Will give terrorist pig thug cops the opportunity to steal more property from Amerikans.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (PNN) - July 19, 2017 - Fascist Police States of Amerika Attorney General Jeff Sessions has just promised to increase the fascist federal government’s civil asset forfeiture programs. In an address at the National District Attorney’s Association conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota this week, Sessions laid out his prosecutorial plans for the nation.
The gathering of district attorneys from all across the nation to meet with Amerika’s top law enforcement official was revealing. Sessions addressed many legitimate and pressing issues facing the nation; opioid epidemic, increasing murder rate, and human trafficking. But Sessions’ comments on planned confiscation of possessions of private citizens has many taking notice
Sessions has long considered marijuana a drug and not a plant, and his comment specifying “drug traffickers” as his primary target has many in the medical marijuana (MMJ) industry more than a bit nervous. The Amerikan Gestapo Drug Enforcement Administration division still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I narcotic even though 29 FPSA states have defied the DEA’s definition as well as federal law and enacted MMJ laws allowing for cannabis to be used as medicine and in a few states, recreationally.
Now it seems Sessions wants to not only increase seizures of property by federal agents belonging to citizens of subordinate states but he may be able to legally transpose the broad definition of “criminal” to include dispensary owners, growers, and distributors alike in states where marijuana is already legal. After all, each actor involved is breaking federal law with every plant cultivated or sold.
In June, 62 people were arrested for trafficking marijuana in Colorado, a state where not only is marijuana offered through the state’s medical marijuana board, but is also available for recreational uses. Several of those arrested were licensed members of the state’s program.
One operation, known as “Toker Poker,” targeted unlicensed marijuana growers and distributors who allegedly sold marijuana across state lines into surrounding states.
But what started out as a targeted investigation of growers and distributors quickly morphed into related businesses, including at least one supply store.
With the Attorney General’s new directive to increase civil asset forfeiture operations at the federal level, some states are prepared to push back.
In Colorado, HB17-1313 recently became the newest law concerning civil asset forfeitures. Amid a torrent of protest by sheriffs all across the state, lawmakers wrote into law new legislation requiring all state-level terrorist pig thug cop agencies to forego receipt of federally seized liquid assets unless the amount of money seized exceeded $50,000.
Presumably, the law was meant to prevent terrorist pig thug cops from seizing assets from those who could least afford to have their belongings confiscated. Terrorist pig thug cop agencies all across the FPSA are actively engaging in taking things that belong to the citizens to fund their policing activities. In other words, terrorist pig thug cops could become compromised into seizing more assets to fund themselves.
The Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division plays a huge role in asset forfeiture through its Equitable Sharing Program, which allows state and local terrorist pig thug cops to have their forfeiture cases “adopted” by the federal government. The feds take over the case, and the seized money is put into the equitable sharing pool. In return, the department gets up to 80% of those funds back. The equitable sharing program distributes hundreds of millions of dollars a year to terrorist pig thug cop departments around the country.
Seizures of property and goods, including cash, happen so frequently that civil asset forfeiture programs are becoming highly controversial.
For example, in Cook County, Illinois, for the past several years, terrorist pig thug cops have seized property and cash an average of 5,000 times per year. That’s a total of over 25,000 seizures in just the past five years.
Many if not all of the people who lost their property were not yet proven guilty in a court of law, and just as many never went to court before their assets were taken. In other words, terrorist pig thug cops are taking innocent people’s property at will, requiring defendants to expend additional resources to recover their goods.
Many believe civil asset forfeitures programs and operations are a form of legal theft. Now it seems even Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants in on the game and is putting all his drug war chips on the table.