Too much strawman in your argument.
Seize my big screen? Yeah, I’ll protest and contest that.
Unlike the Mexicans who will not say a single solitary word in their defense.
Have they - by this asset forfeiture - been denied their Constitutional Rights? Not even if they were legal US citizens.
Have then been denied due process? Assumed guilty before a trial? Not hardly.
Court have rules for decades that these VOLUNTARY asset forfeiture actions are legal.
And you got a problem with this? Not me.
Unlike the Mexicans who will not say a single solitary word in their defense.
As is their Fifth Amendment right.
Court have rules for decades that these VOLUNTARY asset forfeiture actions are legal.
Court have rules for decades that abortion is Constitutionally protected.
So you are traveling through a state to buy a car, so you are carrying 10-15k to buy that car, and you get pulled over for speeding. The officer finds a pretext for searching you and the car, and they seize the money as being "excessive cash".
Now, you can fight that, but you have to get a lawyer AND show up in court in this state not your own. The arresting officer/DA tells you that you can fight for it, but if you don't sign over the money, they will not only fight the return of the cash, they will pursue criminal charges for the supposed crimes you or the illegal gains committed.
Sound far fetched? Lets visit that notoriously left wing group, the Heritage Foundation's website: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/civil-asset-forfeiture-7-things-you-should-know