Lest we forget -- we need cops for things like this

[dismal]

Undercover cops bust Minnesota bar serving rare Wisconsin beer

The craving for New Glarus’ Spotted Cow flagship beer drove one Minnesota bar manager to cross state lines and bring six kegs to his establishment to serve. Patrons were happy, the state of Minnesota wasn’t.

New Glarus beer is only licensed for sale in Wisconsin due to limited supply.

Police received an anonymous tip and visited the bar themselves undercover. When they asked the bartender at the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove for a Spotted Cow, they were served a draft.

Note the undercover officers and their network of informants were able to shut off this illegal happiness inducing beer without firing a shot.

Perhaps only partial credit is due since I'm guessing many of the suspects were white.

http://national.suntimes.com/us-news/7/72/967299/minnesota-bar-new-glarus

 

[Trausti]

For those in favor of big government, rejoice!

 

[fast]

Nm

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Mooove along, nothing to see here.

 

[Underseer]

Undercover cops bust Minnesota bar serving rare Wisconsin beer

The craving for New Glarus’ Spotted Cow flagship beer drove one Minnesota bar manager to cross state lines and bring six kegs to his establishment to serve. Patrons were happy, the state of Minnesota wasn’t.

New Glarus beer is only licensed for sale in Wisconsin due to limited supply.

Police received an anonymous tip and visited the bar themselves undercover. When they asked the bartender at the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove for a Spotted Cow, they were served a draft.

Note the undercover officers and their network of informants were able to shut off this illegal happiness inducing beer without firing a shot.

Perhaps only partial credit is due since I'm guessing many of the suspects were white.

http://national.suntimes.com/us-news/7/72/967299/minnesota-bar-new-glarus

Now I can see that all those acts of (often racially-motivated) police brutality were completely justified! If we had done anything to prevent those acts of police brutality, then these brave cops would never have been able to save us all from those 6 kegs of beer!

 

[laughing dog]

Undercover cops bust Minnesota bar serving rare Wisconsin beer

The craving for New Glarus’ Spotted Cow flagship beer drove one Minnesota bar manager to cross state lines and bring six kegs to his establishment to serve. Patrons were happy, the state of Minnesota wasn’t.

New Glarus beer is only licensed for sale in Wisconsin due to limited supply.

Police received an anonymous tip and visited the bar themselves undercover. When they asked the bartender at the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove for a Spotted Cow, they were served a draft.

Note the undercover officers and their network of informants were able to shut off this illegal happiness inducing beer without firing a shot.

Perhaps only partial credit is due since I'm guessing many of the suspects were white.

http://national.suntimes.com/us-news/7/72/967299/minnesota-bar-new-glarus

Spotted Cow beer is yellow not white.

 

[bigfield]

Congratulations, dismal.

All of the people who have been saying that we do not need cops will now be humbled.

Oh wait--nobody was saying that.

Pretty fucking stupid OP, don't you think?

 

[RavenSky]

I'm trying to imagine the selection process to decide which undercover police officers were chosen for this very important mission.

 

[Togo]

Interesting case of people being prosecuted for violating the producer's right to restrict supply geographically. Interesting, because for one it doesn't involve the internet and downloads.

Is the idea that this shouldn't be a right, or that the right should exist, but shouldn't be enforced?

 

[dismal]

Interesting case of people being prosecuted for violating the producer's right to restrict supply geographically. Interesting, because for one it doesn't involve the internet and downloads.

Is the idea that this shouldn't be a right, or that the right should exist, but shouldn't be enforced?

They are being prosecuted for breeching MN's (the inbound state's) tight grip on the supply of beer to the state.

The citizen's of MN are being protected from this enjoyable beer by these beer informants and undercover beer detectives.

I don't think the beer company desires to restrict supply geographically so much as it does not bother to clear it's beer with the MN regulatory machinery designed to protect its citizens from this beer.

Now that this undercover operation has made this rogue beer smuggler feel the sting of justice the citizens of MN can sleep a little easier.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Wait ... so the cops didn't shoot anybody? The bar didn't even have one black guy there who they had sweep the floors or something? I'm glad the government ran these racist bastards out of business.

 

[ronburgundy]

Interesting case of people being prosecuted for violating the producer's right to restrict supply geographically. Interesting, because for one it doesn't involve the internet and downloads.

Is the idea that this shouldn't be a right, or that the right should exist, but shouldn't be enforced?

They are being prosecuted for breeching MN's (the inbound state's) tight grip on the supply of beer to the state.

The citizen's of MN are being protected from this enjoyable beer by these beer informants and undercover beer detectives.

I don't think the beer company desires to restrict supply geographically so much as it does not bother to clear it's beer with the MN regulatory machinery designed to protect its citizens from this beer.

Now that this undercover operation has made this rogue beer smuggler feel the sting of justice the citizens of MN can sleep a little easier.

BTW, these arcane laws are the by-product "state's rights" and big money of alcohol distribution corporations determining what those laws are.

