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While this is a sad story, please give me an example of the last time you deposited $33,000 IN CASH to your account. I've had occasions where's I've moved largish amounts of investment money, and they've always said there was no problem because it was clearly defined where the money was coming from.
Think about the last time you receiving some large amount. Wasn't it a check?
Who has that much in cash? Even owning a restaurant, wouldn't most of the till be debit cards, credit cards, etc.?
Who cares "when was the last time". Cash is legal tender in this country. I can have five times that amount, and it should still be fine. Innocent until PROVEN guilty.
A check? I just sold a motorhome last week. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the folks wanted to take it home over the weekend. Should I have to wait until a bank is open, then take time out of both of our days to get a check? Passed on selling it? Or should I take a personal check and hope for the best?
The man had cash, because he knew how much the rig would cost. When I deposited the money, it's nobody's business where it came from, until it is PROVEN that it's illegal.
Remember how we used to laugh at crazy old people, those who had lived through the Depression, always ranted against the government and hated banks so much they kept their money under a mattress?
Turns out they weren't so crazy or paranoid after all.
In case you haven't read the other civil forfeiture coverage, can't have anything really. Not just bank accounts. That isn't even including all the different ways the local govt can take someones house, for example, due to many different kinds of bills or fees, not just taxes.
Who cares "when was the last time". Cash is legal tender in this country. I can have five times that amount, and it should still be fine. Innocent until PROVEN guilty.
A check? I just sold a motorhome last week. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the folks wanted to take it home over the weekend. Should I have to wait until a bank is open, then take time out of both of our days to get a check? Passed on selling it? Or should I take a personal check and hope for the best?
The man had cash, because he knew how much the rig would cost. When I deposited the money, it's nobody's business where it came from, until it is PROVEN that it's illegal.
Closer and closer to tyranny, people.
Seems it has arrived. This kind of behavior is just inhumane.
It is time to change the civil forfeiture laws. This is a serious crime against the American people.
Please write your state representatives. Let's see what kind of excuses they have for allowing this.
In the Philadelphia forum, there is a good post by renault about a similar case.
Much of this theft by LE is driven by the war on drugs. Without the war on drugs, they would not assume that anyone with cash is a drug dealer.
Ending the war on drugs is long overdue. It has ruined hundreds of thousands of lives and cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. Meanwhile, Obama is the Leader of the War on Drugs. He could end it or reduce the hysteria overnight.
Much of this theft by LE is driven by the war on drugs. Without the war on drugs, they would not assume that anyone with cash is a drug dealer.
Ending the war on drugs is long overdue. It has ruined hundreds of thousands of lives and cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. Meanwhile, Obama is the Leader of the War on Drugs. He could end it or reduce the hysteria overnight.
Yes, you are right. Police, DEA, IRS and others will throw a fit if we try to change forfeitfure laws. However, the current laws are wrong and cause agencies to be biased towards collecting more money.
This has been going on for some years now. I remember reading Gary Paul Johnston, LA cop who wrote about guns, expressing disgust over the effect of asset forfeiture on policing. He was a cop's cop, probably a big time drug warrior too, but he saw that the forfeiture laws turned his profession into one of brigrandry.
all the more reason to not trust banks and not deposit the money at all. I have very little money in the bank.
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