Harrassed & Detained For Carrying Cash @ Airport
 

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I like the threat "you are going to have to prove why you have the money?"


Welcome to freedom watch.
Don't go to Vegas to gamble because it will get you threatened.

Re: Harrassed & Detained For Carrying Cash @ Airpo
 

Crazy how exercising constitutional rights is called "playing games" and lack of cooperation.

How stupid!

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Wow, since when is it illegal to carry cash through an airport? Scary--thank God he taped the whole event, I hope there is a lawsuit in the works.

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This is the price range for Democrats and what they pay prostitutes. The leftists should go ballistic on this because the abortion supreme court case was based on privacy "rights", the abolition of sodomy laws is based on "privacy"
An abortion is around 6,000 and they don't want to hurt that cash industry.

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Indeed.

We should all educate ourselves on what our rights are and how to stand for them within the confines of speaking respectfully and yet standing for what is right.

There are a number of videos on youtube and elsewhere that instruct in the proper ways to interact respectfully and yet clearly make a stand that your rights will not be infringed upon.

Most infringements of rights that go on happen in a "matter of fact" fashion. You have waived your rights before you even know what happened.

These days you have to overtly educate yourself how to actively maintain your rights or you will waive them left and right without even knowing you did it. Of course a lot of that has to do with the fact that many people don't even know what their rights are.

Like, in the interaction in the youtube video... he asked if he was legally bound to answer this question. Their response said it all... no... he was not. But that didn't keep them from badgering and threatening him.

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Amazing--but where does the law have the right to speculate how someone is going to spend their cash? I think the young man answered the law enforcement correctly, what law says he has to answer their questions about what the cash was for?


Did anyone catch how they found the cash in the first place?

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I didn't hear where they said how they found it. But it was in a box... so they were probably searching his stuff and found a box of cash and VIOLA... you are a suspected terrorist.

If having lots of cash makes you a terrorist suspect then I am a true patriot. :)

Actually... scratch that... while I don't have cash I have a fair amount of silver. That might be more incriminating than cash.

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I suspect they were thinking more in terms of drug dealer or drug buyer than terrorist.

however the point is well made, they had no right to detain him, they had no legal right to ask him a blessed question and I hope he sues the pants of these people.

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I think that is where he blew it, or didn't think about it anyway. Keith and I will be in a fair amount of airports this year (all international [probably makes a difference]) But....

Keith always carries cash on his person, actually around his neck with our plane tickets and passports. No one ever sees it, or has asked to see it.

Maybe this is a lesson to all, never put a wallet full of cash through inspection at the airport.:D