What happened to the Constitution and Due Process?
And then people wonder why people like Eduardo Saverin (FaceBook founder) are denouncing their US citizenship. What the Gov’t can do to these people, they can certainly do to me.
Is this not exactly the type of thing the Founders had in mind when crafting the 2nd amendment?
When is “The Government” not a looter? Think of all the government “services” and “benefits” you currently receive, at every level of government, and then ask yourself how many you would willingly give up rather than have to continue paying for. I would bet 95% or better, so that’s why our contributions to the bureaucratic machine can never be voluntary.
Government usually IS the looter.
Without a conviction, how can “civil asset forfeiture” be legal? Innocent until proven guilty, right?
Taking assets without a conviction is robbery, pure and simple. “Hey, isn’t that marijuana I smell?”
Not surprising. It is surprisingly easy to persecute the innocent these days.
Most of the cash in circulation is tainted by cocaine. If your cash in your wallet is investigated and found to be among the tainted money, guess what, you’re the latest victim in the “War on Drugs”.
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The term “dirty money” is for real.
In the course of its average 20 months in circulation, U.S. currency gets whisked into ATMs, clutched, touched and traded perhaps thousands of times at coffee shops, convenience stores and newsstands. And every touch to every bill brings specks of dirt, food, germs or even drug residue.
Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.
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Money can be contaminated with cocaine during drug deals or if a user snorts with a bill. But not all bills are involved in drug use; they can get contaminated inside currency-counting machines at the bank.
“When the machine gets contaminated, it transfers the cocaine to the other bank notes,” Zuo said. These bills have fewer remnants of cocaine. Some of the dollars in his experiment had .006 micrograms, which is several thousands of times smaller than a single grain of sand.
Zuo, who spoke about his research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society on Sunday, found that $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills were more likely to be positive for cocaine than $1 bills.