Behave “peculiarly” in Oklahoma and the High Patrol has a nifty gadget that accesses your bank account and sucks out the money, no charge or legal procedure necessary. SLL kids you not. From Eric Peters on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:
In “Third World” countries – the ones Americans take comfort in making fun of – they just take your money.
The cops, I mean.
No pretext, just hand it over.
And now, here.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is using a gadget called an Electronic Recovery and Access to Data Machine (ERAD – god, how the state’s thugs love their acronyms) to simply vacuum whatever money you happen to have in your bank account or on a prepaid gift card. The machine accesses your account – basically, like a card reader at the cashier of any store/restaurant where you just bought something – and takes it.
All of it.
Without your having “bought” anything.
Much less having been convicted of committing a crime.
These thugs – literally, in the historic sense (see here about the infamous Thuggee Cult of India) simply steal whatever they wish, using threats of lethal reprisal to assure the cooperation of their victims, who are legally forbidden to defend themselves.
This is an outrage for which there are no words.
Screams are the only appropriate response.
And, perhaps, something more.
It may be time for that – god help us.
Mind, there is no conviction – or even accusation. Merely the thug-in-costume’s assertion that you – his victim – seemed (to him!) to be behaving “peculiarly.” Because no reasonable person would ever feel the slightest bit nervous and defensive, having just been waylaid by an armed thug with the legal power to simply strip him of his possessions and possibly his life, if he objects in any way.
How about women who “seem nervous” when confronted by a man who steps out of dark alley and throws a few questions their way?
We are truly through the Looking Glass. And it does not look good.
The chief thug – a creature calling itself Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent – bared its fangs as follows”: “We’re gonna look for different factors in the way that you’re acting… we’re gonna look for if there’s a difference in your story… “
Not the italicized portions (leaving aside the usual illiteracy).
The creature adds:
“If you can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you.”
I italicized the works. Do you savvy?
It is up to you to prove to the thugs that you’ve not committed a crime. That what you have is rightfully yours … not according to any defined/objective standard but according to how they feel about it…. or they’ll just take it and so much for due process or even common decency.
How does one prove that the $100 (or the $10,000) they have with them is “legitimate” to the satisfaction of a thug-with-a-badge who is the sole arbiter of what constitutes “legitimate”?
What about this hoary old business of having to establish that a person stole something before the state can steal from him?
Jesus Christ! Things have officially gotten Out of Hand.
It appears that the only safe way to travel in the land of the “free” is with no more than $20 in your wallet and leave the credit/debit cards at home.
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