Common Folk Using Common Sense

From the Examiner:

Here’s a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.

Officials seized 2,400 bottles late last month during warehouse raids in Nashville and Lynchburg, the southern Tennessee town where the whiskey is distilled.

“Punish the person, not the whiskey,” said an outraged Kyle MacDonald, 28, a Jack Daniel’s drinker from British Columbia who promotes the whiskey on his blog. “Jack never did anything wrong, and the whiskey itself is innocent.”

Tennessee law requires officials to destroy whiskey that cannot be sold legally in the state, such as bottles designed for sale overseas and those with broken seals.

The estimated value of the liquor is $1 million, possibly driven up by the value of the antique bottles, which range from 3-liter bottles to half-pints.

One seized bottle dates to 1914, with its seal unbroken. Elks said it is worth $10,000 on the collectors market.

As an American lad of Scottish descent, and a lover of fine scotch, I find this appalling in the utmost that these fine bottles, filled with Heaven’s Bounty, could be poured out on the ground. Although I could see the possibility of a lot of really happy earthworms.

This is the same as finding a secret cache of Picasso paintings being destroyed just because someone didn’t pay the correct tax on them when they were sold.

Fred Thompson, please return to your home and stop this massacre before it happens.

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