Skylines are "Contraband" ??!?!??!

[redmanhart]

You keep bringing up the argument that we should be angry at the government for spending money on confiscating ILLEGAL property, but the fact of the matter still remains that if people were not bringing the vehicles into the country ILLEGALLY, then the money spent on confiscating them could be used for other, more useful things. Like I said earlier, you know the risks. If you play with fire, you may get burned.

[Jonathan12uiz]

You keep bringing up the argument that we should be angry at the government for spending money on confiscating ILLEGAL property, but the fact of the matter still remains that if people were not bringing the vehicles into the country ILLEGALLY, then the money spent on confiscating them could be used for other, more useful things. Like I said earlier, you know the risks. If you play with fire, you may get burned.

See the problem is also that even vehicles that were imported legally are having issues. Cars with proper documentation and such. We are trying to get the laws change so that the whole tuner community can benefit. Like i said, your help could be appreciated.
You have to think on why the govt. deem JDM engines, cars, etc. illegal... why when we should have a choice. Either way thats all I'm trying to point out to you guys. If we actually get more support we might accomplish things faster. And i'm not asking you to donate money or anything. Several people have given us good contacts and such to aide in the process. help is help. What I don't understand is the fact that so many people don't care even though they dip their hands in it more than they know.

[Genji-Sama]

You keep bringing up the argument that we should be angry at the government for spending money on confiscating ILLEGAL property, but the fact of the matter still remains that if people were not bringing the vehicles into the country ILLEGALLY, then the money spent on confiscating them could be used for other, more useful things. Like I said earlier, you know the risks. If you play with fire, you may get burned.

(logic fail)
1) while we're at it, why don't we ask bank robbers to stop robbing* banks so that the cops can get a day off
2)then, ask yourself why are skylines illegal in the states? That's the case i think a lot of ppl are attempting to make. The feds are wasting a lot of money exporting a product that poses no immediate threat to anyone. And a lot of ppl who bought these cars through Motorex, thought they were doing so legally. So why should they have their investment seized?!? They didn't go into anything assuming a risk.

[nreggie454]

(logic fail)
1) while we're at it, why don't we ask bank robbers to stop asking banks so that the cops can get a day off
2)then, ask yourself why are skylines illegal in the states? That's the case i think a lot of ppl are attempting to make. The feds are wasting a lot of money exporting a product that poses no immediate threat to anyone. And a lot of ppl who bought these cars through Motorex, thought they were doing so legally. So why should they have their investment seized?!? They didn't go into anything assuming a risk.

Double fail. I would definitely say that stopping bank robbers falls under "other, more useful things" police can do.
Skylines have been seized pretty regularly for the past few years so there really is a known risk unless you are completely oblivious to not-so-current events or gullible with shady salespeople. To get them legalized would take way too much money and time for the fight to be worth it.

[Genji-Sama]

Double fail. I would definitely say that stopping bank robbers falls under "other, more useful things" police can do.
Skylines have been seized pretty regularly for the past few years so there really is a known risk unless you are completely oblivious to not-so-current events or gullible with shady salespeople. To get them legalized would take way too much money and time for the fight to be worth it.

I guess it was partially due to my typo, but I was saying that the likelihood of ppl just ceasing the import of skylines is about as likely as a bankrobber not robbing a bank b/c u asked him to. Not that stopping bankrobberies is less important than exporting illegal cars