Despite the wonkiness on the global warming front, the Wall Street Journal has had really good coverage of civil forfeiture article coverage: http://online.wsj.

Despite the wonkiness on the global warming front, the Wall Street Journal has had really good coverage of civil forfeiture article coverage: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512253265073870.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651.... There are at least 400 federal statutes allowing civil forfeiture and new ones are being added all the time. So yes, since it is backwards, it means if you have something of value an individual is holding for you, it can be seized. In the above article's case, it was an armored car company holding his small business's cash. http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-BC090_FORFEI_NS_20110821181226.jpg http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-BC090_FORFEI_NS... Asset forfeiture along with plea bargaining coercion (say you did this, or else you just might go to prison for decades) have truly turned the United States government in to nothing more than an organized mafia in which the participants hardly need to prove anything in a court of law in order to get their way.