Posted on 09/07/2012 5:47:04 AM PDT by shove_it
They were between a rock and a hard spot. If they knowingly sold the coins knowing they were stolen property that would undoubtedly come out sooner or later. While I don’t have much use for the government; especially now, I don’t know how I would have handled this situation. Maybe moved out of the country and sold them abroad. And then I don’t know how long the reach of our government would be if they were deemed to be stolen property.
Another story that begs the question “why do so many blindly trust the State?”
Very Well Said!! Here, Here!
Wonder what percentage the judge gets on this one? Or is he just making sure his current salary, future raises & SWEET pension and retirement health benefits are “protected” with these assets?
LOL. Yep, that’s 5 huge reasons to like Tennessee.
Davy’s essay “Not yours to give” should be required reading for all US citizens.
All that may be but that was 70+ years ago. These people should have gone to an independent appraiser in Europe or Switzerland. Way beyond the reach of Gov’t money grabbers
Davy’s essay “Not yours to give” should be required reading for all US citizens.
I remember reading about that incident.
Davy Crockett was a Great American. He also had the guts to criticize his patron Jackson, a man I also admire, over the Cherokee Removal policy of that administration. I believe the only real experience Crockett had of Indian Warfare was the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Like Daniel Boone and Robert Rogers, he may have been an Indian Fighter, but he sure wasn’t an Indian Hater. They were all Great Americans.
America was fortunate during its early years in having such figures of stature for later generations to look up to.........until the “educational” institutions started on an agenda of politically correct and distorted propagandizing.
as Machiavelli pointed out in his Discourses on Livy, Republics, in order to last, need to periodically have a “rebirth” in which they look back to and renew their founding principles.
2012 is that time again for us.
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