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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Watch Your Assets
The federal government will no longer be able to accept assets seized by state and local law enforcement agencies. Civil liberties groups and lawmakers have criticized the asset forfeiture program because it lets local law enforcement agencies seize property without an indictment or evidence of a crime. Attorney General Eric Holder called the change the "first step in a comprehensive review." The new policy doesn't apply to local seizures of materials concerning public safety, including firearms, explosives and child pornography. It also doesn't affect asset seizures made under joint state and federal operations.
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"The new policy doesn't apply to local seizures of materials concerning public safety, including firearms, explosives and child pornography. It also doesn't affect asset seizures made under joint state and federal operations."
Which really means no actual change in the assets seizure policy.
Sand Box John
Americans have their cash and property seized at the mere whim of an armed government agent. Often at gunpoint.
And the government thinks we need a "review"?? A REVIEW!? WTF!?
READ the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, you Nazi wanna-be's!
Highway robbery, when done by you and I, is a felony worth 25-life.
Wear a badge and its no longer a felony, its a promotion and a pay increase.
Keep cheering.
Sand Box is absolutely right. Some smoke and mirrors, and some rhetoric about our "rights" and such, but in the end, no change.
There is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much money to be had.....
You ever see a highway robber who stopped on his own?? He had to be killed.
Ah. There's a lesson we seem to have forgotten.
It's just to put pressure on the cops to go after guns. I'm sure some crooked departments will be even more likely to make stuff up. I wonder what Sheriff Lewis is going to do to make up for the lost revenue?
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