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To: bassmaner
If you're doing a legal transaction of $10,000 or more, what's the problem?

Who in the world carries a large amount of cash on a plane, train or bus, anymore? You'd be asking to be robbed.

If you're not smuggling anything across the border, who cares if the military searches your car and luggage? Who cares if the military makes it impossible to cross the border anywhere but at the legal crossing points.

These are alot of empty arguments.

I believe you made the first ad hominin' attack, Drugmaner.

73 posted on 12/31/2001 9:14:49 AM PST by 4Freedom
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To: 4Freedom
If you're doing a legal transaction of $10,000 or more, what's the problem?

The problem is that the government can sieze that money even if it simply suspects you may be involved in the drug trade. You do not have to be convicted of any crime, and the onus is often on you to get the money back. This is because the government often initiates civil proceedings against the property itself, which is afforded no rights under the constitution.

Who in the world carries a large amount of cash on a plane, train or bus, anymore? You'd be asking to be robbed.

It's your right to carry money wherever you want. That's why they call it ``legal tender''. Nobody asks to get robbed, although the government seems to be considering more and more patterns of behavior an excuse to rob you.

If you're not smuggling anything across the border, who cares if the military searches your car and luggage?

I do, since the searches are not always limited to your car and luggage. Some of us just don't like the idea of giving a bunch of stormtroopers the power to strip search any woman they find attractive under the pretext of looking for drugs.

75 posted on 12/31/2001 10:02:40 AM PST by Cu Roi
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