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Asset Forfeiture: It Is A Free Country Unless...

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It is a free country unless you are a suspect. Humorous video discusses asset forfeiture.

http://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks

Copped from this site http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/10/hilar ... -property/ which says:
What started off as a measure to hurt drug kingpins and their criminal empires by confiscation of their property has morphed into an often abused law enforcement tactic that harms blameless citizens.

“Civil forfeiture,” as the procedure which allows police to seize property suspected of being related to a crime is called, was the subject of a funny and informative John Oliver segment on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”
Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation.

... we assume law enforcement will not conduct an investigation unless there are some indicia of criminal activity. In fact, the Fourth Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution exactly to prevent law enforcement from conducting mass, suspicionless investigations under “general warrants” that targeted no specific person or place and never expired.
And what takes the place of a general warrant these days? Well you might be committing a Prohibition crime. Everyone is a suspect. Just discussing the subject has made me a suspect. At least according to the local denizens.

Are we are living in a police state? Best ask the police about liberty. On second thought - best not. Of course it depends on which ones you asks. Some are actually devoted to liberty. You might want to have a look at the t-shirt he and his wife are wearing.
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In Canada we get travel advisories for driving in the U.S. that small town police see us as rolling atm's.

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/14/cbc-wa ... ops-w.html
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choff wrote:In Canada we get travel advisories for driving in the U.S. that small town police see us as rolling atm's.

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/14/cbc-wa ... ops-w.html

Police forces use the money to finance their departmental budgets, sometimes spending it on luxury vehicles, first-class tickets to conferences, and lavish quarters. They regard the money as rightfully theirs. One prosecutor used seized cash to defend herself against a lawsuit brought by people whose cash she seized.


Well no price is too great to stop those evil pot smoking hippies from ruining the country.

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williatw wrote:
choff wrote:In Canada we get travel advisories for driving in the U.S. that small town police see us as rolling atm's.

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/14/cbc-wa ... ops-w.html

Police forces use the money to finance their departmental budgets, sometimes spending it on luxury vehicles, first-class tickets to conferences, and lavish quarters. They regard the money as rightfully theirs. One prosecutor used seized cash to defend herself against a lawsuit brought by people whose cash she seized.


Well no price is too great to stop those evil pot smoking hippies from ruining the country.
More and more people are believing that about baton wielding, MRAP driving assault troops calling themselves 'police' or 'law enforcement'.
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