Posted on 04/02/2009 10:04:55 AM PDT by Errant
Must see video... Know your rights!
But you agree, of course, that he ought to be able to move on whether he chose to explain it or not, right?
He was carrying $4700 in proceeds from book t-shirt and merchandise sales from a libertarian political rally in St. Louis. His fear was that Missouri had published guidelines that included Ron Paul supporters as profiled domestic terrorists. The TSA dudes had also seen and read political literature he had in his posession and knew his political affiliation. The harassment stopped when an FBI agent stepped in and whispered to the TSA agents to let him go. They did.
$4,700 or so. Gee could have been winnings from a casino!
I’m sure this happens to Soros all the time.S/
The same thing happens if you try to cash a check for 10k or more.
The Fed now has the right to track everyone with 10k in cash. Where you got it, and what you spend it on!
$4700 isn’t that much money.
This was a brave man. With five men questioning him, cursing, and being abrasive, it is a wonder he held his temper. This was outrageous, they had no right to hold him and question why he had that money. It wasn't their business - they had no cause to know as thre was no prior connection with drug running or anything. Even if he told them, they probably would not have believed them and kept holding him until that FBI guy told them to let him go. Meanwhile, probably other thugs passed by who they should have been worried about.
Typical police attitude and actions. Nothing to see here, move along.
“I believe $10k is the current minimum you have to declare.”
Only if you are leaving the country.
I took over 10 times that when I flew to Phoenix to pay the balance and pick up an airplane I bought.
Land of the free indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFEzzXbzso
I like this version - NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR KIDS
Its Chris Rock
Coulda been drugs, surprised they didn’t confiscate it.
Look up laws on structured transactions or "smurfing." It's completely Orwellian. The Bank Secrecy Act requires banking institutions to report (to the fedgov) transactions over $10,000 through a CTR or currency transaction report. On the flip side of that coin, they are also required to report the suspicion of transactions that appear to be structured to avoid the reports...so if you're providing a goods or services that result in repeated transactions of $9K or so, you will be reported for suspicion of attempts to avoid the $10,000 reporting threshold!
You’re lucky you weren’t stopped for carrying drug money. You’d still be trying to prove your innocence to get your money back.
It's not. But, that's the unintended (or perhaps intended) war on drugs has left us with. I'm not one for legalizing or even decriminalizing drugs, but some of these laws that have been passed to fight drug trafficking only hamper honest citizens who are engaging in no criminal activity.
In some states, transporting large sums of cash can be used as prima fascia evidence of a drug transaction - just cash, no drugs. And as such, the money can be confiscated and the car impounded as part the "forfeiture" laws. It then becomes the citizens obligation to prove the money isn't dirty, rather than the other way around. How this isn't unconstitutional, I have no idea.
another thing to piss me off......
bump
If I had the nerve this guy did, I would have tried to determine the IDs of the people holding him and then sue them under all the Civil Liberties laws that the left uses to imprison us all.
ML/NJ
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