JQPublic1
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I have always thought that seizing property by law enforcement agencies without due process was wrong.
New Mexico has abolished civil forfeiture outright. Property can now only be forfeited after a criminal conviction? Anyone got a problem with that?
Furthermore, any money or assets confiscated has to be deposited in a general fund, giving the confiscating agency less of an incentive to steal from innocent people.
Without a single vote against it, the Governor signed this landmark reform on 10 April.
It is hard to fathom that only four state have made some reforms concerning this blatant Constitutional issue: New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota and North Carolina.
As the renowned economist Frédéric Bastiat once wrote, “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.” No American should ever lose his property without first being convicted of a crime.
Major civil forfeiture reforms just took effect in Montana and New Mexico - Boing Boing
New Mexico has abolished civil forfeiture outright. Property can now only be forfeited after a criminal conviction? Anyone got a problem with that?
Furthermore, any money or assets confiscated has to be deposited in a general fund, giving the confiscating agency less of an incentive to steal from innocent people.
Without a single vote against it, the Governor signed this landmark reform on 10 April.
It is hard to fathom that only four state have made some reforms concerning this blatant Constitutional issue: New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota and North Carolina.
As the renowned economist Frédéric Bastiat once wrote, “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.” No American should ever lose his property without first being convicted of a crime.
Major civil forfeiture reforms just took effect in Montana and New Mexico - Boing Boing
