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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Volstead Act Totalitarianism, II-30, forfeiture.

The 1929 Crash occurred as investors realized asset-forfeiture meant Great Depression

317 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CH. 85. 1919.

SEC. 30. No person shall be excused, on the ground that it may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture, from attending and testifying, or producing books, papers, documents, and other evidence in obedience to a subpoena of any court in any suit or proceeding based upon or growing out of any alleged violation of this Act; but no natural person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing as to which, in obedience to a subpoena and under oath, he may so testify or produce evidence, but no person shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

SEC. 31. In case of a sale of liquor where the delivery thereof was made by a common or other carrier the sale and delivery shall be deemed to be made in the county or district wherein the delivery was made by such carrier to the consignee, his agent or employee, or in the county or district wherein the sale was made, or from which the shipment was made, and prosecution for such sale or delivery may be had in any such county or district.

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These Sections of Part 2 use "person" to mean individual or corporation. Both can be coerced and the Fifth Amendment is effectively suspended except as a reward exempting a "natural person" from penalties in exchange for becoming an informant against other targets of allegations. The Constitutional rights enumerated in the 4th and 5th Amendments [The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...] are declared alienable privileges to be dangled as bait to gull people into helping agents to rob gangs organized largely by "former" or off-duty cops. Still, perjury charges can be brought against "artificial person" corporations (which can neither be jailed or killed in reprisals) and hapless individuals who recalled once having had inalienable rights.

Here we are homing in on the lessons in Vices are Not Crimes by Lysander Spooner.(link) Spooner noted that the meddlesome habit of declaring that vices are crimes and demanding deadly force solutions are often advanced on economic grounds: that making trade and production into crimes makes prosperity. Spooner asks, then, of the causes of the Depression which the Panic of 1873 anticipated back when Comstockism made the postal monopoly into a way to criminalize birth control information, meddle in trade and censor mail.(link)

Was it their vices that turned the adult portion of those 20 millions out of doors without employment, compelled them to consume their little accumulations, if they had any, and then to become beggars—beggars for work, and, failing in this, beggars for bread? Was it their vices that, all at once, and without warning, filled the homes of so many of them with want, misery, sickness, and death? No. Clearly it was neither the drunkenness, nor any other vices, of these laboring people, that brought upon them all this ruin and wretchedness. And if it was not, what was it?
This is the problem that must be answered; for it is one that is repeatedly occurring and constantly before us and that cannot be put aside.

There you have the first inkling that the American crashes, crashes that occurred after China banned opium and was then attacked by British dope sellers and their government, might be causally related.

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Good Listening: The Darcy Gerow Podcast featured Tim Moen, former "Leader" of the Libertarian Party of Canada, struggling and stammering for a pretext to send men with guns to force Canadian women into the involuntary labor of reproduction. With "libertarians" like these, who needs fascists? (link)

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, each at the cost of a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the usual beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Volstead Act Totalitarianism II-28

Enforcement drives & market Crashes coincided in 1907, 1929, 1987, 2008

SEC. 28. The commissioner, his assistants, agents, and inspectors, and all other officers of the United States, whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws, shall have all the power and protection in the enforcement of this Act or any provisions thereof which is conferred by law for the enforcement of existing laws relating to the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors under the law of the United States.

SEC. 29. Any person who manufactures or sells liquor in violation of this title shall for a first offense be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, and for a second or subsequent offense shall be fined not less than $200 nor more than $2,000 and be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than five years.

Any person violating the provisions of any permit, or who makes any false record, report, or affidavit required by this title, or violates any of the provisions of this title, for which offense a special penalty is not prescribed, shall be fined for a first offense not more than $500; for a second offense not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or be imprisoned not more than ninety days; for any subsequent offense he shall be fined not less than $500 and be imprisoned not less than three months nor more than two years. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting officer to ascertain whether the defendant has been previously convicted and to plead the prior conviction in the affidavit, information, or indictment. The penalties provided in this Act against the manufacture of liquor without a permit shall not apply to a person for manufacturing nonintoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his home, but such cider and fruit juices shall not be sold or delivered except to persons having permits to manufacture vinegar.

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Bullet-riddled auto of Henry Virkula, June 8, 1929

Four days earlier, Wisconsin voted overwhelmingly to repeal State Prohibition Laws (link)

After this fifth State voted to get rid of violent dry laws, in nearby Minnesota Henry Virkula, a candy store owner out for a drive with his wife and children, was ambushed and shot to death by customs agents. The federal agents perpetrating the cold-blooded ambush and murder were given "all the power and protection" afforded them by the Volstead Act. The killer, Emmett J. White was acquitted, thanks to the bloodthirsty howling of organized mystical fanaticism. Patrolman James Cox, who killed Archie Eugster the following day near Detroit, was also acquitted.

The Constitution of the United States had been transformed into an instrument for abetting and protecting with impunity the armed robbery and gratuitous murder of a husband and father in front of his wife and children. The same sort of thing still happens practically every week, only with suspicion of plant leaves rather than beer serving as pretext. Nowadays the papers call these things asset forfeiture and killings protected by qualified immunity.