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How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 2
If you are stopped by police in Volusia County, Florida for a minor traffic violation, it may cost you a lot more than a $100 ticket. If Volusia police stop you on I-95, they ask, "How much cash are you carrying?" If your answer is more than a few hundred dollars, they routinely seize it.

Volusia police say that carrying more cash is "suspicious behavior." Under current laws, suspicion is all they need to confiscate your property.

If you are also carrying valuables — such as jewelry, or driving an up-scale car, they often confiscate that as well. In the last four years, these legalized highway robberies have brought in $8 million for Volusia County.

Similar car confiscations are taking place throughout America. In Houston, over 4,000 cars a year are confiscated. In New York, it's over 10,000 cars. Police car confiscation squads now operate in Louisiana, New Jersey, Alabama, Arizo

A new offense that can trigger total confiscation of your assets is the crime of "structuring." Structuring is arranging your bank deposits or withdrawals to avoid filing an IRS Currency Transaction Report (CTR).

If you have recently deposited or withdrawn as little as $3,000 in cash in your bank account without filing a CTR, you are probably guilty of structuring. The penalty is a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison.

A few years ago, a 65-year-old Alabama physician had his life savings seized by the IRS because of alleged structuring.

there are about 3-4 instances more in that article that had me gaping..

land of the free indeed.

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How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 2
by Jarret B. Wollstein, November 1993

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Under the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984 and other federal crime laws, any monies a defense attorney receives from a client can be confiscated — either before or after trial — if the government alleges they were the proceeds of an illegal transaction.

In March 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission froze all of the assets of the nationally renowned law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler.

With all of their assets frozen, Kaye, Scholer couldn't pay salaries, rent, or even an electric bill. Faced with imminent bankruptcy, in a matter of days Kaye, Scholer agreed to make a deal. In exchange for "voluntarily" paying the SEC a $41 million fine, their funds were unfrozen.

What was Kaye, Scholer accused of? The government claimed that they had "concealed information" from government prosecutors about their clients, Lincoln Savings and Loan and Charles Keating.

For 200 years, the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship has been a bedrock principle of our legal system. That's history. Our government now says that unless your attorney spies on you for the state and helps prosecutors prepare a case against you, all of your attorney's assets can be frozen or confiscated without trial or even indictment.

Few attorneys even take drug cases anymore. To destroy the defense in any criminal case, prosecutors now only have to hint that the money used to pay an attorney is "tainted" and could be confiscated. Unless your attorney is independently wealthy or a philanthropist, he probably won't be able to defend you. No wonder less than 3% of criminal cases now result in a jury trial.

how much of that article is true? if all, i´d almost pick the middle east as a living place over u.s.a.
but they are still crazier over there....not by much im afraid.

Move abroad ladies and gentlemen, its probably going to get a lot worse.

every part of the media, even comics, the message seems to be :

WE OWN YOU. do as you are told or be fucked.

Sso

seems that alot of people are bringing us back in the days of the king.

and the king, ladies and gentlemen, can do whatever he likes, to anyone.

(liberal rights to all of his stooges as well)

squirrel_master

corrupt stuff.

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so according to that article all the property will be controlled by the state in 2010?

GreenDragon2k

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