Originally Posted by copwriter
You certainly seem to know a lot about this. I was unaware of this mass desecration of the constitution, and I teach this stuff for a living. Not everything you see on 60 Minutes is necessarily true or reflective of the situation everywhere.
http://www.cutv.com/robbery.htm
http://www.libertarianworld.com/Prop...re-Rights.html
http://www.ndsn.org/sept95/bookrev.html
http://www.nacdl.org/MEDIA/PR000085.htm
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=323
In a nutshell the Sheriff of Nottingham seized $8 million in a 41 month time span from 1989 to 1992, about $5,000/day. In 199 seizures there were no arrests made for any violation. 75% of the people were able to get some of currency returned (50% to 90%) after negotiating with the Volusia County attorney. All had to agree not to sue the Volusia County Sheriff's Department. Only 4 people were able to get there cash returned 100%.
To paraphrase your post, I'm sure not all the public records of Volusia Country Sheriff's Department are necessarily true and that it is not reflective of the situation then.
Public trust is earned, and even more quickly retracted by those who have a nasty civics habit of knowing the Constitution.
And yes I do look forward to every encounter with a TSA (I'm not supposed to use the term STASI) screener at MIA, TLH, AUS, DFW, DAL, ATL, FLL, MSY, PBI, OKC, EWR, ISP, MCO, JAX, TPA, IAH, JAC, LBE, PIT, PHL, MCI, etc. Have not been to all 429 of them but I try. Heaven forbid I form an opinion with encountering only 10% of them.