Showing posts with label asset forfeiture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asset forfeiture. Show all posts
February 5, 2020
The state owns you: The problem with "national service"
fromMises: Rather than attempt to persuade people that they ought to join the military or sign up for community service, the first instinct of draft supporters is to use coercion.
The Government is Not Us
The Government is Not Us
America's self-inflicted wound: The war on drugs has been a 100 year war on our neighbors
fromMilwaukeeIndependent: For more than a century, the U.S. has worked to build a harsh global drug prohibition regime – grounded in draconian laws, enforced by pervasive policing, and punished with mass incarceration.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
New Jersey is now the 16th state to require convictions for civil forfeiture
fromForbes: But sadly, policing for profit continues to trample rights in the other 34 states.
Police State America
Police State America
Lindsey Graham wants to use mistrust of big Tech to destroy your right to online privacy
fromFreedomBunker: Online platforms would have to "earn" speech protections by compromising encryption—
all in the name of fighting child porn.
The Government is Not Us
all in the name of fighting child porn.
The Government is Not Us
A new backlash to gun control begins in Virginia
fromNewYorker: Activists at a gun-rights rally in Richmond last week called Virginia, a state with a pro-gun tradition now on the brink of passing restrictions, “the canary in the coal mine.”
2nd Amendment Assaults
2nd Amendment Assaults
Mark Levin interviews Walter E Williams
fromFoxNews: From Life, Liberty and Levin, Mark probes the mind of Dr. Williams regarding capitalism and the future of liberty.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Economic Policy: Statism Vs The Free Market
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle Economic Policy: Statism Vs The Free Market
August 12, 2019
Overbearing regulations are slowly killing restaurants
fromReason: Running a restaurant is hard enough without government micromanagers trying to stir the pot.
Regulation Nation
TSA drops fine against man who opted not to board a flight rather than be subjected to invasive search
fromRutherfordInstitute: Texas man not punished for opting out of third warrantless search. He refused an invasive pat-down after he had already been through metal detector and whole body scanner.
Police State America The Government is Not Us
2nd Amendment Assaults
FBI stats show knives kill far more people than rifles In America – it’s not even close
fromDailyCaller: According to the FBI, 1,604 people were killed by “knives and cutting instruments” and 374 were killed by “rifles” in 2016.2nd Amendment Assaults
How the government can steal your stuff: 6 questions about civil asset forfeiture answered
fromPennsylvaniaCapital-Star: Law professor and criminal justice expert Nora V. Demleitner explains how this procedure works and why it irks conservatives and progressives alike.
Police State America
Cops still not charged after dumping 26 rounds Into truck full of small children, shooting 3 Of them
fromFreeThoughtProject: “How am I supposed to tell my kids that the people who are supposed to protect them are the ones that shot them?” father of the children, Quin Jacobs said.
Police State America
VIDEO: White Supremacy and White Privilege in America
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: The truth about the left's favorite issues.June 14, 2019
Cuba rations food as its socialist economy enters crisis mode
fromMises: You probably know what is going on in Venezuela. You probably don't know what is going on in Cuba.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Great lakes reveal a fatal flaw in climate change ‘science’
fromIssues&Insights: "if nothing can disprove a theory, and every event, no matter how contradictory, is proof that the theory is valid, is that really science? Sounds more like a religion."
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
New cars to be equipped with breathalyzers, drivers given mental health assessments
fromActivistPosts: Seeking to emulate China, Rep. Kathleen Rice’s H.R. 3374 bill, otherwise known as the End Drunk Driving Act, would put breathalyzers and ignition interlock devices in every new car.
Regulation Nation
The city of Vallejo, California, has a police problem—and it's all being caught on camera
fromReason: A small city in California has been plagued by police shootings, costly civil rights lawsuits, and incidents of excessive force.
