And, as with asset forfeiture laws in the US, victims of the search are locked in battles with “police lawyers and told they must prove how they came by the contents of their boxes.”
I’m quite sure that our dedicated government employees wouldn’t use the Patriot Act to harm innocent Americans. Anyway, it’s the whole eggs, omelet thing. You want to be patriotic don’t you?
Don’t give the Chicago folks ideas!
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Pretty *heavy handed* article there.
I’m sure someone will be offended. LOL!
“However, lawyers watching the police operation unfold were quick to warn that the strong-arming of these vaults and the crashing into each and every box was tantamount to the police having obtained permission to smash down the doors of an entire housing estate.
David Sonn, of Sonn Macmillan Walker, one of the largest criminal defence practices in London, says, ‘POCA was never intended for this. No one objects when criminals are caught and their assets seized - but shaking down everyone to get to them is specifically not what lawmakers wanted.”
Coming soon, America.
There is a lot of smoke clouding the issue but the raids produced the desired results of finding the criminally obtained goods.
There were mentions of Indian and Jewish treasure migration but no mention of terrorist booty. The real but unmentioned reason for the operation was to find and sequester terrorist assets.
Amazing. Wonder how many tax dodgers will get reamed out?
What good is a gun in a safe deposit box?