Report: TSA Interrogates Travelers Carrying Gold and Silver

Mac Slavo
October 24th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
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Just when you thought your silver and gold coins were portable and outside of the realm of government intervention and scrutiny, we learn that the Transportation Security Administration may very well be starting to scrutinize possession of such coins if you travel through checkpoints, be they at airports or other public venues: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/g ... s_10212011

Via Infowars: http://www.infowars.com/tsa-agents-hara ... ver-coins/

A traveler flying into Las Vegas was questioned by the TSA about his small collection of silver coins, another example of how the federal agency is acting more like a secret police unit than an airport security outfit, routinely interrogating Americans about their financial affairs.

Alex Jones talked to Jeff, a software engineer, after he passed through security, who told him that TSA agents had questioned him about why he was carrying silver coins and demanded to know their value. The screeners also asked if Jeff was collecting them for a hobby or an investment.

Jeff explained that he was simply planning to cash in the coins and use that money on his vacation instead of dipping into his bank account. The total value of the coins was no more than $600 dollars.

Alex Jones interviews Jeff after he was screened and questioned about his silver:

Video: TSA Now Searching For Silver And Gold! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWBEX0F ... r_embedded

Though reports of these or similar incidences are rarely, if ever, carried by mainstream news, they happen more often than you might think.

You may be under the impression that gold or silver coins could be mixed in with regular coinage and transported without knowledge by screeners, but a post on the TSA Blog regarding an incident in St. Louis in March of 2009 indicates that TSA agents are on the look-out for travelers who possess precious metals, especially if “suspicious activity is suspected.â€