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To: SUSSA
You missed the part about structuring transactions to avoid the reporting requirement. If the clerk thinks you are buying in less than 10k increments to avoid the law he can turn you in. Buy a $6,000 projection TV this week and come back next month and buy an $8,000 DVD and sound system and he can report you.

"receives more than $10,000 in coins or currency in 1 transaction (or 2 or more related transactions)" emphasis mine
Personally, I don't know any clerks who would think purchases made a month apart were "related transactions" under this law....but I guess if you really pissed the clerk off, he could technically use this law against you....since I don't know how you treat clerks, I will grant you might be in danger.

The idea that we should deprive all people of the right to purchase items with cash is the same type of thinking that says we should do away with the right to own and carry guns because some people do bad things with guns.

Congratulations! You are the first person to link this law to a violation of the Second Amendment. Now we are assured this thread will get another 300 hits.
And before anyone flames me on that comment, please note my car has a bumper sticker that says Armed Men are Citizens Unarmed Men are Subjects.

372 posted on 11/25/2001 7:44:50 AM PST by JD86
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To: JD86
The DVD and sound system are major components of well set up media room. They are related by the fact that they are used together.

The thought process that makes it OK to strip away one right is the same one used to strip away others. One problem we face in defending our rights is too many people only want to protect the rights they think apply to them.

Someone uses credit cards and checks so the right to use cash is not a concern to them. Someone else (Rosie) has a team of armed guards and rides around in a limo, so the right to own and carry a gun isn't important to her. The thought process is the same.

The small infringements of our rights grow into larger ones and we slip ever farther down the slope to subjugation. Stopping the erosion of our rights means stopping all erosion notjust the erosion of rights we are using at the moment.

373 posted on 11/25/2001 8:02:37 AM PST by SUSSA
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