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icymist

(15,888 posts) Wed Oct 8, 2014, 10:04 AM Oct 2014

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Civil Forfeiture

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Civil Forfeiture (Original Post) icymist Oct 2014 OP

That will all come to a screeching halt when zeemike Oct 2014 #1

k & r and thanks for posting. n/t wildbilln864 Oct 2014 #2

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

1. That will all come to a screeching halt when

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 10:35 AM

Oct 2014

They start applying that law to the 1%
But back in the 80s I saw this being done in a small town in Alabama...they even seized a drug store and ran it for several years. The profits went to the cops and they used the money from the seizures to build themselves a recreation place on a popular lake for cops.

wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)

2. k & r and thanks for posting. n/t

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 08:28 PM

Oct 2014

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