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" ... Forfeiture laws originally meant to allow the confiscation of the great wealth amassed by drug overlords were increasingly applied to seize small amounts of property owned by people who were merely suspected of having some connection with illegal activity. Many thousands of innocent Americans have had cash, cars, and even real estate taken from them because police officers declared that their property might have been connected in some way with drugs or other illegal activity. ... "
" ... One rainy April night during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, I had an intense craving for Thai food. Fifteen minutes later, a delivery man on an e-bike showed up with that meal (and, yes, he was tipped generously). Ironically, his e-bike had been subject to confiscation just a few short months ago, but during the pandemic, delivery e-bikes went from illegal to essential in the eyes of the law. ... "
" ... Seeing the inevitability of this outcome, investors will get real. Those with access to real assets, confiscation, and repression proof assets such as gold, silver, rare earth metals, and even bitcoin will seek to accumulate them before governments, threatened by the risk of an en mass exodus from fiat currencies, perhaps make them illegal, or replace them with their own digital currencies, like India is considering. In the US, the 1934 Gold Reserve Act, with the long title “An Act to protect the currency system of the United States, to provide for the better use of the monetary gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes”, sets precedent for confiscation of anything that challenges the central banks’ monopoly on currency. Bans for private crypto could be veiled behind rhetoric that crypto-currencies are illegal because they facilitate illegal activity. Which will give central banks the perfect excuse to find the next method to tax its citizenry – central bank digital currencies. ... "
" ... This challenge to confiscation was spurred by Travis Lee Green, who had $20,771 seized during a drug raid on his home in Myrtle Beach. Green pled guilty to two drug charges and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. But he kept fighting for his cash. ... "
" ... “Biden’s plan included confiscation of lawfully owned semiautomatic firearms, reclassifications of the firearms under the National Firearms Act of 1934, banning the sale and production of the most-popular selling centerfire rifle on the market today and repealing legislation that would expose the industry to harassing activist lawsuits designed to bankrupt manufacturers,” said Mark Oliva, director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry group. ... "