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Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.
Wankers.
Recent headlines from my Posterous Blog:
Monday, 08 March 2010
Keystone Kops swoop in to seize unlicensed beer
Benjamin Franklin is spinning in his grave. The man who once said that "beer is proof that God loves us" never envisioned the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. The Keystone Kops have a list of Officially Licensed Beer and woe unto you if yours isn't on the list.
More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.
The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.
Three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband, Brendan Hartranft. Checking their inventories against the state's official list of more than 2,800 brands, the cops seized four kegs and 317 bottles, totaling 60.9 gallons of beer, according to police calculations.
In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone.
She estimated the total value of the confiscated stock at $7,200, representing about 20 brands, some of which go by multiple names.
"No actual investigating was done," Maida said in an e-mail to the Daily News. "The police sent a shoddily typed list to the PLCB, some drone fed it into the machine verbatim and returned what came back, without . . . even trying to offer us the benefit of the doubt by double-checking on some of the so-called unregistered beers."
Maida said that the couple's attorney had told them that they have until 6 p.m. tonight to compile evidence to prove that the confiscated beer is properly registered.
"The onus is on us to prove our innocence," she said.
Totalitarian thugs right out of Soviet Russia drum up specious charges relating to bogus paperwork and suddenly $7200 worth of premium beer is seized and whisked away to an "undisclosed location". (Wanna bet that "undisclosed location" is a State Police union hall from which it will mysteriously "vanish" one bottle at a time?)
Our Founding Fathers established the principle that we are innocent until proven guilty. Our nation bends over backwards to assuage the fragile consciences of ACLU lawyers who defend murderous Islamist scum. But if you're selling beer which isn't on some petty bureaucrat's list you have no rights. You have no recourse. Your beer is gone in the blink of an eye.
And then the stormtroopers will take six to eight months before they present their checklist to an Administrative Law Judge who has the sole power to determine if the beer was mislabeled or unregistered. Because these are high-end craft beers it is likely they will be "skunked" long before that time unless that State Police's "undisclosed location" has precise temperature control. If the judge says it's unlicensed it will be destroyed forthwith (ie, the State Police will have one hellacious party).
And what is their lame-ass excuse for requiring beer to be licensed in the first place? Drunk driving, of course.
Francesca Chapman, a PLCB spokeswoman, said that the registration requirement helps prosecutors identify alcoholic beverages in drunk-driving cases or any other type of prosecution.
Francesca Chapman, you are a horse's ass. You can't be stupid enough to believe such a profoundly ridiculous statement. Well, maybe you can. You're a bureaucrat, and bureaucratic stupidity is 99.44% of what government is all about.
The enemies of America have more Constitutional Rights than a regular guy
just trying to make a living selling beer. Yes, the Founding Fathers are
definitely spinning in their graves.
Posted at 11:03 by Chris Wysocki
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