This country has become a police state.
It is not BECOMING a police state, it IS a police state -- where units of government at every level: federal, state, local, school boards -- anyone with a little power wields that power in the most dictatorial manner, just because they can.
One day he led the charge and got shot ~ put him right out of the detective business fur shur.
The location had been raided numerous times before ~ which meant SOMEBODY ~ e.g. the landlord ~ had an idea who he was doing business with.
The police union sued the landlord under a variety of laws. They eventually won (well over a decade later).
The DC government and DOJ didn't lift a finger.
What I gather from this article is that DOJ has finally figured out that the landlords do know ~
“Forfeiture law is legal theft”
Agreed. Here in NC, they seize tool chests, depriving their former owners of an honest means of making a living, and toddler tricycles. I am sick of the WOD. I am sick of sacrificing my freedom in the name of saving a few morons from themselves. I say put the drugs in free street-corner dispersers and send trucks out twice a day to fill them up and retrieve the ODs. No more crimes to get drug money. No more beheadings in Mexico.
and it will be applied in the war on raw milk...
for those that think us small l libertarians are only interested in “getting high” because of our stance on the war on drugs...
here is your result.....
taking of liberties is the taking of liberties, regardless of the pretty package it is presented in..
On these grounds a lot of housing projects should be up for grabs, or the national parks for that matter.
Obscene.
my family had a private beach seized by the government that had been in the family as payment for helping to finance the Revolutionary War. Ted Kennedy promised to return it and never did.
Go to the link, and read the only comment!
What caught my notice in this article is the name of the place, Tewksbury.
The Graham-Tewksbury Feud, also known as the Pleasant Valley War, was the second bloodiest feud in US history, after the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Taking place mostly in Arizona, it ended up with all combatant members of both families being killed.
George Will wrote this? Maybe he’s starting to get it.
This law is so bogus. Plenty of drug deals go down on fed property, but we don’t see that going up for sale.