On Civil Forfeiture

A lot of people don't realize it but the I.R.S. can confiscate your life-savings and they don't even have to charge you with a crime first. It's called civil forfeiture and, while its initial purpose was mostly to target drug-dealers, it has quite literally made criminals of small business owners whose only sin is the fact that they don't take credit cards and make small deposits in cash (restructuring, its called; the I.R.S. evidently seeing cash dealings as intrinsically suspicious)...................................................................................................Of course, the really scary thing in all of these scenarios is that a) the plaintiff (i.e. victim) is never innocent until proven guilty but guilty until proven innocent and b) if it wasn't for groups like the Institute for Justice (a LIBERTARIAN outfit - the progressives sitting it out again) most of us wouldn't even know about this shit....The government as a powerful force for good? Yeah, right -  a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99os684On0 - b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGtFWC-12-w -c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwN-uFCtXPs - d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOXZBu-otJ4