{"id":27925,"date":"2014-09-20T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2014-09-20T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:11:46","slug":"cbc-warning-to-canadians-travelling-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/20\/cbc-warning-to-canadians-travelling-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC warning to Canadians travelling in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-but-they-ll-grab-your-money-1.2760736\" target=\"_blank\">CBC link<\/a> mentioned several times by US commentators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>American shakedown: Police won&#8217;t charge you, but they&#8217;ll grab your money<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>U.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public\u2019s cash as they can<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On its official website, the Canadian government informs its citizens that \u201cthere is no limit to the amount of money that you may legally take into or out of the United States.\u201d Nonetheless, it adds, banking in the U.S. can be difficult for non-residents, so Canadians shouldn\u2019t carry large amounts of cash.<\/p>\n<p>That last bit is excellent advice, but for an entirely different reason than the one Ottawa cites.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a shakedown going on in the U.S., and the perps are in uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Across America, law enforcement officers \u2014 from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters \u2014 are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public\u2019s cash as they can; \u201chand over fist,\u201d to use the words of one police trainer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this CBC link mentioned several times by US commentators: American shakedown: Police won&#8217;t charge you, but they&#8217;ll grab your money U.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public\u2019s cash as they can On its official website, the Canadian government informs its citizens that \u201cthere is no limit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,13],"tags":[111,996,563,98,202],"class_list":["post-27925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-civilforfeiture","tag-money","tag-police","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27926,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions\/27926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}