[churchillbuff]

I'm not apologizing for drug use, or for violent plotting, but asset forfeiture is a threat to the rights of ALL of us - - because it gives law enforcement an incentive to take property from people in order to fund police and prosecutorial programs.

[Illbay]

I don't know. It seems to me that there have been a few asset forfeiture cases thrown out, but for the most part they're upheld by the appeals courts.

Sweeping generalizations that imply that there are gross abuses are simply not borne out by facts.

In this case, who knows what this guy really "suffered?" I have a great deal of doubt about some guy who would plot to kill and maim innocent people because of his own troubles. Such a person deserves little consideration, and his claims to injustice even less so.

[VaBthang4]

Because it gives law enforcement an incentive to...track down and arrest drug users/peddlers.

No excuses.

[CyberAnt]

If you're not growing POT in your house - then I don't think you have to worry about having your house seized ...??