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Remember this is without trial, without immediate oversight. Hopefully the incredulity of this will put a spotlight on civil forfeiture and end it once and for
by ck2 10y ago
Remember this is without trial, without immediate oversight.
Hopefully the incredulity of this will put a spotlight on civil forfeiture and end it once and for all.
But it probably will take a decade to get to the supreme court and this will ruin lives in the meanwhile.
And then there is who is going to fill the next three supreme court judge slots and how they feel about "the police can do no wrong" authoritarianism.
- sametmax 10y agoThis is a very naive view. It will ruin life, some people will protest, but the majority, will, as with the proverbial frog in the hot water, stay quiete. And it will just be one additional step toward a totalitarian state. It's just tiny steps. It will take time. But here the regularity matters. The simple existence of the Patriot Act, which destroys the very basis of the US legal system (the habeas corpus) and ignore blatantly the constitution, proves that the Suprem Court is not the democratic safety net it's supposed to be.