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Background information: The real awesome part of forfeiture is when the government wants to seize your hotel and sell it because sometimes drug dealers might ha
by fennecfoxen 13y ago
Background information: The real awesome part of forfeiture is when the government wants to seize your hotel and sell it because sometimes drug dealers might have used it. http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/28/motel-caswell-owners-defeat-federal-forf http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/28/motel-caswell-owners-defea...
Other victim classes include "driving while brown, with cash" - e.g. http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket
(Disclaimer. Links to politically motivated Libertarian magazine website, since I knew it would be easy to find there. Interested parties may conduct corroborating research on their own time.)
- ihsw 13y agoKeyword: might They don't even have to have provided any evidence that crimes occurred on the property in question, just that there is reasonable suspicion. There are a lot of penalties and procedures surrounding "just in case" solutions.