Posted on 10/26/2019 12:09:08 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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“S.C. Judge: Unconstitutional for Police to Seize Property Without Proving Crimes”
Uh, yeah? No kidding?
bttt
Let’s get this going all the way to SCOTUS.
Right now local & state cops are no better than Mexican cops when it comes to shake-downs.
For example,if large quantities of drugs are being sold out of a particular home and the owner(s) of that home knew about it and did nothing to stop it I can see making loss of that home as being part of a guilty plea or verdict.
But stopping a guy on the highway for a broken tail light and seizing the $5,000 in cash that he's carrying because it *might* be drug related is criminal.
They’ve enjoyed their gravy train for years. They won’t go down without a fight.
Rotten bastards.
So, our ARs and AKs are safe from beat0?
We have that crap here in Louisiana. It never should have been allowed to take root.
Yea really.....Sounds like a complete no brainer on it’s face.
Only the IRS is entitled to take the property of citizens without due process, or even a suspicion of criminal behavior. The only “crime” that need be proven is that the property exists, and the IRS won’t tolerate competition. As onerous as the police seizures are, they don’t compare to the injustices inflicted by the federal government.
Attention red flag law states.
I’ve no problem with asset foreiture- since our Founders had no problem with it.
In certain circumstances- mostly smuggling.
But the abuse now is rampant.
Welcome to Sanders/Harris/o’rourke World. And, without a 2nd Amendment, how much worse does anyone think it could get?
‘...because the statutes
“(1) place the burden on the property owner to prove their innocence,
(2) unconstitutionally institutionally incentivizes forfeiture officials to prosecute forfeiture actions, and
(3) do not mandate judicial review or judicial authorization prior to or subsequent to the seizure.”
I might argue that the first two could apply to red flag laws.
This was always a BS policy/system paying police depts to steal from citizens. If anything the money should be used for anything BUT law enforcement.
Kind of the same logic about welfare...pay a man not to work they won’t. Pay a police dept to steal from citizens and they will.
Even in the case you say is ok, the police dept should not get the money. Maybe the general fund or something else, but you can’t pay the police to steal. It gives them too much incentive to lie and fabricate evidence to ensure they get their payday.
Well gee.
That’s really great of you.
Since nobody else minds it if there is a conviction first either. The whole reason for the conversation at all is because a conviction hasn’t been required for many decades.
Amazing. A judge figured this out...
Posted the Freeper in a forum that the left has called to criminalize.......
Why would you want to give any “public servant” the power to take everything away from you? Being Jewish was not a death sentence in Germany in the 1920s and yet by the 1930s the Nazis has begone to perform “civill asset forfeiture” and reducing Jews to poverty.
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