{"id":969,"date":"2014-11-01T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=969"},"modified":"2014-11-01T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:28:34","slug":"warning-avoid-this-corrupt-third-world-country-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"WARNING: Avoid this corrupt, third-world country at all costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignman.com\/expat\/warning-avoid-this-corrupt-third-world-country-at-all-costs-15506\/\">WARNING: Avoid this corrupt, third-world country at all costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">John Anderson, an American tourist from San Clemente, California, was driving down a poorly-maintained highway when he saw flashing lights in his rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">After a brief exchange with the local police officer, Anderson was shocked when the cop started searching his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Anderson had $25,180 in US dollar cash in the car, which by the way was not a crime according to the local laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">When the cop saw it, he told Anderson that we would take it and threatened him with arrest if he protested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Anderson couldn\u2019t believe it. This is the sort of stuff you always hear about in these third world countries\u2014corrupt cops and state robbery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Ultimately Anderson gave in; the cop let him go and did not charge him with a crime, but took every last penny in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">And for the last two years, Anderson has been trying to unsuccessfully fight it in the country\u2019s Kangaroo court system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Clearly we should all avoid going to such dangerously corrupt third world countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Except in this case, Anderson was in the United States of America. And he is far from being the only victim of this highway robbery known as Civil Asset Forfeiture<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: Avoid this corrupt, third-world country at all costs. John Anderson, an American tourist from San Clemente, California, was driving down a poorly-maintained highway when he saw flashing lights in his rearview mirror. After a brief exchange with the local police officer, Anderson was shocked when the cop started searching his vehicle. Anderson had $25,180 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}