This article on civil forfeiture will wake you up in no time. What happens if police decides to seize your property? What kind of excuse – if any – is needed to do that?
Read and find out about a very bizarre legal practice in the US and how it may soon change. “Civil forfeiture” sounds soporific but the article isn’t in the least.
“first encountered that in the libertarian scene around 2000”
As I was reading I was feeling my inner libertarian become furious and ready to stand on a soapbox and start yelling at passers by….
“now that they’ve won the drug thing they’re all too high to care”
I want to believe that’s a joke…. I really do….
This is one of the few issues that unites Libertarians and left leaning, social justice types. It’s super wrong from an individual property rights perspective and the poor and minorities are frequently harmed by it. I’m not sure when I first heard about this issue, but it was a long time ago. Defund the police activists sometimes cite this issue as an argument that US policing/criminal justice is horribly corrupt.
I will give it a place of honor on my trophy shelf 😉
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I learned about this through BLM.
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Well, at least BLM served some useful purpose, then.
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