In 1994 criminals committed 7,885 bank robberies, taking $28 million. That same year, government agencies seized $2.1 Billion
in asset forfeiture proceedings, often without probable cause, and often not returned
even when innocence was proven.
As the economy collapses, credit lines become constricted, and tax revenues are choked off, we can expect local representatives of the parasite class (commonly called "government") to become perversely creative
in finding new ways to extract money from productive people. For parasites looking to feast on the wealth of others, the
liberty-devouring fraud called the War on Drugs offers a particularly rich menu of possibilities.
As we've discussed before, Police
and Sheriff's departments in many jurisdictions are robbing people blind in the name of civil asset forfeiture, an officially
sanctioned form of robbery in which cash or property is deemed "guilty" of involvement in narcotics trafficking.
It's not necessary to prove that a crime has been committed, or even to arrest or charge an individual with a criminal offense. All that is required is for an officer to assert some "nexus" between the coveted money
or property, and then a civil procedure begins in which the onus is placed on the victim to prove that both he and his property are innocent.
Law enforcement bodies across the nation are engorging themselves on the corrupt proceeds of such plunder.
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