So. Dumb.

Government Protects Us From Unlicensed Beer - John Stossel:

"America’s Founders had a great idea: government should be limited. It should keep the peace, and do a few others things like run the courts and the Post Office, but otherwise leave us alone. Fast forward to 2010, when Drudge has this link up:

Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers; Dozens of gallons seized...

More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers...

Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board ....
Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars, run by Leigh Maida and her husband....

In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone."