Guilty until proven innocent

[Althea]

Even if we are to assume that a law that simply bans possessing a large amount of money should be valid (which is giving them a lot), it should require a full criminal trial. Instead, under current procedures, the police can just see some money, decide for themselves that it's over the amount, and then take it and fund their department with it. Fucking ridiculous.

Police departments shouldn't be funded with fines. That creates a perverse incentive. All fines should be returned to the taxpayer in the form of a rebate.

I could be wrong, but carrying more than $5000.00 cash across state lines has some sort of legal issue attached to it. If you get caught with it, you may have to prove how you earned it, or face app. 35% taxation.

There has been talk of cops using scanners in the future to read the codes on cash, so they can 'see' how much you have without even pulling you over.

 

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Too bad the guy was white otherwise Jessa, Al "Trayvon" Sharpton and PMSNBC would be shouting racial profiling from the rooftops. And to think the aforementioned trifecta tells us that these sorta things only happen to the coloreds

 

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This is the relevant pull quote from the article

Bates is part of a system that, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has discovered, gives Tennessee police agencies the incentive to take cash off of out-of-state drivers. If they don't come back to fight for their money, the agency gets to keep it all.

My first reaction was, why would any cop ask someone if they have large sums of cash? I have been pulled over plenty of times in my life and never asked that question. But, the cops are banking on the out of towners not coming back and the police dept getting to keep the money. This is a scam of monumental proportions.

Initially, I did wonder, WTF would you be doing with $20,000 in cash, but when I kept reading the Ebay explanation is very plausible. I hope this person has some recourse. What a freaking shame.

It is ashame that large cash transactions are automatically presumed to be involved with the drug trade. Did you know that if you deposit more than $10,000 in cash into a bank that the bank is required to report it?

And in Canada any casino winnings over $10,000 are required reporting. One time I asked for a check of $9,000 and the rest cash hoping to avoid the reporting (for personal reasons) but was told it's the same thing. My winnings were from one machine, not a case of a collection of various winnings and cashing them out all at the same time. It didn't matter if I broke up the total by taking a check and cash.

 

[apple0154]

not according to the courts, since they've 'reasoned' that we can't own property that was received from criminal activity and if we are not charged with a crime, but the cash or property is, then our due process is not violated.

That's where I don't understand bankruptcy laws concerning businesses, especially small businesses. Let's say a guy opens a roofing company and installs defective roof tiles and does not install any underlay (rubber mat or tar papper). He lied to and cheated the customer. He misrepresented his product and failed to do the job he was paid to do. Are they not crimes? If the owner files for bankruptcy all the customer can touch is the property of the business in cases of a LLC company (limited liability).

If a crime was committed then the property that was purchased with the money the owner received (his weekly pay check, if you will) should be lible to confiscation. If he bought a car. If he paid his mortgage. Anything acquired from the money he earned committing the crime IF lying and deceiving a customer and selling defective products are crimes.

Not hyjacking the thread. Just saying.

 

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And in Canada any casino winnings over $10,000 are required reporting. One time I asked for a check of $9,000 and the rest cash hoping to avoid the reporting (for personal reasons) but was told it's the same thing. My winnings were from one machine, not a case of a collection of various winnings and cashing them out all at the same time. It didn't matter if I broke up the total by taking a check and cash.

You asked to skirt the law? How unliberal of you. We're you trying to avoid taxation? Why else would you ask them to do it.. Have you no shame?

 

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You asked to skirt the law? How unliberal of you. We're you trying to avoid taxation? Why else would you ask them to do it.. Have you no shame?

I was not trying to avoid taxation. There is no tax on lottery winnings in Canada. The reason the government insists on it being reported has to do with laundrying money.

The reason I was hesitant had nothing to do with taxes or laundrying money. The reason is personal and private.

 

[Granule]

We far have far more prisoners than all the "totalitarian" nations that we like to point fingers at.

Are you saying that the US has a shitty judicial system and that there are far more innocent convicted felons than we might think?

 

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Are you saying that the US has a shitty judicial system and that there are far more innocent convicted felons than we might think?

Yes.

 

[ekg]

That's been going on for a long time. Texas is notorious for it.

Couple this with the reality that the United States is the greatest prison nation in human history. We far have far more prisoners than all the "totalitarian" nations that we like to point fingers at.

Freedom is relative .. when you exist in the Matrix.

add the 'for profit,privately owned and operated' prison system poppin up all over the country and you've got 'Running Man' without the benefit of Richard Dawson hosting it.