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A March 30 court hearing could determine whether a Fowlerville family loses its home in a drug forfeiture case.

Family member Jeffrey Allen Michael is one of five men facing felony charges in what police have called a marijuana growth and distribution organization that stretched over Livingston and Genesee counties.

Livingston County Circuit Judge Theresa Brennan on Tuesday rejected a motion to have the family's drug forfeiture penalties reduced under Michigan's medical marijuana law.

The amount of marijuana seized at the home far exceeds amounts protected under that law, Brennan said.

"The Michigan Medical Marihuana Act does not apply," she said.

At the same time, Brennan ordered attorneys for the family and Michigan attorney general's office to present evidence at the March 30 hearing as to the street value of the marijuana seized.

The family could lose the home, Brennan said, if evidence shows that value exceeds the home's market value. Other items, including family members' investments and bank accounts could also be at risk.

Attorney Shyler Engel, of Shelby Township, who is representing family members, said that amount could be as little as $20,000. Attorney general's office representatives, however, have argued it could be as much as $3 million.

Michael is one of four men linked to Darryl Scott Berry, a 53-year-old of Howell Township resident believed to be at the center of the marijuana distribution ring. Berry faces charges in both counties, as well as Wayne County, related to growing and delivering marijuana. Berry has proclaimed his innocence on all charges and  testified he did not sell marijuana, instead accepting "donations" to meet his legal limit under the state act.

Though  Gov. Rick Snyder last fall signed a series of bills aimed at curbing abuses in civil forfeiture laws, Michigan law allows police to seize property used to commit, or purchased with proceeds from, such crimes as drug trafficking, prostitution and gambling.

 

http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/crime/2016/02/09/home-marijuana-forfeiture-case/80073046/?from=global&sessionKey&autologin

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These practices are some of the main reasons this is the richest county in Michigan.  5 people, 15 lbs, 200,000 in cash and 550 plants. Plus they want their houses, bank accounts and family members investments? 

 

Who knows what condition the herb was in. Most likely just harvested. 550 plants w/ maybe 75 ladies?   WHMI radio

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Cash + Lot's of cannabis = illegal

 

Well cash + a lot of things is illegal

 

Heck bills say legal tender right on them.

 

If they find grandma with meds had $200k in a wall or floor does that make her a drug dealer?

 

Funny thing imagination.

 

And unfortunately everyone knows what an imagination Leo and the courts have

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Well cash + a lot of things is illegal

 

Heck bills say legal tender right on them.

 

If they find grandma with meds had $200k in a wall or floor does that make her a drug dealer?

 

Funny thing imagination.

 

And unfortunately everyone knows what an imagination Leo and the courts have

If they find grandma with meds had $200k in a wall or floor does that make her a drug dealer?

 

Doesn't to me but Leo who knows 

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 if a cop found 200k on a raid that turned up no real evidence I bet some evidence would be found in order to keep that cash. 

 

 

Ex-LA sheriff pleads guilty to lying during corruption probe

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/2/11/ex-la-sheriff-pleads-guilty-to-lying-during-corruption-probe.html

 

who can you trust?

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its not just drug users either, the cash grab is abound. cash is only illegal if the universal adversary is found with too much

 

They don't want anyone to use cash. It spoils their plans.

 

Banning Cash: Serfdom in Our Time

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE · Feb 9th, 2016
 

 

Over the last few months a stream of articles have crossed my screen, all proclaiming the need of governments and banks to eliminate cash. I’m sure you’ve noticed them too.

 

It is terrorists and other assorted madmen, we are told, who use cash. And so, to protect us from being blown up and dismembered on our very own street corners, governments will have to ban it.

It would actually take some effort to imagine a more obvious, naked attempt at fear mongering. Cash – in daily use for centuries if not millennia – is now, suddenly, the agent of spring-loaded, instant death? And we’re supposed to just accept that line?

 

But there are good reasons why the insiders are promoting these stories now. The first of them, perhaps, is simply that they can: After 9/11, a massive wave of compliance surged through the West. It may not last forever, but it’s still rolling, and if the entertainment corporations can pump enough fear into minds that want to believe, they may just get them to buy it.

 

The second reason, however, is the real driver:

Negative Interest Rates

The urgency of their move to ban one of the longest-lasting pillars of daily life means that the backroom elites think it will be necessary soon. It would appear that the central banks, the IMF, the World Bank, the BIS, and all their backers, see the elimination of cash as a central survival strategy.

The reason is simple: cash would allow people to escape from the one thing that could save their larcenous currency system: negative interest rates.

 

To make this clear, I like to paraphrase a famous (and good) quote from Alan Greenspan, back from 1966, during his Ayn Randian days: The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

 

That was a true statement, and with a slight modification, it succinctly explains the new war on cash:

The preservation of an insolvent currency system requires that the owners of currency have no way to protect it.

 

Cash is currency that you hold in your own hands, that stands more or less alone. It is primarily external to bank control. Electronic money – bank balances, credit, etc. – remains inside the banking system and fully subject to bank control.

 

A combination of no cash and negative interest rates would be a quiet, permanent version of what was done in Cyprus, where the government simply shut down everything, allowed only the smallest deductions via ATMs, and then stole money from thousands of bank accounts at once.

 

The Cypriot spectacle was fairly large, however, and that tends to undermine the legitimacy of rulership. So, it is much better to have no ATMs and no cash at all. There would be no lines of angry people talking to each other, only isolated losers with no recourse, licking their wounds while the talking heads on television tell them to stay calm and watch the flashing images.

 

Negative interest rates would give the banks 100% control over your purchases. They could, even in the worst pinch, allow you to purchase food while freezing the rest of your money. The average person would have no recourse and would simply be robbed… but very smoothly and with no human face to blame on.

 

Negative interest rates mean that your bank account shrinks day by day, automatically. Your $1000 in January becomes $950 by December. And where does that money go? To the banks, of course, and to the government. They syphon your money away, drip by drip, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This accomplishes several things for them at once:

  • It finances government, limitlessly and automatically. Forget tax filings; they can just take as they please.

  • It pays off the bad debt of the big banks. (And there are oceans of debt.)

  • It forces you to spend everything you’ve got, as soon as you get it. (Otherwise it will shrink.)

  • It gives the system full control over your financial life. Everything is monitored, everything is tracked, and every single transaction must be approved by them (or not). If they decide they don’t like you, you’re instantly reduced to begging.

In short, this is a direct return to serfdom.

I suggest that you start talking to your friends and neighbors about this now, before it’s too late. Don’t let them comply without a fight.

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They don't want anyone to use cash. It spoils their plans.

 

The second reason, however, is the real driver:

Negative Interest Rates

 

In short, this is a direct return to serfdom.

I suggest that you start talking to your friends and neighbors about this now, before it’s too late. Don’t let them comply without a fight.

 

Personally I consider .01% pretty friking negative!  That's what they're paying today at Wells Fargo. That's like $0.10 per yr on $1000. ATM charges alone can be a couple bucks/transaction if you go to the wrong one!

 

They started tanking during GWBs' administration. Here's a fairly accurate chart of historic rates. Fairly accurate, but they're not showing how low they actually are for the last 7 or 8 years. As if they don't want you to know how bad it really is...

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