Law enforcement on the local, state, and federal levels can seize assets if they were thought to be used in connection with illegal activity. That's often based solely on suspicion, though. Many people never receive their items back, even if they were acquitted or never charged in the first place. Since 2000, state and local governments have robbed people of more than $68 billion.
-WiscoDave
research James Otis JR. he real father of our country, and marvel at the fact we were not taught about him in school.
ReplyDeleteWHY DO YOU NEED A FUCKING BILL FOR THIS ?
ReplyDeleteBecause power corrupts, that's why.
DeleteI can suggest one amendment to this bill. That all currently held property be returned to the person from whom it was taken.
the Constitution is already supposed to protect us from illegal seizure.
Delete"I can suggest one amendment to this bill. That all currently held property be returned to the person from whom it was taken."
DeleteUh, with interest...
Just one more way for .gov to fook over The People. Tell me again who .gov is supposed to be serving?
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“Touch my shit I will kill you”, “lighten up Francis “.
ReplyDeleteIt's bad enough that Canada has long warned it's people traveling in certain parts of the U.S (you go, Tennessee!) to not carry cash or any valuables if possible.
ReplyDeleteAsset forfeiture should be abolished. It is high time any finically incentive is removed from the policing of our communities,
ReplyDeleteJust as an aside, if you are going to break the law use assets that have loans against them. They only seize stuff that you own.
I rremember reading many years ago about police departments that were bronging officers in off the street to study old cases to look for anything they could sieze. Cases that were otherwise done with and no further action needed.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but its N empty gesture. Unless the session of Congress passes this bill before it adjourns, the bill dies and would need to be reintroduced when a new Congress comes into session. And Rep Anash, if I am not mistaken, will not be a part of the new Congress.
ReplyDeleteTennessee State Patrol hardest hit.
ReplyDeleteOf all the laws the US government uses this one has got to be the Number One worst of thievery ever conceived. I remain shocked it has not been struck down long ago and why not? Why can government simply "take" without even an arrest or much better a conviction? Simple pure highway robbery and that being conducted by police and LE for profit.
ReplyDelete“Law enforcement on the local, state, and federal levels can seize assets if they were thought to be used in connection with illegal activity.”
ReplyDeleteLaw enforcement is so highly tuned in that just *thinking* something could possibly, maybe be used in a crime, makes it so. The same guys you knew in high school that weren’t that sharp could LEOs today. You had $15k cash to go buy a car? No, no - that’s got to be drug money! And it will cost you $50k to try to get it back!
Who’s the dumbfuck that dreamed this shit up in the first place?
Those dumbshits are the property tax thieves
Delete"Who’s the dumbfuck that dreamed this shit up in the first place?"
DeleteYou mean who's the Einstein-level genius! We get your money in the form of taxes for our budgets, and then we street tax whatever you've got left.
- Law Enforcement
This bill is just preening and posturing. The author KNOWS it has absolutely zero chance at ever being passed. Such bills are written and presented to make the author APPEAR to be on our
ReplyDeleteside knowing full well they won't have to actually deal with the consequences of the bill actually passing. It's just more smoke and mirrors from a useless politician.
I can't figure out if Justin Amash is a prick or a sperg. Could be either, could be both. Probably both. Amash did call for impeaching Trump back when he was still nominally a Republican.
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