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We were warned that the asset forfiture laws would eventually become used as a weapon in pursuit of more money for the government to spend. With the Great Recession leaving governments financially strapped, look for more abuse of these laws in the coming years if it isn’t repealed.
And then the policy stays in place even in good times because these LEOs now have a secondary source of revenue without going through those pesky hoops of bureaucracy! Forfeiture is administrative theft as opposed to judicial declaration.
Privatizing prisons, law enforcement, photo / speed cameras will not always serve us, and instead it may lead to those with such authority coming to take advantage of what is yours for their profit, just as Blackwater did in Katrina with firearms.
We need government by and of the people that is responsive and honest and the people need the right to challenge any theft of property.
Simple way to fix that. Real simple.
The SCOTUS said the government can take away your house for a 7-Eleven if it’d pay more taxes than you do.
It was one of the many BAD decisions from the so-called High Court
It would be bad enough if every one was true blue, but about the only people who seek government jobs are most likely thieves in the first place.
Perhaps the word “revenuers” isn’t strong enough to apply to those who would use government power to take away the property of law-abiding citizens.
No, i don,t think revenuers would be the word, i would call them whores.