yeah. or someone drives through iowa (WHICH HAS f**k SPEED CAMERAS SENDING ME TICKETS. I THOUGHT I LIVED IN AMERICA (which is basically what I wrote back contesting it because i'm not paying that bullshit)) with poker winnings of 100K and has that seized.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/09/scotu ... rously-broreason magazine has been railing on this for years and there's a disgustingly high amount of examples of this. it takes people years to get their money back if they ever do
http://reason.com/tags/asset-forfeitureforfeiture fuels the drug war on the government's side, same as drugs fuel it on the dealer's side. it's why there's been a military escalation of police forces, it is a direct result of forfeiture. it's arguably the worst thing that we do in this country to our citizens
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.