{"id":1973,"date":"2014-09-11T23:13:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2014-09-11T23:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:15:46","slug":"american-shakedown-police-wont-charge-you-but-theyll-grab-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"American shakedown: Police won&#8217;t charge you, but they&#8217;ll grab your money"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><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<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-but-they-ll-grab-your-money-1.2760736\">American shakedown: Police won&#8217;t charge you, but they&#8217;ll grab your money &#8211; World &#8211; CBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the Canadian government notes, there is no law against carrying it here or any legal limit on how much you can carry. But \u00a0if you\u2019re on an American roadway with a full wallet, in the eyes of thousands of cash-hungry cops\u00a0you\u2019re a rolling ATM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a shakedown going on in the U.S., and the perps are in uniform. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1973\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-extortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}