From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 23 13:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22159 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mojo.calyx.net (nick@mojo.calyx.net [208.132.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22150 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by mojo.calyx.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16220 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Nick Merrill To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Civil Forfeiture: (was: How many customers read news) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970423135513.0070a910@wrcmail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Robin Melville wrote: > >.... People every day get cash seized simply because it was > >suspicious that they had that much cash on them. Charges are never filed > > I've never heard of anything so ludicrous... surely this is contrary to the > US Consitution/Bill of Rights. If it isn't then it's legalised theft. Robin - it's true, and don't start turning this into an american-bashing session because it's based in English common law :D Actually for anyone who wants to know more about civil forfeiture, you can read all about it, with first hand accounts at: http://www.fear.org Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Merrill 24 Hour pager: 212-381-0500 Voice: 212-292-7325 President / CEO http://www.calyx.net Fax : 212-292-7313 Calyx Internet Access 271 E. 10th St. #100 NYC 10009 Email: nick@calyx.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------