Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways and airports in recent decades.

Federal law enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than all the burglars steal nationwide. Asset forfeiture is a plague upon constitutional rights.

Any BS pretext will do nowadays to nullify property rights. After the FBI illegally ransacked safe deposit boxes in Beverly Hills in 2021, federal prosecutors justified seizing bundled bills because they were wrapped with rubber bands, sufficient proof that the owners were “either a top-level drug trafficker or money launderer.”

Confiscation was also justified because one of the boxholders had a vehicle with Illinois licen

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