Posted on 08/10/2023 5:21:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The Department of Justice is shelling out more than $6 billion to private companies to manage its asset forfeiture investigations, raising alarm from one nonprofit law firm that accuses police of "treating ordinary Americans like ATMs" and seizing their cash. "You've probably heard the adage, 'you've gotta spend money to make money.' Here, it's 'you've gotta spend money to take money,'" said Dan Alban, head of the Institute for Justice's National Initiative to End Forfeiture.
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Van Jones is a lowlifes lowlife but he told the truth a while back when he said “there’s a lot of money in this country”......this is exactly what he was talking about.
Yes, they’re using us like ATMs (from article). I knew it was happening, but I thought it was only to money-trafficking criminals, not us ordinary Americans.
“but I thought it was only to money-trafficking criminals, not us ordinary Americans.”
According to recent history, if drive across the country with 30K cash to buy a vehicle you are a money-trafficking criminal.
Transfer millions through shell LLCs? MEH!
Here are a few. Just search for cash seizure for many more. Be sure to check the last one.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/us/california-illegal-marijuana-seizure-lawsuit/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/federal-agents-money-forfeiture.html
https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from-innocent/
My apologies, Institute for Justice is the firm mentioned in the article...need more coffee.
Deep State’s model of public service: The public exists to service its so-called public servants.
“The Institute for Justice does a lot of work on civil forfeiture cases.”
You got it right. Thanks for the article. The more I read, the more stunned I am...
It's been going on for decades. Asset forfeiture is evil, and always has been. It was always intended to be used exactly the way it has been.
Somehow, I’m just learning that today.
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If there was one thing I could end,
It would be our current taxation without representation.
Elected officials no longer listen to their constituents when it comes to money. No matter who we seem to elect, they always capitulate to expediency and never ever tighten their own g-d belts.
And if it means non-tax contributors have to get to work or go hungry then so be it. If it means Americans need to get back to the fields to feed themselves, then so be it. If it means we stop being the world’s police man and let the chips fall where they may, then so be it.
I am tired of being the government’s ATM.
The average amount they take in CAF is $600. No, I did not leave a zero or two off.
You hear about the big amounts taken but you never hear about the guy who gets pulled over for speeding and the dog "alerts" on his car and they empty his wallet even though there were no drugs found.
You can not get a lawyer to talk to you for under six hundred dollars and to "prove the money innocent" is a major court case so most people just let it go.
“And if it means non-tax contributors have to get to work or go hungry then so be it. If it means Americans need to get back to the fields to feed themselves, then so be it. If it means we stop being the world’s police man and let the chips fall where they may, then so be it.”
It’ll take a major catastrophe awakening to get that done, I’m afraid. We’ve become too complacent and ‘comfortable’ in our own un-Consitutional misery to change without being ‘forced’ to do so.
I’ve never heard of that happening...
Oddly enough the way you find it out is to read the police reports. They do keep track of it. Because no one cares. Of course the amount they report might not be the amount they took. You can see the Afroman videos to see how that works.
They are now training "cash dogs" that will alert on people carrying cash. Not drug money or anything like that. Just cash.
“They are now training “cash dogs” that will alert on people carrying cash.”
Hmmm... that’ll come in real handy when CBDC goes into law, and cash becomes illegal.
“You’ve probably heard the adage, ‘you’ve gotta spend money to make money.’”
“Biden misunderstood; thinks ‘you’ve gotta spend money to take money.’”
(Dan Alban, head of the Institute for Justice’s National Initiative to End Forfeiture.)
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