In America they use asset forfeiture to enrich themselves. In third world countries you just bribe them.
Gold has no smell.
What ever happened to due process?
IF.... givernment CAN TAX property you OWN.......
Then you are in fact RENTING IT from the givernment..
Even makes a ...not so wise... person go... Hmmmmmm..
I could support at least some of these laws if they were modified from what I understand them to be now.OK,a guy is stopped for a broken tail light.The cop smells marijuana.Calls in the drug sniffing dog who alerts on the car,giving the cop the right to search.During the search he finds $25,000 (all $5 bills) under the floor board.I think they should be able to seize that cash for a limited period (30 days...maybe 60) and if criminal charges related to the money aren’t filed during that limited period the money must be returned.If charges *are* filed the money is held until a verdict is rendered or until the charges are dropped or dismissed.
And here you silly proles thought you could keep the fruits of your labor.
No sarcasm, because you own absolutely nothing under a totalitarian regime, like the one currently residing in Washington DC. Challenge that premise under the penalty or ruin, imprisonment, or death.
Ping!
So tell me why the people shouldn’t act the same as these criminals!.... it’s obviously every man for himself.
One more egregious wrong by oppressive government which helps bring ever closer the coming Social War. Use of the criminal justice system to raise funds inevitably brings abuses.
With the "War on Drugs" scheme, we moved well past the point where Atlas Shrugged to making human nature and the Bill of Rights illegal.
Volusia County in Florida routinely stops southbound Cadillacs and new big Lincoln sedans with NY or NJ or MA license plates for stop-and-seize because of the phenomenon of moderately successful yankees taking all their savings in cash to go to Florida to retire. They stop them, trigger a dog to “alert” on the car, search it and find the old couple’s hoard of cash. It is taken and never returned. Volusia will fight it out in court as far as it goes and I don’t think anyone has got anything back. Lawyers don’t like to sue for it because it is kind of fruitless. Volusia says, well. it’s drug money and tests positive for traces of cocaine. Just about all non crisp brand new 50s and 100s test positive for cocaine. I would have thought this would have ended years ago as people up north got the word but apparently it has not ended. Probably more old folks who left their cash in the bank and are travelling on Visa are apologized to and left by the side of the road to put their possessions and the insides of their cars back together to continue their journey.
Liberals got us big government. This is the spearpoint of big government.
Our local police were making out like dot.com entrepreneurs, `feathering their nest’ with new carpeting, big screen TVs, exercise equipment and more.
You would think confiscations would go into the general fund, but no, it was booty.
I decided to read the comments at the source and one of the last was very good. Questioned the training of the dogs. What if the dogs are trained to smell for cash?