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sc94597 on 21 December 2012
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Mr Khan said:
sc94597 said:
Mr Khan said:
sc94597 said:
 

In the sheriff's county he is the supreme executive officer, not the federal agent. He is HIGHER than federal agents in local matters. 

http://goshennews.com/local/x1996142009/Middlebury-dairy-farmer-Sheriff-stand-up-to-FDA

The Amish often generate public health hazards. A group of Amish in PA have recently gotten all pissy because their neighbors complained that they were dumping raw sewage on the borders of their property.

How the hell is that relevant? You're stereotyping the Amish after just reprimanding ex-military folks for doing the same to racial groups. How are you any less despicable by doing such? I know very well that the Amish pollute far less than your average American consumer, who might we note, have put all of us in a world ecological crisis.  

Generally they are a nice enough group of people, but at certain points you have to adhere to higher rules, regardless of your beliefs.

It's actually very relevant. There are public goods that transcend our personal or local preferences.

It's not relevant because dumping trash is an entirely different issue from selling unpasteurized milk. You don't prosecute an individual for the crimes of others within their ethnic group ( in this case Amish.) Every case is independent of the other. If this is ok, then I can apply the same to so many groups that we should all be accounted for crimes we haven't commited personally.  I'm just glad there are many, many people who will stand up to tyranny and force imposed by a government that should be working for us, not against us, in fact, the federal government should be preoccupied with interstate matters and not that of any local group unless it influences interstate matters. This is precisely the same things that the revolutionaries fought against during the colonial period. There should be no reason why this Amish man can't have his business with those willing to accept it. But anyway, it's besides the point. It's the point that the federal government is not going through constitutional means on this. 

"Rogers said his whole point in confronting the FDA is to protect the Constitutional rights of local residents. He indicated he wants the federal agency to go through the court system and present its evidence to a judge, who could then decide if there was enough evidence to justify the issuance of a warrant allowing the inspection of Forest Grover Dairy."

“Due process is the important part of it... Quite frankly, we have state laws and county ordinances and so on,” Rogers said. “For example, the health department does inspections. Even with those, I am very pro health department, but on the other hand, if the store owner says ‘No, I don’t want you coming in,’ they will probably close them down, and that’s fine. But they don’t have to let them come in, in the true sense of the word. They have the right to go further with their due process.”