🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 08:05:50 -0700, "Keith G. Wagner"
<keithw@tidepool.com> wrote:

> Kurt Warner wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Tim Waldowski wrote:
> > 
> > > julien@sor.inria.fr (Julien Maisonneuve) wrote:<snip>
> > > > I've never heard the democrats push for more "state ownership of the
> > > > means of production".
> > 
> > But they do advocate the confiscation of private property for the public
> > good with no compensation...
> > <snip>

This has been happening for a while... Is it just now, when it applies
to *you*, that you've noticed?

There's something called a "forfiture" conducted by local police and
other law enforcement organisations.  Basically, the law was designed
to put fiscal pressure on large scale drug dealers and drug
manufacturers.  The police just sieze property and auction it without
pressing charges or accusing the owners of any crime.  All they need
is "probable cause"  which means nearly anything these days.  There
have been confiscations of private property because someone "looked
like a drug dealer" or "fit our profile of a typical drug dealer" or
"our drug sniffing dog scratched his/her leg [when in fact there is no
dog in sight]" And because of this, they take your house, car, money,
and anything else they damned near want to take.

If you've *ever* done any drugs in your life, if any of your relatives
have done so, if your friends have ever done so, if you've ever gotten
drunk, if you "fit the profile of a drug user/dealer" the police have
probable cause to take all of your property in the name of fighting
drugs.  And when you try to sue them, you sue the govt and the govt
has the treasury behind it.  Go figure.
					KORO