Watch the Video of the guy that didn't consent to DEA and got on his flight. They came on the plane and just took his bag out of the overhead. Then they tied to make him miss his flight by saying if he didn't consent, they'd call for the drug sniffing dogs. They dogs came, but he filmed them signalling to the dog to ID drugs in the bag. So they opened it up, found nothing, and then yelled at him for not letting them look in the first place. Even if you don't consent, they'll make your life miserable until they make up excuses for why they can. It's another IJ video called " "DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation"
Since time immemorial, as long as rulers and governments have existed, there has been graft, robbery, and corruption. As long as human beings institute, run, and enforce the rules and regulations of governments, there will be corruption.
LOL good luck. Until it angers the wrong person you'll hear politicians, in particular Republicans, SCREAM: "YOU SUPPORT DRUG DEALERS!" if you attempt to change it at all. That's on top of police SCREAMING about drugs blah blah blah... IT'S FER TEH CHILLDRUN! blah blah blah. Keep in mind cops use this money to buy things like popcorn machines, effete elitist espresso machines, and other things totally unrelated to policing.
@@Pomelu No, it's socially reinforced positive feedback loop between corrupt individuals abusing the separation of powers to act as if the powers aren't separated with plausible deniability by pointing the fingers at each other in vague, non-committal ways. These problems are not unrelated.
@@stargazer7644 Wellllllll I argue the oligarchy that funds the mass majority of government campaigns IS the actual government. Banks make up a not very insignificant portion of that and for sure benefit from the problems caused by government policy that shovel people into banks who otherwise don't want one.
I’m a retired Federal Law Enforcement Officer. When I was first hired I studied the U.S. Constitution backwards and forwards because I thought that I was going to be challenged often on the legality of any enforcement of law I engaged in. During my 20 plus years I was never once challenged on the legality of how I was enforcing the law by average citizens. It was considerably disappointing. What was even more disappointing was how often I had to rein in other officers on their attempt to enforce laws based on imaginary fuckery. As citizens we have a duty to know our rights, invoke them and challenge law enforcement. It’s imperative that citizens vote for conscientious politicians that will put into place good Cops.
...and endure the retaliation? Most DA's have a 90% or greater conviction rate. That is processing, not justice. Basically, police can frame anyone the want. Here is the proof in the form of a question. How many laws are there? No one has been able to give an answer. So, the people are liable for compliance with an unknown number of laws. That is tyranny.
@@AjninHaru 9.25.24. I’ll be 66 years old in five weeks, I recall when I was in high school in the 70s, I don’t ever recall any of my classmates getting any minor in possession ticket.🎟️ the way I see it is law-enforcement Today are too gung ho and trying to enforce their personal view of the law. They have more in common with the east German Stasi police 👮🏻♀️ I generally support the police, but there are too many instances today where they’re not using their common sense when pulling a traffic stop.
@@stevensapyak7971 The east german police were way less brutal then American cops, let's be real here man. American cops have had a long BRUTAL history.
Traffic stop: "You have any cash on you?" Me:"Is this a robbery?". Cop:"What?" Me: "Usually when someone with a gun asks me how much cash I have...its a robbery". Cop: "Turn around and put your hand behind your back".
Indiana and Illiinois are both robber states Every truck driver, including me, have been threatened with being taken to jail for some non existent crime. I had a scale officer tell me i had substances that could not legally be transported together. I demanded proof. He started to run his mouth. I called he shipper who "talked strong to them" and showed him he was wrong, then he tried to write me a log violation for not updating my log immediately upon stopping. When I offered to call an Illinois lawyer, and wait for him. He grumbled and let me go. Illinois is corrupt from the get go
I flew internationally with $50k USD. I had all the paperwork for the money, source and reason, with me. The foreign country didn't try to take the cash, but did make me file piles of paperwork on it. Civil Forfeiture exists in lots of places, but nowhere else in the world treats it like the US.
@@carlmorgan8452 people don’t realize the context of which the 2nd was written The founding fathers were against having a military in peace time, and were against involvement in international military operations the point of the 2A “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of the free state” was to have a sort of neighborhood watch to fend off invasions while congress drafted a military Pop quiz: Who was in charge of enforcing laws until the civil war? Answer: Citizens, through use of bounties. If citizens couldn’t handle the issue (both individuals and militias) the military was sent in The military *was* the police force This was how laws were enforced for *centuries*
@@tacticallemon7518Many founders didn’t want a standing army, but they knew it was needed for the US to remain free. They knew just a militia, made of the people wouldn’t be enough. A safety valve for politicians potentially using a standing army against its citizens was the 2nd Amendment. You conveniently left out the part of the people having a natural right to keep and bear arms, not the militia. The militia is simply a byproduct of an armed populace coming together to defend their natural rights against anyone who might want to take those rights away.
Apart from the grotesque insanity of this practice, why is there no process for making law enforcement personally, criminally liable for stealing people's money?
The very idea that the people seizing the money get to keep the money should really have been an indicator of how this was going to go from the instant asset forfeiture was started
Yes but, if there isn't even an ounce of suspicion of drug trafficking then it should not be allowed. There needs to be enough evidence of a crime to justify a criminal investigation, at a minimum, before asset seizure should be allowed. Of course, SHOULD means that it's not currently that way.
@@cherylallis2458 There is dirty money which i don't mind them taking, but they take any large sums they find from people who have a legit reason for carrying it, and having to pay these people huge amounts of interest would make them think very carefully about who's money they take.
I received a fair amount of money awhile back and was at the bank and they asked if I wanted it in cash. Since it was quite a few thousand dollars and I was in another state and a couple hours from home, I asked for a certified check. You just never know when you could be pulled over and that cash taken away for no reason other than I was driving a bit too fast. IJ is doing great work!
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart indeed I do believe that justice will prevail. The wheels of democracy spin slowly but they do spin. We must never allow authoritarianism to take hold and that’s exactly what civil asset forfeiture is a form of. ☮️
@@daviswall3319 Authoritarianism has been a corner stone of your country since it's founding. It was created by genocidal slave owning hypocrits who wanted freedom ONLY for straight white men unironically and really only rich straight white men.
Support them with your most generous donation. I've left a portion of my estate to them in my will. They are beyond critical to this country, but they need money to continue to win for the people.
In Oregon, if you have the misfortune of being arrested, any cash you may possess at the time (small amount) will be returned in the form of a debit card, which costs you 20% to use. I think it's theft!" Anyone have a different idea? The DA in Prineville told me it's a civil matter. I say it's criminal. If I stole 20% from anyone through nefarious means, I'd be in jail.
