And leaving the machines out of it, here's the case of OK seizing money from the manager of a Christian rock band that was raising money for a Christian college and an orphanage in Thailand and Burma. Drug dog alert! (75% false positive rate there.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/how-oklahoma-cops-took-53000-from-a-burmese-christian-band-a-church-in-omaha-and-an-orphanage-in-thailand/
A dog will alert to a ham sandwich.
How these seizures passed Constitutional muster is beyond me. But SCOTUS has upheld the practice. Time for an anti-seizure law at the federal level, which ain’t gonna happen.
No criminal conviction: no forfeiture or civil liability.
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nor [will a citizen] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
We could call it, I don't know, maybe the Fifth Amendment or something...
Based on the fact that the average US citizen arguably commits three felonies a day...
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229
...and a large percentage of those crimes are committed online (download a pirated movie? $100,000 fine and ten years in prison) where they can be recorded and catalogued...
...I predict that one of these days the Feds are going to seize the bank and stock market accounts of a few tens of millions of non-Democrats and most of them will never get it back because the courts will be clogged with cases for decades.
when are we going to be able to clean out the dangerous fascist dictator types from our government!?
There are many illegal aliens and citizens paid under the table using these debit cards.
So now the feds can take your actual cash and your digital pay check this way.
Real criminal drug dealers will just switch to a different system to carry funds. Like on a smart phone that is encrypted. Cops,acting stupidly.
The next step is they seize your credit cards and charge the maximum amount on them as a cash payout. I thought of this as a joke, but I’m betting in the near future you will hear something about the available balance on a credit card being an asset that can be seized by the state.