37 Replies to “"Prosecutions Over Dead Birds Are 'Chilling'"”

1. dicentra says:

   September 29, 2011 at 2:56 pm

   the US Wildlife Department’s 45 day helicopter search

   Who wants to lay odds the helicopters are black?

2. cranky-d says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:04 pm

   Yet another sign that civilization is over.

3. sdferr says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:16 pm

   Damn, and here I go eating dead birds at least once a week.

4. happyfeet says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:17 pm

   we’re not far from the point where we’re gonna have to shrug and say this is America now

   this is how America rolls

   embarrassing

5. happyfeet says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:27 pm

   from this blog what has a nice excerpt from the WSJ editorial there’s this link about how this isn’t the first time a fascist prosecutor has gotten an obscene fascist hardon for our little feathered friends

   ExxonMobil pled guilty to killing about 85 protected waterfowl, hawks and owls in five states over the past five years. The birds died from exposure to the company’s natural gas well reserve pits and waste water storage facilities.

   Exxon has already spent $2.5 million safeguarding its facilities and is being fined an additional $600,000 — a total of $3.1 million for 85 bird deaths. That works out to about $36,470 per bird death.

   Let’s put this in some perspective.

   The “death gratuity,” as the U.S. military calls it, is only $12,420 for active duty personnel, jumping up to $100,000 for combat-related deaths.

6. Joe says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm

   Those big windmills also kill bats. I thought the left loved bats. Then again they are bat shit crazy.

7. Joe says:

   September 29, 2011 at 3:30 pm

   Barack Obama: “A dead bat in every pot! Lots of pot and dead bats! Fuck my teleprompter is acting up again!”

8. newrouter says:

   September 29, 2011 at 4:00 pm

   the guitar gestopo cont.

   Federal authorities are pressuring Nashville-based Gibson Guitar to hand over an additional 25 bundles of Indian wood that the company allegedly planned to use in its famous guitars.

   The complaint was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and mirrors a 2010 action that sought official forfeiture of wood obtained in a 2009 raid of Gibson facilities. The latter of those cases has been stayed, pending the outcome of the most recent suit.

   As has been the case in previous allegations, at issue is the classification of certain wood imported to the United States from India. Namely, a June shipment of 1,250 sawn logs was classified as “finished parts of musical instruments,” which is allowed under Indian law. In reality, according to the sworn affidavit of Fish and Wildlife Service agent Kevin Seiler, the wood was unfinished – a violation of the Lacey Act.

   —

   The affidavit also outlines allegations that Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz understands the violations, as evidenced by the staunch defense of his company in a press conference and subsequent political fights around the Lacey Act.

   “It is clear that Gibson understands the purpose of the Lacey Act, and understands that … fingerboard blanks are not finished fingerboards and thus Gibson is aware that its order for fingerboard blanks was an order for contraband ebony wood or ebony wood which is illegal to possess,” Seiler wrote.

   Link

9. Jeff G. says:

   September 29, 2011 at 4:02 pm

   Bring back tar and feathers, says I.

   Start with the lawyers.

10. happyfeet says:

    September 29, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    the United States government is gayer than when putin got into kesha’s body glitter

11. Ernst Schreiber says:

    September 29, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    But that Juszkiewicz s.o.b better not try to move his company out of the country. That would be un-American!

12. newrouter says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    obamabots on the march

    California Leftist Teacher Bans “Bless You” From Classroom (Video)

    ‘I am a girl’: The plight of Tammy, the adopted son of two lesbians who started sex change aged 8 because he has always maintained he is a girl (bizerkley ca)
    

13. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    ‘feets! You’re suffocating in California. What make you of this group? They had the temerity to follow me on the Twitter, and I have to decide whether or not to suffer ’em.

14. geoffb says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    This is about Gibson but also shows the SOP nowadays.

    The government also attempts to get low-level employees to “finger” their bosses. For example, the feds threatened Gibson employees with long prison sentences. This is not a search for truth, but an immoral attempt at extortion to win convictions. Investigators examine the lives of “little fish” and use minor, unrelated violations (smoking a joint, or exaggerating income on a loan application) to pressure them to back the government’s case against their employers. Mobsters have experience with threats like this, but a secretary or an accountant is scared to death by the threat of prosecution.

    A favorite ploy of prosecutors in these cases is to charge defendants with false statements based on their answers to the investigators. The sentence for this can be five years in prison. No recording is made of the interviews — in fact, the feds prohibit taping the interviews — and the agents are not stenographers. They cannot possibly recall the exact wording of the questions and the answers. Yet after the interview, they will produce a “transcript” replete with quotes throughout. And if a witness says he did not actually say what the agent put in quotes, it is the witness’s word against a fine, upstanding federal agent’s. Staring at a five-year sentence will get most people to say whatever the government wants them to.

    The feds also pile up charges. According to Juszkiewicz, the Justice Department warned Gibson that each instance of shipping a guitar from its facility would bring an added charge of obstruction of justice. Prosecutors routinely add extra counts to stack potential prison sentences higher. For instance, faxing invoices for the wood would be charged as wire fraud. Depositing the check for the sale of the guitars would be money laundering. The CEO’s telling the press he is innocent would bring charges of fraud or stock manipulation. The intent is to threaten such long sentences that the targets plead guilty rather than risk decades in prison.

    How Soviet of them.

15. zino3 says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    I don’t know about you, but I am getting fed up with this commie crap.

    Gibson guitars, oil companies, ANY Republican, and next, it will be YOU!

    Lock and load. They are right around the corner, and moving at the speed of a bulldozer – with the same IQ as a bulldozer.

