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<p>[QUOTE="cmbdii, post: 5264, member: 655"]To each his own, but I won't buy anything seized by the feds or by any level of "law enforcement". To me it's receiving stolen property, regardless of the bogus cloak of legality they try to drape over it.</p><p><br /></p><p> Think of where those coins came from. Realize that if you make a bureaucrat or cop angry your collection could be offered on an auction by the vultures running that site. The name is repulsive, "Federal Asset Recovery" my foot. Property seized from citizens who in most cases were never even charged with a crime are not "federal assets" which were "recovered." It's property taken by force from citizens in defiance of the supreme law of the land, the US Constitution.</p><p><br /></p><p> An outfit that will use such weasel wording is very likely to also employ shill bidders. You may well be better off in that you didn't win anything in that auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmbdii, post: 5264, member: 655"]To each his own, but I won't buy anything seized by the feds or by any level of "law enforcement". To me it's receiving stolen property, regardless of the bogus cloak of legality they try to drape over it. Think of where those coins came from. Realize that if you make a bureaucrat or cop angry your collection could be offered on an auction by the vultures running that site. The name is repulsive, "Federal Asset Recovery" my foot. Property seized from citizens who in most cases were never even charged with a crime are not "federal assets" which were "recovered." It's property taken by force from citizens in defiance of the supreme law of the land, the US Constitution. An outfit that will use such weasel wording is very likely to also employ shill bidders. You may well be better off in that you didn't win anything in that auction.[/QUOTE]
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