TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy

A thousand bad outcomes that are possibly more likely than this scenario could have happened. The bag could have been lost in the taxi, lost by the airline, stolen by a passerby, left at home, and the list goes on.

Has this guy ever heard of Western Union? Bitcoin? A cashier's check? Anything else besides a suitcase full of cash?

This method of making a large transaction is so stupid that it's hard for me to even blame the government for considering it automatically suspicious. Of course, having no due process surrounding civil asset forfeiture is not right, but that doesn't mean that this transaction isn't suspicious.

I'd go ahead and play devil's advocate here: the only reason to carry this much cash is to do one of the following:

1. Evade sales and income tax (You can say this isn't your problem, or that the government should take less of our money anyway, but countries that have high tax avoidance rates have poor infrastructure and public services – tax avoidance hurts honest people the most)

2. Make a transaction to exchange illegal goods or people

It's entirely possible that this guy's story is just a lie. I think it's naive to pretend that this guy isn't likely to be connected to organized crime. That's the whole "organized" part of it: they're going to be armed with a good story and disciplined behavior, not like the people you see on Cops admitting guilt the second a beat cop starts asking questions.

1. If there was some civil asset forfeiture, the victim must've done something wrong because cops certainly can't be wrong.

2. If you've committed even a minor, non violent, crime, it doesn't matter how harsh the penalty is, you deserve it.

3. A majority of voters don't see themselves as criminals and aren't hassled by cops like some segments of the population are. They think this will never affect them, so they pay it little mind - until the day it does affect them.

With that in mind I wonder whether it is TSA policy to always have these officers cross-sworn in with the FBI, or if it's a legal loophole which officers can exploit?

From the tweet-thread it looks like local police departments have similar "double-agents"...

So if it is a loophole the guy in the video just figured how to maximize his reward for his moraly derelict actions. Like the luggage handler at Havanna-Airport.

Though the Democrats would probably come up with some sophisticated explanation why this particular case does not fall under BLM.

Remember that Biden is the guy who pushed the Clipper Chip.