Originally Posted by
law dawg
This is very, very incorrect. Sorry, but you're wrong.
And of course, you regularly correspond with your congressman to complain about this unacceptable breach of citizen's liberty?
Originally Posted by
law dawg
No, I don't believe that I believe that. I've been doing this for two decades - I know exactly what I can and cannot do, your straw man aside.
Doesn't look that way.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
With a large amount of cash (over $10000) at an airport and no proof of submittal, that's exactly what I have - articuable facts leading to RS, which warrants a forced detention and investigation, not PC for an arrest.
You never have "proof of submittal" any more than you have proof of filing your tax return.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
Yep, after a fine and probation. The guy was charged with false claim for the willful lies about the money. But that charge was dismissed. The only charge laid on him was failure to report - which still netted him probation. It is a crime, however you decide to ignore it. Statute provided. Refute the statutes and then we'll talk again.
If you don't report it, it is a crime. Period.
We were discussing a situation in which an officer asks, "how much money are you carrying?" and the traveller responds truthfully with some amount over 10K USD, and the officer then asks, "did you file a FinCen 105?" and the traveller responds, "did I what?", which is going to be the case 99% of the time. Once again, that individual could not be charged with a
criminal offence, and you should stop trying to confuse things by innappropriately introducing a reference to an entirely different situation, one in which there was an active effort to deliberately conceal and mislead. You dishonestly introduced that reference into the discussion knowing full well it wasn't in any way comparable to the hypothetical situation under discussion, so maybe you should drop all the "straw man" references.