Counterfeiting couple arrested at Holyoke Mall

Judged:

1

WildFlower wrote:

Whew, That stinks!! Glad I'm not working at the mall. Me thinks they should always wear gloves when handling money!

Dean wrote:

<quoted text>
Haha..
So there's a national fingerprint database? Someone on here earlier called me a "kook" for pointing out there were DNA databases.. hmm...
Unless you have tight video surveillance, you cant charge them for the alleged notes in W. Spfld.

Dan Army Vet 2005-2008 wrote:

<quoted text>
Have you never read about the FBI? They started the national fingerprint database way back when. It has helped solve many crimes that would otherwise be still unsolved.
I understand the concerns about a national dna database, however; how would you recommend the availibity of DNA for clearing an innocent man? DNA has been instrumental in getting many people cleared of horrible crimes that they didn't commit. A national database would def help the innocent. My big fear would be that actual samples would be kept on file. You can't plant fingerprints yet, but DNA is plantable. If all they did was keep a printout of the DNA for reference purposes, and it was collected at the same time they already collect fingerprints, I don't think it would be a huge deal. In all honestly, I more worried about the government tracking my e-mail, phone and internet records, or the fact that if I don't have a government recognized ID, I can't function. I think a national ID card, or at least a list of authorized ID's will be here long before everyone's dna is in a database. I leave my DNA and fingerprints all over. I don't care to have my movements tracked.
While I was in the Army Reserves, I worked in Security at a store in the mall and at a home improvement warehouse in Westside. If the store is like many of those in the mall, there are some really good cameras. Also, they don't need a really good camera, just a camera that can be used to positivly identify them.
If all counterfitting was was photocopying real bills then I would agree with you - it really isn't a crime, but that is not how good fakers work. It is tied in with drugs and guns and violence. Not to mention its stealing - from the government,(which I could care less about) and from the person they give the bill to.(That would be me) I don't particularly care to be stuck holding a piece of monopoly money in exchange for my buisness.)
On the whole Ron Paul anti-Federal Reserve , etc.... you have a little problem - how to you purpose to do away with the FRS, yet still retain our financial base? Think back to Whermach Germany when the money was worth so little that it was better to burn it than use it. The Federal Bank has been around since Andrew Jackson's time - you can't just pass a law and expect things to change overnight.

Dean wrote:

<quoted text>
I am against a DNA database because it is too powerful a tool and I do not trust government to maintain it...
Federal Reserve Notes are hurting all of us because the Fed prints so much that the money you and I have in our wallets (which we already earned) is now worth LESS. That is the "inflation tax" which is killing the economy and hurting everyone, rich and poor...
Who's Ron Paul?