Boy, that was pretty smart, John! Good for you!
It's to the point folks are paranoid now...your story about yet ANOTHER veteran having his money taken is very disconcerting.
It's not like we have a huge next egg or pile 'o cash to fall back on!
Kirk's description of the law (see above) is troubling. It creates an incentive to continue doing this and is almost to the point of an extrajudicial effort to create revenue streams in some departments.
I am ALL FOR our 'thin blue line' but think we can and should do better about seizing the savings of the innocent until proven guilty in a court of law unless there are clear and present indications of laws being violated.
What's this I hear about due process...?