JoeB131
Diamond Member
These confiscation laws are an OBVIOUS violation of the 5th amendment.
Nevertheless, the SCOTUS has given these violations of the constitution a pass.
Welcome to the POLICE STATE.
FWIW, the POLICE STATE existed long before 9-11.
It was founded mostly on the RICO laws and then perfected thanks to the "War on Drugs".
Most American approved of the CHAINS they forged around our necks because they imagined that violating the constitutional rights of MAFIA DONS and (then later) dopers would NEVER EFFECT them.
50 years later in police state AmeriKKKA the explanation for our enslavement reads something like this:
First they came for the Mafiaso, and I was not a Mafiaso I did not complain...
Then they came for the dopers, and since I was not a doper I did not complain...
Now, unlike all the crazies here, you make some valid points.
Yes, there are a lot of abuses of power involved with the war on drugs.
Which I might add is totally popular with the masses. No one cares if a drug pusher gets his property rights run over, because he was selling pot to my little Sally, who was always such a good girl.
I don't think it applies to this guy, who was obviously up to no good.