THAT GIGANTIC SUCKING SOUND: GOVERMENT IS COMING FOR EVERYTHING YOU OWN

SOURCE: MICHAEL VAIL, BLACKLISTED NEWS

There is a strange entity sucking the very essence from Americans today. It is almost as if there is a gargantuan mosquito the size of Godzilla and it has attached itself to the Earth and draining us all dry. As if Quantitative easing, record-low interest rates, bail-ins and the war on drugs isn't enough to deprive us all of what we have earned, now the feds and local governments are inventing new ways to take more from us. Social engineering the masses to work harder, longer for nothing at all.

Here are a few recent examples of just how low goverments are willing to go for added revenue.

WASHINGTON POST'S STOP AND SEIZE TEACHES US:

Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice spent millions on police training.

Many of the reports have been funneled to federal agencies and fusion centers as part of the government’s burgeoning law enforcement intelligence systems — despite warnings from state and federal authorities that the information could violate privacy and constitutional protections.

A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing “trophy shots” of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.

Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.

 WASHINGTON POST REPORTS ON HOW THE "D.C. POLICE PLAN FOR FUTURE SEIZURE PROCEEDS YEARS IN ADVANCE IN CITY BUDGET DOCUMENTS":

Civil forfeiture laws permit local and state police to take cash, cars, homes and other property from people suspected of involvement in drug trafficking or other wrongdoing without proving a crime has occurred. Police can make seizures under state or federal laws.

When D.C. police seize cash or property under District law, the proceeds go into the city’s general fund. But proceeds of seizures made under federal law go directly to the police department through the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing Program, which allows local departments to join with federal agencies in forfeitures and keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds.

District financial records show that D.C. police receive about $670,000 annually from the Equitable Sharing Program. About $30,000 in proceeds from forfeitures under District law go into the general fund.”

Now the police protect and serve themselves with impunity but don't get in their way because they can murder you and get a paid vacation or a pat on the back from the rest of the force. This is nothing more than trickle down lawlessness that has originated from the US Government using military force to topple nations while using their 'Bypass Congress Free Card' aka Executive Privilege. Your state governments have taken notice will use every dirty trick in the book, because they get a commission but they kick up money to the federal government like a good soldier for the mafia should.

SLATES REPORTS ON"CHICAGO QUIETLY ALLOWS .1 SECOND SHORTER YELLOW LIGHT TICKETS, MAKES $8 MILLION" HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE UNDERHANDED WAYS CITIES ARE SHAKING THE CITIZENS DOWN:

How long is a yellow light? The answer is: A minimum of three seconds, according to federal safety regulations. What happens when a mere tenth of second is shaved off that time and a yellow light lasts 2.9 seconds? If you thought, not much, you’d be wrong.

The city of Chicago and its mayor, Rahm Emanuel, are taking heat—thanks to a Chicago Tribune investigation—for allowing tickets to be given in that extra tenth of a second. The length of yellow lights can actually vary slightly due to fluctuations in electrical power, but before this February the city's traffic-camera system didn't issue tickets in any instance when a yellow lasted less than three seconds. When the city changed that lower limit to 2.9 seconds, the impact was substantial: 77,000 additional red light camera tickets were issued, at $100 a pop, which added up to nearly $8 million forked over by unsuspecting drivers.

THE GOTHAMIST SHINES A LIGHT ON HOW THE "IRS SEIZES AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY FROM INNOCENT PEOPLE" INDEED:

Banks must report any deposit above $10,000 to the federal government, but they must also report deposits slightly below $10,000 because they're seen as possible indicators of criminal activity. That possibility is enough for the IRS to legally take $33,000 from the owner of a Mexican restaurant in Iowa, or $447,000 from a family-run cigarette and candy distributor on Long Island. Once the IRS has the money, they offer the parties a choice: pay a settlement, or face the threat of legal action while your money stays in limbo.

“They’re going after people who are really not criminals,” David Smith, an attorney and legal expert on civil forfeiture, told the Times. “They’re middle-class citizens who have never had any trouble with the law.”

The IRS initiated 639 of these seizures in 2012, compared to 114 in 2005. One in five were actually prosecuted. The median amount seized last year was $34,000, and legal fees to claw back the money can exceed $20,000, according to the Institute for Justice.

What do we have left that they can steal? The silver fillings from your Grandmother's teeth, it's possible but more likely it would be your pension and your 401K. The price of food keeps going up but every time I hear the 'official' unemployment and inflation reports I think of 1984. Dear comrade, the choco rations have gone up from 15% to 10%. Is that some sort of common-core arithmetic? Don't get me started on that. The country has been gutted, the currency is beyond feeble and all we can be happy about is restricted-access crap iPhones and unrestrained consumerism on Black Friday. If you are lucky enough to retire in this country the health care system will fix that problem. My, how the mighty have fallen.

MIKE VAIL IS A US BASED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST, GEOPOLITICAL ANALYST, AND PUBLISHER OF STRATRISKS.COM. YOU CAN READ MICHAEL'S ARTICLES ON BLACKLISTEDNEWS.COM, AND FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER @MICHAELVAIL