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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (769308)	5/8/2010 4:35:37 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Remember there was an "appeals" process for police "suspecting" people of being drug dealers and distributors for merely having a large amount of cash. The cash was taken, nobody was charged with a crime and you couldn't get your money back without running up a huge legal bill." If I recall correctly... that is still the law. (Remember when Americans had to be actually CONVICTED of something first before penalties could be applied? When 'presumed innocent until convicted' meant something?) I believe that when our country took it's turn down this path to make it 'easier' to seize such assets in peremptory fashion, without requirement for prosecutions and convictions, that was when we took the first steps down the road to the more totalitarian future we seeming are embarked for now....