Police State America
From 2015 to ’18, Contra Costa cops seized $1.1 million from people not charged with a crime
fromMises: Marijuana made up $1.2 million, the largest single source of cash. If we are governed by consent of the people, the people must have been demanding this. Or, perhaps we should check our premises.Rising conservatives are as hostile to freedom as the Leftists they disdain
fromReason: Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.May 17, 2019
Judgment day for John Brennan
fromTheUnzReview: What's ahead for the mastermind of the Russia hoax.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Stung by tariffs, farmers seek bailouts and more protectionism
fromReason: While Trump prepares another round of aid payments for farmers, Marco Rubio is pushing for tariffs on Mexican fruits and vegetables that will send prices soaring.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
☆ VIDEO: Remy - People will die
fromReason/YouTube: Remy channels his inner Elizabeth Warren to vilify the other side.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Fear, loathing, intolerance – and worse
fromWattsUpWithThat: The climate-fearing, capitalism-loathing Left cannot abide questions or differing opinions.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Conviction will soon be required before civil asset forfeiture is initiated
fromTheUnzReview: New standard may hamstring law enforcement's ability to legally steal.Las Vegas, which just authorized cannabis lounges, aspires to be the 'new Amsterdam'
fromReason: The tourist mecca will be one of the few U.S. jurisdictions that give visitors a place where they can legally use the marijuana they can legally buy.Feb 28, 2019
Marijuana legalization bills are advancing in several states
fromForbes: Marijuana legalization advocates came into 2019 expecting it to be a huge year for cannabis, and lawmakers around the country are not disappointing them so far.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
No drugs, no crime and just pennies for school: how police use civil asset forfeiture
fromPulitzerCenter: In the past two decades, the federal government took in $36.5 billion in assets police seized from the America people, many of whom never were charged with a crime or shown to have drugs.
Police State America
Political bias is destroying people’s faith in journalism
fromNYPost: A war on liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not enough. Democrats go for the trifecta, as 44 vote for infanticide.
Media Bias on Parade
Apple's intensifying privacy & encryption stance worsening FBI struggles with lawbreakers 'going dark'
fromAppleInsider: Because of Apple's and other companies' stances on end-to-end encryption, the U.S. government's trouble in intercepting online communications is only accelerating.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
Additional Little Rock residents share stories of "unjustified" no-knock warrants
fromKATV: Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump: "So as long as officers know that police involved shooting reviews that are meaningless rubber-stamps, they have no incentive to change their behavior."
Police State America
How Is abortion after birth not news?
fromLATimes: A war on liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not enough. Democrats go for the trifecta, as 44 vote for infanticide.
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Feb 20, 2019
Record high name government as most important problem
fromGallup: Thirty-five percent of Americans name the government, poor leadership or politicians as the greatest problem facing the U.S. This is the highest percentage Gallup has recorded for this concern.
The Government is Not Us
After innocent couple murdered over cop’s lies, Houston police vow no more no-knock raids
fromFreeThoughtProject: After a no-knock raid, based on lies, led to the murder of an innocent couple, Houston police chief Art Acevedo vows to no longer use them.
Police State America
Victor Davis Hanson pronounces the coup against Trump dead, then performs an autopsy
fromRedState: FBI officials, like Andrew McCabe, found that the media was more than willing to oblige. Correspondents would happily publish any “leaks” officials were willing to provide.
Media Bias on Parade Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
‘Free expression/free speech’ for students being muzzled
fromInsideSources: Years of Supreme Court decisions have left student expression rights at a crossroads, even as justices have expanded safeguards for nearly every other area of free expression.
Indoctrination and Censorship
How the Feds are using civil asset forfeiture to threaten free speech
fromReason: Sex, publishing, and quasi-legal theft collide in the Backpage prosecution.
Police State America
A look into the legal distinction between sex trafficking and prostitution
from1011Now: Prostitution is a consensual, but illegal, voluntary exchange. Human trafficking, is modern day slavery. Big difference.Feb 13, 2019
Rights and non-rights: a simple way to distinguish the two
fromFEE: It’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
2nd Amendment Assaults
Some Washington sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws
fromABCNews: Sheriffs in a dozen Washington counties say they won't enforce the state's sweeping new restrictions on semi-automatic rifles until the courts decide whether they are constitutional.2nd Amendment Assaults
Police can seize cash in the mail. An innocent man found out the hard way.
fromGreenvilleNews: Not since the days of the Sheriff of Nottingham have cops so openly practiced state-sponsored theft.
