Posted on 05/27/2016 8:03:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Congress is considering a bill that would prohibit the federal government from punishing people who haven’t committed any crime. This will take some clarification.
Like many other police agencies, the IRS has extensive and easily abused civil-forfeiture powers. The idea behind civil forfeiture is that criminals should not be allowed to profit from their crimes, and that their ill-gotten loot — cash, cars, real estate — should find its way to the public fisc. In practice, that does happen, but forfeiture also provides a sweet stream of lightly overseen revenue for police agencies, hence the temptation to abuse.
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>That’s funny: I thought that due process was guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Feds couldn’t take your property without compensation. Silly me.
Due process, secure in your papers, w/out due compensation, guilty until proven innocent, anti-(economic)slavery...all ideals, long since dead when we passed over from a Constitutional Republic into a Socialistic Democracy ~100+yrs ago.
A coup, w/out firing a shot.
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Congress is considering a bill that would prohibit the federal government from punishing people who haven’t committed any crime.
Question, what is the Fifth Amendment?
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A: That which is has roundly been beaten down, ignored and out-moded for the PRIVILEGE(S) said ‘new Law’ will bequeath?
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Course, there’s not a politician whom would answer said question, let alone any reporter to ask the same.
Since they don’t honor the 10th Amendment (and haven’t since FDR) why would anyone expect them to honor anything else in the Constitution?
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