And what exactly did your neighbor do to incur the armed wrath of the government?
And how exactly does that correlate with private enterprise using its legal powers to reduce illegal copyright infringement of its products?
Basically, he had several businesses. He dipped from one to the other.... kinda like Peter pay Paul syndrome. One of them was a large farm type business, one was two grocery stores, one was a small design ageny of sorts and another was some sort of distribution company. We fell into two of his businesses. I originally started doing signs for his father back in the 70's. We supplied signs for him and also did some design work with him over the years. Again, this was back in the late 80's and 90's. Some of the stuff we did, was sometimes used and sometimes not, but we always got paid, regardless of what the end results were. He was very fair and honest in that respect. What his designers did I had no idea. What he distributed, I had no idea. I can tell you it was nothing illegal, like drugs or girls. His food was impeccable and he was well known for having the best of everything. Suddenly, I heard one day the government came knocking at his door and gave him notice they were gonna start searching/investigating his businesses. He told me, he had no idea why. I think he did, but didn't involve me. We had become friends beside just in business together. Over the next few months, he continued to keep them at bay. He always had excuses to keep them away. Then they started getting more forceful, until one day, he told them to get off his land. They returned the next door with many many people and they had guns, dogs and muscle-power. His wife confided in us, that Horace [his name] had been expecting this and decided he was going to run away until things blew over. They claimed the government was strong arming them, cause they had money and too many write-offs. They didn't think anything would come of it. Well the next day, Horace headed for the hills and they tore the place apart. I never knew the exact reasons, I doubt it was copying logos or selling overpriced cantaloupes, but they came after him without much warning it was gonna happen the way it did.
It was asked how guns and force could happen. I didn't say it had to do with logo infringement, in fact, I pointed that out earlier. It has to do with how someone can be at collecting what's due them. That, I believe entails anything and everything, if you're guilty.
