Conservative Zone – When a government wants to increase taxes, the whole democratic process thing can feel a bit cumbersome. They usually have to offer huge incentives or disguise the plan as a way to protect the public from some harm- either real or imagined.

That’s exactly what Trump’s Attorney General is doing by expanding the civil asset forfeiture powers of law enforcement agencies all across the nation.

Civil asset forfeiture is an Orwellian name for the legal theft of private property suspected of being used in a crime. In these cases, property is declared to be under suspicion as having been used to finance, aid, facilitate or otherwise function as a tool to break the law.

There is no due process standing between law enforcement people and the property they wish to take. None. All that needs to happen is police declare your property may have been used, or is intended to be used, to commit a crime and they can take it. Continue reading →