[hoosierham]

The federal government has STOLEN at least $25 million in recent years from persons never convicted and in many case,never even alleged to have committed a crime-it is called “assest forfeiture”.The government doesn’t return that money,either.

As also said, how many of us could prove today that everything we own was legally acquired? Do you keep the receipts for every purchase you every made? Do you document every gift ever received?

[tbw2]

The Institute for Justice is going after “policing for profit” around the country, including cases where they pull over lots of people with out of state plates to search, threatened to call CPS to take kids if you don’t give up cash because “travelling with children is a known tactic to lower your profile”, and Philadelphia’s byzantine process to try to take homes and businesses because one person was arrested in the house.

[Yogafist]

There are laws that allow asset forfeiture, like it or not. There is a process that we can use to get rid of laws we don't like, which is picking up steam in the case of asset forfeiture. Simply calling it a crime because you don't like it, doesn't make it so. Asset forfeiture laws were made to discourage people from engaging in criminal activity for the sole purpose of acquiring very large sums of money. They may have gone off track, and need to be reined in, but they make sense.

I can absolutely prove I own everything of consequence, house, cars, bank accounts, etc... If the government wants to spend thousands of dollars to take my lawnmower, they can knock themselves out.