Beating “The Man”….

….we’ve written here before of the police-state tactics your government uses to go after small farmers….everything from court actions intended to bankrupt anyone who defies a regulator to swat team invasions in the middle of the night.  This business of selling healthy food direct off the farm has got to be stopped!

The other day there was an important victory (see “Victory for a farmer…” below) against these strong-arm tactics though we wondered if winning on three of four charges would be enough for Wisconsin farmer Vernon Hershberger.  They did get him on a minor charge but still it could mean a year in jail.

This article discusses what a charade that conviction was and quite a bit more about the trial.  If we haven’t convinced of the lengths your government will go to protect Big Ag, we hope you’ll read the link:

http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/gumpert1.1.1.html

Our thanks to cattleman David Nortunen in Wisconsin for the link.  We were pleasant surprised to see that Glenn Reynolds…who blogs under the pseudonym Instapundit was the lead defense attorney.