Re: Asset Forfeiture, gun control

[sec@moscow.com]

> >well, I do know that banks have to report any "anomolies" in
> >withdrawl/deposit patters to the FBI, and that if your "caught" with
> >$10,000.00 cash on your person i is Drug money no mater what you are
> >doing..
> 
> You ever hear of the lady in Florida who took $30k to the lumberyard? why
> would she do this, you ask? Her house was just torn to crap in a
> hurricane. A cop stopped her and took her money. The city eventually tried
> to settle a lawsuit for like $10k. There are cases of people being killed
> by police who want the car they are driving or the house they are living
> in. People driving sports cars have had them seized. Asset forfeiture is
> driving a huge wedge between the police and the rest of us. You know,
> maybe if we just paid some more TAXES and hired and trained cops and PAID
> THEM A LIVING WAGE they wouldn't have to go out and, uh, appropriate your
> hard earned property. But no. Taxes are evil!

um, is that the cops.. or the cops bosses (and I don't mean the public)

> > > (By the way, I'm of the opinion that the "War On Drugs" is rather
> > > worthless as a solution.)
> >
> >well, banning booze gave us the Mob and the first set of gun
> >control laws in this country since the revolution, but politicians
> 
> No, this is simply not true. Gun control laws for the most part started
> after the civil war to disarm black people. The Florida supreme court set
> a white person free who had been prosecuted for concealed carry, saying
> that the law was written for black people. I have about a billion more
> cites for this... gun control laws are meant to disarm the poor and the
> minorities.

hmm, I heavn't heard about any of those. my understanding was 
the first act came in during prohibition, but I can certanly see that 
happeneing. it still is, in "More guns, Less crime", (can remember 
the authors name off hand, have to check the book out again) he 
does comment that "African Americans" in the lower income braket 
(is that the coorect term this week?) are the ones that should be 
owning guns to protect themselves from crime since it is quite 
apparent Law enforcement won't (nor do they have to)

Stan



Teddy Roosevelt for President in 2000!!!
"walk softly, and carry a big stick"