Posted on 01/05/2024 12:58:49 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The FBI cannot seem to stop trampling American citizens' constitutional rights.
But some victims of government abuse have fought back. And their tenacity has left the bureau scrambling to save face.
According to Rob Johnson, senior attorney at the nonprofit Institute for Justice, a landmark Fourth Amendment case pending in California might soon result in severe chastisement for the tyrannical FBI.
In 2021, the bureau raided U.S. Private Vaults, a safety storage company based in Beverly Hills, California, on suspicion of money laundering -- a charge to which the company later pleaded guilty.
While conducting their raid, however, FBI agents exceeded their authority.
Their search warrant called for them to open safety deposit boxes and then “inspect the contents of the boxes in an effort to identify their owners … so that they can claim their property.” Instead, under a sweeping and oft-abused system of "civil asset forfeiture," agents confiscated the boxes' contents and then refused the return anything worth more than $5,000, even in instances where the government charged the property owners with no crime.
For instance, retired government worker Don Mellein, 79, lost 110 collectible gold coins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The FBI confiscated the coins during the raid and had no intention of returning them until Mellein and others filed suit with help from IJ.
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The FBI knowingly violates the law, and its own code of ethics repeatedly, but have never been held accountable for any of it. They have free reign to create chaos and commit crimes with impunity.
They definitely deserve a shiny new space promised by Trump. Well earned.
And subsequently ‘lost’ all that loot....................
until these LEO types are perp walked in front of the american people, this lawlessness will continue.
Lest we forget
“I am proud to announce Christopher as my choice as the director of the FBI,” “He is an impeccably qualified individual, and I know that he will again serve his country as a fierce guardian of the law and model of integrity once the Senate confirms him to lead the FBI.”
They ignored the instructions on the warrant. They ignored the orders from the court to return those items. They are in complete contempt of the law. What are we going to do about it?
DOJ wrongs the people it is supposed to protect.
What is the next thing that will go wrong with the country?
1.Invasion by foreign nationals?
2.Unchecked corruption of politicians?
America is the latest member to the third world club.
Put them in the vault, fill it with lethal gas.
“The FBI knowingly violates the law, and its own code of ethics repeatedly, but have never been held accountable for any of it. ”
People will start “holding them accountable” when they come to their door.
There is no reason to trust any aspect of the fed gov now.
Get 'em before they end up with the Epstein tapes and hard drives, and the front door of the Branch Davidian compound...
Neither the FBI, nor the DOJ for that matter are there to “protect Americans.” They are there to protect the law, and THEY decide what the law is. They are criminals, IMO.
The FBI appears to be made up entirely of liars, cheaters, and scumbags.
Quick! Somebody call ‘60 Minutes’ and tell them this story will be there ratings killer for the year!
In other words, the FBI acknowledged wrongdoing in this case — and it wants to keep on doing it.
An agency that has so often violated Americans’ civil rights with its selective and heavy-handed enforcement of laws against those it deems political enemies should be genuflecting to the sovereign people and begging forgiveness.
Instead, seeing the writing on the wall in one Fourth Amendment case, it seeks to protect its future plunder.
Disband the FBI now.
FBI agents exceeded their authority.
Trump points to his home Biden stench still linger in street.
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