How can an Unelected State Agency destroy research and equipment without a Search Warrant?
A beekeeper of 58 years wants to know how an unelected state agency,
which appears to answer to no one, can come in and destroy years of
research, equipment, and bees without due process and even without a
search warrant. Has recent loose interpretations of the Constitution and
the power of the federal government spilled over into state governments,
who now think they can act with impunity and shut down any business that
happens to question an agency’s validity, credentials, or findings? Is
the era of big bully government upon us? However, according to the Prairie Advocate, a newspaper in
northwester Illinois, the most troubling aspect of all this was: [T]he State Department of Agriculture came in and inspected their hives when they were not home and without due process, took their bees and hives. At the time of the theft the Ingram’s [sic] had not yet had their day in court to prove that their hives did not have foulbrood. Ingram knew that the inspectors could not tell what they were seeing and had warned the Department that if any of them came back it would be considered a criminal trespass. Yet they came back when he was not home, stole his hives and ruined his 15 years of research. Please join Bill Heid and Terry Ingram on today’s Off the Grid Radio
program as they discuss this latest atrocity of Illinois state
government officials. Bill has personally done business with Terry since
the early 80s, and this is a matter that strikes close to home. As Terry
Ingram asked the Prairie Advocate, "Is Illinois a police state,
where citizens do not have rights?"
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