"But
you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is
the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the
blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as
in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
By de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted February 28, 2017
The
Federal Government has been involved in criminal activities for so long most
people think that whatever they do is OK! I mean it’s the government it must be OK.
But -
they steal cash from unsuspecting innocent air travelers at airports in the
name of an abused forfeiture law is
that OK? The criminal activities of the
Federal Government run far and run deep. Murder, Grand theft, all sanctioned by the
illegal departments within the U.S. Government. The DEA is just one of them.
You know
what they say…follow
the money!
A wide-ranging investigation by USA Today found that agents for the
Drug Enforcement Administration DEA have been profiling and seizing cash from
travelers at major U.S. airports. Over the past decade, federal drug agents
have seized more than $200 million in cash from at least 5,200 people at the
nation’s 15 busiest airports.
Los Angeles had the biggest haul for
the DEA, with agents taking over $52 million in 1,624 seizures. Yet according
to USA Today, “only
one of the Los Angeles seizure records included an indication that it was
related to a criminal indictment.” Nationwide, the paper identified 87
cases where the DEA “seized cash after flagging a suspicious itinerary, only two resulted
in the alleged courier being charged with a crime.” And yet none of the
cash was returned. From 2006 to 2013,
among all DEA cash seizures, less than half were under $10,000, data analysis
by the Institute for Justice revealed.
“Going after someone’s property has nothing
to do with protecting them and it has everything to do with going after the
money,” Renée Flaherty, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, told USA Today. Read More:
DEA Offered Reward to a TSA Screener to Help Them Seize
Cash from Luggage
The paper reported that there is a
“wide network” of informants such as airline workers an TSA agents, who have “flagged
travelers for questioning based on whether they were traveling with one-way
tickets, had paid in cash, had listed a non-working phone number on the
reservation or had checked luggage.” Incredibly, some informants are “paid
a percentage if their tips lead to a significant seizure.” As one
former DEA supervisor put it, “We count on this as
part of the budget. Basically, you’ve got to feed the monster.”
Illegal
searches and seizures without probable cause.
Under federal civil forfeiture laws,
agencies like the DEA can keep a 100 percent of the proceeds from forfeited/stolen
property. Meanwhile, property owners face an uphill battle if they have
the funds and choose to fight back in court, most never recover a penny. Unlike
criminal cases, which require proof beyond a reasonable doubt to secure a
conviction, in civil forfeiture, prosecutors need only make their case by a “preponderance
of the evidence, “such as
traveling with cash, a far lower legal standard, which by the way,
isn’t necessarily illegal.
This is not the
first time the DEA has run into hot water for confiscating cash. Last year, the
Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice slammed the
DEA’s use of “cold consent” tactics,
which allows agents to seize cash without warrants; cold consent has
also been compared to stop-and-frisk. In September, two
congressmen introduced a bill that
would cut off federal forfeiture funds for DEA marijuana seizures. And
the Institute for Justice is currently representing Charles Clarke, a college student who
had his life savings seized by a DEA agent at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
airport. According to the DEA he must prove that the money he had was legitimate. WHAT???
Willie
Jones a Nashville Landscaping contractor used
cash to purchase a one-way ticket
to Huston Texas, he was going there on business to buy plants for a job in
Nashville. But because the distributer
in Huston would only accept cash
from someone out of state, Willie brought $9000.00
in cash to purchase the products to bring back to Nashville after renting a
truck for the return trip. The
ticket agent who would receive a cash incentive for informing on such customer’s
alerted the DEA agents who came to the counter and took the $9000.00 in cash
from Willie and sent him on his way. NO
ARREST… Nothing…they simply went
back into hiding, waiting for the next poor slob to be ripped off by Government agents.
This one was
especially interesting to me because when I was in business I flew to Los
Angles Ca on a one way ticket with some $7000.00 in cash to buy some antique
furniture and rented a truck to transport it back to my business. But fortunately for me there wasn’t a forfeiture
law with corrupt DEA agents at airports.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Folks I have stacks of documents proving criminal
activities committed by the Federal Government, including murder for hire, all heavily
documented and carried out mostly right out in the open. They have the power and connections to cover it
up and the money to buy off any witnesses, or simply kill them as well. Moreover
this didn’t just start under the Obama administration. It’s been going on for nearly 240 years to one
degree or another.
Isn’t it about time
we clean it up?
This my friend is why
I voted for Trump. He promised to drain
the stinky swamp. The problem is the last
two presidents that tried that, were murdered and attempted to be murdered restively.
Can you guess who they were?
Thanks
for listening my friend! Now go do the
right thing and fight for freedom.
-
de Andréa
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