Posted on 10/26/2014 8:58:59 PM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
10/26/2014
“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”
The federal government does.
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The topic of civil asset forfeiture has been high on our agenda recently as federal 'agents' discover how to steal Americans' hard-earned cash with zero repurcussions , and decide unilaterally how much cash a 'common man' is allowed to carry; but as The NY Times reports, the escalation to The IRS brings a whole new world of possibilities with regard asset confiscation based on no actual crime being proved...
As The NY Times reports,
For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away - until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.
The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.
Her money was seized under an increasingly controversial area of law known as civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement agents to take property they suspect of being tied to crime even if no criminal charges are filed. Law enforcement agencies get to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
Critics say this incentive has led to the creation of a law enforcement dragnet, with more than 100 multiagency task forces combing
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(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Why do we never hear of the word-smiths on OUR side?
IE: Assets = Property. All property belongs to SOMEONE (possessions being 9/10’s and all); thus, suing a THING *is* farcical on its face.
Hell, I’d love to start up a suit to go all the way to the top on how income tax supposedly does NOT equate to slavery, and thus unconstitutional. Even using the most liberal of definitions: Slaver = involuntary subjection to another or others (IE: welfare, etc.). As the IRS ‘wins’ 99% of its cases, there can be no Justice.
Course, as you postulated, it would most likely be tossed out for ‘standing’ and I’d wind up in prison as the whim of the black robed oligarchy.
BTTT
The Internal Revenue Service will take a terrible propaganda hit on this one. People who dutifully pay their taxes year after year will look at this one and wonder if they’ve not been fools. This lady has done nothing wrong at all, and the Internal Revenue Service is sitting on her. Why?
If the Internal Revenue Service can violate the Constitution in terms of unreasonable search and seizure, then who is watching our rights under the same Constitution? This lady has an argument and the Internal Revenue Service has none. They are in deep unless they back off.
Vote well next election. Vote Republican!
That just makes me sick. I’m 71 years old and I fear for our country. Greed is destroying us in ways I never thought possible. It’s not the CEO’s we need to be afraid that are greedy but anyone that stands to gain by destroying others.
The Republicans have done nothing about the NSA's domestic espionage or the IRS's political targeting… what makes you think they'd do anything about this?
Who has done nothing? Do you think Trey Gowdy is doing nothing? Is Elijah Cummings helping the IRS or the citizens?
The key to understanding the struggle we face is to realize that Elijah Cummings, DEMOCRAT, is helping the IRS against the citizens of this country, and is a like-minded example of his party—the democrats. Trey Gowdy, REPUBLICAN, is opposed to him and trying to end the IRS abuses.
It doesn’t get starker than this.
We need to elect MORE like Trey Gowdy and his party and DEFEAT Elijah Cummings and his party.
It could very well be... don't you remember Darrell Issa and Fast & Furious?
That was pure show, and I'm not entirely convinced Gowdy's performance isn't as well — though I admit he may not have impure motives; or, put another way, if he started to get real traction, what do you think would happen in the Republican party?
The key to understanding the struggle we face is to realize that Elijah Cummings, DEMOCRAT, is helping the IRS against the citizens of this country, and is a like-minded example of his party—the democrats. Trey Gowdy, REPUBLICAN, is opposed to him and trying to end the IRS abuses.
One man, not the Republican Party.
It doesn’t get starker than this.
Sure it does — contrast Mr. Gowdy and the rest of the Republican party.
We need to elect MORE like Trey Gowdy and his party and DEFEAT Elijah Cummings and his party.
I don't think that the Republican party's elite will allow that to happen. Remember the retroactive rule-changes to the primaries to aid Romney in 2012?
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