Do you have clue *expletive deleted*ing one what civil asset forfeiture is?
How it's used?
Defenses against it?
Just asking...
Yes I have a expletive deleted clue what it is.
I am really sorry to get thy Godly Hackles up.
Let me 'Splain something;
In my 60+ years of existance on this sorry planet, there have been politicians I like that have done/said things with which I disagree, sometimes strongly. There have also been politicians I have despised, disagreed with, or thought were total jackwagons, who did or said things I actually did agree with. If you want purity, IMHO you're pretty much f**ked in this plane of existance.
I suspect you probably know that, but what are you willing to do about it?
You can abstain from politics altogether. That might be the most viable choice, but some claim if you do this, you lose the right to complain. You dont, of course, but you do lose a certain "gravitas," since you aren't participating why should people consider your opinion important ---- you not being a" mover or a shaker?"
Or you can vote 3rd party. For someone who's polling at 2% on his good days. Fine, and I'm sure you'll sleep well at night.
So will the socialist Cadre when they win the 2024 election and get to take 50% of your stuff and give it to an illegal alien.
And wishing that the majority of other voters had voted for the two percenter will be cold comfort.
In most cases of civil forfeiture, the property taken belongs to cocaine smugglers, cartel thugs, Cosa Nostra or Mafia types, and others of that ilk. Forfeiture may be a questionable law at best, or a horrible one at worst, but the vast majority of people it hits are people for whom I have no sympathy. Sorry, I dont. And the nasty reality is that you will never convince the American people, in general, that a law is bad by pointing out its victims when they are criminal scum.
Yes, I have heard about the RARE case where a guy driving across America with $20,000 in cash is stopped, the cash is grabbed,
since there is some assumption people carrying legal tender for all debts public and private must be drug couriers.
Or someone innocently lends his car to a friend who uses it to transport $120,000 in illegal drugs gets himself arrested, and the coppers get themselves a new car.
Situations like that have offended many people, and what Sessions, et al, are suggesting is a protection from that sort of thing, while reinstating it against the criminal element.
It isn't my favorite law, even with those supposed "protections." I have a lot of "NOT FAVORITE LAWs" that were I the Benevolent Dictator, I'd do away with.
But I'm not. All I can do is vote, usually for the lesser evil. And sorry, in my opinion, ALL humans are, to some degree, evil, as we are "fallen." Only God is perfect.
I vote, and hope not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater."
My comment regarding "the French system" was in response to your ostensible hypocrisy regarding how you would deal with public figures as opposed to private persons. In truth I believe you wrote "tongue in cheek" to make a point.
I suppose I really ought to have put a smiley there to signify that but hindsight is 20/20.
There are a lot of things in our system to rail against. If you make a 24/7/365 profession of it you'll only drive your blood pressure up, your mind nuts, and your corporeal self into an early grave, and the politicians enjoy it.
What's the old prayer?;
" God grant me the courage to change what I can, the patience to deal with what I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Take care.