Tuesday, September 05, 2006

To Protect and to Serve

...more of the what's-mine-is-mine-and-what's-
yours-is-mine state. Who are they protecting? Who
are they serving?
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, “United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, a man with a “lack of significant criminal history” neither accused nor convicted of any crime.

It was all about the drugs that weren't there.

Justice,(sic) 'murikun style.

See the article.

Ripped from Catallarchy.