To: Kaslin
The time to complain about this was back in the 80's when they started doing this to people suspected of being involved with illegal drugs. Instead, we cheered. And now here we are.
5 posted on
11/18/2013 6:02:59 AM PST by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
Instead, we cheered. I don't know who this "we" is that you refer to, but it doesn't include me.
A lot of folks saw where it was going.
9 posted on
11/18/2013 6:12:15 AM PST by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Wolfie
13 posted on
11/18/2013 6:21:40 AM PST by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
To: Wolfie
I complained way back then.
I knew it would lead to our present Police State.
People scoffed at me then. How do you like me NOW?
22 posted on
11/18/2013 6:58:56 AM PST by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Wolfie
“The time to complain about this was back in the 80’s when they started doing this to people suspected of being involved with illegal drugs. Instead, we cheered. And now here we are.”
You are totally right. I have been opposed to asset forfeiture since its inception. Its unconstitutional for one thing. If you get convicted of a crime you do the time and pay the fine. Its not supposed to mean the govt can take everything you have in the world and auction it off.
33 posted on
11/18/2013 7:38:19 AM PST by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Wolfie
You can’t get statists to understand that these forfeiture laws are a bad idea until their pockets get picked. They can’t get their hands around the idea that giving them the power to do it to someone else also gives these agencies the power to do it to them.
37 posted on
11/18/2013 7:48:43 AM PST by
Orangedog
(An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
To: Wolfie
Put down the crack pipe and step away from the keyboard. Bureaucracies by nature usurp power and everything does not relate back to drugs.
48 posted on
11/18/2013 9:25:00 AM PST by
MrEdd
(iHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Wolfie
The time to complain about this was back in the 80's when they started doing this to people suspected of being involved with illegal drugs. Instead, we cheered. And now here we are. Some of us weren't cheering. We saw exactly where this was heading and spoke out about it.
Congratulations to all you drug warriors out there, you've sure done a bang up job of destroying the Constitution!
49 posted on
11/18/2013 9:47:09 AM PST by
zeugma
(Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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