Oregon is one of the most f’ed up states in the union!! Run by democrats for years. Now ppl are coming from all over the country so they can do hard drugs out in the open lol there is no hope here until these people are removed from office
So I can drive down the road in a $150,000 Mercedes with a $75,000 Patek Philippe watch on my wrist on my way to a party and that’s OK but if I drive my old work truck to go buy a motorcycle with $15,000 cash then that’s a problem? I have yet to understand why the average man who travels with cash is suspected of money laundering, but rich people who travel with all kinds of expensive clothes, jewelry, watches and other expensive accoutrements don’t seem to raise an eyebrow.
It is a crime for them to steal from you. You just have to prove it. That’s the messed up part about it. YOU have to spend more money to get YOUR money back.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 Christ Himself was regarded by Jews as false prophet. Just because you disregard it doesn't make it truth. I am no teacher and no prophet, but what is the Beast is clear as day, especially when you won't be able to buy sell or trade without the Mark Of The Beast (which will be done through CBDC, digital currency, and communist China style of "social credit score")
I have a friend who travels with his life savings. I've tried to tell him it could be taken from him, but he says, "Cops would never do that, they're the good guys."
Its ridiculous what we have allowed our nation and law enforcement to become and i am a retired Deputy and multi-generational Floridian saying this. When i was trained i was told (and wholeheartedly agree absolutely) that "its better a thousand guilty persons be let go than ONE innocent person be falsely charged"! America to one must PROVE their innocence and are viewed as guilty until proven otherwise. This is wrong and the opposite of how we ought to think, act and behave! JURY NULLIFICATION needs to be in every American persons vocabulary!
And every person needs to demand to know the court's jurisdiction. Only county courts have valid jurisdiction in our nation. All others are corporations.
Anecdotal evidence here ;) Many LEOs seem to have the opposite opinion, and feel it is better to lock up a bunch of 'would-be offenders' just in case a couple are actual offenders. Kudos to you for your adherence to the ideals of the system.
@@throgwarhammer7162 I automatically knew that. Perhaps you can now delete your message. Maybe the one who made the comment is having difficulty correcting that particular word.
Cops protect the rich from the poor, they always have and always will. I don't believe you were trained any other way. The working class are assumed to be criminals who must prove their innocence, that's just how it is. When workers go on strike or when people demand justice, bet you were there cracking heads.
A decade ago my brother sold a car to a buyer across the state lines in Oklahoma. It was a mere $3500 dollars and when returning to his home state, his truck was pulled over. The officer noticed a sealed bank bag on the front seat and instituted a "drug stop." Regardless of the fact that he had a signed bill of sale for the exact amount, my brother was let go but the $3500 in cash was seized and lost forever.
@@jessebrewer3983 Yes, it is a mistake he has never repeated. In fact, he sells antiques across a mult state area and often has cash but since that time, he never again leaves his bank bag in plain view. Now he goes to a local bank and buys a cashiers check before traveling home. The small bank fee is worth the protection.
I'm so disappointed to think of the good people this has happened to and what they then must feel about "These United States" for the rest of their lives.
I’m young and very distrustful of banks. Plus cash is the best way to travel because the damn government doesn’t need to know about my travel and spending.
“This Idaho Falls, Idaho couple get their rights violated by a task force agent that I’m sure was fishing for cash for cool new gear. She (agent) Stopped them for sitting at a gas station too long. “
My parents always told me to put it in the bank. If you're not dealing with the law for carrying cash, you get harassed by banks for trying to withdraw cash
@@Gloria68 There are countless YT videos where people carrying cash for legitimate purposes don't know enough not to hide it from police. Sometimes TSA tips off local cops who rob you after you leave the airport.
The last drop of honor is lost when an officer asks how much money you are carrying midway through the jet bridge (tunnel); right before boarding the plane itself. They don’t care if you have kids with you, or if it’s international connecting flight.
I just heard of a case that happened in Knoxville TN where they arrested a man that had been passing through the state on his way home back to Michigan from Florida, they asked to search his vehicle and he allowed it, but he had 4.700 dollars on him, they seized it and arrested him for no charges, he had a valid license and was in a rental, they told him after 4 hours at the jail they were charging him with drug paraphernalia because they tested the cash and it tested positive for meth. The police had no valid reason to arrest him, they looked for any reason to take his money. After he is jailed they claim the amount he had was 1000 less than what he actually had. He was in the jail just a few weeks ago. I hope he reaches out to the institute for justice and files a law suit against the Knox co TN police dept.
Knoxville police used to be called KKKPD. Back in the 1980s they were known for beating up people. One time they messed up and beat up someone who was related to someone in the District Attorney’s office.
@@jeepmystic Because the case has to make it that far in the legal process. The cops find out you are willing to fight and they give it back. You no longer have a case to take to the supreme court. The cops don't WANT this in front of the supreme court. They like the rules just the way they are. The only real way to get this stopped is in the House and Senate. The law needs to be changed. IJ is doing great work, but their hands are tied in most cases when the cops give up early.
Because they support this. Make no mistake, the only reason departments aren't sued into the ground for this behavior is that the courts protect them from the consequences of this.
@@timgraham7851after years of allowing huge amounts of prescription narcotics to be shipped to tiny towns in the rural SE, they've changed their tune. Now, legitimate patients can't get their legal prescriptions filled. The DEA has come up with an arbitrary number of meds that can be shipped to pharmacies. Sometimes my 28 day prescription has to last 35+ days. I've been a client at the same pharmacy for 40 years, never had an inkling of issues, tested at my Drs every month to ensure I'm taking meds as prescribed. They're out of control and it seems there's no recourse for their actions
Same with traffic cameras. Have the camera appear in court to testify. You have the Right to face your accuser. Otherwise, take a picture of your citation along with the cash, then mail it back to them. :
Even in a traffic stop you have the right not to answer question. Give officer your license, proof of insurance, and registration. Then NEVER agree to a search and remind the officer, over and over if necessary, that you don't answer questions without an attorney present. No matter what the officer says, over and over remind him that you don't answer questions without an attorney present. Then keep your mouth shut since courts often rule that if you answer even routine questions that you have waived your right to remain silent.
We should make a law saying that if someone's money was seized wrongly then law enforcers have to pay it back and they should pay double or triple the amount.
But they would just use taxes to pay it back. Did you know that the government makes $11,000 dollars every minute from speeding tickets alone in the US. It's ridiculous that we still keep this government going when the constitution gives us the power to end the government and start something new that will work for us and not against us
No we should just enforce the 4th amendment correctly. The amount of mental gymnastics required to believe this doesn't violate the 4th amendment is colossal.
A guy I worked with found a loophole to recoup loses. Applied for a lost title and became the legal owner of a city patrol car. They couldn't do anything about it. Confication/stealing can work both ways.