The producers want the beer to go wherever, and the retailers want any beer they can get, and the customers want to drink it. The only one's against it are the distribution companies who want to control what flows into the state so they can control who profits from it (them). Because it is a drug, there are laws regulating it. Unfortunately, it isn't just one coherent and uniform Federal law as it should be. Instead, State's demand to make their own laws which when combined with no limits on corporate $ influence in politics inherently equals corruption and violation of liberty in the service of corporate profit.

So, I agree with the OP. State's rights are often destructive to liberty, and corporate influence on politics is almost always destructive to liberty.

 

[dismal]

They are being prosecuted for breeching MN's (the inbound state's) tight grip on the supply of beer to the state.

The citizen's of MN are being protected from this enjoyable beer by these beer informants and undercover beer detectives.

I don't think the beer company desires to restrict supply geographically so much as it does not bother to clear it's beer with the MN regulatory machinery designed to protect its citizens from this beer.

Now that this undercover operation has made this rogue beer smuggler feel the sting of justice the citizens of MN can sleep a little easier.

BTW, these arcane laws are the by-product "state's rights" and big money of alcohol distribution corporations determining what those laws are.

The producers want the beer to go wherever, and the retailers want any beer they can get, and the customers want to drink it. The only one's against it are the distribution companies who want to control what flows into the state so they can control who profits from it (them). Because it is a drug, there are laws regulating it. Unfortunately, it isn't just one coherent and uniform Federal law as it should be. Instead, State's demand to make their own laws which when combined with no limits on corporate $ influence in politics inherently equals corruption and violation of liberty in the service of corporate profit.

So, I agree with the OP. State's rights are often destructive to liberty, and corporate influence on politics is almost always destructive to liberty.

I think it's a mistake to assume state's rights lead to undercover beer police.

State's rights allow citizens in each state to get just the amount of undercover beer policing they deserve.

 

[ronburgundy]

BTW, these arcane laws are the by-product "state's rights" and big money of alcohol distribution corporations determining what those laws are.

The producers want the beer to go wherever, and the retailers want any beer they can get, and the customers want to drink it. The only one's against it are the distribution companies who want to control what flows into the state so they can control who profits from it (them). Because it is a drug, there are laws regulating it. Unfortunately, it isn't just one coherent and uniform Federal law as it should be. Instead, State's demand to make their own laws which when combined with no limits on corporate $ influence in politics inherently equals corruption and violation of liberty in the service of corporate profit.

So, I agree with the OP. State's rights are often destructive to liberty, and corporate influence on politics is almost always destructive to liberty.

I think it's a mistake to assume state's rights lead to undercover beer police.

State's rights allow citizens in each state to get just the amount of undercover beer policing they deserve.

State's rights create 50 times the bureaucracy with regard to what is legal to do and consume. They are responsible the inter-state commerce regulations and the inconsistent laws making what is legal in one state, illegal in another, which in turn creates an opportunity for distributors of goods to put supply manipulations along every state border.

If alcohol were regulated at only the Federal level, then the only beer that it would be illegal to sell in MN was beer that it was illegal to sell anywhere. No beer legally produced in the US would be restricted in its sale and distribution to any wanting customer in the US.

 

[dismal]

I think it's a mistake to assume state's rights lead to undercover beer police.

State's rights allow citizens in each state to get just the amount of undercover beer policing they deserve.

State's rights create 50 times the bureaucracy with regard to what is legal to do and consume. They are responsible the inter-state commerce regulations and the inconsistent laws making what is legal in one state, illegal in another, which in turn creates an opportunity for distributors of goods to put supply manipulations along every state border.

If alcohol were regulated at only the Federal level, then the only beer that it would be illegal to sell in MN was beer that it was illegal to sell anywhere. No beer legally produced in the US would be restricted in its sale and distribution to any wanting customer in the US.

And the people of Minnesota would lose their power to protect their citizens from this beer.

 

[ZiprHead]

So, was the cow carrying skittles?

 

[ronburgundy]

State's rights create 50 times the bureaucracy with regard to what is legal to do and consume. They are responsible the inter-state commerce regulations and the inconsistent laws making what is legal in one state, illegal in another, which in turn creates an opportunity for distributors of goods to put supply manipulations along every state border.

If alcohol were regulated at only the Federal level, then the only beer that it would be illegal to sell in MN was beer that it was illegal to sell anywhere. No beer legally produced in the US would be restricted in its sale and distribution to any wanting customer in the US.

And the people of Minnesota would lose their power to protect their citizens from this beer.

You mean that the government of Minnesota would lose its power to violate personal liberties that the Fed constitution protects.

 

[dismal]

And the people of Minnesota would lose their power to protect their citizens from this beer.

You mean that the government of Minnesota would lose its power to violate personal liberties that the Fed constitution protects.

Government is the things we choose to do together.

The people of Minnesota have decided not to let Minnesotans swill down whatever beer they can get their hands on together.

They have also decided to fund undercover beer police together.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

They also decided to make Jesse Ventura their governor. When you take that into account, the rest starts to make more sense.