One Reason Why NOAA May Need Guns: They're Crooks

From the National Examiner: As raw December 1998 swept over the Atlantic off New Bedford, Mass., scallop fisherman Larry Yacubian brought around his boat, Independence, hailed by the Coast Guard. The officers who boarded his fishing vessel didn't tell Yacubian it was a setup to coerce out of him a ruinous fine and to destroy his life so thoroughly he could never get it back.
Captain Yacubian lost his business, his boat, his license to fish -- and literally the farm that had been in the family for generations -- trying to exonerate himself of false accusations that he had been fishing in a prohibited area and free himself from a malicious prosecution for lies that he never told. His persecutor? The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Two weeks ago, Captain Yacubian filed the lawsuit that may well restore his money and his life after nearly 15 years of gut-wrenching bludgeoning by the NOAA.
 The Commerce Department's inspector general reviewed the NOAA's Asset Forfeiture Fund -- where Yacubian's $430,000 fine went -- and found that "these funds were used to purchase 'luxurious' undercover vessels, buy 202 vehicles for a staff of 172 enforcement personnel, and take trips around the world."
A special investigative judge concluded there is "credible evidence that money was NOAA's motivating objective in this case." There's also knowledgeable belief that the NOAA's purpose is to eradicate the fishing industry.
The undercover pleasure boats zoomed around Puget Sound on frivolous "Booze Cruises" to entertain NOAA employees and their families, as I noted in a previous column  http://washingtonexaminer.com/a-fisherman-sues-the-feds-for-acting-like-crooks/article/2505139#.UC9TNqA8VXs
Read the rest of the article and the story will make your blood boil.  This is an example of government out of control and why people are pissed off at government and their employees.
No wonder NOAA had to buy ammo.  The way they treat citizens, they will need it to protect themselves.
Perhaps it is time for another tea party?