Before you get too tinfoilly on me, remember they do not deny the drugs in this case. Please keep it to the facts here and now without reaching the twilight zone for a defense. This was a person caught with drugs within a school zone (and probable drove a school bus full of kids btw).
There's nothing "tinfoilly" about the Constitution. If somebody is found guilty of breaking the law, let the court justly punish them with imprisonment or fines. But I am opposed to this legalized plunder, by which government steals the property of its citizens.
Many government agencies now include the net proceeds from asset forfeitures as line items in their budgets, revealing just how important this practice has become. That property siezure has become such a profitable enterprise leads me to question the motives for so many searches and raids. Is it the drugs they're after, or the property they might sieze?
Saddest of all to me is the corruption which has been institutionalized by asset forfeiture. All of the officials on whom we depend for justice -- police, judges and elected officials -- have a vested interest in siezing the property of citizens. Each stands to collect his cut from the liquidated proceeds, yet we expect them to do the right thing...