US Government Asset Seizures on the Rise

[styky]

Strassel: Stringing Up Gibson Guitar

[styky]

Gibson Guitars and the DOJ: The Investigation Is Ongoing
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohns ... is_ongoing

[katsung47]

They murder to loot.

33. Evaluation of property

About in 1992, a former colleague of my wife when she was in Hong Kong came to visit US with her husband. At that time, friends and relatives were intimidated by law enforcement agents and kept a distance from us. So I thought it was a little strange, especially they chose to stay at our house for two nights. Tourist used to stay in San Francisco, rarely came to San Jose.

The husband started to talk about stamp collection. I collected stamp when I was a child and kept that hobby until then. Even in the years of Chinese Cultural revolution, I didn't give up. At that extraordinary period, collect stamp was regarded as a capitalist hobby, stamp store were shut down, stamps were burned. I almost have most stamps government issued since 1949. Now it worths something, especially those issued during Culture Revolution and before that period, because most of them were abandoned and destroyed. He asked me to show him my collection and viewed them carefully. He astonished me by offering 1700(HK dollars) for a set of stamp which face value is only 2 (HK dollars). That price could cover almost total cost I spent on my collection. Then he talked about how he collected stamps. He bought bunch of sheets of stamp when new edition issued and put them in safe box. So when value increased, he made a lot of money. He talked about this again and again.

I thought, this way was not a hobby, it was investment. Rich men's business. He was rich, he had a securities company. He came to estimate the value of my collection and encourage me to have more by offering a high price on one set of stamp. Collection, as well as gold, cash, jewel are Federal law enforcement's favorites. Because these things are usually with no record and easy be stolen. Even my wife doesn't know how many and what kind of stamp I have. And the husband might think he worked for Law enforcement agency so he was trusted by government. He didn't know it was not coincidence. They picked him up because he was rich. Just like the burglary to my youngest brother in law, (he is the richest among my sisters and brother), the prosecution of the boss of A and S Tours, (though they knew she was innocent), he was chosen because he was a possible 'profit' source. Of course, I knew nothing of this at that time, only felt it was unusual then. I recognize all these bit by bit later with the accumulation of experience .

34. The lost Credit Card

I had a Visa card. About in September 1993, Visa card company said they would transfer my Visa card into GM Mastercard. I wonder why they did so and thought they might sold business to another company.

In Oct. 15, Visa card company gave me a letter, said that as one of select customers, they were sending me a Mastercard to replace Visa card. Usually this was a notice and customers would receive the card in a week or so. I didn't pay much attention on this because at that time, I felt pressure on my business. Newspaper said Mrs. Chen's drug case would be sentenced next week. Berryessa Flea Market announced there would be a Festival next week. There would be music, and free beer. I've been in Berryessa for nearly 10 years. It was the first time experience. Free beer reminded me of free entertainment of Disneyland for FBI agent. It seemed that they would close the drug case and had a celebration. I knew I was much more a target than any real criminals because I knew too much dark side of Federal law enforcement agency. I didn't know what they would do but expected there would be a violent end. So I abandoned my business that week.

In Nov. 24, GM Card co. mailed me a letter, reminding me they had sent me the card, and emphasized with bold letter that:" If you have not received your new card(s), please call our Lost/Stolen Dept. at......." The same sentence was put in an eye-catching box at the top of the letter. I called that number. Staff said they would cancel the lost card and mail me new one. Right next day, I received the letter contained new Mastercard. "What an efficiency!" I admired while calling Card company to confirm of receipt. To my surprise, I was interrogated by the staff for sometime. Then they told me the card number I confirmed was reported lost yesterday and should be the card due in my hands one month ago. I immediately realized someone surveying on my mail had held the credit card. They only released it when touched off by report lost phone call. That's why I got the lost mail next day to the phone call. The promised new card arrived nine days later.

Since then I was aware they even developed a system to steal from people. Everything was well planed in advance, they even could get a credit card of full amount from victim which the dead man could never verify. It may also explain why they are so easily kill innocent people: they can always 'profit' from it, either by credit card, cash or their collections. And it is the safest loot, no one will complain. All victims are dead people.

[Edward Kennedy]

My punishment for speeding in B.C. didn't fit the crime


Edmonton Journal August 28, 2011



Have you ever been in a situation where you felt as if you had no rights and it was right here in Canada?

I am a 58-year-old wife, mom and granny to five grandsons ages five to nine. I have no previous traffic tickets or violations. My husband and I live near Edmonton and have a small cabin in Manitoba.

Months ago, we planned to take our grandsons for a holiday at the cabin and to visit their 97-year-old great grandma, who lives nearby. I was to drive to Kelowna with our SUV, which holds seven passengers, pick up two grandsons and drive to Spruce Grove and pick up the other three. Then we would all go to Manitoba.

