SovereignMan.com: "When they can take your children away... how free are you?" - [PEACE]
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Wed Nov 6 23:07:00 PST 2019
Civil Asset Forfeiture, backed up with confiscation of your children.
When They Can Take Your Children Away... How Free Are You?
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George Reby was driving from New Jersey to Tennessee to pick up a
car he had purchased on eBay when he was stopped for speeding.
Like many Americans, George felt he had nothing to hide from the
police. So when the officer asked him if he was carrying any large
amounts of cash, he admitted he had $22,000 on him because he was
buying a car.
George was able to show the officer his eBay bids, and that the
sale was legitimate. He was able to demonstrate that he has income
from his job as an insurance adjuster.
But none of that mattered. The cop seized George’s money on the
spot.
Later, in a court hearing that George was not allowed to
participate in, the judge allowed the police to keep the money even
though George was never charged with a crime.
There was no proof of wrongdoing. Even more, George had proof that
there was NO wrongdoing.
“You live in the United States, you think you have rights — and
apparently you don’t,” George commented later.
He was forced to hire an attorney and jump through a ton of
bureaucratic hoops over a period of several months before the state
of Tennessee finally returned his money.
But not everyone is so lucky.
Numerous victims of the Tenaha police department in East Texas
(population ~1,300 people) never got their money back.
One victim had his baby taken by child services because he chose to
fight the town when they seized his assets without cause.
Another family was threatened with the same because they were
carrying $6,000 in cash to buy a car. Police said the children were
possibly decoys.
Threatening parents with child services was just one of the tactics
Tenaha police used to try to make sure no one fought their absurd
abuse of civil asset forfeiture.
Yet none of these people was ever charged with a crime. And that’s
because there was no evidence of crimes. They were just carrying a
few thousand dollars in cash.
(By the way, carrying cash is completely LEGAL.)
But it’s legal for police to do this in the Land of the Free.
It’s called Civil Asset Forfeiture; and the rules allow police to
take money, cars, houses, and other property without ever charging
you with a crime.
The government also has the legal authority to take children away
from their parents; these laws are supposed to exist to safeguard
children who are in abusive and dangerous environments.
Yet there’s an appalling number of incidents where local officials
weaponize this authority to harass, intimidate, and extort people
out of money.
Last week I told you about how moving abroad could save you tens of
thousands of dollars in taxes through the Foreign Earned Income
Exclusion.
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