I agree with the principle of your point re: marijuana in specific -- it was often used as a way to stack charges, and especially in a racialized way. But I'm

I agree with the principle of your point re: marijuana in specific -- it was often used as a way to stack charges, and especially in a racialized way. But I'm not sure it applies here. Clearly if the US is investigating a serious computer crime that came from your server, they can't take it on your say-so that it actually came from somewhere else. They need to be able to investigate. And typically for forensic reasons that's going to involve an infrastructure seizure. Now, the failure to return infrastructure over a long period of time is more extrajudicial punishment, and they do that too sometimes. Lots of people haven't gotten laptops back for years via this.