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Thanks for posting this. Although there is more to the story (where he apparently "left" the legal system and didn't show up in court for his bailed bond) that made this arrest possible it shows how so not free citizens have become. GMO labeling is suppressed while raw milk advocates and companies find it increasingly diffcult to operate in compliance. People have to import fresh colostrum from overseas because the last supplier in CA has at least temporarily folded due to sanctions imposed by the food administration after a case of e coli - for which the products in question tested negative, but nonetheless - in like seven years that "could have been linked" to the consumption of their raw products. Literally sickening and showing that dems and reps are one and the same, the people need a true grassroots libertarian change to become free again.

While I think everyone agrees on the need for safe food, there is something seriously wrong with being arrested by bounty hunters like that. I'd feel much better if the guy had been arrested by uniformed officers for jumping bail.

Food safety is solely the responsibility of the consumer. I am all for disclosure but what I eat is my business. Legalize pufferfish!

I usually support state rights, but I hope the federal government will enact a law to protect us from unreasonable food legislation at the state level. States like California should not be allowed to ban foie gras.

Should we legalize poisonous infant formula?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

Food safety is definitely one of the proper roles of government, IMHO.

If the milk formula says POISON on it. Why not?

The use of bounty hunters by definition cannot exist in either a free society or a society of laws.

I thought bounty hunters are only used for people who jumped bail. What is the legal basis of their actions here?

The whole purpose of bounty hunters is to let the state, through mercenaries, do what the law prevents the police from doing. There is no legitimate use for bounty hunters in a nation of laws. The arrest of bail jumpers should be done entirely by the police, not paid mercenaries who are answerable to no one. Their mere existence is indication that a nation does not follow its own laws.

Dan8267 says

The whole purpose of bounty hunters is to let the state, through mercenaries, do what the law prevents the police from doing. There is no legitimate use for bounty hunters in a nation of laws. The arrest of bail jumpers should be done entirely by the police, not paid mercenaries who are answerable to no one. Their mere existence is indication that a nation does not follow its own laws.

Sorry to bust your bubble but bounty hunters work for bail bondsman not the state. The supreme court is cited on this in Taylor v. Taintor. Although it was obiter dictum the issue has not been challenged since so it is the law of the nation.

James Stewart skipped bail twice and was detained by bail agents (aka bounty hunters) employed by the bail bondsman. Perfectly legal and has absolutely nothing to do with raw milk.

I for one am very glad to have bounty hunters taking people off the street after they jump bail. The police are overworked arresting them in the first place.

the bail system is no mystery to anyone involved.

Don't certian rights get signed away when being asked to be released on bail?

So the episode has nothing to do with milk. Looks like the bail agents are within their rights then.

This guy got a raw deal! (had to be said!)

PockyClipsNow says

This guy got a raw deal! (had to be said!)

Don't cry over spilled milk.