All posts tagged "civil asset forfeiture"
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Controlling the Herd
Police Seized Property of Close to 1,000 People in Michigan—Without Ever Convicting Them of Crimes
July 11, 2018Close to 1,000 people in Michigan had their property seized by police or government officials last...
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Controlling the Herd
Whose Country Is This? Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?
May 29, 2018If the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S....
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Controlling the Herd
Missouri Police Using Federal Loophole to Skim Millions in Asset Forfeiture Proceeds
May 23, 2018“This program effectively allows the federal government to collude with state law enforcement to evade the...
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Controlling the Herd
We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs
May 10, 2018That house you live in, the car you drive, the small (or not so small) acreage...
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Controlling the Herd
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars
April 25, 2018Here's how a uniquely punitive city impound program combined with the drug war and asset forfeiture...
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Controlling the Herd
Cops Say No Incentive to Enforce Law If They Can’t Keep Seized Property
February 19, 2018Civil Asset Forfeiture is the most egregious form of state sanctioned theft in the history of...
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Controlling the Herd
Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Asks If All 50 States Must Comply with U.S. Constitution’s Excessive Fines Clause
February 1, 2018The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive fines by the federal government. But does...
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Controlling the Herd
How Sessions is Using the War on Drugs to Assault Anonymity
January 31, 2018The war on drugs is the coercive enterprise’s weapon of war against you, against me, against...
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Controlling the Herd
Land of the Free: D.A. Used $3.3 Million in Asset Forefeiture For Bonuses
November 30, 2017This is the problem when you give a politician a pot of "manna from heaven" with...
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Controlling the Herd
Trick or Treat: One Year Later, Is Trump a Blessing or a Curse to the Deep State?
November 1, 2017The lesson is this: once a free people allows the government to make inroads into their...
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Editor's Choice
Manafort Indicted by Mueller, Property Ordered Seized in Civil Asset Forfeiture
October 30, 2017Manafort and Gates are now being subject to Civil Asset Forfeiture, a law enforcement power that...
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Cops and Robbers
Supreme Court Takes Steps Toward Reining in Asset Forfeiture Abuse
June 6, 2017The Supreme Court has placed new limits on criminal asset forfeiture and the government's ability to...
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Controlling the Herd
Will the Trump Administration Overdose on Authoritarianism?
May 23, 2017President Trump, like his attorney general, seems to not understand that the rise of foreign drug...
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Controlling the Herd
Video: Jeff Sessions Escalates the War on Drugs, Orders Harsher Sentencing
May 12, 2017Everyone - except Jeff Sessions, it seems - knows that the War on Drugs has been...
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Controlling the Herd
The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump’s America Is a Constitution-Free Zone
April 25, 2017Have we strayed so far from our revolutionary roots that we no longer even recognize tyranny...
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Crime/Police State
IRS Seized $17 Million in Legally Earned Cash From Business Owners, Watchdog Reports
April 6, 2017Police departments aren't the only ones seizing money from citizens without charging them with a crime:...
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Controlling the Herd
DEA Seized $3.2 Billion in Cash From People Never Under Investigation – Justice Dept
March 30, 2017The US Drug Enforcement Administration seized $3.2 billion in cash over a 10-year period from people...
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Controlling the Herd
Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind
March 21, 2017What this adds up to is a paradigm in which Americans no longer have to be...
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Controlling the Herd
Rule by Thieves: One Week in the Life of the American Kleptocracy
March 15, 2017Magnify the impact of these events 52 times over, because they are taking place every week...
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Armageddon Scenarios
First Amendment??? Arizona Wants Power To Seize The Assets Of Protesters
February 24, 2017If Republicans in Arizona’s senate have their way, police in that state could soon have the...
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Controlling the Herd
“We’ll Destroy His Career”: Trump On Senator Who Wants Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform (Video)
February 7, 2017Earlier today, President Trump offered to "destroy" the career of a state senator who introduced legislation...
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Cops and Robbers
US Gives Back Innocent Man His $11k After Seizing It at Airport
December 2, 2016Authorities at a Kentucky airport confiscated the life savings of student Charles Clarke in early 2014...
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Controlling the Herd
Video: Cops Seize Innocent Family’s Life Savings Using Civil Asset Forfeiture Racket
November 29, 2016A California family is the latest victim of the government racket known as civil asset forfeiture,...
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Controlling the Herd
Deplorable: Trump Chooses Enemy of Liberty Jeff Sessions for Attorney General
November 18, 2016Today, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general of the United States,...
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Cops and Robbers
Chicago Police Department Caught Hiding Millions in Secret Asset Forfeiture Fund
October 15, 2016Police are not exempt from ethical standards, so we should stop treating them as if they...
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Controlling the Herd
NYPD Steals $18,000 from Man Because He Was Carrying a Banned Pocket Knife
September 19, 2016By coupling an outdated law with civil asset forfeiture rules — which in New York state,...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
The IRS Just Admitted It Stole Millions From Innocent People… and They’re Giving It Back??
June 21, 2016This is a startling admission of wrongdoing by the feared federal agency, and a rare win...
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Camps and Detainment
“Like a Boss”: This Is How to Pay a Speeding Ticket in a Police State
May 24, 2016After being told that he now owes the state of Texas several hundred dollars, or he...
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Cops and Robbers
Cops Steal $53,000 From Charity via Highway Robbery…er, Civil Asset Forfeiture
April 25, 2016You don’t have to be an orphanage, a church, or a Burmese Christian rock band to...
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Controlling the Herd
InJustice Department Resumes Armed Robbery Sharing Program With Local Cops
March 29, 2016Enough with the Orwellian doublespeak - let's just call "civil asset forfeiture" and "equitable sharing" what...
