Washington, D.C."
Grrrrrr.....
The real headline is "Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store".
I don't know why the AP can't understand Customs is responsible for doing more than protecting our borders from terrorists and illegal aliens.
Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store
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Always post the correct title with your comments in parentheses
C'mon... if someone called me from "Homeland Security" instead of the Customs Service, I'd be worried too. I thought conservatives were against sending federal agents out to harrass citizens. Which is what this sounds like... a few minor bureaucrats ("Customs Agents") giving themselves airs.
HUH?...Search function cannot work if one does not use the original title with comments in parentheses..
Sorry, I must have missed the posting rules somewhere. Been here for a few months, but didn't know that the title had to be the article title and comments were in parenthesis.
It also doesn't say whether Customs went there with a court order or just took it on themselves unilaterally. There seems to be a genuine dispute over a knockoff of the old Rubik Cube involved here.
No problem..I just found a neat thread for newbies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213319/posts
FR Welcome Thread for Newbies and Lurkers.
Here ^ | 9/11/04 | Rebelbase
It also has thread links to other FR things like the "lexicon"..
Are they supposed to enforce patents?
Looks like the tite has been corrected. Thanks for posting this; I was a bit disturbed when I saw this article on Slashdot.
Thanks for the info.
"Aren't there any terrorists out there?" she said.
Apparently not. Let's have a big Hoo-Rah for the department of Reichland Security!
Looks like you didn't bother to read any of the other posts which provided a very good explanation for this.
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