Is Asset Forfeiture a “License to Steal”?

Date January 31, 2010

Why, yes. I do believe that it can be exactly that.

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2 Responses to “Is Asset Forfeiture a “License to Steal”?”

  1. FOLLY said:

    February 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 am

    To see what our Federal Government has seized from its citizens and is trying to
    keep, check out “Forfeiture.Gov” which typically runs 700 to 800 pages—
    also note the seizure dates—how long someone has been deprived of their property
    waiting to claim it,
    and those pages with no case at the top ( such as US v Smith), those are the cases
    where no one has even been accused of, much less convicted of a crime.
    There are plenty of drug cases (DEA) and firearm cases (ATF)—but there are also
    hundreds of Federal Laws a person could break that could lead to the permanent
    loss of their property, which can be seized on mere probable cause…..and you
    are not entitled to any type of hearing….until it goes to a judicial case (civil
    forfeiture) or a criminal case (criminal forfeiture)—if you are an innocent party,
    you could literally lose your property for years while it works its way through
    the system, paying for an attorney to represent you at every step.

  2. Foxfier said:

    February 3rd, 2010 at 9:42 am

    While we’re at it, the application of the EPA’s authority often boils down to flat out taking the property of people, best illustrated by an old, retired couple I knew in the valley I was born in– they had a small ranch, more to give their grandkids someplace to come than anything else, but they mostly fed themselves from it.

    EPA found a tree “suitable for bald eagles” near their house, and they weren’t allowed to use it anymore. (I don’t know many details– I was a little kid at the time. I only know about it at all because the EPA forced them out of their home, and my parents were worried about my godfather.)

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