@skrome1953 Actually that's what burns me up. They can say it was abandoned on your property, file for a title and pay for a plate, and it's yours. Kinda like squatter's rights.
IJ needs to sell T-Shirts AND money bags designed for domestic and international travel. Shirts that have the words “Institute For Justice” printed across the front or back, with a nice contrasting color box and the phrase contained within. The money bags should have the name embroidered. Perfect for when traveling with cash.
A friend of mine Jack is a millionaire landlord. For whatever reason, some of his tenants pay him in cash, so, at the end of the week he'd have like $60,000 on hand. Then his bank refused to take his cash deposits because they thought he was a drug dealer. So he got a lawyer and took the bank to court and he won, on the grounds of innocent until proven guilty, and he also got a damage judgement of $12,000. He jokes and says he made the bank pay him in cash
The terrifying thing about that is that they'll still want to seize money. Then it won't matter what you do. A random account with more then $500 in it. Very suspicious.
@@mason4354actually, the supreme federal court has two rulings that state it is illegal, one during Obama's term that states the property must be returned , and another more recent ruling that overturned the so called Chevron doctrine that allowed states to interpret the federal laws with broad terms outside the laws intended parameters. Supremes ended Chevron doctrine with both agencies and states.
@@mason4354 Chevron doctrine gives states and agencies broad leeway to "decide" intent and letter of the law. Sometimes the intent of the law was to protect the person from federal seizure but the so called vagueness of the law allowed the state or federal agency to interpret that law in ways that actually hurt the very people the law was designed to protect. Example: the constitution states that illegal search and seizure without a warrant is prohibited, but the ATF in the previous year has targeted people without reasonable causes of a crime, because they have a certain fire arm or the person is politically active in a certain party, this was done through Chevron doctrine. The way the states interpreted the Rico laws and drug asset forfeiture laws( targeting people without a law breaking record carrying cash on a routine stop and seizing those assets cash or otherwise.) This was called the Chevron doctrine.
Originally? Go to Wikipedia and search on Civil forfeiture in the United States. It goes WAY back. It's how they took ships from pirates and smugglers.
Civil forfeiture needs to stop, only cash can be taken IF a criminal act is suspected, such drugs found, warrants for arrest of felonies, or running away as a fugitive.
TSA in Tampa asked me what was in my pocket during a pat down. I told them money and they asked me to pull it out. I complied and they asked how much I had and I told him it was none of his business. He then said he needed to count it and I let him know that wasn't happening. It was hard to not get angry with this nonsense.
Nice job Kim! This is one of the major reasons I got involved with IJ in the first place ie. one of my pet peeves. This has to stop asap. That is why I have earmarked all of my assets to IJ upon my death. I'm serious. I want this to stop. I want there to be federal laws against this. Thank you IJ.
Thanks for all your hard work! Of all the charities I’ve given money to over the years I’m seriously happy to see these positive results! I’ll keep the donations going as long as I can! What a great organization!
Institute for Justice does good work, thank you for all you do. IJ is an excellent non-profit for everyone who values freedom from government overreach to donate to also!
Here's a good one for you. How about property tax? If you don't pay your property tax you'll soon find out who really owns your property and that you've really only been paying rent in the form of a tax to live there.
Someone needs to make the case that because the property is being charged with a crime, not the owner, the property is thus a Juridical Person and has all the same rights as a person, like innocent until proven guilty. I would love to see one of these IJ lawyers go to court and tell the judge their client is the property, not the owner, and try this case with the Juridical Person doctrine. After all, it's the COURTS who first treat the property as a person, NOT the owner or legal counsel.
I had a buddy who was a merchant marine officer on a military sealift ship during the invasion of Iraq. They were short crew and he wasn't allowed to leave. To ensure crew wouldn't leave before being released a % of pay would be paid in cash on the last day. 17 months on that ship he got released with $80k in cash. No issues going through Europe. When he flew back into the US, he declared it, and they seized it for being suspicious. It took a year and $10k in legal fees to get the money back despite having all the payroll documents, DOD paperwork, merchant seamans license, ship discharge papers, and joining contract articles. He literally got paid by the government and 24 hours later they took it away.
Civil asset forfeiture is a relatively recent legal instrument. Before it was invented, (which was originally conceived to allow the ill-gotten gains from drug cartels to be seized), the cops didn’t have any way to do this.
Ever since the first American revolution this has been happening. It's why George Washington had to increase the size of the continental army to put down the second American revolution after he increased the taxes over those charged by king George III!
Not only is this a more recent trend but there are people that go around teaching this technique to police departments. It is seen as a method to gain funding dollars for equipment and etc. Expect it to grow in frequency if we don't get it stopped.
The real reason they don't charge people with a crime is not that they don't have any proof of a crime (which they don't), but to charge someone requires time to write arrest reports, log evidence, go to court et cetera. Time that would better serve them by being on patrol and confiscating more cash.
This criminal system is definitely bad. It merely encourages Police and other agencies to focus on "policing for profits rather than serve & protect citizens and ignore basic law enforcement while protected by "immunity"
As an airline pilot, I am going to start carrying bundles of movie prop cash. Maybe I’ll waste their time enough for honest people to travel unmolested.
I think the biggest issue with getting a civil forfeture case onto the Supreme court docket is that government lawyers will drop it and give the money back before it gets there. If a case never makes it to the Supreme court, then they don't have an opportunity to rule on it.
Arresting the cash is common place now since it's easy for these Institutions to make use of the monies they seize for their own gain. If laws are put in place to make it so they can't touch the cash they seize for themselves the problem will stop almost overnight. Thus laws need to be put in place to make it so any monies seized can never make it into their budgets no matter what!
This garbage scares the snot out of me. I have/do travel from 400 to 2000 miles to buy cars. Yes I could have bank checks/travelers checks ect, but my bank system mostly are not where I'm traveling, so can't break a check, plus you can't haggle price without cash... Just one of these stops would pretty much almost destroy my tiny business.
I was singled out at an airport in British Columbia. My destination was Ontario also in Canada. At no point was I traveling internationally. I had $10k cash with me, on my person. I was taken to a room with several airport security. I had recently sold my home, and was relocating in search of a new home. I had all the legal paperwork with me pertaining to sale of home. The agent even said "Hey, thats the same lawyer I used for my home sale''. "bUT WE STILL HAFTA MAKE A REPORT" I was eventually released with my cash. The parting words of the agent stuck with me. "Good luck getting on an airplane in the future". I have not flown, since. This was over 15 yrs ago.
The common thread in most of these cases seems to be that the police and the rest of the government view the constitution as an obstacle, when protecting it and the rights enumerated within is the point of their jobs.
