Found this on the interweb...brilliant!
Our politicians & civil servants always want to be right there with a sound bite that demonstrates they are all for ‘civil rights’, ‘equal protection under the law’ and zero tolerance for ‘discrimination’ yet here they are discriminating against a whole bunch of us and no one raises a fuss. Does New Hampshire’s Bill of Rights mean anything or are Constitutional guarantees of rights and liberties a thing of the past? Should a State be able to (legally) discriminate against one group of its citizens by taxing them for the same behavior (a Right) as another group of its citizens not subject to the tax? Southern states used to tax black citizens to vote in elections while giving whites citizens a pass on the tax. The Supreme Court found it unconstitutional and illegal to do so. In the present instance to force dog owners to ask permission while other pet owners are not equally having their property rights affected is discriminatory and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! More importantly, when the highest court in this country tells us that “the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity" should I listen to them (the highest court in the land who’s decisions reflect the highest LAW in the land) or a lesser corporate government entity (a town) acting contrary to New Hampshire’s Bill of Rights and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States referenced above?
Some will just roll their eyes and say to pay the damn fee - it’s the law - they will cite you - they seize your dog. Well, if they try to fine you, cite you or seize your pet (property) without due process (a court fight) then they are attempting to utilize what’s called a “bill of attainder” which is described in the United States Code (under Cummings v. Missouri 1867) as "a legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial and includes any legislative act which takes away the life, liberty or property of a particular named or easily ascertainable person or group of persons because the legislature thinks them guilty of conduct which deserves punishment." Bills of Attainder passed by Federal or State legislatures are unconstitutional (
Bill of attainder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) according to our Constitution and if authorities (dog officers or town officials) attempt to violate Constitutional protections and Rights while falling back on the old excuse that they were “only doing their jobs” they may wish to consider the Supreme Court’s ruling (Owen v. Independence) that said "Officers of the court have no immunity, when violating a constitutional right, from liability. For they are deemed to know the law." Furthermore, Title 18 of the United States Code, Chapter 13, Section 241 (Conspiracy against rights) states: “If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same - They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;” Your town might consider how much of their legal budget they wish to use up in defense of a possible civil rights lawsuit or if their enforcement of a questionably Constitutional statute is worth being imprisoned for up to ten years for violating Title 18/Chapter 13, Section 241. At the very least they might wonder if $2,000. In annual dog tax revenue is worth pissing off even one Citizen when one looks at the down side.