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Title: Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind
Published: 2017-05-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbF5cPaQeQk
Title: Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind
Published: 2017-05-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbF5cPaQeQk
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news but is a truly independent alternative because it is one hundred percent people funded without you we cannot build the independent news source that we people deserve visit Kickstarter duck comment support news but in jolly old England Robinhood stole the rich to give to the poor in modern day America greedy government gun still from innocent to give to the crop by way of a scheme called2/37
civil asset forfeiture in fact according to The Washington Post in one year alone the police actually stole more from Americans them burglars did this is how the American police state continues to get rich by stealing from the citizenry here's how the whole ugly business works in a nut shell first government agents usually the police use a broader array of tactics to profile identify and target the3/37
traffic stop or train in an airport in public places or on private property those citizens who might be traveling with a significant amount of cash or possess property of value second these government agents empowered by the courts in the legislatures seize private properties can be cash jury cars homes and other valuables they merely suspect may be connected criminal activity then and here's the kicker whether or4/37
not any crime has actually proven to have taken place without any charges being levied against the property owner the citizen the property is handed over to the government which often divided up with the local police who helped with the initial seizure picante decide forfeiture you know it's usually based on the need %HESITATION well I take that back Russian I'd imagine sign off on yeah it's there5/37
some limitations on what you know its %HESITATION actually it's not really on the poor for your stuff issues we just usually based on something that would be nice to have it's kinda like pennies from heaven you know Getcha a toy or something that you need is the weight would typically look at it what does all this money it means Americans no longer have to be guilty6/37
to be stripped of their property their rights in their liberties all you have to be is in possession of something the government wants motorists by and large have been vulnerable to this modern day form of highway robbery for example police told two hundred one thousand dollars in cash and Lisa littered because the money which Leonard plan to use to buy a house for her son was7/37
being transported on a public highway allegedly used by drug traffickers despite the fact that Leonard was innocent of any wrongdoing the US Supreme Court upheld the fair police still eighty five hundred dollars in cash and jewelry from Robert Daniels which he planned to use to purchase a new car and threatened him with jail and money laundering charges if he didn't sign a waiver giving his property8/37
to them then police stole six thousand dollars in cash and Jennifer boat right Ron Henderson and threaten to turn their young children over to child protective services if they resisted unsurprisingly these asset forfeiture scales have become so profitable for the government that they have expanded their reach me on the nation's highways and the other thing is asset cartridge people once they were taken money and %HESITATION9/37
without due process that's not true you know we take money from help deal for you say okay so you're saying the asset taking you used to do I have had an impact and you're not allowed to do it now all they have curtailed a little bit and I'm sure the folks are and that's a legal reasons or just political reasons and make it political and they10/37
make it %HESITATION they make up stories yeah I like to look into okay is no reason for that then you think there's a reason for that are you aware of the I am I am aware of that the president and we have got a great deal of criticism four of the asset forfeiture which is the sheriff said it's frequently was taking %HESITATION narcotics proceeds another proceeds11/37
of crime but there has been a lot of pressure on the department %HESITATION to curtail some of them so what do you do so in other words they have a huge stash of drug so in the old days you take it we now we criticized if we take it so who gets it what happens well what we have given we have what is called equitable sharing12/37
where we usually share it with the local police departments are for whatever portion if they worked on the case and it was a very successful program very %HESITATION very popular with the law enforcement community and now what happens well now where we've just been given up of just a lot of pressure not to forfeit in some cases hold more would want that pressure you know I13/37
mean other than like bad people right but who would want that pressure I think they want I guess this stuff taken be careful how you speak I guess but a lot of pressures coming out economy was coming out don't know if that'll continue now I think less self I think Congress is going to get beat up really badly by the voters because they've let this happen14/37
and I think badly I think you'll be back in shape so asset forfeiture we're gonna go back on okay I'll I mean how simple can anything be you all agree with that I've seen you even understand the other side I know if you psych some things so like the Iran deal nobody been understands how within like that could happen it does not do a lot of15/37
profit from the illegal proceeds right okay solving gonna some are Conexant so legal drugs in our country you also cannot profit from so we seize those profits crystal do we need any %HESITATION legislation or any executive order so that what you said to put that back in since I don't think we need any executive orders we just need kind of some encouragement to move in that16/37
direction good you're encouraged I love that ADN better than signing executive orders and then these people take it and make it look so terrible bouts of Sarah would anybody like to make a statement coming to prison in SO it's that far richer we got a state senator in Texas it was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction if we can receive the forfeiture money flowing and17/37
I told him that the cocktail would build a monument to go that'll actually thanks I Williams net sure his career according to USA today the US department of justice receive some two billion dollars believe in not in forfeited items in two thousand thirteen since two thousand eight local and state law enforcement agencies nationwide have raked in some three billion dollars and former teachers through so called18/37
federal equitable sharing programs however it's not just the drivers you have to worry about getting the Sheik bell any American unwise enough to travel with significant amounts of cash is fair game for the god that pickpockets incredibly the Drug Enforcement Administration or the D. E. A. has been colluding with the TSA and local police departments sees a small fortune in cash from American travelers using the19/37
