akuma587 said:
By handing something over to someone, you relinquish a fair amount of your rights because its not the government who is invading your privacy. The Fourth Amendment, for instance, only protects you from government searches, not searches done by civilians. So if you are dumb enough to do this and they call the police, there is nothing you can do about it. |
It's not like they found child porn which they are legally required to report. They were under no legal obligation to report the money to the police, therefore they should not have done it.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