Lesson One: Never talk to cops. If they have a warrant, let them do their thing, but otherwise keep it shut. Even if a cop asks you what time it is, say nothing.
Well, if you say nothing at all, the courts have ruled that your silence can be used as an admission of guilt. You must verbalize that you are exercising your right to remain silent. So once you've said, "I am exercising my right to remain silent," if the cop asks you what time it is, your response, if any, should be, "I don't answer questions."
Like “rapid13” said below. Don’t talk (limit your conversation - invoke your right to remain silent) and do not give consent to searches. Ask “am I being detained?” If so, wait 10 or 20 minutes and ask again “am I being detained?”. Continue to do so until you are released.
A neighbor who is an LA Sheriff and works in drugs, claims he has never had anyone file to claim confiscated cash in over 10 years. It is a civil proceeding and they are free to ask the claimant anything they want like when/where/how did they get the cash/business licenses/irs tax payment and are they on any welfare programs. It is hard to explain how you have 20k in cash and no job and getting food stamps without admitting to some sort of crime. Also Indian casinos keep records of all the big winners so that not going to work.
Public announcement: Do not talk to the police. Invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent. The sad thing is, at the end of the day, the only people that will continue to pay, are the taxpayers....whether it be through one person having their property taken outright through civil asset forfeiture or through taxation. Taxes will pay for these lawsuits. Taxation is "legalized" theft. Our government has us bent over every which way.
This is the main reasons why WE should never LIE, CHEAT, OR STEAL.... THE ALMIGHTY GOVERNMENT, AND THEIR HENCHMEN (POLICE) CAN'T STAND COMPETITION !!!!!
Do not talk to cops, do not consent to searches.
Watch the Video of the guy that didn't consent to DEA and got on his flight. They came on the plane and just took his bag out of the overhead. Then they tied to make him miss his flight by saying if he didn't consent, they'd call for the drug sniffing dogs. They dogs came, but he filmed them signalling to the dog to ID drugs in the bag. So they opened it up, found nothing, and then yelled at him for not letting them look in the first place. Even if you don't consent, they'll make your life miserable until they make up excuses for why they can. It's another IJ video called "
"DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation"
And they wonder why no will talk to police for any kind of crime going on
It may not stop the search but it might keep your legal options open.
@@billfusionenterprise
And when when federal agents find they are not welcome in town, or stores, or as neighbors...
@@harveywallbanger1738 well there are some down south states had that for years, moonshine runners are why
Government robbery needs to end. There is no excuse
Since time immemorial, as long as rulers and governments have existed, there has been graft, robbery, and corruption. As long as human beings institute, run, and enforce the rules and regulations of governments, there will be corruption.
It's not going to end. There are plenty of excuses for them.
""Don't steal, the government hates competition""" ,,VERY OLD JOKE
Much thanks to the IFJ for taking the time to make very clear exactly what's going on here and who the true criminals are.
LOL good luck.
Until it angers the wrong person you'll hear politicians, in particular Republicans, SCREAM: "YOU SUPPORT DRUG DEALERS!" if you attempt to change it at all.
That's on top of police SCREAMING about drugs blah blah blah... IT'S FER TEH CHILLDRUN! blah blah blah.
Keep in mind cops use this money to buy things like popcorn machines, effete elitist espresso machines, and other things totally unrelated to policing.
Terrible when the cops are the criminals. It's really sickening
this is more of a judge problem, its blatantly unconstitutional but they let it go on
The mafia criminals are amateurs compared to law enforcement/government thieves.
@@Pomelu No, it's socially reinforced positive feedback loop between corrupt individuals abusing the separation of powers to act as if the powers aren't separated with plausible deniability by pointing the fingers at each other in vague, non-committal ways. These problems are not unrelated.
when are they not?
Anarcho tyranny, welcome to the new normal.
And now she knows why her grandfather was distrustful of banks.
It wasn't the banks that robbed them.
Banks are generally not the govt.
@@stargazer7644 Wellllllll
I argue the oligarchy that funds the mass majority of government campaigns IS the actual government. Banks make up a not very insignificant portion of that and for sure benefit from the problems caused by government policy that shovel people into banks who otherwise don't want one.
@@stargazer7644 They get bailed out by it...We don't...
@@justsoicanfingcomment5814 I seem to recall a number of payments and benefits over the last few years.
I’m a retired Federal Law Enforcement Officer. When I was first hired I studied the U.S. Constitution backwards and forwards because I thought that I was going to be challenged often on the legality of any enforcement of law I engaged in. During my 20 plus years I was never once challenged on the legality of how I was enforcing the law by average citizens. It was considerably disappointing. What was even more disappointing was how often I had to rein in other officers on their attempt to enforce laws based on imaginary fuckery. As citizens we have a duty to know our rights, invoke them and challenge law enforcement. It’s imperative that citizens vote for conscientious politicians that will put into place good Cops.
...and endure the retaliation? Most DA's have a 90% or greater conviction rate. That is processing, not justice. Basically, police can frame anyone the want. Here is the proof in the form of a question. How many laws are there? No one has been able to give an answer. So, the people are liable for compliance with an unknown number of laws. That is tyranny.
If you weren't trying to violate the Constitution, why would average citizens challenge you?
@@AjninHaru 9.25.24. I’ll be 66 years old in five weeks, I recall when I was in high school in the 70s, I don’t ever recall any of my classmates getting any minor in possession ticket.🎟️ the way I see it is law-enforcement Today are too gung ho and trying to enforce their personal view of the law. They have more in common with the east German Stasi police 👮🏻♀️ I generally support the police, but there are too many instances today where they’re not using their common sense when pulling a traffic stop.
@@stevensapyak7971 The east german police were way less brutal then American cops, let's be real here man. American cops have had a long BRUTAL history.
Traffic stop: "You have any cash on you?" Me:"Is this a robbery?". Cop:"What?" Me: "Usually when someone with a gun asks me how much cash I have...its a robbery". Cop: "Turn around and put your hand behind your back".
So.... yes.... yes it is
I do not consent. Make me tough guy.
Armed robbery by law enforcement state and federal !...
No you were just reaching for a gun and 14 rounds later the cop just sits back down and fills out paperwork.
😆 Isn’t that the truth! Guilty until proven innocent.
"They have no legal right to interrogate you on the side of the road," yet they do it every single day.
They have the right to ask you questions. You have the right to remain silent and not incriminate yourself. USE IT!
Due to recent court decisions, you need to clearly state that you're invoking the 5th amendment to remain silent. Then do it!
