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"Common People Do Not Carry This Much Currency" – How Police Justify Stealing American Citizens' Money
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Police confiscating Americans’ hard earned cash, as well as a wide variety of other valuables, without an arrest or conviction is a disturbing and growing practice throughput these United States. Since cops get to keep the seized funds and use the money on pretty much anything they want, the practice is becoming endemic in certain parts of the nation. The theft is often referred to simply as civil forfeiture, or civil asset forfeiture. Incredibly, under civil forfeiture laws your property is incredibly “guilty until you prove it innocent.”
The extent of the problem came to my attention last summer after reading an excellent article by Sarah Stillman in the New Yorker. The article struck such a chord with me, I penned a post highlighting it and addressing the issue, titled: Why You Should Never, Ever Drive Through Tenaha, Texas. That article ended up being one of my most popular posts of 2013.
Fast forward a year, and many mainstream publications have also jumped on the topic. Most notably, the Washington Post published an excellent article last month titled, Stop and Seize, which I strongly suggest reading if you haven’t already.
Fortunately for us all, the issue has also caught the eye of the always hilarious, John Oliver of Last Week Tonight. The following clip from his show is brilliant. Not only is it hilarious, but it will hopefully educate a wider audience about this insidious practice so that it can be stopped once and for all.
As one officer admitted in an affidavit justifying his confiscation of an innocent driver’s cash:
“Common people do not carry this much U.S. currency.”
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Americans should be concerned because we are slowly being stripped of our freedoms. Not only is big-brother watching he is leaning on us big time. This is beginning to look like the society we have read about the totalitarian society of Oceania described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Orwell's novel, all citizens of Oceania are monitored by cameras and are fed fabricated news stories by the government. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-we-creating-orwellian-society...
Home of the free.
I call it robbery by the new mafia
The police have always been CORRUPT. Some practices simply receive more publicity (e.g., "civil forfeiture" - and the Internet has made them more visible now.
My father never paid a speeding or parking ticket in his life - and he "took care" all all those we received as teenagers.
He had a chain of supermarkets, paid off the cops, donated to the "right" political campaigns, gave out "gifts" at Christmas, etc. It was simply a cost of doing business in the city.
NOTE: Police in the USA are actually criminals that have not been arrested yet, or jailed.
In the City of Atlanta you can be hired with a misdemeanor.
So bad, it IS amusing to
macabre sense of humour,
& GETTING WORSE FASTER,
AT AN EXPONENTIAL RATE!
Same things are happening in Canada, e.g.:
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/Mulgrew+civil+forfeiture+become+government+cash+grab/7955719/story.html
B.C.’s civil forfeiture law has become government cash grab
Here's another one from this side of the border.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/03/first-they-took-his-guns-now-the...
After the erlier pro cop vituperative diatribe I did a quick look see and found no trace of HeadBanger. Things that make you go Hmmm...
US cops are thieves.
And if they don't get you driving down the road with cash, they'll get you after a beer with your buddies, and take every dime you've got.
This is local to me –
Three Romulus cops plead no contest in corruption case
Jennifer Chambers, The Detroit News 6:05 p.m. EDT October 7, 2014
“In one year alone, the officers were accused of spending $40,000 in forfeiture funds on prostitutes, marijuana and alcohol, according to prosecutors. Michael St. Andre was accused of using $75,000 from the funds to pay for trips and to buy his wife a tanning salon business.”
Just wait till the police have their pension plans cut in half or more. Talk about some pissed off people allowed to carry a gun. You know it's going to happen when city's no longer can pay for healthcare, god help me, more raises, when RE and when the stock market is going to crash soon, very soon. Where is the income (money) to pay for all these so called services to come from. Oh yeah, Biden was in Los Angles asking, pleading that the minimum wage should be raised to $13.25 a hour. For those that do not know. Minimum wage in Los Angles is $7.25 an hour now. Also I'm sure everyone knows that Wally World just dropped health care for people working less than I think 30 hours a week. I don't know where I'm going with this rant but I don't see a happy ending.
The crash has begun. It my take a month or two.... Or a weekend.
I believe that, in some States, if a teacher and a policeman both work 30 years and get the same pay, the policeman gets 3 times the retirement check. A multiplier of 3 is applied to the policeman's time by the State retirement system. So you need only reduce the multiplier to 1, the same as the teacher, State highway worker, and the other State employees.
Now this is some funny stuff right here...
Getchur jestor's hat & some groucho glasses, a kardashian ass pad, some fake pec's, flesh colored sleeves complete with tatoos...
Woot woot, you say civil forfeiture?
I saw a Chinese man pulling 100 dollar bills out of his back pocket at a grocery store. He didn't even have a wallet. I suspected him right away of being a Chinese national up to no good in my city. His father was probably Chairman Mao.
