It’s no big deal. All property rightfully belongs to the government anyway.
It was fine when they were just doing it to the drug people.
A big irony here is this often hits the “I’m not doing anything illegal so I don’t have to worry” crowd. Those idiots will consent to searches, and if you consent to a search, the fruits will/can fall under civil forfeiture...
This highlights one of the big problems with liberals; they want to take the responsibility we have for protecting ourselves and give that responsibility to the government (police or military). When you give that responsibility away, you give away your liberty. I’m hoping that public perception of the cops shifts from the fallacious “boo-hoo, they hate black and brown people” to the reasonable “they’re a waste of money, and I can do the job better myself without a cushy union paycheck”, and I also hope that any cop who tries to infringe on a citizen’s property without a warrant gets an unceremonious .577 round to their noggins.
I know someone who kept their savings in the form of bank cashier’s checks. Got into a divorce fight so she was carrying them in her purse. Husband called police and claimed domestic assault. Police went through her purse and seized the cashier checks and her drivers license. No search warrant.
Took a week to get just a paper copy of the driver’s license. Took a lawyer to get the real license back and the cashier checks.
Fortunately a lawyer took her case, even though she was penniless due to the asset seizure.
My tagline.
Forfeiture laws are criminal themselves.
And this is all based on the insidious notion that an inanimate object is guilty of a crime. It is so amazing how low people will sink to satisfy their dark side.
It’s robbery. You political regulator folks are guilty, and you know it. Everyone knows it.