    I can’t believe that so many people are this stupid, and have NO IDEA what a true Hell they are BEGGING for.

    They WILL get it, though. By then it will be too late to realize just how “reality retarded” they really are.

    I mean, I know I can’t wait until I have to wait three or four hours in a line of these morons for a loaf of bread and a can of Spam to last my family a week…

16. happyfeet says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    oh. I haven’t the foggiest idea Mr. serr8d

    I kinda keep california over there in the lost cause column and don’t fret much about it

17. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    It’s coming, z3. Be cool. Just…be cool.

18. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    I haven’t figured out whether or not their version of redistricting is skewed right or left.

    But, given California is completely controlled by and in the monstrous shadow of Democrats, they might just be a tiny tinny team (small) r voice crying out for fairness.

19. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    A few days ago it happened that I was sitting down with former Senate (and Assembly) Republican Leader Jim Brulte. While we talked about a number of things, when the topic came up of redistricting, and the recently announced plans of the Senate Republican Caucus to qualify a referendum on the Senate District maps created by the California Redistricting Commission, Jim was very clear — he said that referring the proposed lines was critical, and that there was simply no choice. He told me, “I have reviewed in detail the Commission lines for the California State Senate, and I can tell you that it will be nearly impossible for Republicans to block a Democrat super-majority.”

    Yep, tiny, and tinny.

    They deserve a return follow, I suppose.

20. LBascom says:

    September 29, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    Evil bird killing oil companies! You know what else? ‘Cuz of the oil companies, solely responsible for the powering of cars [que dramatic musical cord] thousands of birds are killed every year on the roads around the whole fucking world! Probably even in India, where Exxon sells gas, and birds nesting in forbidden wood fly down and splat on some windshield.

    When oh when will the slaughter stop!?

21. cranky-d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    Does anyone here remember America? I think I do. This bullshit about the birds would have been met with derision. This bullshit with Gibson would have been met with pitchforks.

    Why aren’t these things getting reported more widely?

    No need to answer. We know why.

22. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    I got my limit on Sept. 1. 15 dove, broiled.

23. McGehee says:

    September 29, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    Does anyone here remember America?

    The desperately-in-need-of-a-makeover actress on “Ugly Betty”?

24. LBascom says:

    September 29, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    America was were I was 10 and rode in the back of the pickup cuz the cab was full and I liked it.

    At nine I rode my bike to the movie theater…without fear or a helmet.

    Eight years old in 2nd grade we said the lords prayer and pledge of allegiance at morning assembly in front of the flag.

    when I was seven I would play in the public park across the street, and there was a big ‘ol bully that would chase me off the swings. My big brother told me to kick his ass, or die trying, and so the next day I was already to die, and made friends instead. My first African American friend. Course back then I didn’t know shit from Africa, he was just a guy at the park, but he turned out to be OK once he found out I wouldn’t be bullied.

    I’m old now.

25. newrouter says:

    September 29, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he’s lecturing us about how America’s gone “soft”? Really?

    Link

26. JimK says:

    September 29, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Hey, you know those crony capitalists Sarah’s been bitching about, well guess what? She’s right, and now even ABC has looked into the Solyndra mess and turned up quite a few cronies in the Obama administration:
    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/09/shock-abc-news-blows-energygate-wide.html

27. newrouter says:

    September 29, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    We will work to strengthen the small business sector which creates most of the new jobs we need for our people. Small business needs relief from government paperwork, relief from over-regulation, relief from a host of governmentally-created problems that defeat the effort of creative men and women. A chance to invest, build and produce new wealth is part of the dream.

    But restoring the American dream requires more than restoring a sound, productive economy, vitally important as that is. It requires a return to spiritual and moral values, values so deeply held by those who came here to build a new life. We need to restore those values in our daily life, in our neighborhoods and in our government’s dealings with the other nations of the world.

    Link

28. Joe says:

    September 29, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    Barack Obama says: Change me, I stink.

29. Pablo says:

    September 29, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    Bring back tar and feathers, says I.

    Start with the lawyers.

    Shakespeare, via Dick the butcher, was right. First thing we do…

    Obviously, you start in Washington.

30. Stephanie says:

    September 29, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    1) Convene a conference for all lawyers and judges in DC
    2) Nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure
    3) Profit

    Would Underpants Gnomes in place of the warhead tips be too gauche?

31. donald says:

    September 30, 2011 at 5:54 am

    That would not be an underpants gnome business event because profits would actually ensue Stephanie.

32. Mueller says:

    September 30, 2011 at 7:00 am

    When oh when will the slaughter stop!?

    Not any time soon. Opening day here is Oct. 15 and if I have my usual luck I’ll shoot a duck and a goose. And about the same every other weekend till the end of the season.

    #22 Little known fact on mourning doves. Fully half the population of mourning doves will die each year whether they’re hunted or not.
    That’s why there are so damn many of them.

33. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    September 30, 2011 at 7:33 am

    This is amazingly brazen {he says as he fills another clip}…

34. Lost My Cookies says:

    September 30, 2011 at 7:40 am

    My dog is going to prison? Again?

35. Joe says:

    September 30, 2011 at 7:40 am

    When oh when will the slaughter stop?

    When we kill them all. Oh, I thought you were talking about this.

36. ThomasD says:

    September 30, 2011 at 8:22 am

    As the Solyndra case points out Obama is having trouble even picking the winners. But that bar will be set so much lower now that they have also chosen to decide the losers.

    Civil war indeed.

37. Swen says:

    October 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Little known fact on mourning doves. Fully half the population of mourning doves will die each year whether they’re hunted or not.

    No wonder they’re mourning.

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