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Not sure if I'm being overly paranoid, but it strikes me that life in the US has been reduced to hoping one doesn't appear on the government's radar. If you do,
by Spearchucker 12y ago
Not sure if I'm being overly paranoid, but it strikes me that life in the US has been reduced to hoping one doesn't appear on the government's radar. If you do, between this, an essentially biased supreme court; the NSA; a militarized police; parallel construction by the DEA and FBI... - you're pretty much toast if their interest is more than cursory.
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- ntrepid8 12y agoThe issue in this case is that the defendants haven't even been convicted of a crime, which is why everyone is worried. Based on this ruling you need only be accused of a crime for the government to seize your assets. If prosecutors only put guilty people on trial you might be correct. edit: I guess the comment I was responding to was deleted.
- opendais 12y agoMore or less, yes. However, to be perfectly fair, this is basically true in almost every nation in the world. There are many, many laws in many, many countries that if you deal with a biased judge you are screwed. It isn't just the US, sadly. Although the US is at the point where its worse than the majority of the 1st world democracies.
- mcv 12y agoThe US has been pretty low on my list of places I might want to visit exactly because of this constant undermining of basic rights and freedoms. Civil forfeiture and the police apparently being able to shoot you for whatever reason they choose, is the nail in the coffin.