Banking on Extortion

Although the Frederick County producer wasn’t suspected of drug dealing, tax evasion, or criminal enterprise, Internal Revenue Service investigators wedged Sowers into a legal vise with almost no chance of escape. Sowers’ wife had made a series of bank deposits—all less than $10,000 cash and gleaned from farmers’ markets—and in response, IRS was baying for proverbial blood. “They seized almost $70,000 of our money, had us scared and thinking we were going to prison, and maybe losing all we’d worked for,” Sowers explains. “Roll over and shut up—that’s the game I was supposed to play.” [More]

Securing the Blessings of Liberty again, I see...

They're counting on "law-abiding" people having too much to lose and not pushing back. For the most part, they do and they won't.

Still, there comes a time when "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." They keep crossing lines and someone's going to feel that way, and who can say at what point others will deem it to be their fight, too.

[Via Michael G]