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Posted on 10/26/2019 12:09:08 PM PDT by Mount Athos
I really don’t care that the Founders were ok with assets forfeiture.They were ok with slavery, too.
Well I was not aware of exactly when it started.
However my comment was more related to the war on drugs and all the ways that it has assaulted our constitutional rights, not just asset forfeiture.
Ya think?
Civil asset forfeiture is just another racket run by local government, not unlike speed traps, but more profitable than pulling someone over driving 75 in a 60 mph zone.
Wow! I never thought a judge would ever look at the BOR.
See my # 33.
I used to sit inside my darkened windows & observe the cops on the streets below.
They’d handcuff the young black crack dealers on the corner, drive them 2 blocks down the Avenue, then remove the cuffs & let them go.
The dealers considered such confiscations the “cost of doing bidness.”
Anyway, what they gonna do about it? Call the cops?
That’s how a few bad cops in the old days could exploit those actually guilty of crime.
Now police DEPARTMENTS — tacitly backed by the (rich people—bad!) Left— have figured out it’s easy to intimidate innocent people & confiscate private property.
You get pulled over, your assets confiscated, and since you don’t want to look guilty & get shot, you cooperate, figuring, this is obviously a mistake, your lawyer will fix it tomorrow.
No matter. You get Kavanaugh’d.
Your spotless record and calm demeanor indicates you’re probably a con artist, feigning innocence to hide bigger crimes. You must have more elicit cash somewhere.
OTOG, if you angrily protest your innocence & refuse to surrender your legitimately-owned assets, you’re violent & definitely guilty
The armed authorities control the narrative.
They can claim anything they want against the innocent— just as they do WRT the guilty.
That’s why we MUST defend the *presumption* of innocence & trial by jury— for EVERYONE.
Same in my state - and now the sheriff’s deputies believe they can do the same.
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We’re already pretty much in a police state at this point but just don’t realize it.
Regarding SHTF preps...
Don’t let people like code inspectors, city appraisers, etc. inside your home based on “somebody complained.”
You can & should ask which law or code you’ve violated & whether it’s causing damage to the complainant & who that might be.
You have the right to refuse entry altogether and request to be mailed a written copy of the problem.
Government guys in my area are conjuring odd excuses to come in & check out the contents of people’s pantrys and sheds.
It takes a judge to tell the police this fact. Here is an example of police being the criminals, folks. Never think that these same police would not have a problem taking your guns from you, through door-to-door confiscation.
JoMa
Over the past several years I have read that more often than not no charges were ever filed but the property was considered being part of a possible crime and never returned.
These laws were made to let the Government steal from citizens. Nothing more.
Thinking we were about to be hijacked, I turned in a suspicious passenger on a commercial flight. Unknown to me, he had just conducted a drug sale during the flight.
A Georgia judge returned $300,000 he had taped to his body to the Columbian national.
The next shoe to drop will be with nobody in Washington gets charged with any crime, I’m talking Clinton, Comey, Clapper, Lynch, the crew at the FBI, none of them. And nobody will do a damn thing about it.
You better believe it. It was my initial reading about asset forfeiture years (decades really) ago that initially soured my attitude for police in general. The fact that this criminal enterprise under the cover of law has been going on for so long is an indication of how far we've come from being a Constitutional Republic.
“We’re already pretty much in a police state at this point but just don’t realize it.”
I realized it long, long ago!!!
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