This is a Michelle Anderson week. She is on a roll.
The latest Michelle whopper has to do with a Mr. Riviera-Ramirez caught driving a big rig in Maine with $1,000,000 dollars, cash, stashed in the back. The police arrested him and seized the cash.
Michelle doesn’t like this. Not the guy transporting illicitly gained cash through our state! Don’t be silly. She is fine with that. What she doesn’t like is the police taking the money and arresting the driver.
As far as I know, hauling cash is not any more illegal than stuffing cash into the lining of one’s coat.
How do they get the right to seize the money while not charging the driver or passenger in any crime involving the money?
Here’s how, genius. They can keep the money if they think it is involved in criminal activity.
“But,” Michelle would say, “But they don’t know that the money is criminal-connected! It is just cash. Fungible, generic cash.”
No, I’d say. Money sitting in a bank is not suspicious, because legal uses of money often involve it sitting in a bank. A million dollars sitting in a truck? VERY SUSPICIOUS.
Really, what percentage of cars on the road have a million dollars of cash inside? I would have guessed zero, but this story shows it is apparently closer to 0.000000001%. Either way, the rarity alone makes it suspicious.
Then one must ask what percentage of trucks on our highways each day carrying $1,000,000 are involved in legal activities. Well let’s think…. Why would any sane person risk his honestly earned cash by driving it around with an 18 wheeler? My guess, again, would be 0%, but I’ll once again concede it may be closer to 0.000000001%.
Basically, the only sort of people that haul around that much cash in the back of the truck are criminals. Because they want to hide it. It is obvious. If the police had NOT seized the money, they’d be committing malpractice. And you just know that if the unseized money went to fund a terrorist attack, Michelle would blame the police for not taking it when they had the chance, because, well, consistency is not her strong suit.
The ironic icing on this crap-cake is that Michelle is an avid supporter of Arizona’s unconstitutional immigration law, which allows the police to arrest you for just looking foreign. Which this guy did. Michelle would be okay with that sort of arresting. But don’t bother the guy with a million bucks stashed in the cab! He’s cool.
Whatever.