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How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church

Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 11 months ago to Government
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I know this is a repeat topic, but this is just such an egregious example of legalized looting, I just had to...at the point you can analyze their efforts to allow drug sales so they can take the money on the way back, this is getting to the point of state sponsored drug running. To let someone go and five weeks later charge them based on a dog alert and no evidence is even worse, prbably because of all the noise about it, they felt they had to to cover up the looting...
SOURCE URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/how-oklahoma-cops-took-53000-from-a-burmese-christian-band-a-church-in-omaha-and-an-orphanage-in-thailand/


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 11 months ago
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
      Thanks, Curcuit,. I was wondering who the heck even cares about cops ripping off citizens just because they have a lot of cash.
      I just may vote libertarian this November if Alabama allows me to.
      No promises. I'm keeping my options open right down to the wire.
      Seems like anything may happen during this particular election.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
      A lot of sentiment we see in here I see on that. I am amazed this issue has not become much more well know, I mean Beyonces Lemonade took the web and millions, yet apparently, government theft is not as high on the priority list... weird..
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 11 months ago
        Not weird. It shows you just where America's priorities are - not where they ought to be. This generation of Americans is getting what they deserve. Unfortunately we are getting it, too. This was one the point of Eddie Willers being stranded in nowhereland.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
        Really weird!
        I support honest police.
        Not corrupt police.
        We have both.
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        • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 11 months ago
          Can you clarify what you mean by honest police? Most police just follow the law and when the law specifies seizure of property for certain alleged crimes what is the honest policeman to do? The problem is that both liberals and conservatives support such laws and both prefer punishment for law breakers whether by due process or not as long as someone is punished. It is out of sight, out of mind, party on!
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          • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
            I think Dino is referring to those to whom "due process" is a foreign concept, as is true in much of our legal system today. You cannot read that article and come to any conclusion but due process was not observed.
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
              You hit it.
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              • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
                I realize a lot of police are good guys, but they need to police themselves and slap down these rogue nations that spring up, or all of them will get tainted...
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                • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
                  I was a state corrections officer for 21 years.
                  I know what you are talking about.
                  About every couple of years a warden would fire someone on the spot and sometimes also send for deputies to haul the corrupt prison guard to the county jail.
                  I know of one who got convicted for life without parole and returned to the state prison system as an inmate.
                  Myself retiring in 2003, that dude is still rotting away in a protective custody single man cell.
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                  • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
                    There was a sheriff in some Midwest state who had a deal with one of the satellite channels (maybe Discovery) to have 4 "volunteers" go into jail for 30 days, no one knew who they were. They reported all kinds of drugs, sex for money, abuse and guards who ignored beatings and rapes right in front of them. They also ended up getting several guards charged by the Sheriff when they got out, and said it was the most humiliating thing and terrifying experience they had ever had. Too bad Hillary Beast will never experience it, one person I do wish it on...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 11 months ago
    Stealing his money is obviously wrong, and the justification for the search is wrong. If I tell the police I saw something illegal in his car, that's a reason to get a warrant to search it. If I'm lying, I can get in legal trouble. If they take the word of annoymous tipsters or a frickin' dog (it sounds like a joke), then there's no accountability. They can just search anything they want. If that's the rule, they should save resources by dispensing with the dogs and repealing the Fourth Amendment.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
      I thought the telling thing was the interrogation to find some shred they could use, and then releasing him after not even mentioning the reason they stopped him. Clearly a setup, yet tolerated in our glorious democrapcy we have created.
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    • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 11 months ago
      I agree. Let's stop being wussies and just openly start getting rid of the key parts of the constitution. Americans are ready, now. They'll take it.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 11 months ago
    Lovely. I really hope someone starts a discussion about the Government being a giant corporation that needs a trimming, long before we worry about private corporations.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 7 years, 11 months ago
    In many cases, and probably in this case as well, the dog did not smell anything. The dog handler gives a barely visible sign for the dog to act in a certain way, appearing as if the dog smelled drugs. This is a well know method for the cops to go around getting a warrant. Basically, the cops in these cases are the criminals, but who's going to stop them?
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago
      Exactly, the question of our generation, look at Hillary Beast, violates Federal law that others are in jail by the Obamanation for less types, and yet she is free and clear! Who is going to stop them? Reminds me of Heinlein's story "The long Watch" where they have nuclear weapons on the moon and a guy stops them from being used against earth, and has the saying "Who watches the watchers?"
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 11 months ago
    Let's get something straight...The "drug sniffing dog" is a joke. Might as well have a witch doctor come out and toss some chicken bones on the ground. Yet, Americans (in their obedient, blind exuberance) go right along with it. I saw a video where a couple was refusing to roll their windows down for cops and one cop openly threatened to take their kids and to have the drug dog come over. The father was yelling, "Don't bring that dog over here!" He knew where that would head.

    Sad, really...
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    • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 11 months ago
      Even if the dog was 95% accurate and 5% of the population were drug carriers, and a dog had a positive reaction to some person, there would still be only 50 - 50 chance of the person actually being guilty of having drugs.
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  • Posted by chad 7 years, 11 months ago
    "Legalized theft" is nothing new for governments, this method is more efficient at gaining the proceeds and making it nearly impossible to retrieve lost property - money - from the state police. Any government that is suspicious of its citizens because they carry large sums of money and demands it forfeiture because of the nature of possession is extremely dangerous and already beyond the control of the citizens it governs.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago
    I have had it with asset forfeitures. I would BAN them completely, along with getting rid of drug laws 100% and a number of other things too. I dont think I would last too long as an elected official however.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 11 months ago
    It has nothing to do with Constitutional government and everything to do with the greed of the left. I don't care which level or flavor of left it may be from Rino to Nazism or Communism.

    Left = Government Over Citizens and people (by any means needed and available Since it's all socialism of one flavor or another then socialism is with rare exceptions fascist in nature and is characterized by both totalitarianism and repression.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 7 years, 11 months ago
    Maybe the cop is the famous "dog whisperer" that understands canine?

    Then again, it's more likely he speaks donkey, because the egregious nature of their attempt at theft is asinine...

    Guarantee you they found what they thought was a rube, a simpleton foreigner with little command of English, and they were "rousting" him. The old "broken taillight" story - if that isn't a paradigm from one of those movies where a cop pulls someone over, busts out a taillight, and tells the guy "Son, ya got a taillight out... best step on out the car... " and then on the collar radio "Josie, have officer Opie c'mon out with the canine, I think we got us a live one here and I know ol' blue will let us roust his car..."

    And people wonder why people in foreign countries stay away from America? Seriously... it's well known that if you speak with an accent, and/or look foreign, a lot of places are "Sunset" counties... e.g. "You best have your (insert derogatory term here) ass in some other county before the sun sets..."
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