Indiana and Illiinois are both robber states Every truck driver, including me, have been threatened with being taken to jail for some non existent crime. I had a scale officer tell me i had substances that could not legally be transported together. I demanded proof. He started to run his mouth. I called he shipper who "talked strong to them" and showed him he was wrong, then he tried to write me a log violation for not updating my log immediately upon stopping. When I offered to call an Illinois lawyer, and wait for him. He grumbled and let me go. Illinois is corrupt from the get go
I flew internationally with $50k USD. I had all the paperwork for the money, source and reason, with me. The foreign country didn't try to take the cash, but did make me file piles of paperwork on it. Civil Forfeiture exists in lots of places, but nowhere else in the world treats it like the US.
Yeah an can you imagine that in the real criminal world, $50K is peanuts?
I never carry large sums of cash. But only because I fear cops, not criminals.
Which is why I'm surprised at how much the slogan "defund the police" has been demonized
The cops are the criminals
It was kind of redundant. In many places, police and criminals are the same thing, just different names.
@@LazyEyePolitics Defunding police has proven to be disastrous in practice.
@@mdhj67 How so?
This is PRECISELY what the 4th amendment was intended to protect against.
Not when our supreme court openly accepts bribes.
2nd ammendment looks like it could come into play also ?
@@carlmorgan8452 people don’t realize the context of which the 2nd was written
The founding fathers were against having a military in peace time, and were against involvement in international military operations
the point of the 2A “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of the free state” was to have a sort of neighborhood watch to fend off invasions while congress drafted a military
Pop quiz: Who was in charge of enforcing laws until the civil war?
Answer: Citizens, through use of bounties. If citizens couldn’t handle the issue (both individuals and militias) the military was sent in
The military *was* the police force
This was how laws were enforced for *centuries*
@@tacticallemon7518Many founders didn’t want a standing army, but they knew it was needed for the US to remain free. They knew just a militia, made of the people wouldn’t be enough. A safety valve for politicians potentially using a standing army against its citizens was the 2nd Amendment. You conveniently left out the part of the people having a natural right to keep and bear arms, not the militia. The militia is simply a byproduct of an armed populace coming together to defend their natural rights against anyone who might want to take those rights away.
@@Dan-yk6sy yeah, the current majority is on the take, corrupt, and must be removed.
"... came of age in a time that people didn't trust banks."??
I trust banks less now than ever.
Never talk to the police. Do not answer their questions. Never give permission for a cop to do anything but leave your presence
What they promised: “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
What we got: “The Land of the Fee and the Home of the Slave.”
land of the limited unpossibilities
Brian is correct.
Well, now whose fault is it if we didn't fight to keep ourselves free?
Americans keep telling me that the USA were "the greatest country in the world."
@@RoonMian *terms and conditions apply
Apart from the grotesque insanity of this practice, why is there no process for making law enforcement personally, criminally liable for stealing people's money?
Qualified immunity
@@Georgina602 There is no qualified immunity that protects theft.
Because the politicians gave the, permission. No one wants tot ask about how these things come about, start at the top.
@@mikepalmer1971 the Supreme Court gave them immunity.
@@Georgina602 yes politicians like I said.
The very idea that the people seizing the money get to keep the money should really have been an indicator of how this was going to go from the instant asset forfeiture was started
Well that was the whole point. They made larceny legal for police so they can take assets away from drug dealers.
Yes but, if there isn't even an ounce of suspicion of drug trafficking then it should not be allowed. There needs to be enough evidence of a crime to justify a criminal investigation, at a minimum, before asset seizure should be allowed.
Of course, SHOULD means that it's not currently that way.
Any/All States Attorney General should receive Live-Video-Feed/recorded of any traffic stop LIVE at anytime, no mystery, no BS
@@phopgrego And innocent people.
They should get 10 days to prove cash is related to crime or give it back with 500% interest.
There we go. I like this
Wouldn't they make up some BS reasons/fabricate evidence to justify civil forfeiture?
They shouldn't be confiscating it in the first place.
No! They should prove a crime before ever taking the cash.
@@cherylallis2458 There is dirty money which i don't mind them taking, but they take any large sums they find from people who have a legit reason for carrying it, and having to pay these people huge amounts of interest would make them think very carefully about who's money they take.
I received a fair amount of money awhile back and was at the bank and they asked if I wanted it in cash. Since it was quite a few thousand dollars and I was in another state and a couple hours from home, I asked for a certified check. You just never know when you could be pulled over and that cash taken away for no reason other than I was driving a bit too fast. IJ is doing great work!
Isn't it ridiculous that in a supposedly free country this is the way you have to go about your money?
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart indeed I do believe that justice will prevail. The wheels of democracy spin slowly but they do spin. We must never allow authoritarianism to take hold and that’s exactly what civil asset forfeiture is a form of. ☮️
@@daviswall3319 Authoritarianism has been a corner stone of your country since it's founding. It was created by genocidal slave owning hypocrits who wanted freedom ONLY for straight white men unironically and really only rich straight white men.
Steve Lehto made me aware of this issue years ago. Thank you for your work IJ!
🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑
It won't stop. Took a revolution to stop the British.
@@unbreakable7633 remember the Boston Tea Party 🎉
It will when then right person gets pulled over. HONEST, seen a speed trap in San Diego go bye bye
Institute For Justice is Awesome and a very necessary tool to defend us Americans against our Gov.
It’s really sad they even need to exist. They do incredible work!!!
Support them with your most generous donation. I've left a portion of my estate to them in my will. They are beyond critical to this country, but they need money to continue to win for the people.
In Oregon, if you have the misfortune of being arrested, any cash you may possess at the time (small amount) will be returned in the form of a debit card, which costs you 20% to use. I think it's theft!" Anyone have a different idea? The DA in Prineville told me it's a civil matter. I say it's criminal. If I stole 20% from anyone through nefarious means, I'd be in jail.
Oregon is one of the most f’ed up states in the union!! Run by democrats for years. Now ppl are coming from all over the country so they can do hard drugs out in the open lol there is no hope here until these people are removed from office
I noticed that the TSA, and the state trooper stopped her long enough for the DEA agent to get there.
So I can drive down the road in a $150,000 Mercedes with a $75,000 Patek Philippe watch on my wrist on my way to a party and that’s OK but if I drive my old work truck to go buy a motorcycle with $15,000 cash then that’s a problem?
I have yet to understand why the average man who travels with cash is suspected of money laundering, but rich people who travel with all kinds of expensive clothes, jewelry, watches and other expensive accoutrements don’t seem to raise an eyebrow.
Not only that. You’re traveling with all your cash in your pocket - it’s just digital. How long before they start seizing your digital currency too?
Cops exist to protect the rich from you and me, and there's no way they would harass the people they're protecting.
Yup
Cops exist solely to protect the rich and their capital.
