On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
For as long as I have been traveling internationally, I have been required to declare all cash amounts larger than $10,000. Does this mean that previously it was not a crime to not make such a declaration, and now it is ?
I suspect that this little tidbit is there to ratify if you will a rather common procedure amonst LEOs who encounter abounts in excess of 10,000.00 in cash - immediate confiscation as "suspected drug" money. Once this happens, it is necessary for the defendant to perform the impossible feat, prove a negative assertion, in order to retrieve the confiscated cash (less all "costs for maintaining it" of course! My 5,000.00 came back as a little under 4,000.00 in just six months - and I was one of the _very_ lucky ones!
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-- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------