Imagine how much sooner the Revolutionary War would have been fought if colonists had suffered the tyranny of Civil Asset Forfeiture? The practice of asset forfeiture was first instituted as an anti-piracy initiative on the high seas where no controlling legal authority existed, yet open pillaging was epidemic. Today, the real pirates are wearing badges, or operating as officers of our state & federal courts. But unlike our personal presumption of innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, Our federal government has devised a system of booty -sharing whereby local and state agencies can make up a speculative narrative where they suggest our property may have been involved in some crime, at some point in time. The cops usually take cash or hockable goods, but often the seizure is valued at less than $3000. And wa-da-ya-know, the legal cost of securing competent legal representation to get your goods back usually runs around $3000 or more. |
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