Friday, June 21, 2013

Businessman Imprisoned For Six Years For Shipping Lobsters In Plastic

The next time some tells you that government has not become too big or too intrusive, consider the case of businessman Abbie Schoenwetter...

(Heritage) The next time a cashier asks “paper or plastic?” think of Abbie Schoenwetter. He spent more than six years in federal confinement for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard.

There’s no American law against doing so. But thanks to a vague, overly broad, and otherwise unjust federal criminal law, the U.S. government claimed it was upholding a Honduran regulation.

Abbie Schoenwetter’s business, health, and family life (he has a wife and three kids) were wiped out because unreasonable federal prosecutors used an unjust law to target Abbie and a Honduran fisherman from whom Abbie purchased his seafood.

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