Police State America
Senator files '420' marijuana bill to legalize it federally
fromForbes: The proposal would remove it from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), impose more taxes on sales and create a system of permits for businesses to engage in cannabis commerce.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Study: voter ID laws don’t stop people voting
fromFreeBeacon: Strict voter ID laws do not suppress turnout, a new paper finds, regardless of sex, race, Hispanic identity, or party affiliation.
Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Abuse of Force: Body camera video shows man tased 11 times by officers in Arizona
fromKSHBKansasCity: Multiple independent law enforcement experts, who agreed to review the incident, said the officers’ conduct was unlawful, potentially criminal.Jan 31, 2019
Free speech liberalism is dying in its birthplace
fromTheAmericanConservative: Britain, the home of Swift and Mill, is increasingly clamping down on expression.
Indoctrination and Censorship
TAKEN: How police departments make millions by seizing property
fromGreenvilleOnline: In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all.
Police State America
The Trump administration’s crackdown on marijuana legalization might end under Bill Barr
fromTheSpokesmanReview: Trump’s nominee to replace Sessions as attorney general confirmed that he won’t be continuing that push to crack down on legal pot if he is confirmed by the Senate.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
The 100-mile rule runs contrary to reasonable searches
fromTheSpokesmanReview: Federal agents board buses and perform “show-us-your-papers checks” that are exactly the kind of fishing expedition the Fourth Amendment seems designed to prevent.
Police State America
Chronic pain patients gather to protest opioid regulations
fromGreeleyTribune: When law enforcement policy, not medical evaluation, decides who gets painkillers, the citizens suffer.
Police State America Regulation Nation
Make individualism great again
from71Republic: Across the country, we are witnessing a decline of the influence of individualism in our society with the effects of this being purely negative.Jan 19, 2019
Congressman slams civil forfeiture as 'a series of government shakedowns'
fromForbes: Under federal law, property owners facing civil forfeiture are essentially guilty until proven innocent and must bear the burden of proof, unlike criminal cases.
Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
VIDEO: John Stossel: Government shutdown shows private Is better
fromReason: Shutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market The Government is Not Us
How long can Congress keep pretending marijuana legalization isn’t the norm?
fromCourant: As more states vote to legalize adult recreational use, they are creating a powerful coalition against the federal government, which continues to classify marijuana as an illegal Schedule 1 drug on par with heroin.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
How U.S. surveillance technology is propping up authoritarian regimes
fromWashingtonPost: The sale of technologies such as spyware and facial-recognition systems to human rights abusers enables insidious social control and encroachment on basic civil liberties.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make
VIDEO: Why they keep coming - The migrant caravans
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: A look at the incentives that attract migrants and have politicians blocking attempts to secure the border. Also, a look at the political dynamics driving the government shutdown.
Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Norway readies 'Big Brother' GPS-based taxation per mile-driven
fromZeroHedge: Coming to a tyranny near you. The idea is to transform the public to electric cars, then make up lost fuel tax revenue with a scheme like this.Jan 14, 2019
Please, TSA workers, don’t come back
fromReason: And take the rest of your federal colleagues with you.
Government is Watching Every Move You Make Regulation Nation Police State America
Congressman slams civil forfeiture as 'a series of government shakedowns'
fromForbes: Tim Walberg (R-MI) sharply criticized the federal government’s use of civil forfeiture, which lets law enforcement confiscate property and pocket the proceeds for themselves, all without filing criminal charges.
Police State America
A marijuana "420" bill was just introduced in Congress
fromTheMotleyFool: If passed, cannabis would be removed as a controlled substance at the federal level and treated like alcohol. Could the end of government's reefer madness be in sight?
