[FreedomCalls]

Ruling source (pdf).

[dsc]

George III looks better every day. We seem to have traded one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away.

[umgud]

If as stated, this is pure BS! As a matter of fact, I'd prefer no confiscations unless accompanied by a relevant conviction. The WOD has gone too far.

[NYIslander]

This decision is blatantly wrong.

[MadLibDisease]

Does it raise suspicion carrying that kind of cash? Yes. Does it justify the government seizing it? No way in hell. Suspicion is not guilt!

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

What a crock.

Just a note: Would it be possible to amass $100,000 of cash without some drug residue being on some of the bills. Isn't that physically impossible?

I sure hope I never get a drugsniffing dog sic'd onto my wallet after I've made an ATM withdrawl.

[Zon]

[mysterio]

Absolutely and utterly ridiculous. This judge should be impeached and exiled. The failed war on some drugs zealots must be stopped before they shred our entire Constitution.

[skr]

The Ninth Circuit must be contagious.

[Myrddin]

A ridiculous seizure of private property. I'm not surprised the dog alerted. There is lots of cash in circulation with drug residues (cocaine) on it. You may have a $20 bill in your own pocket with such residue at this moment.

The lesson here is to put large sums of money in a bank account and use a wire transfer when the appropriate time comes to transfer it to the intended party. If you do otherwise, the government has decided you are a drug dealer and will confiscate your personal property with no other proof required.

[Tancred]

Associates of Gonzolez testified in court that they had pooled their life savings to purchase a refrigerated truck to start a produce business.

Be that as it may, I find it hard to believe that they are telling the truth. How can they expect to run a business without first starting with a bank account, a cashier's check, anything but over $100 grand in a cooler? Who the heck buys a commercial truck with cash in the first place? We can all understand a few thousand in cash for a used car, but who makes deals like this in cash? Who would accept that kind of money in exchange for a truck anyway?

I think there is more going on here than is presented in this article.

[jiggyboy]

"Don't leave your country without it!"

[Trajan88]

Re: "Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime"

The next thing on the list: "Having Money in a 401(k)/Roth IRA is a Crime." I won't be surprised once Social Security is a vapor of its present form in a couple generations.

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I suggest you read the decision.

[SmoothTalker]

Very dangerous ruling and not one in keeping with a free society.

[Cacique]

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[goldstategop]

Fascism is what it is! Next be we'll arrested for carrying cash in our wallets and purses!

( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[hosepipe]

"You're papers please"

[snowsislander]

Yesterday the Eighth Circuit summarily dismissed Gonzolez's story. It overturned a lower court ruling that had found no evidence of drug activity, stating, "We respectfully disagree and reach a different conclusion... Possession of a large sum of cash is 'strong evidence' of a connection to drug activity."

Ridiculous. When just having cash is taken as evidence of a crime, then there is something far wrong with how we are doing things.

[freepatriot32]

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