13 Feb 2009
More Highway Robbery

This is an even more blatant case of pure theft than I've mentioned before, because this is a provable series of thefts - a gang of highwaymen, literally.

Didn't we used to hang highwaymen?

Asset forfeiture outrages have been generating great copy for 20 years. The public gets angry, and maybe a few people spotlighted in the local newspaper investigation get some portion of the property back. But then it's back to business as usual, at least until the next report.

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