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Publishers, not Trump, endanger free speech
fromNationalReview: And take the rest of your federal colleagues with you.
Indoctrination and Censorship
Assault weapon bans are all about appearance
fromReason: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how much their looks scare her.
2nd Amendment Assaults
LA's battle for Venice Beach: homeless surge puts Hollywood's progressive ideals to the test
fromHollywoodReporter: It finally happened. California's elitist left is now having to deal with the ramifications of their policies.Dec 27, 2018
Policing for Profit
fromHPR: A primary incentive to violate citizen's rights. Money is a powerful driving force, an element of abuse, whether based upon good intentions or simply just a failure to reform.
Police State America
Top 10 inbound vs. top 10 outbound US states in 2017
fromAEI: Americans are moving from states with higher tax burdens and unfriendly business climates with fewer economic opportunities to fiscally sound states that are more economically vibrant.
Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
More Syria Thoughts: The Case for Intervention Was Never Made
fromNationalReview: "Someone needs to explain to me why I should be outraged at Trump, but not outraged that we got into this mess without making sure the public, through Congress, was on board."
Defense Versus The War Machine
John Stossel's New Year's resolution
fromTownhall: My New Year's resolution: Make a careful distinction between speech and violence.
Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Kansas Supreme Court says cops can search your home without a warrant if they claim it smells like pot
fromReason: Cops supposedly smelled 25 grams of pot inside a plastic container inside a safe inside a closet 30 feet from a guy's doorstep.
The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange Police State America
Cop gets 15 day vacation for drunken road rage shooting that left Innocent dad paralyzed
fromFreeThoughtProject: For shooting two innocent people in a fit of road rage, leaving one of them paralyzed, a San Antonio cop received just 15 days suspension and is back on the job.Dec 21, 2018
Because a citizen filmed it, cop found guilty for punting handcuffed teen’s head like a football
fromCreators: "In all of FDA's history, I am unable to find a single instance where a congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA to approve a new drug."
Police State America
Congress ramps up war on sex workers and their customers with four new 'protection' laws
fromReason: A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes. Government supports anything that empowers them at the individual's expense.
Regulation Nation Police State America The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Cops can't ignore New Mexico's ban on civil forfeiture, court rules
fromForbes: "In all of FDA's history, I am unable to find a single instance where a congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA to approve a new drug."
Police State America
Walter E Williams: FDA policies kill
fromCreators: "In all of FDA's history, I am unable to find a single instance where a congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA to approve a new drug."
Regulation Nation
It looks like Trump Is about to pull the U.S. out of Afghanistan too
fromReason: After announcing draw-down from Syria, the president may be seriously contemplating getting out of Afghanistan as well.
Defense Versus The War Machine
Why men support marijuana legalization more than women do
fromWashingtonPost: What best explains the gender gap in marijuana attitudes is the gender gap in marijuana use. Men report using marijuana more often than women.Nov 30, 2018
Profitable penalties imperil justice
fromReason: Forfeit a $42,000 Land Rover for a minor drug offense? The Supreme Court is now looking at law enforcement's shameless policing for profit scheme.Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
What government scientists are doing to make their insane extreme climate forecasts
fromEconomicJournal: Dr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, discusses the parameterization of the models, the cherry-picking that goes on and the skewed incentives.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery
Man who bit off cops finger free after jail beating video is revealed
fromDailyMail: Registered sex offender who chomped off piece of cop's finger and swallowed it is ACQUITTED after jail surveillance footage shows officers pinning him down and beating him.Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
VIDEO: This Stupid F*king Caravan
fromDailyMail: That stupid migrant caravan that Obama and the Left contended was "a lie" is now arriving.Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
8 Shocking demographic trends which will greatly shape America’s future
fromEndofAmericanDream: We are witnessing a fundamental transformation of America. Some welcome the changes that are happening, while others are greatly resisting them. But one thing is very clear – the United States is a very different place than it was 40 or 50 years ago.Mueller’s RussiaGate probe: Conflicts, presuppositions and special interests
