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.
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Had you not run across that one before?
People have been fighting that one for decades. It’s a huge issue, but often fails to get any kind of press notice, because it primarily affects people too poor to hire lawyers. And if they weren’t too poor before, they might be after.
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No, I had no idea. I think the overseas readers will find it as shocking as I did.
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Oh, gosh. I think I first encountered that in the libertarian scene around 2000. Then, at least, it was as big an issue for them as drug legalization. I guess now that they’ve won the drug thing they’re all too high to care.
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“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….
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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.
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It’s always seemed like a really obvious across-the-aisle issue that we should be able to tackle. But apparently the police lobby has too much clout for it to get off the ground on either side, in the mainstream parties.
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…right up there with no-knock warrants, you know?
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The best comment of the month award goes to this comment on the high as a kite libertarians. :-)))
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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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