A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it

Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:08PM (#17211291)

Well said.

I guess the problem is that not enough people know that civil forfeiture is a thing yet.

I'm just blown away that such a thing could ever be written into law. I think it's a pretty clear-as-day violation of our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by userbinator on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:50PM (#17211562)

I guess the problem is that not enough people know that civil forfeiture is a thing yet.

...or that not enough people have experienced it yet, and probably never will. There's a lot of "it won't happen to me" thinking around this, and to be honest, how many people do take large amounts of cash with them while traveling? The fact that this item is newsworthy is enough to show that it happens rarely.

I'm almost willing to bet that if the number of people affected goes high enough, there will be armed revolts; but the government is smart enough to not do that, instead preferring to strip liberties in tiny bits at a time.

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by stordoff on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:41PM (#17212331)

> There's a lot of "it won't happen to me" thinking around this

And probably thinking "They had a reason to do it", which I don't think has shown to be the case.

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Re:A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U... by therealtomsmith on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:58PM (#17211908)

> but the government is smart enough to not do that

you're talking about our government?

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