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The very idea is abhorrent to me, that we need civil forfeiture because the criminal justice system is inadequate to the task. If we can't take away ill-gotten
by rootusrootus 5y ago
The very idea is abhorrent to me, that we need civil forfeiture because the criminal justice system is inadequate to the task. If we can't take away ill-gotten gains in a court of law (and not by shenanigans like filing lawsuits against cash), then we're effectively stealing it.
- lazide 5y agoIt is effectively theft. Since it is being done to ‘bad people’, as long as it keeps the fig leaf of due process on however it generally gets a pass - both at the voting booth and in the courts, same as FISA, rendition, and similar overreach. This isn’t THAT new - very real government documents that leaked decades ago on COINTELPRO and MKULTRA should hopefully disabuse anyone of the notion that the gov’t doesn’t do pretty abusive things at times to it’s own people. Pushing back, downsizing gov’t so they do have the budget for large scale shenanigans are important. Unfortunately not the direction it has been moving for some time however, or is likely to go anytime soon.