RANT: Civil forfeiture needs to be abolished; only if people are convicted of a crime can their assets be taken

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/18/civil-asset-forfeiture-explained/74802279007/

Old legal quirk lets police take your money with little reason, critics say
Jeanine Santucci USA TODAY
Published 5:08 a.m. ET Aug. 18, 2024 Updated 11:46 a.m. ET Aug. 18, 2024

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Law enforcement was able to take the money through a controversial practice called civil asset forfeiture. Advocates against the practice say it amounts to legalized government theft, at times from ordinary, innocent Americans. 

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Civil forfeiture has been effectively eliminated in only North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico and Maine, according to the Institute for Justice. But dozens of other states have tried reforming their laws. Some have elevated the standard for burden of proof that law enforcement has to have to seize property. Others have improved the transparency of their procedures, Rulli said.

A federal loophole makes it easier for law enforcement agencies across the country to evade state reforms. The federal government isn’t beholden to state laws, Rulli said, so law enforcement agencies can call federal authorities in, which will seize property and split the profits with the local agencies.

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This is unConstitutional trickery that the Gooferment at all levels pulls on “We, The Sheeple”.

I find the Gooferment’s conduct immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

Hopefully you do too!

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: RIP Caleb Swanigan; did the Covid Fax kill him?

Sunday, June 26, 2022

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/caleb-swanigan-how-can-a-25-year

Caleb Swanigan: How can a 25-year-old die from natural causes?

  • The term means someone didn’t kill him and it wasn’t an accident. It is common since the jabs rolled out for young people to die unexpectedly like this. It is only happening to the vaccinated…

Steve Kirsch

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https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2022/06/21/purdue-portland-gentle-giant-caleb-biggie-swanigan-dies-too-young-25/7688219001/

Doyel: Purdue’s Caleb ‘Biggie’ Swanigan escaped brutal childhood, but story ends at age 25
Gregg Doyel
Indianapolis Star

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People are crying for Caleb “Biggie” Swanigan in West Lafayette today. People are crying at Purdue. People are crying on the south side of Indianapolis, which is where I live. A man is crying in the living room here. I’m alone.

We are emotional because Biggie was wonderful and because this isn’t the natural order of life. We don’t bury our children. No, Biggie wasn’t my child, or yours. But he was ours, you know? And he was so young. Too young, just 25, when news of his death was announced Tuesday morning.

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What does “natural causes” mean?  It seems an oddly more frequent occurrence that young healthy men just drop dead. Is this part of a large uncontrolled experiment on “We, The Sheeple”?

I’ll just adjust my tin foil hat and wait for the truth to emerge in six months.  That seems to be the lifecycle from “Conspiracy Theory” to “Generally Accepted Fact”.

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