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re: We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:34 am to troyt37
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:34 am to troyt37
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How old are you? If you're old enough, you should know that the need for that law was for use against people like the fictional Tony Montana, to keep them from using their money and assets to continue pissing on our laws, importing poison to Americans
This is really dumb.
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:38 am to MrCarton
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This is really dumb.
Why did you leave out his second portion, which explains what happened with that "well intentioned" idea?
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:56 am to MrCarton
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This is really dumb.
This is from Wikipedia, but it shows which one of us is really dumb.
Civil forfeiture activity increased substantially in the past thirty years.[9] It stepped up forfeiture during the War on Drugs during the early 1980s and onwards.[7] It became harder for criminal organizations to launder dirty money by means of the financial system, so drug cartels preferred bulk payments of cash.[10] Illegal drugs are a big business; one estimate was that the annual profit from selling illegal drugs was $12 billion, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.[7] The initial intent, similar to methods used to try to fight alcohol trafficking and use during the Prohibition era, was to use civil forfeitures as a weapon against drug kingpins.[11]
According to journalist Sarah Stillman, a major turning point in forfeiture activity was the passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.[12] This law permitted local and federal law enforcement agencies to divvy up the seized assets and cash.[8] Civil forfeiture allowed federal and local governments to "extract swift penalties from white-collar criminals and offer restitution to victims of fraud", according to Stillman.[8] From 1985 to 1993, authorities confiscated $3 billion of cash and other property based on the federal Asset Forfeiture Program which included both civil and criminal forfeitures.[12] The methods were supported by the Reagan administration as a crime fighting strategy.
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