The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has a network of informants alerting it to suspicious travel activity, and though it seizes lots of cash, it rarely makes arrests, USA Today reports.
The DEA pays employees of airlines and Amtrak to report suspicious itineraries, such as one-way tickets to California, or passengers buying tickets with cash, according to the report.
The purpose is to seize cash and hurt drug cartels, though typically, arrests are rare, as are attempts to talk to suspects to find people higher up the chain.
"We want the cash. Good agents chase cash," George Hood, who was in charge of a drug task force at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago before he retired in 2007, told USA Today.
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We can all see how monumentally unsuccessful that's been. It's like catching one fish in a school of thousands. Nice way to waste our taxpayer money, though.
ReplyDeleteThey're just chasing their tails. It doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteHow about reining in the CIA and the drug running into this Country?
ReplyDeleteHow about a real war on drugs?
One in which the military would DESTROY the PLANTS (drugs) instead of people?
How about that?
So, they DON'T know who is a drug dealer, so they set EVERYONE up to take their cash before they go on vacation, you know, as a part of the "protect and serve" mission???
ReplyDeleteTHAT is what you call JUSTICE???
Just take the cash and don't worry about any of that "Constitutional protections" crap. Like "charges" or "trial" or "conviction" or "the 4TH Amendment".
Big Brother is NOT a "tin foil hat" conspiracy theory. Your own neighbors and friends are secretly enlisted in the 24-7 top to bottom surveillance programs that watch and monitor where you go, who you talk to, what you say, and many other things. HAPPY to be informers.
Regardless of what happens to their friends and neighbors. To show what "goot ci-di-zens" they are.
They get the rope, too. HAPPILY given.
Until then, you little wanna-be Nazi's and their little Nazi informers, keep cheering.
It No longer tin foil BS. They are all part of this evil conspiracy, --excerp from 2014 obama speech
ReplyDeletepart of peoples’ concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn’t holding and we’re not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that’s based on a different set of principles, that’s based on a sense of common humanity, that’s based on economies that work for all people.”
They need to check out the dealings of the Clinton "Mafia" Foundation. They might confiscate more money than what a citizen is carrying thru an airport. Might even find a drug connection on their private jets, limos and other private transportation.
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ReplyDeleteYou strike at the whole point.
The government including local police are enforcing un-Costitutional statutory laws agains we the People. They don't bother to "observe" those same laws (nor do the police).
It is a criminal conspiracy against the people.
4:19....the problem with your feel-good, rainbow colored world is that it can NEVER work.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
Human nature. Greed. Laziness. AMBITION.
And "economies that work for all people" is truly laughable. What economy do YOU envision that will "work for all people"??? One that just prints money and gives it to the millions who would rather take than give?
You've been listening to Uncle Bernie and taking him waaaay too seriously.
And what kind of "new order" would YOU envision? No one works, they just paint or compose poetry and wait for direct deposit? No one dies and the government makes sure no says anything to hurt your feelings?
This country, land of opportunity, used a CAPITALIST economy to go from 13 ragtag colonies to THE most powerful economic engine in the history of man. The most powerful military (saved the whole world, TWICE) the world has ever seen. The highest standard of living in the world and a middle class that changed the face of the 20TH century. The "Shining City on a Hill" that people STILL risk their lives to get to and have a chance at a life. Ain't nobody swimming to China or crossing the border into Argentina.
Have you ever held a job? I mean for more than a few months? That drivel you spout is pie-in-the-sky John Lennon fantasy dream, cream puff I-still-at-home but my professor said it was true BS.
Outline your vision for us, please.
Its 4:19- whooa buddy, Imclain calm down. Its me the "hidden danger of the rainbow guy". Im on your side! My comment was an FYI about the EVILS OF THE NWO not in support of it! Look I'm not some libtard living in my mother's basement or on the Dole.FYI I've had a job since I was 14 (paperboy) im now 56 a fully employed VET, registered Independent, educated (some college),and now work in Virgina at Wallops. I'm also well informed,and live by the adage keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer. So I read, watch, listen to all sources and keep myself informed on left and right politics. Hell I even force myself to listen to NPR on my way to work in the morning. (106.1 on way home) I consider myself in the middle somewhere. Im voting Trump and anything hillary, obama or Rinos say are lies or movements to enslaves us.
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I hope you dont mind my theft of your moniker with a slight twist:
"and the ignorant keep
In spite of the politics I still like the Beatles and John Lennon anyway. Peace brother!