They coerced farmers into forfeiting their rights by threatening their very livelihoods.

I think the men and women that work in the Department of Labor are great folks, trying to do the right thing, but were obviously told, given a directive, to impose this arcane and inappropriate use of hot goods in perishable commodities.

You are violating people's due rights. That is not good advertisement for what the United States Government is all about.

We the People are being attacked by our own government without due process.

I think that your Constitutional rights were violated. I think that you have been treated unfairly.

To say I remain troubled regarding how the Department of Labor has pursued the hot goods provision, and its lack of cooperation as we have tried to get a better understanding of the 'whys' and 'hows' is an understatement.

Illegally employing children or not fully compensating workers for their labor, is not condoned by anybody.

The Department of Labor has, frankly, continued to use, as you outlined, this hot goods provision despite the fact that a Federal Court has determined that this action in perishable products on farms is coercive in nature.

They have denied American farmers, my fellow Oregonians, the very due process our Forefathers built our country on.

The Department of Labor, as I have said, did not follow any appropriate process as set out by its own rules.

In taking the actions it did, DOL ignored its own historical precedent, violated Constitutionally protected due process, and subjected family farms to crushing economic harm in these very tough times.