Law Lets US, I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

Wow..........they make more of a stink about taking away their guns. Guess if you don't have money you can't buy a gun anyway.

Land of the free.

Are we really much different. AFAIK, CRA can also seize, or at least freeze, your accounts if they think you owe them tax, before the matter has gone to court. Would make it hard to defend yourself in court without access to funds.

We make a stink about taking away our guns because they're handy for shooting thieves who rob our bank accounts.

I have no idea if CRA has those powers. Certainly the Human Rights Tribunals are no better than this in the sense that you can be pretty severely hurt without anyone ever proving any wrong doing.

The difference is we don't seem to hear about as much of this kind of obvious money-grab up here.

We make a stink about taking away our guns because they're handy for shooting thieves who rob our bank accounts.

I sure hope the nra doesn't see this obvious threat of terrorist action towards the IRS

Don't you mean the NSA? The NRA shares Bart's ideology.

Actually the NRA and myself share the ideology of these guys:

We make a stink about taking away our guns because they're handy for shooting thieves who rob our bank accounts.
Well they've dropped the ball on this one.

No kidding. I didn't know of this practice or else I may well have been caught up in it.

I have a paycheck job and that money goes to my bank account via direct deposit. But almost all of my other business is cash and I usually use it for expenses or put it up at home just because I've got concerns about the US doing to bank accounts what's happened in the EU with 'haircuts'.

If I'd started depositing it then they'd seize it. The take-away here is to not deposit it even though I do declare every penny for tax reasons. Why risk having it seized?

People seemed to think it was fine to seize cars from people at the say so of a police officer before a trial, without any legal oversight on what is legal or not, and without any sort of appeal before a trial. Unless the charges are dropped, then you just get a bill for storage of your vehicle.

Or having the police break into a over 1,000 homes and search them for materials deemed dangerous. While claiming to be looking for trapped people in dresser drawers.

The polite person would seek legal resolution of these offenses, I can't help but feel sympathy for just shooting the crooks. "I was just following orders." Hasn't been an accepted legal defense from the late 1940s forward. I don't see why we let our own government agents get away using it now.