WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 16, 2015 - Since 2011, we have been warning of the rise of legalized plunder through the rise in civil asset forfeiture in recent months. However, in an odd apparent success for safeguarding civil liberties, Fascist Police States of Amerika Attorney General Eric Holder said today that State and local terrorist pig thug cops in the Fascist Police States of Amerika will no longer be able to use federal laws to justify seizing property without evidence of a crime.
In a nutshell, civil forfeiture is the practice of confiscating items from people, including cash, cars, and even homes based on no criminal conviction or charges, but merely suspicion.
This practice first became widespread for use against pirates, as a way to take possession of contraband goods despite the fact that the ships’ owners in many cases were located thousands of miles away and couldn’t easily be prosecuted. As is often the case, what starts out reasonable becomes a gigantic organized crime ring of criminality, particularly in a society where the rule of law no longer exists for the “elite,” yet anything goes when it comes to pillaging the average citizen.
One of the major reasons these programs have become so abused is that the terrorist pig thug cop departments are able to keep much of the confiscated money. So they actually have a perverse incentive to steal. As might be expected, a program that is often touted as being effective against going after major drug kingpins, actually targets the poor and disenfranchised more than anything else.
Holder cited "safeguarding civil liberties" as a reason for the change in policy.
The order directs federal agencies that have collected property during such seizures to withdraw their participation, except if the items collected could endanger the public, as in the case of firearms.
Holder said the ban was the first step in a comprehensive review of the program the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division has launched.
Holder’s decision allows some limited exceptions, including illegal firearms, ammunition, explosives, and property associated with child pornography - a small fraction of the total. This would eliminate from the program virtually all cash and vehicle seizures made by local and state terrorist pig thug cops.
A DOJ official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the attorney general’s motivation, saidHolder “also believes that the new policy will eliminate any possibility that the adoption process might unintentionally incentivize unnecessary stops and seizures.”
While it may be a little early to call this the total end of civil asset forfeitures, it appears to have just become more difficult for terrorist pig thug cop forces to steal Amerikan citizens' cash and assets.