It’s not theft until the reps and senators stop tweeting about stuff and pass a law or two. Until then, it’s “civil asset forfeiture”.
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Civil asset forfeiture is unconstitutional. But more importantly, a law doesn't make something other than what it is. Slavery being legal didn't make it moral and government theft being legal doesn't make it any less what it is: theft.
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I am not arguing that it is right or wrong (I hate this law). Thanks!
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I guess this is where we say: don’t just tweet about it, get out there and do something, it’s your job!
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He's been trying, but he can't by himself.http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/348890-congress-is-finally-working-to-defund-civil-asset-forfeiture …
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Asset forfeiture is theft
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Thieves be thieving
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@jeffsessions loves theft.#EndCivilAssetForfeiture#4ThAmendmentThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This has to end. This is theft. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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What happened is a few naive people 200 years ago thought that by writing on a paper that government should be just government would be just
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Oh my. So you want to throw out the US Constitution and the Bill go Rights? What next, quit allowing women and people of color their voting rights? If you want to end that collect enough signatures and petition to secede from the US.
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I want to end all government and if I had enough people I wouldn’t sign a petition we would just all stop paying taxes and stop listening to laws and make it very clear that should any government agent stop foot on our property they will die but we don’t have enough people yet
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I support that completely. I live by the philosophy, I don’t care what you do as long as it doesn’t harm me or my property.
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So then you are also against the constitution
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It's definitely theft. Civil Asset Forfeiture is just an Orwellian term to cover up big government stealing from its citizens.
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Nope. We call this asset forfeiture: proceeds derived from illegal activity. Law abiding folks have no problem proving their $$$ comes from legal means - job, pension, investments, etc. Bookies, drug dealers, gangsta can’t
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That's simply not true. Law abiding often finding it more costly to to fight the charges in court than the amount of money that was stolen from them by the police. It's just theft. You can inform yourself a little better about it here:https://reason.com/archives/2017/04/05/the-other-side-of-legalized-theft …
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Rion, I’m lil’informed. The usual cases cited, by those against this particular law, are aberration. Reg folk do not stuff 11k in cash in suitcase, etc. The law does NOT impact righteous business ppl or law abiding citizen. It can impact those that cannot show proof of income
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BTW I’m a lil’informed ONLY had 18 yrs working major investigations. Handled many many many cases - not once a person w/legal income was affected by our enforcement. The dope seller & career criminals were...those are facts.
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In fact. Arrested one guy with large bank account. He lost his car bc he used it to transport seller of coke. We did not touch his bank account bc HE HAD WON THE LOTTERY! Like for real!
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It's a bad practice to take people's property with no due process, Al. It's policing for profit, and innocent people absolutely routinely end up getting shafted. Case in point this example in the original tweet.
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There is a due process. A person gets arrested on suspicion - the money gets arrested on suspicion. The intent & execution of the law not focusing on U, teachers, small business owner, etc. Words like “for profit” ??? no law enforcement individual benefits from it.
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If the person losing the cash can prove legitimate purpose or source of cash, do they get it back?
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