"When they came for the Chinese, I said nothing, because I wasn't Chinese...."
When they came for the
black man
Japanese man
Hispanic
Catholic
Muslim
Mormon
Etc. etc. etc.
I said nothing, because I wasn't _____.
But when they came for the Zionist , I helped them. ;)
willygroper:
Now this is some funny stuff right here...
Getchur jestor's hat & some groucho glasses, a kardashian ass pad, some fake pec's, flesh colored sleeves complete with tatoos...
Woot woot, you say civil forfeiture?
Fer fucks sake that reporter is an asshole. That is NOT a gdamned 3D printer. It's a freakin SCAM, you can buy a gdamned jig to finish off a 80% lower for $90.00
Anybody ever hear of a gangster named Al Capone?
Al Capone had a Cadillac car and I'm sure he had plenty of money to boot. He was the first US businessman to 'earn' 100 million dollars a year.
He opened soup kitchens in Chicago and helped old ladies who were having trouble making a go of it.
He was delivering 20 thousand gallons of beer each day in and around Chicago.
His brother was a revenuer for the fed gov and made his living in Nebraska.
His lawyer 'Easy' Eddie O'Hare had a son who became a war hero and an ace pilot. Chicago's O'Hare Airport bears his name.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1....
Those were the days when you could have money, but you can't anymore.
It is better to not carry a cent with you when you are traveling.
"If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If we could find a way to get inside each other's mind
If you could see you through my eyes instead of your ego
I believe you'd be surprised to see that you'd been blind
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
Well, your whole world you see around
You is just a reflection
And the law of common says
You're gonna reap just what you sow
So unless you've lived a life
Of total perfection
Mmm, you'd better be careful of every stone
That you should throw
Yet we spend the day throwin' stones at one another
'Cause I don't think or wear my hair same way you do
Well, I may be common people but I'm your brother
And when you strike out and try to hurt me it's a hurtin' you
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
There are people on reservations
And out in the ghettos
And brother, there, but for the grace of God
Go you and I
If I only had the wings of little angels
Don'tcha you know I'd fly
To the top of the mountain
And then I'd cry?
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Better walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Oh, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
Joe South, Walk a Mile in My Shoes
If you walked a mile in my shoes, your feet would really stink.
And from the Senior Senator from the North East Kingdom.... (Vermont).......
Leahy, for instance, was stopped at a different checkpoint in New York and told to get out his car, he recalled at a separate hearing last month. When he asked the Border Patrol agent under whose authority he was working, the agent pointed to his gun.
“That’s all the authority I need,” the agent said, according to Leahy.
I don’t think “turning cops into robbers” was the legislatures’ intent...or was it? No conviction, often no arrest, no due process, guilty until proven innocent. Scratch Amendment 5 “No person shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” off the list too.
Why has this not been successfully challenged in court? Oh, wait, the black-robed pussies are in on the racket too, holding hands like fags with the executive & legislative branches under the one-party system of elephant & jackass sock puppets.
These people called judges would also decorate street lamps quite nicely.
Here's lookin at you John Roberts.
Once a few more government agents get pinged Pennsylvania Style, all government agents will arm up.
This is the reason for the hollow points.
Geneva convention doesn't apply to criminals.
Taking your Cash......Is that to force you to use Credit?
I know the Canadian Government sent out a warning about carring cash in the USA.
I just did a 6 wek holiday in europe and Africa. Had $3500. EURO and $3000. . Kind of hard to find a bank in the Serengeti
If I transfered planes in Texas and they ruined my holiday I would lose it and create an International incident where I would never stop dedicating my life to offer Payback to all Americans. It's your back yard to clean up......Waiting.
By the way I avoid the USA , also Mexico. all except Hawaii.....better there.
It is getting more and more difficult to get CASH out of the U.S. It used to be that any amount under $10,000 was easy; now they question the Hell out of you.
Better to WIRE-TRANSFER it from an existing U.S. bank account to a foreign account.
Litigation against an inanimate object is a relic of the roman civil law as well as the admiralty. If a Brick fell off a building and killed someone , they would have a trial and banish it from town.
Anyhow, it doesn't matter if the STATE "legalizes" theft.
Niether policy nor custom excuse a tort.
Torts are they remedy against State actors and people using State power as cover.
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If and when it happens to me, I'll lose the money alright, but I will get the cops name, and 5 years later, I will burn his house down.
I know someone who did just that. A Molotov cocktail. The cop wasn't home and they caught the guy. the wife and two children were home . 3 counts of attempted murder ......15 years.....after getting broom handled he ended up liking it ....Someones Bitch........Just sayin
After 5 years of planning, it won't be a molotov cocktail....