Because the rich can afford a lawyer. Most of these seizures cost more or a significant portion to litigate so they give up.
Carrying cash is not a crime, but unfortunately neither is the cops stealing it from you.
It is a crime for them to steal from you. You just have to prove it. That’s the messed up part about it. YOU have to spend more money to get YOUR money back.
TSA is what you get when you have people fail at being a mall rent-a-cop.
It’s funny, banks do the same. If you leave your money sit there, they claim it as theirs because you’re not using it.
Thank you IJ for protecting us from our government.
Most people can't and will not understand until it happens to them.
Because they are gaslighted, they are sheep who thing government (aka The Beast) wants good for them.
@@randomargument972God warned about false teachers and false prophets who God didn’t send and who twist and lie and give false prophecies.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984
Christ Himself was regarded by Jews as false prophet. Just because you disregard it doesn't make it truth.
I am no teacher and no prophet, but what is the Beast is clear as day, especially when you won't be able to buy sell or trade without the Mark Of The Beast (which will be done through CBDC, digital currency, and communist China style of "social credit score")
I have a friend who travels with his life savings. I've tried to tell him it could be taken from him, but he says, "Cops would never do that, they're the good guys."
@@phlodel- You should send him this video.
Its ridiculous what we have allowed our nation and law enforcement to become and i am a retired Deputy and multi-generational Floridian saying this.
When i was trained i was told (and wholeheartedly agree absolutely) that "its better a thousand guilty persons be let go than ONE innocent person be falsely charged"!
America to one must PROVE their innocence and are viewed as guilty until proven otherwise. This is wrong and the opposite of how we ought to think, act and behave!
JURY NULLIFICATION needs to be in every American persons vocabulary!
And every person needs to demand to know the court's jurisdiction. Only county courts have valid jurisdiction in our nation. All others are corporations.
Anecdotal evidence here ;)
Many LEOs seem to have the opposite opinion, and feel it is better to lock up a bunch of 'would-be offenders' just in case a couple are actual offenders. Kudos to you for your adherence to the ideals of the system.
Why would you let a thousand guilty people go before falsely charging an innocent person?
Oh. You meant "than."
@@throgwarhammer7162 I automatically knew that. Perhaps you can now delete your message. Maybe the one who made the comment is having difficulty correcting that particular word.
Cops protect the rich from the poor, they always have and always will. I don't believe you were trained any other way. The working class are assumed to be criminals who must prove their innocence, that's just how it is. When workers go on strike or when people demand justice, bet you were there cracking heads.
Lie to them. "I have no cash on me". If they are allowed to lie to you, you are allowed to lie to them
Finally I appreciate you continuing to fight against the corrupt police mafia
I didn’t know about the law that states you must put all your money in a bank.
We do not have to do so. Most banks are controlled by the ones who should have been arrested long ago.
it is called the "wall street greed" law
govt gives corporations the right to steal our money and arrest you if you resist
A decade ago my brother sold a car to a buyer across the state lines in Oklahoma. It was a mere $3500 dollars and when returning to his home state, his truck was pulled over. The officer noticed a sealed bank bag on the front seat and instituted a "drug stop." Regardless of the fact that he had a signed bill of sale for the exact amount, my brother was let go but the $3500 in cash was seized and lost forever.
In my tiny business this is what worries me every time I road trip for a vehicle.
The lesson: NEVER leave cash or other valuables in plain view
@@jessebrewer3983 Yes, it is a mistake he has never repeated. In fact, he sells antiques across a mult state area and often has cash but since that time, he never again leaves his bank bag in plain view. Now he goes to a local bank and buys a cashiers check before traveling home. The small bank fee is worth the protection.
I'm so disappointed to think of the good people this has happened to and what they then must feel about "These United States" for the rest of their lives.
Grrrr! That would piss me off forever! Like my 96 yo father is still ticked off about the bicycle the Nazis confiscated during WW2.
I’m young and very distrustful of banks. Plus cash is the best way to travel because the damn government doesn’t need to know about my travel and spending.
The fact that this crap is still legal means the Judiciary is in violation and they need to be indicted.
“This Idaho Falls, Idaho couple get their rights violated by a task force agent that I’m sure was fishing for cash for cool new gear. She (agent) Stopped them for sitting at a gas station too long. “
Yeah I saw that one and it really pissed me off
@@jimmygrant424 I've seen that video footage too, what a despicable thing to do.
Any version of civil forfeiture should immediately be deemed unconstitutional and illegal.
My parents always told me to put it in the bank. If you're not dealing with the law for carrying cash, you get harassed by banks for trying to withdraw cash
The problem with carrying large amounts of cash is that it makes you a target for robbery. Sometimes it's the police that rob you.
money is hidden, how is someone a target
@@Gloria68 There are countless YT videos where people carrying cash for legitimate purposes don't know enough not to hide it from police. Sometimes TSA tips off local cops who rob you after you leave the airport.
@@AcmeRacing I don't go to airports.
@@AcmeRacing laws must be enacted, then
we need to eliminate customs controls between states.
The last drop of honor is lost when an officer asks how much money you are carrying midway through the jet bridge (tunnel); right before boarding the plane itself. They don’t care if you have kids with you, or if it’s international connecting flight.
"Are you carrying any cash?
- "Oh, sorry officer, I don't bribe cops. Have a nice day."
I just heard of a case that happened in Knoxville TN where they arrested a man that had been passing through the state on his way home back to Michigan from Florida, they asked to search his vehicle and he allowed it, but he had 4.700 dollars on him, they seized it and arrested him for no charges, he had a valid license and was in a rental, they told him after 4 hours at the jail they were charging him with drug paraphernalia because they tested the cash and it tested positive for meth. The police had no valid reason to arrest him, they looked for any reason to take his money. After he is jailed they claim the amount he had was 1000 less than what he actually had. He was in the jail just a few weeks ago. I hope he reaches out to the institute for justice and files a law suit against the Knox co TN police dept.
Knoxville police used to be called KKKPD. Back in the 1980s they were known for beating up people. One time they messed up and beat up someone who was related to someone in the District Attorney’s office.
how is it that the supreme court hasn't looked into this?
@@jeepmystic Because the case has to make it that far in the legal process. The cops find out you are willing to fight and they give it back. You no longer have a case to take to the supreme court. The cops don't WANT this in front of the supreme court. They like the rules just the way they are.
The only real way to get this stopped is in the House and Senate. The law needs to be changed. IJ is doing great work, but their hands are tied in most cases when the cops give up early.
Because they support this. Make no mistake, the only reason departments aren't sued into the ground for this behavior is that the courts protect them from the consequences of this.
There should be a petition starting to stop this to the AG.
Civil forfeiture laws / rules need to be reformed. This is ridiculous.
