and treated as a criminal simply because they had ”too much cash” on them, which is an amount that is entirely subjective but most people can agree that $500,000 in unexplained cash meets that threshold if anything does. Civil asset forfeiture sure does suck because if you want to get your drug money back in that case you have to go to court and admit it is your drug money before your criminal case and if you testify saying that it is your drug money then they will use that against you in your criminal case. If it's not drug money and you haven't actually committed a crime then getting your money back is pretty easy but such cases are rare.
I am not a fan of violating peoples natural rights, or Constitutional rights, first and then finding out later that there was no authority to. It wastes time, money, and erodes what freedom there is left for Americans. They've taken different large amounts from various victims, all had diff legit reasons for having their cash (property) on them. And just because someone feels it might be "too much" shouldn't justify the tyranny of stealing from or criminalizing that person. Also, if related to drug activity that money was still made voluntarily with willing parties who exchanged their money for goods, drug dealing for example is a victimless crime and even in such a circumstance I don't feel it legitimate or moral to steal from someone who hasn't committed a crime, there isn't any victim. ✌
drug dealing for example is a victimless crime except for the thousands of people killed in the trade and the tens of thousands killed by their illicit product. I think all drugs should be legal mostly because when they are then it won't be armed teenagers on the corners shooting each other selling unlabled, dangerous, impure products produced by transnational gangs that cannot be safely used. Walgreens and CVS sell opiates across the street from each other but their employees never have shoot outs. Like the article mentioned the case is not really against a person it is against property. What articles like this never mention is that most of the time people don't even try to get their property back because it was ill gotten and they don't want to have to incriminate themselves by trying to claim it. If your property is seized wrongfully it's really easy to get it back. It's a drag and inconvenient but so is everything else in life.