Posted on 09/27/2022 8:42:29 AM PDT by george76
Has been for a while now.
Started with Bush I
Well the judges don’t seem too bothered by it, even FISA court judges. Either that or they fear the FBI.
Present-day Dems have thrown the 4th Amendment out the window.
This is a new mutation of Dems, like a runaway deformity of the brain that defies all treatment.
Having cash is not a sufficient “cause.”
Anyone having any amount of money would otherwise qualify for this brand of confiscation. It is a perversion of Law to take any situation as the cause of illegal activity and work back to the possible crime, when no crime was initially identified. For instance, driving to the store cannot be considered evidence of a crime because it’s possible you stole the money to buy your ten year old car. Nor can a phone call to your mother be evidence of a crime, because you could have illegally obtained a landline phone from criminal drug sales, without any evidence of theft or drug sales or drug sales.
They needed to identify the activity fueling the cash, not strike out at the cash.
Terrifying abuse of the Constitution...
I used to think that the BATFE was the agency most in need of elimination, but am now convinced that the FBI is first on the list.
Yes, that is especially terrifying...that the judges don’t get irate and throw the miscreants into prison. It’s like all of law enforcement and the judiciary are all in on it together.
How long?
Civil forfeitures was an interesting but utterly naive idea. Originally instituted to allow the feds to seize drug cartel assets, it went off the tracks almost immediately with catastrophic consequences for thousands of innocent people.
beverly hills?
couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of people
maybe now they will stop funding and voting for the LEFT
nah
i doubt it
embrace the suck
Do you ever wonder why, after 1700 years, people are still finding hoards of Roman gold/silver coins, buried beneath what were once Roman basements, kitchens toilets, etc...?
Because when bloated, centralized empires collapse, they are in desperate need of money, the law breaks down, and government becomes the biggest thief.
Did creepy joe’s $600 threshold ever become law?
For these tyrannical events, we can thank Nixon (RICO) and, later, Bush (Patriot Act)...
The communists who now rule this country thank both of them every day...
There is no freedom without financial privacy.
Yes. There are ignorant people who don’t really understand the concept, in our government, in society, and even on this forum.
To them, it would be fine if you lived in an apartment building where drugs were being sold, and the police came in and seized everything in the building to search, including YOUR property, because, hey, you weren’t doing anything wrong. You have nothing to fear.
In this case, there were law-abiding citizens with signed contracts for Safe Deposit boxes, even if there were people illegally doing something. It is contingent on the law enforcement agency to target those boxes they have reasonable suspicion are being used illegally, and have documentation to prove it in order to get a focused search warrant.
And there are some who understand it all too well.
Isn’t that what they have been doing for years? The Republican chattering class has NO PROBLEM with this, and hasn’t ever. People like Rand Paul have been fighting the ocean of corruption for at least Hoover was in office.
Mainstream citizens see it as “getting the bad guys”. When in fact it has been a mass collection and sort operation from the Git-go. What the revenuers did to bootleggers was wrong.
and so on and so on and so on. Crime has never been worse, the numbers of homeless never larger. Campaign finance laws instituted to stop dirty money, yet CITIZENS have limits, the rich do not.
It seems the reason for the FBI is to make money and punish the enemy of whomever is in charge. It has always been so.
“Why even have law enforcement when they’re the ones robbing us?”
We don’t have law enforcement anymore. We have privateers holding letters of marque.
"...Agents further defied restrictions set in the warrant by Kim when they searched through box holders’ belongings for evidence of crimes. The warrant explicitly noted that it “does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes,” but only allowed the FBI to look inside in order to identify the owners and return their property to them, Institute for Justice reported..."
Find me the man, I'll find you the crime. Some think that is perfectly fine. Sad.
I am considering making that my tagline.
Class Action Lawsuit needed here-——
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