>>Fortunately you're wrong Unfortunately you are wrong >In reality, the US is one of the 20 least corrupt nations on the planet, on par with Ireland and Japa

>>Fortunately you're wrong Unfortunately you are wrong >In reality, the US is one of the 20 least corrupt nations on the planet, on par with Ireland and Japan and less corrupt than France. In reality do to the distributed nature of the various governments of the US, corruption in local government is both wide spread and very very under reported, Sure maybe the Federal Government is one of the 20 least national governments, but there are over 3,000 local government units that are very very much corruptible and often are. Further I do not by the premise that just because you are less bad than others that makes you good... A murder that kills only 1 person is not "good" because he did not kill 20... > It has very strong property protection laws, which is both why the judge returned the money (naturally that would happen in a nation with no rule of law huh), You should really research this issue more if you think that is the common outcome. it is not I just looking at the work the Institute for Justice is doing in this space. Specifically their Policing for Profit Series >why the Obama Administration took important steps to neuter civil asset forfeiture abuse Those changes were superficial at best, did not really do much as have all been rolled back at this point Most Civil Asset Abuse some at the local level anyway not at the federal level, the Federal Programs are generally used as a end run around state that have enacted laws to eliminate civil asset forfeiture or severely limit its use >The US also has rare universal Congressional support for ending civil asset forfeiture abuses. No the US Congress play both sides of this issue, if there was universal support the law would already be changed Police Unions are a power lobby, most Congress Reps will claim publicly to be for it, while never ever allowing the issue to come up for a vote