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A letter to my CongressCritter on Civil Forfeiture
Magical Thinking of our Government leads to abuses of the fundamental kind. by Gary Trieste
(libertarian)
Monday, August 30, 2010
The Founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves if they knew what the various American governments are doing today in "civil" asset forfeiture.
There is nothing civil about it, it is literally highway robbery pure and simple, yet with the power of the State behind it, somehow legitimizing it and calling it legal.
Nottingham's Deputy's are legally empowered to steal your property, just because they want to. "Due process" is a laugh inducing punchline.
How do they do this? By claiming your property did something illegal, independent of you, and therefore has no right to exist. It must be absorbed by the State.
Insane on so many levels.
Charging a property with an illegal act retrogrades our legal system back to the logic and worldview of the religious courts of mediaeval Europe, and to today's Islamic courts as well, where an animal or an inanimate thing is magically found responsible for itself. As if animals and things were sentient beings.
Property is never apart from its owner, and is an extension always of its owner - to pretend otherwise is both mystical and insulting to the intelligence, and has no place in our system of jurisprudence. I am still shocked that this rendition of reality has been accepted by the American courts.
I should not have to explain this to you, but property is never guilty of anything. It is the owner that may or may not be guilty, and that is what we have a criminal justice system for, and yes, even a due process system set up in place to accompany it.
Since the courts have been complicit in this insanity, and have accepted magical thinking as perfectly logical, it is left to you as my legislative representative to do something about it.
Stop the insanity, or we voters will elect someone who will.
We are pissed off as it is, don't make us even angrier.
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The Founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves if they knew what the various American governments are doing today in "civil" asset forfeiture.