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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
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- References: <1992Dec21.183152.1337@kadsma.kodak.com> <1992Dec22.101648.9701@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <Bzo36r.5sv.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:49:56 GMT
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- In article <Bzo36r.5sv.2@cs.cmu.edu> zitsky+@CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Ryan Miller) writes:
- :|> In 15 major airports, ticket agents are paid informants of the DEA. If you
- :|> buy a ticket for cash, you fit the 'drug courrier profile'. The ticket
- :|> agent informs the DEA, who will come and relieve you of any cash you have
- :|> on you, which is split with the informant. You are given a receipt. With
- :|> this receipt and $900, you have the "right" to begin the process of proving
- :|> the cash seized is NOT drug sale proceeds and NOT 'tainted' by criminal
- :|> activity.
- :|>
- :
- :[much deleted]
- :
- :Again, can anyone refer me to original sources?? Perhaps some books, articles,
- + etc. The "war on drugs" is an issue that I'm concerned about. Enough to get
- + involved writing senators, etc. I have heard such stories before but have
- + been too lazy to investigate. Anyone want to help me out and point me in the
- + right direction?
-
- Your "60 minutes" program put a perfectly normal respectable-looking (black)
- reporter into an airport to buy tickets with cash, and he was picked up
- withing minutes. It was filmed. (We get 60 Minutes over here around
- 6am - I see it ocassionally if I've been hacking late)
-
- I expect 60 Minutes will sell transcripts of their shows. That one also
- featured a pilot who has been jobless for years because his plane was
- seized. The man was never charged and was clearly innocent, but he only
- got his plane back in the end buy buying it back at public auction.
-
- Graham
- PS The return key is the one a bit to the right of L and P. :-)
-