Comments on: Nita Ghei’s Column On BATFE’s New Asset Forfeiture Authority

By: egd

egd — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:35:38 +0000

“The main problem is that civil forfeiture creates a perverse profit motive”

No, the main problem is that civil forfeiture creates a strong THEFT motive. Forfeiture isn’t “profit”, it’s theft.

By: Cornellian

Cornellian — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:43:07 +0000

I just saw the documentary “How to Make Money Selling Drugs” earlier this morning at the Toronto International Film Fest. It’s a terrific exposé of the consequences of America’s War on Drugs (aka Prohibition 2.0), has a nice segment on how forfeiture laws have corrupted policing and features an appearance by none other than Radley Balko.

The film played to a very enthusiastic reception from a near capacity crowd which is particularly impressive for a documentary screening at 9:30 AM.
Here’s hoping the audience enthusiasm will help the movie get a distribution deal in United States and that it won’t be consigned to a few art-house theaters in New York and Los Angeles or, worse yet, go straight to DVD.

By: burgers

burgers — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:01:48 +0000

O hi eapen

I blogged a no knock dynamic entry gun seizure yesterday

Gun owner got shot twice

No charges

http://police4aqi.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/milwaukee-officer-rodolfo-gomez-allegedly-lies-to-get-no-knock-trouble-ensues/

By: AlgerHiss

AlgerHiss — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:31:58 +0000

The website for this “program” is:

http://www.justice.gov/jmd/afp/index.html

We call ourselves free people and put up with this nonsense?

I’m not sure how we look at ourselves in the mirror each morning and not vomit.

By: el coronado

el coronado — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:51:24 +0000

I’m sure this is entirely coincidental, and proves nothing. But as a stock-y kind of dude, can’t help but notice that one of the shining stars of this years (largely static) stock market is…..drum roll, pls…..the Corrections Corporation of America. Ticker symbol CXW. Up roughly 60% since this time last year, maybe even a little more. Gee….Facebook & Groupon & Netflix ain’t doing quite that well, are they.

I think maybe we might could put the military-industrial complex concerns on the back burner for now: drones are gonna change the face of modern weaponry forever. A fleet of 300 dumb drones, (at $150k per, cost = $45 mil) controlled by one hive-mind intelligence, can easily knock an entire attack wing of 8 F-35′s (cost = $325 mil, roughly) just by ramming into ‘em from 300 different attack vectors. And probably 70% of the drones would live to fly another day. Soon, they’ll be doing the same to warships. And tank battalions. And missile & AA batteries. When a swarm of dumb, tiny little mosquitos attack a big badass lion, who ends up running away defeated? The big badass *lion*, that’s who.

I suspect TPTB have already figured this out, and moved on to the next cash cow: the prison-industrial complex. Take a look at CXW’s chart for the last 3 years someday. It’s coming….it’s growing…and it ain’t gonna slow down. Watch it happen, gang….