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As for the analogy to China, one story during Vlad the Impaler reign in Wallachia he placed a gold cup in the center of every town as a symbol of his authority and none dared steal the cup because the punishments were so severe.
What say you?
I wouldn't put too much stock into a narrowly focused investigation like that. You-and-your-vehicle shouldn't look illogical while traveling. That seems to be the problem. There's no mention of game-wardens, who can pull-you-over too. There's the Mounties, the Texas Rangers... you just can't attract attention to your vehicle, then vent at authorities for your-own unwittingness.
You-and-your-vehicle shouldn't look illogical while traveling. That seems to be the problem. There's no mention of game-wardens, who can pull-you-over too. There's the Mounties, the Texas Rangers... you just can't attract attention to your vehicle, then vent at authorities for your-own unwittingness.
I'm not sure how to respond, except to say that is the most un-American, fascist, dangerous attitude I have heard on this forum so far. It's the citizens responsibility to "look logical." Don't do anything that attracts the attention or "the man" will come - search you, and if he can't find anything illegal - he'll just take the cash you have without a trial. That will teach those citizens not to look illogical! it is their own fault anyway - this is America, you should fit in!Which brings me to my next point, it seems as if the government is trying to discourage people from using cash. I wonder why they would do that? Makes it easy to track people?I think the game warden generally has to find proof that an illegal act has likely been or will likely be committed (like you come walking out of the woods with a basket of fish in one hand and dynamite in the other). The police, just take cash - no evidence of anything illegal at all - just having cash is enough for them to take it - does that sound like the America way to you?
Carrying gigantic sums of paper-cash in your car has nothing to do with patriotism.It's illogical to do that. That's why you convert cash into 'travelers checks' before you go somewhere, or wire-transfer your funds to yourself at your destination via Western Union. Just show ID and signature. Police, in every country since the beginning of time, are suspicious of large amounts of currency in-transit, absent of bonded security safeguards. Sure, it's legal to transport it if it's yours and you can prove it. But it's considered 'suspicious', thus warranted to be temporarily seized and safeguarded. If it's a 'few thousand', the overwhelming majority of officers couldn't care less about you keeping it, and will probably advise you to carry travelers checks instead of cash. Read my posts to see how un-American I am, then get back to me.
Speed-traps are road-pirating.
Temporarily seizing large amounts of currency isn't.
What are they supposed to do if they found unusually-large amounts of postage-stamps, Government-bonds, patent-letters, contract-bids, money-orders, Treasury-securities, vehicle-ID lists, precious metals, sealed documents, license-plates, etc.? Not to mention their adherence to US-Code, Chapter 25's Fed counterfeiting and trafficking statutes.
The currency is being transported on public streets and roads.
You can get it back after 'jumping through various hoops', depending on the location of the pullover. It's not supposed to be easy.
Every 'agency', municipality, county, and state are audited. Authorities aren't just 'divvying it up'. Otherwise, why don't they just find obscurely-ordanced reasons to enter private residences and seize even more cash?
The WaPo-article is just a thinly disguised leftwing anti-police hit-piece. Like I said; game-wardens, park-rangers, et al, can pull you over too. Why aren't they lumped-into the 'road pirate' scenario?
And worse of all, we have a weakened constitution.By allowing the federal government to use a flimsy excuse to grab a power that they are not granted in the constitution (namely, telling people what they can and cannot consume); we weaken the constitution. Then, when they use that same excuse to regulate guns, confiscate your property or any number of things that you do happen to care about – you will cry foul, and only then pay attention to the constitution and the limited and enumerated powers granted to the government. What say you?
I say it is all true, and good reason to work for real change. I don't think we get that without doing something VERY different. Or, all the methods of change we've grown up thinking worked, do not work. In fact, from what I can tell, a great deal of the time our efforts produce results opposite of what we are lead to expect.For this reason I scratched real hard to get to the bottom of our expectations as Americans, and came up with a very different approach.http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/the-constitution/it's-crazy-to-consider-article-v-without-preparation-for-it/
He was called "the Impaler" - I would not have touched his shit either.A thought just occurred to me. The "Impaler" would make the best porn name ever!Cool story, I never heard that before. Thanks.
With ALL the "Dracula" movies out there. And I don't know how many which talk about "vlad" and "vlad the impaler" I find that hard to believe.Unless you happen not to reside in any Western nations that is.