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Buns_of_Fire

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10. If you fly (or even take a bus), the TSA is there to mess with you.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 08:27 AM

Sep 2014

If you drive, the State Police are there to mess with you.

If you walk, the local Barney Fife Squad might shoot you.

And if you just give up and stay in your house, who knows when the local militarized SWAT team is going to get the wrong address and blow you away anyway?

Tell me again how well this "War on Drugs/Terror/Flavor-of-the-Day" is going.

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Stop and seize: Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists... [View all] alp227 Sep 2014 OP

This will take some time to finish reading but I'm kicking now! arcane1 Sep 2014 #1

K&R! This F'en nonsense has to stop. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2014 #2

Frankly, it's an argument for the eventual use of digital crypto currencies villager Sep 2014 #3

one would think the democratic party INC would condemn to this sort of thing but nary a peep msongs Sep 2014 #4

The victims are as free to attend $1000/plate fundraisers as anyone else JHB Sep 2014 #12

This has been going on for years in Tennessee. beam me up scottie Sep 2014 #5

Asset forfeiture is an asinine and unconstitutional policy. Live and Learn Sep 2014 #6

wow ... on some level it seems like this ought to be on a conspiracy site, rather than wapo fishwax Sep 2014 #7

Kick.... daleanime Sep 2014 #8

Stealing homes too BlueinOhio Sep 2014 #9

There is more to your story about your son strawberries Sep 2014 #14

If you fly (or even take a bus), the TSA is there to mess with you. Buns_of_Fire Sep 2014 #10

But if you're not doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about, right? MindPilot Sep 2014 #17

just reading this....makes my blood boil spanone Sep 2014 #11

Organized crime masquerading as law enforcement. pintobean Sep 2014 #13

Yeah, whatever. Hemmingway Sep 2014 #15

That wasn't in the article CreekDog Sep 2014 #16

oooh a low-post badge sniffer... MindPilot Sep 2014 #18

In the other thread GP6971 Sep 2014 #27

To Protect and Serve NutmegYankee Sep 2014 #19

kick back to the top Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #20

Law "enforcement" has become organized crime. Dawson Leery Sep 2014 #21

+1000. I would interject the word "more" before organized. I get the feeling the mafia is running adirondacker Sep 2014 #22

This is far worse than any mafia. Dawson Leery Sep 2014 #23

Don't ever get pulled over wearing an expensive watch Aerows Sep 2014 #24

Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2014 #25

Hooray Washington Post! Another expose! poster123 Sep 2014 #26

Excellent post. K&R Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #28

Link to HuffPost article about Tennessee's civil asset forfeiture: beam me up scottie Sep 2014 #29

K&R woo me with science Sep 2014 #30