GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK

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Posted here for 3-8-10

"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."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[E]ntrepreneur 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."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Two dangerous new bills threading their way through Congress would, under certain conditions, give Barack Obama direct control of the Internet. The two bills, S. 773 and S. 778, would give the White House sweeping new powers to access online data, regulate the cyber-security industry and even 'pull the plug' on all Internet communications in the event of an 'emergency.'"
-- The American Sentinel, December 2009, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In the 2,078-page [health-care] monstrosity being considered by the Senate right now, the word 'regulation' appears 181 times, 'fees' 103 times and the words 'shall' or 'must' a whopping 3,000 times! The House version contains an estimated 450,000 words of new regulations, mandates, penalties, price-controls, and new taxes."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2009, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In New York City, residents must recycle or be fined. The recycling program is run under the auspices of the cily, despite the fact that if the program were economically worthwhile, private contractors would offer recycling services to make a profit. And if government loses money when it recycles, who decides which products get recycled and why?"
-- "'Green' Government," by Becky Akers, The New American February 1, 2010, page 20. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

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Posted here for 3-8-10

"Somali pirates have set up an investment cooperative to finance their high-seas hijinks. The sea gangs have made tens of millions of dollars in ransom money from raiding the waterways linking Europe and Asia -- and now they've become community organizers."
-- "Piracy Incorporated," NewsMax magazine, February 2010, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"[M]ore than 30,000 American scientists, including over 9,000 with Ph.D.s, have signed a petition stating: 'There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.'"
-- "The Crisis Creators," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, January 2010, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"World Health Organization scientists are suspected of accepting secret bribes from vaccine manufacturers to influence the UN organization's H1N1 pandemic declaration, according to Danish and Swedish newspapers. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical profits from swine-flu-related drugs have soared -- with earnings between $10 billion and $15 billion in 2009, investment bank JP Morgan estimates."
-- "Swine-Flu Bribe Fever!" by Chelsea Schilling, Whistleblower magazine, January 2010, page 26. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.