You don’t even have to exaggerate or make things up to show how asinine, ridiculous and overbearing our government keepers have become. I’m sure this is what that blithering idiot Bush was thinking when he signed the Patriot Act back in 2001. You thought the Dept of Homeland Security was protecting you from ISIS terrorists. Think again. They are protecting you from illegal panty painters.
I guess these agents were in the illegal panty division. This is another example of a massive profit making machine like Major League Baseball using their wealth to make government drones do their bidding and crushing small businesses who are doing nothing wrong. WTF is DHS doing enforcing copyright law? This country is so fucked. And no one cares and no one is paying attention.
What would we do without the DHS drone army?
Homeland Security Agents Raided A Kansas City Panties Shop Over Illegal Underwear
A Kansas City lingerie shop owner was alarmed to find Homeland Security agents at her shop Monday morning, demanding she hand over illegal panties that she intended to sell in honor of her hometown baseball team.
Peregrine Honig, co-owner of Birdies Panties in Kansas City, told The Kansas City Star that she thought the panties, onto which she’d hand-painted a “K” and a “C” and the words “Take the crown,” would be a fun way for fans of the Kansas City Royals to support the team in the World Series. Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland Security didn’t see it that way.
“They came in and there were two guys. I asked one of them what size he needed and he showed me a badge and took me outside. They told me they were from Homeland Security and we were violating copyright laws.”
The illegal panties, it seems, had run afoul of Major League Baseball’s copyright. How and why Homeland Security got involved in the illegal panties matter is not clear as of this post, but clearly they weren’t fooling around: according to KSHB (Kansas City), the Homeland Security agents even handcuffed the printer who printed the panties.
“It’s a lot to co-own a small lingerie store and feel like a criminal for printing crowns and KC on blue, cotton, American-made underwear. It seems like a lot.”
The problem, according to KSHB, was that the “K” and the “C” were connected, making the image on the illegal panties look too much like the Kansas City Royals’ logo. That was the point, but Major League Baseball apparently takes underwear-based copyright infringement seriously.
This is not the first time copyright enforcers have gotten a little, well, overzealous. Perhaps most famously, the Walt Disney Company forced preschools in Florida to remove the likenesses of Disney characters from their walls. But the Big Daddy of overzealous copyright enforcement has to be the RIAA, which has sued grandmothers and even confiscated the Winnie the Pooh laptop of a 9-year-old music pirate.
For their part, the Homeland Security agents involved in the illegal panty raid weren’t exactly thrilled with their job assignment that day, according to co-owner Danielle Meister.
“[The Homeland Security agents] felt like they were kicking a puppy.”
Despite the illegal panties seized by Homeland Security, the Kansas City Royals still fell to the San Francisco Giants in Game 1 of the World Series, losing 7-1.
Once more, the mighty jaws of the establishment chew up small business for no good reason. This is a civil matter at best. Stormtroopers need to take on actual criminals or terrorists (if they can find any). How ’bout arresting some Banksters?
The situation is totally out of control. Consider: I was interested in seeing how the Center for Disease Confusion (CDC) was spending the moneys confiscated from productive people was spent.
2014 budget is 6.9 billion.
The incredible A to Z list of areas of spending and countries throughout the world were they do the grants and experiments, is breathtaking.
And this is just one of hundreds of parasitic bureaucracy gorging on productive people. Mind breaking.
Remember that movie by Robin Williams where he was a doctor and his patients were frozen/paralyzed, and he unfroze them? (good movie)
I feel like I am going to seize up and just stop moving.
You’d think the DHS agents would be embarrassed. You’d be wrong. Any reason to exercise a little power over the public works for them.
OK I finally see how the DHS is protecting us. It’s clear now how much we need them.
I don’t know what’s dumber-this case or the fact some idiot cared enough about probaseball to paint a pair of underwear that some other idiot who cares about probaseball would undoubtedly purchase.
I’ve feared for years that the way the PTB will quell the internet dissent is copyright infringement laws.
With the Patent Office working hand in hand with the mega-corps to steal from inventors, to the millions in fines for downloading a few songs, the ways the feds are used as private competition killers has become extreme.
It will not surprise me, especially after Admin’s DoS attacks and the google de-listing, that this path will be used to shut us up. Nearly every website has copyrighted materials and if the feds are being used to track it down it won’t take long for the servers in Utah to follow along.
They use DHS to validate their freaking budgets. “See, we are doing something,” seems to be the mantra.
Thousands and thousands of these federal parasites, joined by thousands and thousands of locals, descend upon the nations businesses with the goal of “stopping” something.
What they are primarily stopping are jobs and growth. Probably solutions to our problems too.
Bureaucracy after bureaucracy is set up with the goal to “stop” a company from doing something. All for our safety, of course, and all for good government reason.
That there are few non-jack-booted jobs matters not. They are secure. They are happy in their job guarantees and lawful righteousness.
What they plan to do once they have terrorized the rest of us out of business is of no concern.
Yet.
If you want to have a high success rate you have to pick your battles.
Fuck Them! That’s why even though I like sports, everything is overpriced. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous how overpaid the players (in a lot of sports) are. As if being able to kick, throw or jump far, etc., was as important as health or something like that. They have to come after these mom and pop shops making a few garments that vaguely resemble the team’s name.