very tools scanners spies and surveillance devices they claim and they told us were necessary to protect us from terrorists mind you TSA agents already have a reputation for stealing from travelers but clearly the government is not concerned about protecting American citizens from its own wolf each tendency no the government isn't looking to catch criminals it's just out for your cold hard cash as USA today reports20/37
although D. E. A. agents have seized more than two hundred and three million dollars in cash in airports alone since two thousand six we almost never make arrests in connection with the seas catch for example the E. agents at the Cincinnati northern Kentucky International Airport stole eleven thousand dollars in cash from college student Charles Clark his entire life savings in fact simply because they claimed his21/37
check suitcase smelled like marijuana no drugs or evidence of criminal activity how does the government know which travelers to target through surveillance of Americans domestic travel records profiling training there and I relying on government informants including believe or not ticket agents in one instance the D. E. A. actually promised to give me T. essays securities screener a reward for identifying Lundy's with large sums of cash22/37
the more cash found the bigger the reward starting to notice a pattern first the government claims it needs more powers and more weapons in order to fight crime in so called terrorism what powers I'm not talking about the power to spy on Americans communications and travel the power to carry out virtual and actual strip searches of Americans luggage persons and property the power to stop and23/37
interrogate travelers you float citizens for any reason in the name of so called national security then when government agents have been given enough powers and weapons to transform them into many tyrants there unleashed on unsuspecting American citizens who do not have the resources to be able to defend themselves or protecting their property I'm a lawyer folks I know this just going to court to protect your24/37
property can cost thousands of dollars so much for those long cherished ideals about the assumption of innocence and a fair hearing in a court of law despite the fact that eighty percent of these asset forfeiture cases result in no charge against the property owner challenging these takings in court like I said in cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself as a25/37
result most property owners either give up the fighter chalk up the loss of their property to government corruption this leaves the police and other government officials to reap the benefits this is what has become known as policing for profit but here's the kicker according to USA today evidence suggests the line departments to keep former chair proceeds may tempt them to use the funds a lively for26/37
example in the two thousand fifteen scandal in Michigan police officers actually use funds for food from illegal drug and prostitution stings to pay for illegal drugs and prostitutes police agencies have also use their ill gotten gains to buy guns armored cars electronic surveillance here reports The Washington Post they'll also spend money on luxury vehicles travel and a clown named sparkles and the actual case folks this27/37
is insulting to we the people so what's to be done where now ruled by government so consumers squeezing every last penny out of the population out of us the citizens as to be completely unconcerned if essential freedoms are being destroyed at every turn we the people are getting swindled cheated con rob rated mug deceived defrauded double crossed and fleas by governmental and corporate shareholders of the28/37
American police state out to make a profit at taxpayer expense unfortunately Attorney General Jeff sessions has declared his love for civil asset forfeiture what is wrong out chief who want some money is forfeited are you don't give it back to the arson to purchase that drugs that wouldn't make good sense so the government takes the money and what's wrong with having the %HESITATION law enforcement officers29/37
who did the investigations and expanded taxpayers money duvall prove the case in and sees this illegal drug money all what's wrong with them keeping them we don't see anything I don't need I'm with all due respect the problem with law enforcement receiving this money directly is because it skews law enforcement priorities from pursuing justice and pursuing criminals patting their own budgets and this is best seen30/37
perhaps by an investigation that Tennessee did it of its local law enforcement and the drug task forces if found that officers in the drug task force were ten times more likely to patrol the westbound lanes of I. forty rather than eastbound lanes and why is that it's because the illegal drugs from Mexico were being transported into Nashville on the eastbound lanes and was only on the31/37
westbound lanes that the money was flowing so the civil forfeiture laws are actually skewing law enforcement objectives from curtailing the influx of drugs to pursuing cash it is my opinion and I think that if you need it most Americans that we should be enforcing both sides of the highway stopping drugs as well as stopping the money and disarming criminals it's probably no surprise then there there32/37
are low clearance rates for violent crimes because instead of pursuing solving these kind of violent crimes like murders instead we're focusing on a drug trade but even not for drug kingpins for low level on activity and that needs to stop the Supreme Court keeps marching in lockstep with the police state and police unions don't want their gravy train to go away so there's not much hope33/37
for federal reform anytime soon as always change will have to begin locally and move upwards some state legislatures are beginning to push back against these clearly unconstitutional asset forfeiture schemes in fact New Mexico now requires a criminal conviction before long Forsman seizure property while police in Florida must prove beyond a reasonable doubt property is linked to crime more the legislative change how what we need is34/37
a change of mind set part of the we need to stop acting like victims and start acting like citizens with rights remember to those who founded this country it was life liberty and property that the government charged with protecting to the calls following the colonial uprising against the British detecting their property from governmental abuse was just as critical as preserving their lives and liberties as the35/37
call us understood if the government can arbitrarily take away your property you have no true rights you're nothing more than a Serb or slave will could our forefathers have imagined that it would have taken less than three centuries of so called independence who once again rigorous brow beaten slaves in bondage to a tyrant bill depriving us of our most basic and fundamental rights yet if the36/37
government can arbitrarily free seasonally claim to your property moneyed lander possessions under government asset forfeiture schemes you have no true rights folks enough is enough it's time to wake up America get form get back to you and stay in the battle tune in to battlefield America every Tuesday on the news but you are generous supporters and community members are there reasons the X. you are get37/37
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