On July 27, I was driving back to Edmonton from Kelowna with the two grandsons, ages six and eight. As I came through the Mount Robson tourist area, I saw a passing lane. There was a semi and two large trucks pulling trailers going up in the slow lane.

As I was passing, I noticed two cars coming up fast behind me. I sped up to get past the traffic so the two cars could get past before the passing lane ended.

As I was about to pull over into the slow lane, an RCMP car came over a hill and turned on his flashing lights. I was going 120 km/h. He said the speed limit was 70. I was shocked. I told the officer I never saw the 70km/h sign because there were trucks in the way. Also, the other two times I had driven that road, the limit was 100 km/h. (I have since learned that the speed changes to 70 km /h from May to October.)

The officer replied that the new law in B.C. states that a vehicle travelling 40 km/h over the speed limit is impounded.

I said I would never knowingly exceed 40 km/h over the limit. I begged him not to impound the SUV as it was the only seven-passenger vehicle we had to get all these children to Manitoba.

I started to cry, telling him of all our plans. He showed no emotion. I felt

as if I were in a foreign country with no rights, no recourse.

The SUV was towed away, and we had to ride back to Valemount in the police car, retrieve our luggage from the SUV, rush to catch a bus and take the long ride back to Edmonton, arriving home at 1 a.m.

We tried to rent a seven-passenger vehicle, but it was the long weekend and all were booked, so we drove our two older vehicles to Manitoba.

Because of the cost of leaving the SUV in the impound lot, I interrupted my holiday to drive all the way back to Edmonton from Manitoba, then took a bus to Valemount to pick up the SUV and drove back to Manitoba to finish our vacation - a total waste of time and money.

Taking away our vehicle did not teach me a lesson; I am not a speeder. Was I guilty of speeding through a speed trap? Yes, but did the punishment fit the crime? I was going 120 on a passing lane, safely moving over for other motorists. I call that courtesy.

I have since read of other people with the same experience on the same passing lane with similar horror stories.

The process for this law is flawed. The RCMP corporal was police, judge and jury.

Surely, our fine officers are taught to use common sense. As one officer said to me, "this law was not passed for law-abiding citizens like you." If this speed limit is so important for safety, then put a flashing sign there; do not use it as a speed trap.

I have always had a deep respect for our Mounties and the law. I felt like a criminal on the side of the road in a remote area with no rights or options. What do you think that foreigners go back and say about Canada?

I spent a lot of money on fuel and drove thousands of kilometres to regain our truck, all for what should have been a ticket.

Would you feel like you were in Canada if this happened to you?..................http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/ ... story.html

This could have been beaten in court. The rcmp officer who persecuted the innocent citizen here proves what my late uncle, an opp detachment commander once told me, "An ahole is still an ahole even in a uniform". This idiot and bully is the type I reserve the word PIG for. What a piece of human garbage, and the police wonder why they are becoming hated by the grassroots population.

[Edward Kennedy]

The same pigs of the rcmp, should be renamed the stasi...they are arbitrarily declaring some types of long guns as prohibbitted and stealing them from registered owners WITHOUT COMPENSATION.

Thus the rcmp pigs have become thieves, and one wonders how criminals could arrest criminals for doing things they themselves do.

[styky]

Congress Looks to Rewrite Act That Led to Gibson Guitar Raid

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51463

[styky]

Feds threaten to raid summer concerts to seize guitars
Administration officials have threatened to raid summer concerts in order to seize what it deems to be illegal guitars made from wood that has been banned.
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/feds-t ... e=activity

[Edward Kennedy]

I wonder how foolish these fools think the rest of us think they are? Keep trucking obummer, you are headed for a brick wall and I do not think moochelle will be able to cushion the impact...blood and guts everywhere.

[pirapoi]

Feds threaten to raid summer concerts to seize guitars

I foresee a problem:

[Edward Kennedy]

For sure.

[styky]

Gibson Guitar To Pay $300,000 in Penalties and Lose Seized Tropical Hardwood
August 6, 2012, 2:32 pm
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ ... -hardwood/

[RedDog]

Pretty chintzy ticket for SUV woman but to clarify, it's never been a 100 kph limit on the highway there. It's a maximum of 90 in any mountain National Park or in BC's Mt. Robson Provincial Park and the Mt. Terry Fox Provincial Park region west of the Jasper Park boundary on the Yellowhead. Going past the Mt. Robson turn off it's marked as low as 50 because of the sheer number of RV's pulling on and off the highway. You don't see a posted 100 until west of Téte Jaune Cache on the way to Prince George or south to Valemount and on to Kamloops.

I had a very similar situation occur between Sicamous and Salmon Arm, BC when I was also clearing out of a soon to end passing lane on a severe uphill along the Shuswap where tractor trailers are down to a walking pace with flashers on. I got a quick light bar flash and a finger wag from the oncoming mountie and that was the end of it. Sometimes common sense should override the absolute letter of the law.