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DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair Straighteners [Trademark]

Yet another example of how trademark law is incompatible with property rights and free markets:

DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair Straighteners

Federal agency founded to fight terrorism continues war on grooming appliancesPaul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, March 26, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security, a federal agency created in the aftermath of 9/11 to fight terrorism, has continued its war on potentially deadly grooming appliances by raiding a home in the affluent Orange County city of Laguna Niguel to seize allegedly counterfeit hair straighteners.

“About 10 investigators with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and special ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents combed through the garage and the single-story house in the 29500 block of Pelican Way near Niguel Road and Alicia Parkway,” reports the Orange County Register.

According to the feds, the American people need to be protected from the threat of counterfeit hair straighteners because they could pose a safety hazard to consumers.

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