Posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Someone had tipped off federal agents that a California man with a large quantity of drug money would soon be boarding a flight from Minnesota to Arizona. They spotted him at gate H-7 in the Humphrey Terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International and let loose a "certified narcotics dog." The dog showed strong olfactory interest in two of the man's three pieces of luggage. So the feds seized those two bags and let the man get on the plane to Phoenix.
They knew what they might find in the two bags because the man had already told them that he had a large quantity of cash from his bingo business. The feds found no drugs, but $138,121 that - literally - smelled like marijuana, according to court records.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Security in one’s effects is going away from its constitutional ideals. In a day closer to the founding, a hoard like that might get some attention, but wouldn’t have the skids greased for it into some Caesar’s maw. People would be debating about the conscientious thing to do.
It sounds like law enforcement's focus has shifted from stopping the drugs to simply getting their "cut."
“And money is the answer to everything!” — King Solomon, Ecclesiastes
Actually I meant $10K. Thanks for “catch of the day”.
Isn’t it RICO that give them the claim?
If the dude failed to claim his money back, the dog shooters may have accidentally been right.
Indeed.
I'm sure there is some similarities in place to the ground and air rules.
In general, if you want to carry 50k in cash, maybe bring a copy of the withdrawal slips and bank statements or you may lose the cash.
I don't know if the limit is 10k now, but it was.
There is no such "rule". There are reporting requirements at banks regarding deposits and withdrawls of amounts over $10k, but there is no law against carrying cash. The police state wants you to think so, like some actual law was broken by this citizen, but it's not true.
It's merely legalized theft on the part of the government. Look up 'civil forfeiture'. The government charges your money with a 'crime' of being obtained illegally. Your money has no rights to due process. The regular rules of guilt needing to be proven are turned on their heads, and you must somehow prove a negative to a judicial system that has every incentive to keep your money because it gets a cut of the action.
This is simply theft. We live in what is just a shinier version of a banana republic where the powers that be make it look like the forms are followed when in fact, it's all just a scam put in place by a thuggish government, and applauded by the enablers of the police state in the name of the war on drugs.
If you still want to claim there is some kind of 'rule' against carrying cash, I suggest to post proof of same.
We no longer live in a free country. This is just one of many avenues the .gov uses to enrich itself with our money. The banks probably encourage such things too. They don’t get their piece of the action if someone carries or deals in cash for the most part.
Also... A “smell” shouldn’t be admissible in court for anything, or be allowed as a factor to determine probable cause. No one can PROVE a ‘smell’ in one way or another, and they can be VERY subjective.
Ranch-Coveting Officials Settle for Killing Owner
Excerpt of the above:
“Sometimes people get warned and we don’t find anything,” Gary Spencer, the lead deputy on the raid and the one who shot Scott, told an L.A. Times reporter in 1997, “so I don’t consider it botched. I wouldn’t call it botched because that would say that it was a mistake to have gone there in the first place, and I don’t believe that.”
Someone who did believe that was Ventura County District Attorney Michael Bradbury. Although Scott’s ranch was in Ventura County, none of the 31 people participating in the massive early morning raid, which included officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the DEA, the National Park Service, the California National Guard and the Border Patrol bothered to invite any Ventura County officers to come along. Furthermore, once Scott was shot, Los Angeles County tried to claim jurisdiction over the investigation of Scott’s death, even though the shooting occured in Ventura County.
To Bradbury, it was easy to see why. L.A. County wanted jurisdiction. In a 64-page report issued by Bradbury’s office in March of 1993, Bradbury concluded that the search warrant contained numerous misstatements, evasions and omissions. The purpose of the raid, he wrote, was never to find some evanescent marijuana plantation. It was to seize Scott’s ranch under asset forfeiture laws and then divide the proceeds with participating agencies, such as the National Park Service, which had put Scott’s ranch on a list of property it would one day like to acquire, and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, which heavily relied on assets seized in drug raids to supplement its otherwise inadequate budget.
We can have a free country or a War On Drugs - but we can't have both.
Naboth’s Vineyard (1 Kings 21)
21 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
3 But Naboth replied, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.”
4 So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.
5 His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, “Why are you so sullen? Why won’t you eat?”
6 He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”
7 Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him. 9 In those letters she wrote:
“Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. 10 But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them bring charges that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.”
11 So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people. 13 Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death. 14 Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
15 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.” 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.
17 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: 18 “Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it. 19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”
“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord. 21 He says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[a] 22 I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have aroused my anger and have caused Israel to sin.’
23 “And also concerning Jezebel the Lord says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of[b] Jezreel.’
24 “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
25 (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. 26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)
27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
28 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: 29 “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
Footnotes:
1 Kings 21:21 Or Israel—every ruler or leader
1 Kings 21:23 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 9:26) the plot of ground at
VERY telling, very apt...!
Hits like a Louisianna slugger.
Thank you, you are a very learned (wo?)man.
^_^
In a free country, WHY should ANYONE have to explain where he got his cash???!!!??? I understand that we are no longer a free country, thanks in large part to the war on some drugs, but WHY??? Why did you decide that such rules are a GOOD thing? This is just plain sick, evil and unconstitutional.
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