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This is just as bad as police seizures

• duelingjello 7y ago
  Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) obviously violates the 4th, 6th and 14th amendments to any reasonable person, but because the police profit from it, lawyering cognitive dissonance continues to legitimize it as legal. What it means is that innocent people carrying large sums of cash or having expensive property will continue to have it taken from them unless they are rich and have aggressive lawyers. CAF requires proving a negative (an impossibility), as well as assuming guilt, deprivation of property immediately and proving innocence later, which seems mutually exclusive with fundamental tenants of the US justice system: "innocent until proven guilty" and "due-process." It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair