Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Broke No Law

Re:Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Brok... by jeangenie on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:37AM (#8588485)

In theory we live in a democracy that should make fixing this easy.

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Re:Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Brok... by brent_noorda on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:55AM (#8588531)

When a Senator's home is seized, THEN something will be done about this.

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Re:Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Brok... by beneater on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @01:07AM (#8588555)

It makes fixing it possible. It's unreasonable to expect that getting millions of people to agree to take specific actions to effect a very precise change in laws will be "easy".

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Re:Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Brok... by jeangenie on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:46AM (#8590350)

Do you imagine it would be difficult to convince a citizen the government shouldn't be allowed to steal their property?

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Re:Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Brok... by jMyles on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:51AM (#8588928)

In theory, we live in a republic where this is beyond the specific enumerated powers of the government, no matter what the electorate says.

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