Right or wrong you decide

Who determines what a large amount of money is? Is it 1K, 2K, 5K or 10K? When I went on vacation to VA before moving out here I have an interesting experience. I had 2K in my pocket for the weeks expenses. When going through the airport they tell you to take everything out of your pockets. I didn't know it meant cash as well. I hadn't flown in many years, way before the TSA. You would have thought I was the head of a cartel. Interestingly they knew through the scanner just how much I had, then I got taken to a room where I was searched, wiped for traces of drugs, made to wait then warned to never do it again.

Just who the hell are these communist bastards they can do this at almost gun point. They worked in a team with one having his hand on his gun the whole time. I have always been a cash person, WTF do you do when you have made a purchase, dinner for example and the bank refuses the card and it isn't your fault? It isn't like the banks never make a mistake. I hadn't had a CC in many years until I met my wife. She is CC crazy, now I have to carry a friggin wallet full of plastic cards. It used to be nicely folded money around ID and a rubber band in my front pocket.

I don't think it's the police, TSA, or governments responsibility to check peoples money, for Christ sake they are the biggest drug dealers on the planet. What if I was going to buy a used car, or a used motorcycle like many of us do and the seller will only take cash? And like this kid was just driving down the road minding my own business and get pulled over with 10K in my pocket? How much money is it going to cost to get it back? This is just more controlling BS in an effort to get someones money for free. We make jokes about China, Russia, being communist countries and they way they do things to people with arrest, asset forfeitures, unlawful detaining, tell whats the difference now? They record and listen to everything we do, stop us at check points in our travels asking questions, checking ID. How is the United States any different?

This is unacceptable, period. When we moved from FL, my grandmother had her trusty little portable safe with her, with several grand in it. She never trusted anything but paper money & checks, though she did switch to a debit for the move for the easy record keeping of purchases (on the statements) The cash in the safe was solely for if she lost her debit card & couldn't write a check (many places refuse checks now) It was a back-up in the event we needed another method of payment. Had we been pulled over & her money questioned & SEIZED, I'd have had a cow. Never rely solely on plastic, it's easily lost. Have a cash reserve, especially when moving across the country. You never know, you may end up actually needing to use it.

Having a cash reserve is good, especially when moving across the country. But $10,000.00 dollars is a tad bit excessive in my opinion. Having that much is asking for trouble. From cops or crooks.

I'm a cash only person, no credit cards whatsoever, but I refuse to carry that much cash on a trip. If I need to buy something that's expensive, I'll go to the bank and get a certified check made. That can be cancelled at least if lost or seized.

I think we need a movement in this nation to make NO mean NO.

Not sex, or dating or anything else. No... THIS outrage is what I mean. I watch those COPS type shows and its the same thing. Whenever I hear someone say 'no' to having their car searched? You KNOW where it is going next. One of two things will then happen.

#1. You will wait, however long it takes, for a K-9 unit to become available for an outer search of your vehicle

Or..

#2. You will watch your vehicle sit on a warrant or, worst case, be "temporarily secured" (i.e.... TOWED AND SEIZED) until a warrant can be served to search the car.

In other words? The 4th Amendment means absolutely nothing, whatsoever. No? You can't say NO. Not in any functional way. You WILL be searched, one way or another, once they decide they are curious. Sooner or later....hard or easy....you WILL be searched.

We need that movement to establish NO MEANS NO and it isn't just in bed with a hot date where NO *MEANS* NO!

....otherwise...our rights mean nothing but window dressing so we "feel" like we have choices, where we actually have none at all.

Somewhere around here I have a series of photographs I took of forty thousand dollars, in cash, in a couple nice little stacks. It's amazing how SMALL a space that much takes in 100's too.. heh.. I'm not rich, but it was an indulgence while executing my fathers estate.

If a cop like that had pulled me over? Well..I suppose I would have gotten my money back, being able to quickly show a court matter ongoing ..but even that? Wow..I can't feel 100% certain.

That's just wrong, to even have to wonder.

Once you're in 'the system' you would have gotten your money back at the same expense that kid got his back. It's the Robin Hood story ... and they're getting away with it. The only way to antagonize 'the sheriff' is via ambush. The guy with the paintbrush is telling the story his way.

Everybody involved there should have lost their right to live in America. Due Process has been turned into a farce. Time to take the power out of the hands it's been entrusted to.

Come to think of it ... isn't that sort'a the reason we all wound up Hernandos? -Chuckle

-Cheers