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We have been told the right of these issues for so long, yet we continue to make and allow the same mistakes:
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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I think you all are catching on. Known drug route. They shake everybody down. Bad guys can hardly cry foul, but there's a lot of good guy getting caught up in the BS. Guy's no better than the thugs he 's shakin down.
One of the shakedown victims should pay that Sheriff a late night visit & take him for a little trip behind the woodshed. MM
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Ifin' he weren't up to no good he wouldn't have been carryin' all that cash and goin' strapped.
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(sarcasm, BTW)
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Even had attorney's fees taken from me. Did you have to go to court to get the fee's back?
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Reasonable doubt, amigo!
I've litigated more than a handful of these civil forfeiture cases. Even had attorney's fees taken from me.
They're a bitch and the law needs to be changed such that due process is back at the forefront of civil forfeiture cases. They're not really even forfeitures, they're subjective,unilateral confiscations. 'A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?' ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero We have long know the nature of the beast, yet we forget to leash it with adequate law and oversight.
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Hell, traffic stops alone are done for no other purpose than revenue generation for the jurisdiction. Is it any surprise that this outright theft occurs?
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Am I reading this right?
Then the "officer" pockets the cash?
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Just makes me want to run down and register my AR!
I am 100% against waterboarding. Splatter their brains out the back of their heads.
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Am I reading this right?
Then the "officer" pockets the cash? No, the department does. At least all of the cash that is turned in...
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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No, the department does. At least all of the cash that is turned in... Thats BS. At least in mexico they get to keep some of it.
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
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As mentioned in the video below, Smith would use these proceeds to make ridiculous purchases, including a $90,000 Dodge Viper and paying convicts to build him a �party house.�
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No, the department does. At least all of the cash that is turned in... Thats BS. At least in mexico they get to keep some of it. Well, there is that "all that is turned in" bit.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Even had attorney's fees taken from me. Did you have to go to court to get the fee's back? ============ My firm tried but our efforts were rejected by the Fed court. Really sucked too as drug dealers are almost always good for a large stash of cash money...a unique smelling wad of cash money, mind you.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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I think you all are catching on. Known drug route. They shake everybody down. Bad guys can hardly cry foul, but there's a lot of good guy getting caught up in the BS. Guy's no better than the thugs he 's shakin down.
One of the shakedown victims should pay that Sheriff a late night visit & take him for a little trip behind the woodshed. MM You know stuff like this may cause vigilantes to rise up and weed out some of these police. Some may just disappear?
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My firm tried but our efforts were rejected by the Fed court Was your client convicted of a crime of moral turpitude?
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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You know stuff like this may cause vigilantes to rise up and weed out some of these police. Some may just disappear? Relax, the ACLU is on it. 
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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My firm tried but our efforts were rejected by the Fed court Was your client convicted of a crime of moral turpitude? =========== No, just drug trafficking.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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No, just drug trafficking. I can't believe they took his cash. The gall.
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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You can't believe it. It made me cry!
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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You can't believe it. It made me cry! Even drug dealers get their cash up front Bob 
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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