Civil Asset Forfeiture: a procedure by which government thugs can seize the property of citizens who have NOT been convicted of a crime, and especially NOT of any crime in any way associated with the use of that property/asset.
It’s nothing but government-sponsored theft, and those who practice it should
- Have their assets seized–all of them
- Be horsewhipped through the streets of whatever jurisdiction they committed the theft in
- Serve a real life sentence on a chain gang manually making gravel from BIG rocks.
Should, but in our corrupt society, instead they are rewarded with sinecures, jobs protected by a so-called “qualified immunity” that amounts to a functional immunity that is little other than a license to bully, steal, and–if they can get a wink and a nudge–kill.
Anyone have a solution short of bringing such vile, despicable, completely depraved individuals before their Final Judgment? Since the PTB have made self-defense and the defense of one’s property rights unlawful in today’s Amerika *sigh*, I’d very much appreciate someone smarter than me to offer a lawful solution to this kind of rampant brigandage.
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N.B. Apart from “thought crimes” (wishing ill of these evil people), I know of no laws I have broken that would open me up to such brigandage, and nor do I own assets that would make seizing such amount to much more than petty theft, but since these corrupt law enFARCEment looters DGARA about any such thing, I have to assume I could be put out on the street any time some petty bureaucrap wants. *sigh*
One term for what these people do is “anarcho-tyranny.”
Agreed.
But 2. …of whatever jurisdiction IN WHICH they committed the theft.
You ended with a preposition?! ?
Yes. “They” have not (yet) made it illegal, and I can always plead Winston Churchill’s authority to all others.
Per https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/11/14/churchill-on-prepositions/
“Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: ‘This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.'”
*heh*
😉
My answer is probably not going to be popular, but…
When it happens “under color of law”… use whatever legal means are at your disposal to try to get it back, and failing that, bless them. Hot coals will be coming soon enough.
That’s the best I can come up with, too, but it’s. . . unsatisfying (to my overgrown “justice bone”). *sigh*