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Comments on: The Feds Will Go After Your Gold Fillings https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/07/the-feds-will-go-after-your-gold-fillings/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/07/the-feds-will-go-after-your-gold-fillings/comment-page-1/#comment-459 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:30:42 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/07/the-feds-will-go-after-your-gold-fillings/#comment-459 This garbage happens on I-95 in Florida. If you have a lot of cash on you, you are assumed to be a drug dealer and you have to sue the Federal government to get your property back.

There are a lot of people in rural Florida who will not take anything except cash and they own antique cars and boats. I have been on a few trips with friends to pick up boats, and without cash the process would involve multiple trips or hanging around in a local motel until a check clears.

Hell, I saw a deal go south because my friend brought the new $100s and the guy with the boat didn’t believe they were real.

]]> By: Joyful Alternative https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/07/the-feds-will-go-after-your-gold-fillings/comment-page-1/#comment-457 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:49:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/07/the-feds-will-go-after-your-gold-fillings/#comment-457 This crap has been going on for a long time. Authorities accuse somebody of certain crimes (mainly drug dealing, as far as I know) and then grab all their assets, leaving the defendants no money to defend themselves. Plus the arresting authorities get to keep the money and spend it as they please on “law enforcement.”

I don’t for a fact know, but with such motives and means, I suspect a lot of railroading and corruption.

At least a decade ago, 60 Minutes had a feature on, IIR the story C, a Tennessee landscaper who said he was traveling by plane to Texas to shop around for plants and was “caught” with $10,000 in cash on him, so DEA declared him a drug dealer suspect and seized his business. After several years, nobody could find any evidence on him other than that he had “too much cash,” but they still wouldn’t return his property, and he was broke.

I wonder how one asks 60 Minutes for a followup.

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