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Title: An Illustrated Guide to Civil Asset Forfeiture
Source:
Daily Sheeple
URL Source: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/an-i ... -civil-asset-forfeiture_062015
Published: Jun 25, 2015
Author: Adam Bates
Post Date: 2015-06-26 05:39:47 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1998
Comments: 15
This cheerfully drawn comic from the Daily Signal does an excellent job highlighting the insanity of civil asset forfeiture. It begins with a quintessentially American premise: a young person setting out on his own, all wordly possessions in hand, to start a new life as an adult. Far be it from me to spoil the rest: If such stories seem unbelievable (it is a cartoon after all), be sure and check out the recent all-too-real stories of Joseph Rivers and Charles Clarke, for whom this cartoon surely hits too close to home. Even they are only the tip of the iceberg. New Mexico has taken the initiative to end this inherently abusive practice once and for all, and there are active reform efforts underway in California, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, Maryland, and others. But until every other state and the federal government join in, these incredible tales of legalized theft and policing for profit will continue. FreedomWorks recently released a handy map accompanying their report on state forfeiture laws. How does your state stack up? 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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It is shocking that anyone can be so stupid to drive around with a huge amount of cash in their vehicle. You should NEVER drive around with a lot of case. Definitely don’t try to leave the country with a lot of cash. Leaving the country with more than $10,000 requires making a report with the federal government. If you want to move a lot of wealth around, there are some great options. If you want to move $25,000, all you need to do is to buy five 1918 Ottoman Gold Coins and stick them in your briefcase. That surely is a lot less conspicuous that carrying around “bricks” of cash. If you want to, for example, move around $500 thousand dollars….then purchase a single five cent buffalo nickel in excellent condition and stick it in your pocket. No one will ever notice. Civil asset forfeiture is only a problem for idiots. If not through collectible coins, then cold storage and paper wallets, millions of dollars worth of digital currency can be held in a simple, random string of characters. There are many simple tools and technology to protect your freedom and make sure that you never become another statistic….a statistic without money. A problem only becomes a problem when someone chooses to make it a problem.
If you want to move a lot of wealth around, there are some great options. It is not a good idea to move large amounts of money in hidden ways like you described instead of more normal routes like moving cash or routing through bank accounts. At least if you move it through the normal means, it is done in a generally legal manner. When you attempt to move wealth around in much stranger ways, you create the opportunity to have both the wealth and your person seized together. The more guilty you feel about an act, the more guilty you are. That being said, the Feds and LEO have also made it impossible to move wealth in a perfectly legal manner because they will almost always suspect that you are a criminal and the money is tied to a crime. It seems that they expect this scenario with glee, because you do not feel guilty about a normal act, yet the wealth is deemed so. Since there is no legal way to try the wealth in court, they get to keep it while you get to keep your freedom... well, maybe you keep your freedom, for now.
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#14. To: Gatlin (#1)
It is shocking that anyone can be so stupid to drive around with a huge amount of cash in their vehicle.
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