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How Police Profit by Seizing Private Property
Kingsport Times News ^
| April 12th, 2010
Posted on 04/12/2010 11:37:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
It was even worse than this until (IIRC) the late congressman Henry Hyde sponsored a bill, passed into law, that most seizures must meet the highest evidentiary standard supported by civil law or else they will be annulled in court.
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posted on
04/12/2010 11:42:12 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: HiTech RedNeck
with state and local tax revenues down, it will only get worse.
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posted on
04/12/2010 11:44:46 PM PDT
by
RC one
(WHAT!!!!)
To: nickcarraway
It is a police state. You can’t do a thing about it. Except turn to anarchy.
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posted on
04/12/2010 11:49:47 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(NEW TAG ====> **REPEAL OR REBEL!** -- Islam Delenda Est! -- Rumble thee forth)
To: nickcarraway
Some of us recognized this dangerous trend for what it is and where it would go a decade or two ago.
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posted on
04/12/2010 11:57:17 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: nickcarraway
The War On Drugs is way a great way for police to get all kinds of seized goodies. In ______, a City employee would give tours of the evidence warehouses to other employees to pick and choose merchandise. The vice cops use confiscated cars to patrol undercover. All of the stuff is taken from people who have not yet been convicted of anything. Prohibition corrupts the entire system and gets in the way of managing serious crimes.
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posted on
04/12/2010 11:58:07 PM PDT
by
rockhardo
(Socialism creates its own hell.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Police... City ... County ... State ... Federal Govt. ...
All PROFIT ( Gain Funds ) by regulating Freedom... Less Freedom ... More Money
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posted on
04/13/2010 12:05:15 AM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
To: scott7278
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posted on
04/13/2010 12:13:40 AM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
To: rockhardo
As the economy suffers and times get harder, more people turn to escapism in self administered street drugs. It’s estimated that only 10% of street drug imports are caught but it’s difficult to blame governments for not ignoring the cash cow of red handed dealer busts. There’s certainly enough of them.
Personally (it’s been on my freep page for years) I would be willing to permit physicians to administer anything for medical purposes as long as the physicians are willing to assume liability for any resulting harm. That would probably result in more existing addictions being humanely managed, and less worry about moot issues like getting the terminally ill hooked. This does not translate to a blind eye for street pushers.
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posted on
04/13/2010 12:24:34 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: rockhardo
That sounds like San Antonio It used to be big business for the city PD.
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posted on
04/13/2010 1:58:16 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: max americana
Spot on, and I’m retired LE.
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posted on
04/13/2010 2:09:49 AM PDT
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chilltherats
(First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
To: HiTech RedNeck
"Personally (its been on my freep page for years) I would be willing to permit physicians to administer anything for medical purposes as long as the physicians are willing to assume liability for any resulting harm." Why should physicians need to assume liability for something that would have been passed into law by governing assemblies??
To: chilltherats
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posted on
04/13/2010 3:40:40 AM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: nickcarraway; All
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posted on
04/13/2010 3:45:01 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: SpaceBar
True, but back then it was just the druggies they were after, and you certainly couldn't argue with that. Now, 20 years later people are miffed because they might lose their stuff to the same laws. Too little, too late.
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posted on
04/13/2010 3:48:07 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: backhoe
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posted on
04/13/2010 3:55:09 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
To: James C. Bennett
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posted on
04/13/2010 4:34:58 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: Fresh Wind
Thanks- I couldn’t find that one quickly.
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posted on
04/13/2010 4:50:51 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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