fromDisobedientMedia: Rep Louie Gohmert: “Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people that is a stain upon the legacy of American jurisprudence.”Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Nov 28, 2018
George Will: Civil forfeiture makes law enforcement lawless
fromAVPress: "Such laws are incentives for abusive governments, because the entity that seizes the property frequently is allowed to profit by keeping or selling it. Lucrative law enforcement will become lawless."Police State America The Government is Not Us
Grade school rolls out fingerprint ID lunch system, parents don’t approve
fromNYPost: A Nebraska public school system is failing kids by forcing them to get their fingers scanned to pay for lunch, according to irate parents.Government is Watching Every Move You Make
After losing $1 billion to tariffs, General Motors announces 14,000 layoffs
fromReason: Trump's rally promises won't happen because of his trade policies.Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market
Proposed New York gun law violates five Constitutional amendments
fromIndependentSentinel: In New York, they want to allow law enforcement to peruse your social media history going back three years to decide if you are fit to exercise your Second Amendment right to own firearms.2nd Amendment Assaults
Drug-sniffing dogs facing early retirements due to legalization of marijuana
fromFoxNews: Snitch dogs are free to become man's best friend again.The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
Red flag gun laws: Yet another government weapon for compliance and control
fromRutherfordInstitute: We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes.2nd Amendment Assaults
Nov 13, 2018
The real winner of the 2018 midterms: individual liberty
fromTheHill: The most important takeaway is that we will have a divided federal government, with the executive branch and Senate controlled by the Republicans and the House controlled by the Democrats.Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Civil forfeiture is worse than its proponents proclaim
fromSaltLakeTribune: For the uninitiated, this is a law that allows the government to legally take possession of your property without even having to charge you with commission of a crime, let alone secure a conviction.Police State America
Pot proponents claim victory, set sights on national legalization
fromNBCNews: "Marijuana has now been legalized for adult use in one out of every five states, so I think it's safe to say federal laws are in need of an update," he said.The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson - Racism as a Political Tactic
fromLibertyPen/YouTube: From Tucker Carlson Tonight, a look at how racism has been reduced to virtually a meaningless political tactic. Christopher Harris.Political Correctness and Other Nitwittery Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
Gov’t denies homeless people food by raiding charity, pouring bleach on food to destroy it
fromTheFreeThoughtProject: Earlier this month, the kind folks over at Free Hot Soup Kansas City hosted a picnic at their local park and invited hundreds of homeless people to partake in the food.Regulation Nation The Government is Not Us
DEA and ICE 'are hiding secret cameras inside streetlights and traffic barrels across the country'
fromDailyMail: The US Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies have hidden a number of covert surveillance cameras inside street lights, according to federal contracting documents.Government is Watching Every Move You Make
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Nov 9, 2018
The West is failing Julian Assange
fromConsortiumNews: Let’s start with the cat. You never would have thought one of these beloved felines would play a crucial role in the Julian Assange case, would you?Individual Liberty: America's First Principle
Three Cheers for the Return of Divided Government
fromReason: Democrats will be able to check the worst parts of Trump's presidency in a way Republicans never would, but will otherwise be very limited.Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption
America goes to war
fromUNZ: Some critics are beginning to recognize that the United States has become a country addicted to war and one need look no farther than the federal budget, where everything is being cut except military spending.Defense Versus The War Machine
A grave threat to private property: civil asset forfeiture is really policing for profit
fromWestHawaiiToday: In a legal process known as civil asset forfeiture, government allows police to seize, then keep or sell any property as long as they allege it was involved in a crime.Police State America Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
Jury nullification ensures liberty
fromBillingsGazette: Before the Declaration of Independence was written jurors in the colonies were refusing to enforce King George's laws that they considered unjust. Today that is called jury nullification.Justice is a Result, Not Just a Process
Marijuana legalization had a pretty good election night: won 3, lost 1.
fromVox: Full legalization won in Michigan, and medical legalization won in Missouri and Utah. Reefer madness still rules in North Dakota.The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange
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