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...if he is being arrested. All the rhetoric in the world about free markets, entrepreneurship, rugged individualism, and small businesses means absolutely nothing if the state will arrest you for producing without their permission. The whole vicious travesty is summed up best in the headline I'm seeing as I look into this: "Man Accused of Dental Work in Garage."

Does it get any clearer than that? It's a crime to circumvent the whole rotten official process of formal dentistry and just go provide services to people who want them. The smug chuckling you hear is from the FDA as the small threat to their privileged livelihood is forcibly removed. See the "denturistry" quote below for implicit explanation.

Speaking of forcibly removed, get this next one clear in your head as well.

Palm Beach Post: Man did dental work without license, deputies say

The appearance of the sheriff's office at Bean's home on Sunnyside Drive, just off Gun Club Road west of West Palm Beach, raised the ire of neighbors, who liked the kindly, low-cost neighborhood dentist.

One neighbor even screamed over her fence to warn Bean that agents were surrounding the house.

For that, she got a notice to appear in court on an obstruction-of-justice charge.

Copyright © 2007, The Palm Beach Post. All rights reserved.

Kindly tell the next person who claims we live in a free country to SHUT THE FUCK UP.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Palm Beach County man arrested for making false teeth without a license

Ask his neighbors and they'll tell you Roger Bean was the Robin Hood of dentures.

He did fittings and made false teeth for older people who couldn't afford a dentist, and didn't charge them, accepting only donations.

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"There is, of course, health risks with operating this type of facility outside of your house," [Detective Don Zumpano] said.

This guy is the end result of people thinking they have the moral authority to coerce others into living how they want by substituting their judgment for ours. By whatever bankrupt process you wish to call it - representative democracy, monarchy, feudalism - They have set their standards and are going to force You to comply with them. Abandon your values, says the government, or face incarceration.

Denturistry was created to eliminate the dentist -- and a significant amount of the price -- from the denture business, investigators said. In Florida, denture work must be done by a dentist.

Must. There is no negotiation. You may think you own private property and you may think you have the right to earn a living with it, but you'd be wrong in the eyes of the state.

Zumpano said Bean's operation room was "filthy." Even so, people were driving up for service on Tuesday.

Mr. Bean's customers made their choice. They wanted inexpensive and friendly dental work and didn't care if he had a wall of fancy certifications, degrees, awards, licenses, or other costly documents that prove not a damn thing about your ability to do the work you say you can do. They went to his house and took the risk of his "filthy" garage. How dare anyone try to stop their economic exchange, no fundamentally different from me selling lemonade on the street to strangers without Official Permission.

Oh, wait.

Marc Winchester arrived with a missing front tooth. But detectives got there before him. Winchester said Bean, 60, had done denture work for him in the past, and he was showing up again after falling on Monday night.

"I'm surprised," Winchester said. "He didn't seem like the type that would get arrested."

That's because the general population has long since abandoned any rational criteria to judge who is and who isn't a criminal. All that's left is some fuzzy recollection that criminals are shifty-looking people in black clothes who walk around with crowbars and cheap pistols looking for the next quick heist.

In Florida, licensed dentists do denture fittings, said Dr. Phil Bilger, dental director of the Palm Beach County Health Department. "Denturists are not licensed in this state, so they're not held to any standard of care," Bilger said. "There's a whole issue of infection control."

Copyright © 2007, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

...an issue that is the exclusive territory of the patient and the patient's physician to cover.

And just to be absolutely fucking clear about the known facts...There's no indication anyone was injured or received shoddy dentures, said sheriff's Detective Tom Gendreau.

Bullshit from beginning to end. They can't even support their empty rationale with evidence of the real wrongdoing they allegedly wish to prevent.

Either the state should decide who can work and who can produce or it can't. This is a principle, dear reader. Once you've ceded that ground and said yes, there is no theoretical limit to what the government will attempt to control because there will always be some slimy shitbag ready to twist the alleged "limited government" justification until it loses what little meaning it had from the beginning.

If there was any justice in this rotten world, locals would be storming the police compound where he's being held and firing those cops for gross misconduct and breech of contract.

See also: A License to Live, a Permit to Make a Living and Austin Mayor Will Wynn Should Mind His Own Business.