Civil Forfeiture: America's daylight robbery, courtesy of the War on Drugs

“It’s the Guantánamo Bay of the legal system.”

This quote from the article made my head want to explode with the might, rage, fury, and hatred of a thousand supermassive stars dying at once in the same thimbleful of water.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?! I don’t even know where to start with this. The fact that there is a Guantanamo in the first place is injustice enough- now we get to compare the crimes of our civil peace officers to the injustices, not of the Gestapo, or even Stalin’s secret police. No, now our standard for moral black holes of misery, sorrow, and the shorthand for man’s inhumanity to man is us.

I am staggeringly incapable of beginning to form the seed of the start of a notion of what can be done about all of this incomprehensibly infuriating FUCK.

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