THE DEA NEEDS TO STAY AWAY FROM OUR MONEY AND OUT OF OUR MEDICAL RECORDS. AT SOME POINT, THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!
The DEA needs to be shut down.
@@timgraham7851after years of allowing huge amounts of prescription narcotics to be shipped to tiny towns in the rural SE, they've changed their tune. Now, legitimate patients can't get their legal prescriptions filled. The DEA has come up with an arbitrary number of meds that can be shipped to pharmacies. Sometimes my 28 day prescription has to last 35+ days. I've been a client at the same pharmacy for 40 years, never had an inkling of issues, tested at my Drs every month to ensure I'm taking meds as prescribed. They're out of control and it seems there's no recourse for their actions
The Triad of government corruption and avoidance of accountability:
1 qualified immunity to. Judicial immunity and three civil asset forfeiture.
If the govt illegally holds your cash they should have to pay the interest when it’s returned.
It’s like saying you suspect a corvette driver of speeding just because he is driving a 500 hp car..
Armed robbery is a crime, unless the robber has a badge.
Until a dog can go on the stand and articulate the discovery they should not be used for this type of work.
You might as well use use a Ouija board as a "witness" or an Officer Bob puppet . Same difference .
Totally. If you look at cops with their dogs, you can see them signalling the dog before it supposedly finds drugs.
Same with traffic cameras. Have the camera appear in court to testify. You have the Right to face your accuser.
Otherwise, take a picture of your citation along with the cash, then mail it back to them.
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The ability to cue the dog into false alerting is a huge problem. Whats the point of the 4th ammendment at that point?
Thank you for what you do!
Despite it not being a crime, it protects nobody
Even in a traffic stop you have the right not to answer question. Give officer your license, proof of insurance, and registration. Then NEVER agree to a search and remind the officer, over and over if necessary, that you don't answer questions without an attorney present. No matter what the officer says, over and over remind him that you don't answer questions without an attorney present. Then keep your mouth shut since courts often rule that if you answer even routine questions that you have waived your right to remain silent.
We should make a law saying that if someone's money was seized wrongly then law enforcers have to pay it back and they should pay double or triple the amount.
Maybe even more. You don't know how much money someone could have made with that money.
But they would just use taxes to pay it back. Did you know that the government makes $11,000 dollars every minute from speeding tickets alone in the US. It's ridiculous that we still keep this government going when the constitution gives us the power to end the government and start something new that will work for us and not against us
No we should just enforce the 4th amendment correctly. The amount of mental gymnastics required to believe this doesn't violate the 4th amendment is colossal.
With market interest
A guy I worked with found a loophole to recoup loses. Applied for a lost title and became the legal owner of a city patrol car. They couldn't do anything about it. Confication/stealing can work both ways.
How could he get a title unless he could prove he owned it and wouldn't the city have a title to the car?
@skrome1953 Actually that's what burns me up. They can say it was abandoned on your property, file for a title and pay for a plate, and it's yours. Kinda like squatter's rights.
IJ needs to sell T-Shirts AND money bags designed for domestic and international travel.
Shirts that have the words “Institute For Justice” printed across the front or back, with a nice contrasting color box and the phrase contained within. The money bags should have the name embroidered.
Perfect for when traveling with cash.
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A friend of mine Jack is a millionaire landlord. For whatever reason, some of his tenants pay him in cash, so, at the end of the week he'd have like $60,000 on hand. Then his bank refused to take his cash deposits because they thought he was a drug dealer. So he got a lawyer and took the bank to court and he won, on the grounds of innocent until proven guilty, and he also got a damage judgement of $12,000. He jokes and says he made the bank pay him in cash
Cash is not a crime yet, but they're trying to push for a digital currency only.
The terrifying thing about that is that they'll still want to seize money. Then it won't matter what you do. A random account with more then $500 in it. Very suspicious.
@@darkwing3713 In a digital account they can randomly remove funds with a button from a continent away.
Yet there are more and more places that refuse to accept cash. It's credit card or nothing. Translation: They can track *everything* you do.
I still dont understand where the power to seize someone's money without charging them with a specific crime comes from ?!
I think and hope that it's only a matter of time before this practice is ruled unconstitutional in a higher court
@@mason4354actually, the supreme federal court has two rulings that state it is illegal, one during Obama's term that states the property must be returned , and another more recent ruling that overturned the so called Chevron doctrine that allowed states to interpret the federal laws with broad terms outside the laws intended parameters. Supremes ended Chevron doctrine with both agencies and states.
@@TenaB-j2l you did a great job elaborating but could you explain even further?
@@mason4354 Chevron doctrine gives states and agencies broad leeway to "decide" intent and letter of the law. Sometimes the intent of the law was to protect the person from federal seizure but the so called vagueness of the law allowed the state or federal agency to interpret that law in ways that actually hurt the very people the law was designed to protect. Example: the constitution states that illegal search and seizure without a warrant is prohibited, but the ATF in the previous year has targeted people without reasonable causes of a crime, because they have a certain fire arm or the person is politically active in a certain party, this was done through Chevron doctrine. The way the states interpreted the Rico laws and drug asset forfeiture laws( targeting people without a law breaking record carrying cash on a routine stop and seizing those assets cash or otherwise.) This was called the Chevron doctrine.
Originally? Go to Wikipedia and search on Civil forfeiture in the United States. It goes WAY back. It's how they took ships from pirates and smugglers.
Civil forfeiture needs to stop, only cash can be taken IF a criminal act is suspected, such drugs found, warrants for arrest of felonies, or running away as a fugitive.
TSA in Tampa asked me what was in my pocket during a pat down. I told them money and they asked me to pull it out. I complied and they asked how much I had and I told him it was none of his business. He then said he needed to count it and I let him know that wasn't happening. It was hard to not get angry with this nonsense.
What was the response when you said it's not happening?
Nice job Kim! This is one of the major reasons I got involved with IJ in the first place ie. one of my pet peeves. This has to stop asap. That is why I have earmarked all of my assets to IJ upon my death. I'm serious. I want this to stop. I want there to be federal laws against this. Thank you IJ.
The government does more harm to the people than the help they provide.
Thanks for all your hard work! Of all the charities I’ve given money to over the years I’m seriously happy to see these positive results! I’ll keep the donations going as long as I can! What a great organization!
Thank you for the support! :) -IJ
Institute for Justice does good work, thank you for all you do. IJ is an excellent non-profit for everyone who values freedom from government overreach to donate to also!
Here's a good one for you. How about property tax? If you don't pay your property tax you'll soon find out who really owns your property and that you've really only been paying rent in the form of a tax to live there.
right but we live in a "free" country.......
