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US Mint confiscates gold coins that never officially existed
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| 08/26/05
Posted on 08/26/2005 2:50:46 PM PDT by RoyalsFan
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posted on
08/26/2005 2:50:47 PM PDT
by
RoyalsFan
To: RoyalsFan
2
posted on
08/26/2005 2:54:38 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: RoyalsFan
Lesson: Don't ask, don't tell.
To: RoyalsFan
Private property rights went out the window last month anyways.
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posted on
08/26/2005 2:55:37 PM PDT
by
printhead
To: RoyalsFan
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. This person was a chump to give them to the U.S. Mint.
Never forget the Golden Rule. Those with the gold make the rules.
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posted on
08/26/2005 2:56:01 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: RoyalsFan
=/
That's gotta give you an aneurysm.
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posted on
08/26/2005 2:56:19 PM PDT
by
Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
To: RoyalsFan
Bottom line: stolen property doesn't become legitimate through inheritance.
To: printhead
Private property rights went out the window last month anyways. They were not private property, they were stolen property.
8
posted on
08/26/2005 2:59:03 PM PDT
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
To: Publius
It's a different article, read it.
9
posted on
08/26/2005 3:00:31 PM PDT
by
RoyalsFan
(Freepmail me if you want on my Kansas City Royals ping list)
To: RoyalsFan
a small number of specimens were known to have "escaped" into private hands.Escaped = stolen. If she's so stupid as to show them to the Mint, from where they were originally stolen, she deserves to have them taken.
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posted on
08/26/2005 3:01:04 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: RoyalsFan
If only she had known what would happen, she could have melted them down or simply hammered them flat. IMHO, the government should at least compensate her for the amount of the gold.
11
posted on
08/26/2005 3:03:09 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
So true. An elementary lesson in Property 101 in Law School. That's also why descendants of Holocaust victims are suing to get back artwork the Nazis stole from them that then ended up in the hands of questionable art dealers and wealthy collectors.
To: Sender
She should have taken them out of the country for resale, where the mint couldn't snatch them so easily.
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posted on
08/26/2005 3:07:28 PM PDT
by
GhostofWCooper
(enough's enough. Deport them and build the fence.)
To: RoyalsFan
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posted on
08/26/2005 3:08:12 PM PDT
by
WKB
(A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
To: GhostofWCooper
She should have just shown the Mint ONE coin to see what would happen. Ten surely required action by the Feds...they couldn't have someone who was gonna drain the nation's bank account asking for her $$$$.
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
To: GhostofWCooper
"She should have taken them out of the country for resale, where the mint couldn't snatch them so easily."
Are you a fence?
To: TexasTransplant
"Statute of Limitations?"
Doesn't change the fact that the property is stolen.
To: Sender
Good PR for government if they let her keep one of the coins as a reward for returning the other stolen/lost coins. That way both parties can leave happy.
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posted on
08/26/2005 3:17:28 PM PDT
by
Fee
(Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
To: Prime Choice
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. LOL
With the exception of hundreds of years of American common law, and more than a thousand years of English common law before that.
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posted on
08/26/2005 3:20:27 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
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