Asset forfeiture is just plain theft. Always has been. Carry your wealth with you and they can simply take it. Put it in a bank, and they can simply take it. Makes a good case for your emergency funds to be in the "bank of the PVC pipe in the back yard...".

For awhile now, the government has been MY biggest enemy, and the one who steals more from me than any hacker or common thief ever has. I bet this is the case with most people now in the USA.

with all that 0 is doing I can see his legacy; he destroyed the country formerly known as the USA in 8 years. he is also making it possible for more police officers to get killed.

part of the continuing slide into fascism...

This is perfectly consistent with the belief that the government owns everything and what we keep is a cost to government. They talk about this all the time and each year in April, it is even more obvious. When I hear deductions allowed by the IRS referred to as costs, I go ape.

I am stunned to read some of these stories.

It would seem we have not a conscious, intelligent, human judge or lawyer in the country...if I were judge, I throw the case out and jail the cops and their bosses.

Probably a good thing I'm not pres. cause I'd be the toughest you know what...just can't put up with non-human, non conscious behavior...after 3000 years, there is no excuse.

All asset forfeiture should be ended immediately. Property can only be seized after a conviction in a court of law and even then only for purposes of restitution or seizing of directly criminal gains. Anything more than that is profoundly anti-American.

his washington d.c. thugs just stole over 13 percent
of my and my wife's income today. . the only arrest
involved was our retirement. -- j
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I'm not the only one not surprised by this...right? And, don't kid yourself. A new President isn't going to fix this.

Well...you didn't build that, so it's not your stuff...

I have no regard for Obama or any of his minions but lets face the facts on this, Congress allows it. It is not just this administration or the democrats but the entire lot of them who we elect to represent us but they forgot that part. You can blame Hillary and Bernie and add with them Cruz and Kasich but that leaves only one whom we can't blame YET, Trump!
I can't concern myself with those here who hate Trump for what ever their lame reasons might be. What I can say is the more who come out in absolute defiance of him the more I am liking the idea of him becoming our next President. The vast majority of those who hate him I have little use for anyway because they are the ones allowing this garbage to fly. Hillary & WIlly deserve public housing in the aptly named Clinton Correctional Facility and Trump is just the guy to make it happen.

It is purely unconstitutional. They all know it. We all know it. But, to date, that has never stopped the looters from looting.It's pretty obvious that obeying the Constitution is not high on governmental lists. There are those in Washington and elsewhere who want to re-write the Constitution. Based on current attitudes, I am sure that it would make Obamacare look good by comparison.
Excuse me while I take something for my reflux.

Exactly. We are fast approaching feudalism where the fed is king. Think you own your stuff? Look at he inheritance tax and Joe Biden;'s justification for taking half - "you didn't earn it." Ask Bundy about grazing his cattle on federal land. Opps, it belongs to "the government" not citizens. The income tax is nothing more than extortion. And crony capitalism prevails.