Civil Asset Forfeiture

[Achilles]

Civil Asset Forfeiture

BY Herschel Smith
1 day, 7 hours ago Greenville News:

When a man barged into Isiah Kinloch’s apartment and broke a bottle over his head, the North Charleston resident called 911. After cops arrived on that day in 2015, they searched the injured man’s home and found an ounce of marijuana.
So they took $1,800 in cash from his apartment and kept it.
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When Eamon Cools-Lartigue was driving on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County, deputies stopped him for speeding. The Atlanta businessman wasn’t criminally charged in the April 2016 incident. Deputies discovered $29,000 in his car, though, and decided to take it.
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When Brandy Cooke dropped her friend off at a Myrtle Beach sports bar as a favor, drug enforcement agents swarmed her in the parking lot and found $4,670 in the car.
Her friend was wanted in a drug distribution case, but Cooke wasn’t involved. She had no drugs and was never charged in the 2014 bust. Agents seized her money anyway.
She worked as a waitress and carried cash because she didn’t have a checking account. She spent more than a year trying to get her money back.
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Police are systematically seizing cash and property — many times from people who aren’t guilty of a crime — netting millions of dollars each year. South Carolina law enforcement profits from this policing tactic: the bulk of the money ends up in its possession …
Officers gather in places like Spartanburg County for contests with trophies to see who can make the largest or most seizures during highway blitzes. They earn hats, mementos and free dinners, and agencies that participate take home a cut of the forfeiture proceeds.
That money adds up. Over three years, law enforcement agencies seized more than $17 million, our investigation shows.

Did you know that? They have parties where they get to brag about how much they took from citizens. How does that strike you?
Civil asset forfeiture. Or in common parlance by ordinary folk, theft. Immoral, unbiblical theft. The Scriptures nowhere gives the state the right to confiscate wealth like that, and I defy anyone to prove that it does. But don’t look to the pastors of churches to point to LEOs who do this and call them out on it as thieves during services. The pastors are morally bankrupt.



http://www.captainsjournal.com/2019/...et-forfeiture/

[Samuel Adams]

It’s all part of that “most gigantic trust on earth”, that Charles Lindbergh, Sr. warned us about 1913.

The Federal Reserve is private, and their scrip has strings attached.

[Idaho Bullwinkle]

Theft, lying and murder is morally wrong except when one wears the cloak of government.

[jimmyb]

In running a small business there are times I carry large sums of money.
You will read my obituary if they try to seize what is rightfully mine..

[Idaho Bullwinkle]

In running a small business there are times I carry large sums of money.
You will read my obituary if they try to seize what is rightfully mine..

Don't yea know that those who wear the cloak of government have more rights than you in the peasant class?

You can not delegate a right that you, your self do not have.
You do not have the right to steal the property of another, so, you can not delegate the right
to steal to the legal fiction called government just because there was some ink sprayed on a
piece of paper and a ceremony was held in a temple or some magic parchment allows it.