Asymmetric Lawfare

American Thinker ^ | 5 Jul, 2026 | August Harriman

[MtnClimber]

There’s actually a small window of time to completely break the Left, and this opportunity will not come again.

The Left can be badly weakened — perhaps even broken. The process has a misleadingly dry name — civil asset forfeiture.

This legal procedure allows law enforcement officials — typically the Attorney General or a District Attorney — to seize property based solely on suspicion of criminal activity. No criminal charge, let alone conviction, is required. The justification rests on the extraordinary legal fiction that the property itself, rather than its owner, is the defendant. However implausible that premise may seem, it is firmly embedded in American law and has been repeatedly endorsed by the Supreme Court.

A common fiction is that it’s applied solely against organized crime. In reality it’s often against the innocent.

Between 2000 and 2021, 82 billion dollars, in the form of real estate, commercial businesses, cash, and financial instruments has been taken by forfeiture.

SNIP

If a non-profit, NGO, foundation, or institution draws from its wealth in facilitating a covered crime, that wealth can be seized.

The White House has disclosed NGOs funding ANTIFA and violence across the U.S. These include not only Soros and his Open Society Foundation, but the Arabella Funding Group and the Tides Foundation Network.

There is a far more significant argument for civil asset forfeiture.

The election of 2020 was likely fraudulent, but over 60 cases were tossed largely on standing and technicalities.

Fraudulent mail-in ballots are mail fraud, a specified unlawful activity under 18 U.S.C § 981. Bringing forfeiture action against the assets of any organization reasonably suspected of playing a role in vote fraud would have effectively bypassed the Court’s evasions and forced the alleged fraud to trial. If the party did not contest the seizure

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

Sounds like a plan.

[11th_VA]

Excellent idea - make it a priority

[sauropod]

Read

[libertylover]

to seize property based solely on suspicion of criminal activity. No criminal charge, let alone conviction, is required.

This is counter to what I think is the concept of the United States of America.

[BlackbirdSST]

August Harriman

Dunce.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Civil asset forfeiture is a disgusting abuse of government power.

The fact it has not been declared unconstitutional is easily the biggest failure of our judicial system.

The TSA can literally take your cash if it decides, in its complete discretion, you are flying with “too much” cash.

[fruser1]

The best way to get a BS law changed is to use it against a politician, e.g., live in a state where it’s easy for someone to squat on your property and not get them out? Then hire a squatter to move into the property of a local politician when they’re on vacation.

[Chewbarkah]

Sounds like the worst conceivable plan, because of unintended consequences. Two sides can play this game, and the Left is far ahead in the practice of Lawfare while the Right opposes such chicanery. The Socialist/Stalinist crowd would love nothing better than seizing the assets of their capitalist foes. The whole economy would collapse. No thanks.

[Carry_Okie]

If a non-profit, NGO, foundation, or institution draws from its wealth in facilitating a covered crime, that wealth can be seized.

Awesome idea. In the nearly 30 years since I first learned of the magnitude of NGO/Foundation racketeering, simply grabbing their cash never occurred to me. Most of my thinking was in terms of tax-evasion and racketeering.