But you do bring up a good point. Why wait 5 years? Something more benign like a few hundered credit applications in cops name may put a thought or two in the storm trooper's skull....
"Common people don't drive Teslas. Hand it over, sucka!"
I'm going to cut a stack of computer paper up into dollar bill size strips, and make several wads wrapped in tens or twenties, and leave them in my glove compartment.
If I get pulled over, I can throw one or two on the dashboard, passengers seat, or back seat.
What can they do, confiscate 50 bucks?
That's probably cheaper than the ticket they will forget to write.
Dawg they'll count that shit straight right in front of your eyes.
Would they let me know if it pissed them off?
Yep, they'll rough you up good and take you in for being a a) terrizz, b) kidnapper, or c) whatever fancies their mind at the time.
I'm not kidding either. That's the shitty reality of the times.
They could seize your CAR or anything else they wanted - just to force you to pay legal fees to get it back!
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa...hilarious.
fuck you cops,... all of u.
America is a rogue state already.
America is a police state.
American police is armed like military.
American police kills its citizens on the slightest verbal threat.
American police robs its citizens (as well as foreigners)
American police helps the banksters by forcing people carry credit cards instead of cash.
American police thus helps the semitist bansters who earn more than 35% interest on credit card defaults.
American police has helped in the creation of a semitist state where everyone else is prone to state intimidation.
American police is making America as a prison for its citizens.
American police helps homosexuals to easily migrate to America from any place of earth.
America is an immoral state where drugs & homosexuality have been legalized and also making other countries too adapt the same.
Those damn homosexuals. Definitely all their fault.
Moron.
Experience talking: Don't fuck around with Nevada Staties, they'll hurt you and desert you.
Be car-ful brothers and sisters. When you're on their roads, they have you. They own you. Can destroy you. Forget your rights.
Protect yourself like a corporation. Act in the best interests of your corporation. If you don't know the code, don't drop the load. Just shut up.
Meanwhile, over here I have had zero problems with going to my bank, pulling out the equivalent of about $163,000 in cash, driving off to another bank of mine in a neighboring province and plopping it all in in cash. ZERO problems, no raised eyebrows, no forms to fill out, no proving where this money was from, no cops caring, and the bank was nice enough to give me a bag to hold it all. I was going there anyways, needed the cash moved and didn't feel like paying the cross-province transfer charge (hey, that's gas money!).
Tell me again how the us is some bastion of freedom again....
We shall call you Jason Bourne. Bourne to be robbed.
Not really. Not over here at least. Cameras everywhere, and robbing someone of even 10% of that is enough for a death penalty. Shockingly enough, it's fairly safe. Pretty nice not having to worry about it. Even nicer knowing that the cops are not going to rob you either.
Very common to have a paper bag full of Reminbi or even USD to/from the bank.
Pre-crime without the crime.
Just HOW has the U.S. Supreme Court allowed this practice to continue, given that so many cases have gone to Appeals courts and such "laws" clearly violate the Bill of Rights, especially the 4th and 5th Amendments?
America, how much shit are you going to let yourselves take before you exercise the only remaining legitimate reason for your second ammendment?
Yes, I do mean a rampage. No, I don't mean at a college, military training base or elementary school.
In a single century, 4 American presidents were assassinated. 2 of these presidents were 2 of 3 of the most popular presidents in American history, one of which founded the GOP that now ~50% of Americans are loyal to. Its been 50 years since the last assassination and in those 50 years never have presidents provided more reason to assassinate them. Nixon, Clinton, Dubya, Obama. How the hell is it that Dubya survived both his terms? "Most of our imports come from other countries". Dubya almost got taken out by a pretzel. How is it that there isn't a single American citizen that is more deadly than that pretzel? Was the pretzel made in China? Trained in the ways of the mystical lead paint?
How much worse does it have to get for America? 3 of the 4 presidents that took over after a presidential assassination were very well behaved (Arthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon)... it seems as if a well aimed shot can be worth 8 years good luck, ... just saying, ...
americans are completely incapable of thinking or acting. they watch 60 khz tv day in and day out. they believe their lying jewish mind control press. and are so full of gmo foods, vaccines, and other mind control devices that they simply cannot fight. but it is long long overdue for another american revolution.
BROOKLYN — Two NYPD officers are under criminal investigation after punching and bashing a 16-year-old suspect in the face with a gun despite the teen raising his hands to surrender, according to a video obtained by DNAinfo New York.
Police sued for tasering passenger during traffic stopA federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses Indiana police of excessive force after officers smashed a woman's car window with children inside, tasered an unarmed passenger and dragged him out of the vehicle during a routine traffic stop last month.
the communist jews are in complete control. it is time to fight back.