From the desk of
Bill Ramey
10/27/14
COMMENTARY
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Warning: Avoid This Corrupt, Third-World Country At All Costs
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Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
John Anderson, an American tourist from San Clemente,
California, was driving down a poorly-maintained highway when he saw flashing
lights in his rearview mirror.
After a brief exchange with the local police officer,
Anderson was shocked when the cop started searching his vehicle.
Anderson had $25,180 in US dollar cash in the car,
which by the way was not a crime according to the local laws.
When the cop saw it, he told Anderson that we would
take it and threatened him with arrest if he protested.
Anderson couldn’t believe it. This is the sort of
stuff you always hear about in these third world countries—corrupt cops and
state robbery.
Ultimately Anderson gave in; the cop let him go and
did not charge him with a crime, but took every last penny in the vehicle.
And for the last two years, Anderson has been trying
to unsuccessfully fight it in the country’s Kangaroo court system.
Clearly we should all avoid going to such dangerously corrupt third
world countries.
Except in this case, Anderson was in the United States of America. And
he is far from being the only victim of this highway robbery known as Civil
Asset Forfeiture.
Since 9/11, police forces in the Land of the Free made
over 62,000 seizures without charging anyone with any crime, stealing $2.5
billion in cash alone.
The cost of taking legal action against the government
is so high, that only about 17% of the victims actually challenged the
seizures.
And even then, only 41% of those that challenged have
been able to get their money back.
This means that the government has a better than 93%
success rate in outright theft.
This is worse than mafia—it’s blatant theft with impunity from the
people that are sworn to protect and serve. It’s the kind of thing that is
thought to only occur in heinously corrupt countries.
Here’s the good news: many people are waking up to the
reality that they’re not living in a free country.
They are starting to understand what I call ‘the criminalization of
existence.’
Every last detail of our lives is regulated—what we
can/cannot put in our bodies, whether we can collect rainwater or unplug from
the grid, how we are allowed to educate our own children, etc.
Driving this point home, a Tennessee woman was
actually thrown in jail earlier this month for ignoring a city citation to trim
some overgrown bushes in her yard.
This isn’t freedom.
The irony is that, even though many people are
starting to realize this, they’re looking to the very institution that has
enslaved them to solve the problem.
It is their own government that has created this
system.
It is the government that passed US Code section 983
(Rules for Civil Forfeiture), allowing the police to commit highway robbery.
It is the government that continues to arrogantly,
brazenly spy on every citizen despite overwhelming public outcry.
It is the government that continues to bring forth new
regulation at an absolutely astounding rate.
Just today (this is 100% true), the US federal government published an
eye-popping 490 pages of new rules, proposals, and regulatory notices.
To give you a little taste, today’s regulations
include:
- Stringent requirements for properly handling
spearmint oil;
- New tolerance specifications for
a-alkyl-w-hydroxypoly sulfate
- Additional powers awarded to the Department of
Education to decide “whether certain postsecondary educational programs
prepare students for gainful employment.”
- A decision to centrally manage the 2014 ‘total
allowable catch of Pacific Cod’ in the Bering Sea.
There’s even a new rule upholding fines for
unauthorized playing of digital recordings.
You can’t make this stuff up—they are regulating
nearly everything.
It’s government that does this. They are the problem, not the solution.
Looking to government to solve the problem that they
themselves created is completely irrational. They are incapable of righting
themselves.
The solution – the power – is with the individual.
All the tools and all the resources to distance
yourself from this system already exist.
On one hand, there’s always the possibility of leaving. The American
Dream is still alive and well… it’s just no longer in the United States. Not to
mention all the financial, business, investment, and lifestyle opportunities
for the taking.
But even if you stay, there are dozens of ways to take back your
freedom.
For example, why hold 100% of your savings and assets
in that jurisdiction when they could easily confiscate everything?
There are so many great, safe jurisdictions in the
world to bank, to invest, to own property, and to store assets. And you can set
all of this up without leaving town.
The solutions are out there. It’s time to consider them before becoming
a statistic.
P.S. Here’s more proof that the official inflation
numbers are completely phony… yet another market that has reached an all time
high.
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