Someone needs to make the case that because the property is being charged with a crime, not the owner, the property is thus a Juridical Person and has all the same rights as a person, like innocent until proven guilty. I would love to see one of these IJ lawyers go to court and tell the judge their client is the property, not the owner, and try this case with the Juridical Person doctrine. After all, it's the COURTS who first treat the property as a person, NOT the owner or legal counsel.
I know you guys for Steve Lehto's videos and love all the work you do for people.
I had a buddy who was a merchant marine officer on a military sealift ship during the invasion of Iraq. They were short crew and he wasn't allowed to leave. To ensure crew wouldn't leave before being released a % of pay would be paid in cash on the last day. 17 months on that ship he got released with $80k in cash. No issues going through Europe. When he flew back into the US, he declared it, and they seized it for being suspicious. It took a year and $10k in legal fees to get the money back despite having all the payroll documents, DOD paperwork, merchant seamans license, ship discharge papers, and joining contract articles. He literally got paid by the government and 24 hours later they took it away.
I took my best move to share this to the ideal crowd.
Institute For Justice is an incredible organization! Thank you so much for fighting for our rights and all your hard work!
I'm dipping out of this video early. It's giving me heart palpitation.
I wonder what people did before carrying around debit cards. Did the cops just go around stealing peoples cash?
They also have card readers to take your money.
Civil asset forfeiture is a relatively recent legal instrument. Before it was invented, (which was originally conceived to allow the ill-gotten gains from drug cartels to be seized), the cops didn’t have any way to do this.
Ever since the first American revolution this has been happening. It's why George Washington had to increase the size of the continental army to put down the second American revolution after he increased the taxes over those charged by king George III!
Yes, they did...
Not only is this a more recent trend but there are people that go around teaching this technique to police departments. It is seen as a method to gain funding dollars for equipment and etc. Expect it to grow in frequency if we don't get it stopped.
Keep fighting the good fight!
The real reason they don't charge people with a crime is not that they don't have any proof of a crime (which they don't), but to charge someone requires time to write arrest reports, log evidence, go to court et cetera. Time that would better serve them by being on patrol and confiscating more cash.
The system is very good for the government and is literally design for the government but not for the people.
This criminal system is definitely bad. It merely encourages Police and other agencies to focus on "policing for profits rather than serve & protect citizens and ignore basic law enforcement while protected by "immunity"
Watching these things makes me so angry that I can only watch a little at a time. Keep up the good fight IJ!
As an airline pilot, I am going to start carrying bundles of movie prop cash. Maybe I’ll waste their time enough for honest people to travel unmolested.
I think the biggest issue with getting a civil forfeture case onto the Supreme court docket is that government lawyers will drop it and give the money back before it gets there. If a case never makes it to the Supreme court, then they don't have an opportunity to rule on it.
Arresting the cash is common place now since it's easy for these Institutions to make use of the monies they seize for their own gain. If laws are put in place to make it so they can't touch the cash they seize for themselves the problem will stop almost overnight. Thus laws need to be put in place to make it so any monies seized can never make it into their budgets no matter what!
This garbage scares the snot out of me. I have/do travel from 400 to 2000 miles to buy cars. Yes I could have bank checks/travelers checks ect, but my bank system mostly are not where I'm traveling, so can't break a check, plus you can't haggle price without cash... Just one of these stops would pretty much almost destroy my tiny business.
Same here
When cops find out you have money, they will not stop until they get their hands on it.
I was singled out at an airport in British Columbia.
My destination was Ontario also in Canada.
At no point was I traveling internationally.
I had $10k cash with me, on my person.
I was taken to a room with several airport security.
I had recently sold my home, and was relocating in search of a new home.
I had all the legal paperwork with me pertaining to sale of home.
The agent even said
"Hey, thats the same lawyer I used for my home sale''.
"bUT WE STILL HAFTA MAKE A REPORT"
I was eventually released with my cash.
The parting words of the agent stuck with me.
"Good luck getting on an airplane in the future".
I have not flown, since.
This was over 15 yrs ago.
I have wondered for a few years about confronting a dog witness in court. Thanks for that answer.
Thank you IJ! Your amazing for taking on these issues that have stayed under the radar for decades
The common thread in most of these cases seems to be that the police and the rest of the government view the constitution as an obstacle, when protecting it and the rights enumerated within is the point of their jobs.
This whole sordid area of U.S. “enforcement” is disgusting. Best of Luck Institute for Justice.
I am sooooo glad I live in CA where they have laws against civil asset forfeiture here. A crime has to be at least charged BEFORE assets are seized.
Conveniently for the cops, all of a sudden all money smells like drugs.......
Lesson One: Never talk to cops. If they have a warrant, let them do their thing, but otherwise keep it shut. Even if a cop asks you what time it is, say nothing.
Well, if you say nothing at all, the courts have ruled that your silence can be used as an admission of guilt. You must verbalize that you are exercising your right to remain silent. So once you've said, "I am exercising my right to remain silent," if the cop asks you what time it is, your response, if any, should be, "I don't answer questions."
Like “rapid13” said below. Don’t talk (limit your conversation - invoke your right to remain silent) and do not give consent to searches. Ask “am I being detained?” If so, wait 10 or 20 minutes and ask again “am I being detained?”. Continue to do so until you are released.
A neighbor who is an LA Sheriff and works in drugs, claims he has never had anyone file to claim confiscated cash in over 10 years. It is a civil proceeding and they are free to ask the claimant anything they want like when/where/how did they get the cash/business licenses/irs tax payment and are they on any welfare programs. It is hard to explain how you have 20k in cash and no job and getting food stamps without admitting to some sort of crime. Also Indian casinos keep records of all the big winners so that not going to work.
Never talk to the cops... "I don't answer questions!"
Institute for Justice is the modern day Justice League. Thanks for the work you do to preserve the US republic and working for the people.
In the 1850s Lysander Spooner in the book The Constitution of No Authority declares that the government is a highwayman.
Stand and Deliver! Your money/valuables or your life!
These examples are so sad of the corporate government out of control.
People aren’t charged, so they don’t do any defending. The money itself is charged like a person, which is insane. The money has to defend itself.
Public announcement: Do not talk to the police. Invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent.
The sad thing is, at the end of the day, the only people that will continue to pay, are the taxpayers....whether it be through one person having their property taken outright through civil asset forfeiture or through taxation. Taxes will pay for these lawsuits. Taxation is "legalized" theft. Our government has us bent over every which way.
STOP PAYING TAXES
This is the main reasons why WE should never LIE, CHEAT, OR STEAL.... THE ALMIGHTY GOVERNMENT, AND THEIR HENCHMEN (POLICE) CAN'T STAND COMPETITION !!!!!