Under Sessions Plan, Government Will Seize More Peoples Property

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Jul 18 2017, 4:47 pm ET



Under Sessions’ Plan, Government Will Seize More People’s Property


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/under-sessions-plan-government-will-seize-more-people-s-property-n783841

by Jon Schuppe

Should the government be able to seize people's property in the name of crime fighting, even without evidence to prove someone has broken the law?

A growing number of politicians and policy makers across the political spectrum say that's an abuse of Americans' civil rights.

But the nation's top law enforcement officer disagrees, putting him at odds with an effort — led by conservative members of his own party — to curb the practice.

This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to release a directive ordering an expansion of the federal government's use of civil asset forfeiture. He also said he'd undo an Obama administration order that prohibited local authorities from using the federal system to sidestep restrictive state laws.






Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at a summit on crime reduction and public safety in Bethesda, Maryland, on June 20, 2017. Yuri Gripas / Reuters file

Sessions has linked unfettered forfeitures with a broader crackdown on drug trafficking, citing an uptick in violence and deadly overdoses as justification. But critics say that approach, including orders to seek longer prison sentences, recalls the early years of the war on drugs, when the government embraced zero-tolerance policies that helped reduce crime but also drove dramatic increases in prison populations — with little impact on drug use.

A March report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General pointed out that from 2007 to 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration obtained forfeitures for $3.2 billion in cash seizures without charging the people they took it from. ..............................

[Moral Compass]

1. Nasty little elf...

How nice it is to have a modern reincarnation of Harry Anslinger as the Attorney General.

Sessions is utterly unconcerned about silly notions of justice and civil rights.

Besides, rights are for whites!

[Submariner]

2. Big government intrusion into personal life is GOP tradition

and who better to do it than this lying under oath beady eyed rat fucking racist cracker.