If you plan to travel by car this summer, Stay away from Tennessee.

[Speck Tater]

Middle Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade?

<<SNIP>>
Interstate 40 has become a major profit center for Tennessee law enforcement -- with officers stopping and often searching out-of-state vehicles. It's because of a state law that lets them seize money simply based on the suspicion that it's linked to drug trafficking.

If an owner does not take legal action to get the money back, the agency gets to keep it all.

"This is really highway shakedowns coming to the U.S.," said Scott Bullock, senior attorney with the Washington-based Institute for Justice.
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more at: http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14643085/police-profiting-off-drug-trade

[msongs]

1. on interstate highway it is federal fraud crime yes? nt

[Jack Sprat]

2. Just don't go see Tennessee

This needs to hit them in the wallet, where it hurts the worst.

[kevinbgoode]

7. I stopped visiting that state ten years ago. . .

and they haven't done anything to tempt me to return.

[villager]

3. Is it me, or are Cops getting Piggier and Piggier, with each passing day?

And each further dismantling of the 4th Amendment...

[Lasher]

4. It's painful to see how these cops try to rationalize this incredible corruption.

[inwiththenew]

5. Cops in many areas have turned into revenue collection agents

ABT

Always
Be
Ticketing

[The Doctor.]

6. Well, I suppose having a wad of bills

soaked in concentrated lysergic diethylamide could really make things interesting.

:smoke:

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I'd like one! n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

17. *raises hand*

Mi tambien!

[davidpdx]

9. Probable cause is dead in some places

I as much as anyone want to see drug dealers put away, but this is ridiculous.

[NNN0LHI]

10. This happens in northern Illinois all the time too

Have a big wad of hundred dollar bills in your pocket and can't show a withdrawal slip from the bank for the cash and you are fair game.

Not saying we don't have corrupt cops. Small town police chief around here is in club fed right now for some shenanigans.

Don

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. Just wait until they pull over Reese Witherspoon.

Great actress, but I'm tired of her jawing on about Tennessee.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. How about , "stay away, period." Because of the above; and because of this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x177034

and because of this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=219x33117

Tennessee is rapidly becoming the new Mississippi, it would appear.

Not that it is particularly unique in that respect these these days.

I may just stay put *altogether* this summer. It'll serve NY right.

[Fly by night]

14. Hey, don't insult my birthplace (Mississippi) by comparing it with my home state (Tennessee).

Tennessee has become the new pre-WWII Germany.

Next they'll be handing out pink triangle arm-bands and disappearing progressives. Fortunately, when they attempted the latter with me, the two TBI agents sent to do the dirty work got really, really pissed off that our newly (s)elected Republican flying monkeys were trying to turn them into the Gestapo. They were so pissed that they were happy to carry a message back to the Rethug Secretary of State who sent them to my deep hollow home:

"Grow a pair of balls, man up and call me anytime you have problems with anything I have to say."

That request of mine made it onto the internets within a few hours and made it into print in three of our largest cities within a few days. Despite all that, my operators are still waiting. And they've been waiting for three years.

[Posteritatis]

18. "When they attempted the latter" - what happened? (nt)

[Fly by night]

19. Here are two links re: "The Battle of Ellis' Farm" where the hillbilly enforcers were routed...

... and shamed to boot by this (not so) humble DUer and two very pissed off TBI agents who weren't about to become anybody's Gestapo.

"A Visit from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to my humble home (just now)"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5908269

"Truth-Stranger-Than-Fiction Department: Citizen Activist Routs State Power in Battle of Ellis’ Farm"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5919415

[bluetex]

12. Wouldn't anyway...

Can't afford the gas for the Camry.

[WinkyDink]

13. Now you know that OJ and Kato weren't buying burgers that night with those $100 bills.

[Fly by night]

15. BTW, if you're wondering why Tennessee is so fracked-up these days, ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1141945

[cutlassmama]

16. I heard about this on the radio and couldn't believe it. What is the country

coming to? We have lost ALL our rights as free citizens.

[RebelOne]

20. Well, I'm in Georgia and travel to Gatlinburg every few years.

Don't know it I will be going this year, but if I were to be stopped, I don't know what they would do with my bank card because I don't carry cash.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. Jesus. We went through this in Central Florida.

It's legal now?

[donheld]

23. I think a general boycott of Tennessee is in order on many levels