Baylen Linnekin Talks Raw Milk Raids on Freedom Watch

Reason contributor Baylen Linnekin appeared on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano to talk about the continuing trend of federal raids on raw milk providers. Air date: 5/18/2011.

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• raw milk raid

[ForTehNguyen]

breastmilk must be illegal by this logic

[MWChase]

What asshole cop really draws his gun on people selling milk? Is this a fucking communist country or what???

[9971explorer]

This country and the world would be alot better if people would just learn to leave each other the Hell alone. You cannot say or do anything anymore without some busy body butting their nose in. I am having less and less tolerance for people that do not know their own business.

[Brajabu74]

@kerberos623 When is it you haven't backed them? I'm going to bet never. If so, it's in your comment history. Look it up, prove me wrong. And what is that 'higher standard' exactly? Seems not pulling an armed raid for illegal milk against the Amish would be a pretty low standard. Common sense even. Police used to serve warrants without SWAT, and if yours is a higher standard, we'd all better get used to the prone position. How do you 'change' laws? Vocalize, call them outraise a stink. YouTube.

[kerberos623]

I don't give carte blanche, I hold them to a higher standard. but I do belive in a nation ruled by law, where people are protected. And I do belive most cops are in it to help, not oppress people.And IF a cop steps out of line and abuses the power granted in him, I belive they should be punished to the full extent of the law. If people don't like the law there are ways to change them legally.

[stevewellz]

Raw Milk is illegal because it is bad for you,

but cigarettes and alcohol are legal because... ?

(I don't want to make cigs and booze illegal, just pointing out the holes in the logic)

[ahsido1]

That one cop looks like he has never held a gun before...

[Brajabu74]

@kerberos623 But the concept of 'shooting cops' is disregarding rule of law. When that fails, we're all screwed. The problem is at least partially you. People like you give them carte blanche and don't hold them to the higher standard they need to adhere. It's not their fault, in that you are correct. Too much responsibility and too little oversight. They are utilizing the endless authority you have handed them with a naive blind eye towards the inevitable. Power corrupts, absolute power.....

[Brajabu74]

@kerberos623 To answer your question, probably plenty. The Nazi's / Stassi or any other authoritarian tyrannical group sees what they are doing as heroic and if you question them or their authoritarian supporters, they are risking their lives daily. Yes, they probably directed traffic, and protected children. Fraud? With deadly efficiency. They had their supporters who were 'saddened' when people questioned their moral compass. To a lot of people they are heroes. History judges otherwise.

[Everett07630]

Comrade Obama's FDA has nothing better to do than go after organic raw milk farmers. The jackboot thugs in the video clip also seem to really enjoy pointing loaded firearms on unarmed people who in noway could legally be considered a dangerous / violent threat - itchy trigger fingers I guess.

[doc7474]

isn't pulling a gun on an Amish farmer about as bad as pulling a gun on an elderly woman in a nursing home? Talk about bad judgement!!