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1 posted on 06/26/2017 11:46:34 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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I can’t think of a LE practice that disturbes me more than civil asset forfeiture, and the way it’s been abused. Hope to see it massively reformed.


2 posted on 06/26/2017 11:55:31 AM PDT by catbertz
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Asset forfeiture was a good idea that has been perverted by the big government types and the “police are never wrong” types into legalized armed robbery.

Example:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/settlement-means-no-more-highway-robbery-tenaha-texas


3 posted on 06/26/2017 11:55:56 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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Asset Forfeiture reminds me of Bills of Attainder, expressly prohibited in Article 1, Section 9 of our beloved Constitution.


4 posted on 06/26/2017 12:01:04 PM PDT by Kalamata
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This is the kind of tyranny worth breaking out the guns for. I’m surprised no one has fought back physically yet with some retaliation.


5 posted on 06/26/2017 12:19:16 PM PDT by fruser1
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Congress should nevertheless move along the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act to subject civil asset forfeiture to the same due process standards as apply in criminal cases and end its “equitable sharing” program whereby state agencies get to keep most of the haul as long as they get federal authorities to cooperate on a forfeiture case.

The House and Senate bills are languishing in committee

Take a week off from the RINOcare BS and get this passed!

9 posted on 06/26/2017 1:10:44 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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