Fallout from 9-1-1 (9/11/2001): While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Lima, (Federal enclave of) Ohio statute enforcement agents (acting under-color-of-law) confiscate the 402,767 “dollar” retirement savings of 63-year-old Luther Ricks, Sr., after two robbers broke into the former steel-workers home.  Luther Senior shot and killed one of the robbers after he stabbed Luther Junior; the other robber fled.  The SEOs confiscated the Federal Reserve Notes (Bills of Credit) after they found a small amount of medicinal marijuana that Luther Senior uses to deal with his pain from arthritis, shingles and a hip replacement.

       Postscript: Six months later, although Luther Senior had been cleared in the shooting incident, and never charged with a crime, he and his wife Meredith were still without their retirement savings.  Even if he could prove to the Lima statute enforcement Department that he did not accumulate his nest egg through the sale of illegal (free-market) drugs, the Ricks would not get their FRNs back, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation confiscated the nest egg, and refused to return it.

       [added 4/21/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.