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DOJ Documents Given 11th Hour Stay of Execution
The minions of the Grand Inquistitor AshKKKroft have changed their "mind" about the destruction of Department of Justice docs available to the "little people" at repository libraries, and it appears that pressure from the American Library Association (ALA) was instrumental in the rescision.
ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction request
"The documents that were to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA)."
"Interesting" choices of reading material in my mind. All about civil and criminal asset forfeiture...
So have they just floated the "book burning" trial balloon to check the public outrage barometer? Can heretic-burning be far behind?
Inquiring minds...
Posted by Kate Storm on August 3, 2004 at 02:38 PM | Permalink
Comments
Aren't these fascist assholes just amazing?
FLASHHARRY
Posted by: ? | Aug 3, 2004 2:47:50 PM
Yep, amazing. Here's the lead up to it all, which, as far as I can tell got little play, except in a few newspapers and a few more blogs:
From the Boston Globe, July 24, 2004: Libraries ordered to destroy US pamphlets
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Aug 3, 2004 3:17:45 PM
Or do they not want people informed of the boundaries and legal prerequisites needed for civil seizure and forfeiture. How better to shut down a tiresome "blogger" than to seize their assets and freeze their livelihood. It would certainly take the wind out their sails. I know, I'm a hopeless paranoid and all those small planes flying over my house are just using a new flight pattern. Good thing I'm such an upstanding citizen ;)
Posted by: SME in Seattle | Aug 3, 2004 3:45:15 PM
SME, As far as I've ever known about the new, industrial-strength asset forfeiture laws is that even if you were not a party to the "crime", and your house, etc., were seized ... getting the stuff back is a Dante-esque nightmare. But the CAFRA documents in particular are the ones we should be keeping our eye on I think. States and the Feds have curious accounting practices about those "funds". Seeing as how they are in a bit of a debt pickle, I wonder how much the CAFRA money (billions, I understand) is an ace in the hole for the US treasury. It's a stretch, I know, since the debt is in the trillions. An errant thought.
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Aug 3, 2004 4:13:53 PM
The whole damned judicial system is based on the citizen's ignorance of the law.
We could of course just mention "Plain View' and "Terry" police abuse of the 4th Amendment,
but that's just the tip of the iceberg:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33132-2004Aug1.html
Then we could talk about police perjury; prosecutorial subornation of perjury; and a couple more.
Then we get to asset forfeitures and seizures, as corrupt a little deal as ever came down the judicial sewer pipe. You on the Left Coast have had several celebrated cases in asset seizures: I remember a pretty smelly one in California, 4-5 years back. Got some landowner killed I think.
All I can say finally is: Thank God for the ACLU, and lawyers like Gerry Spence, Milt Grimes. Mike Tigger,Roy Black, and 20,000 more.
Got me going.
Clarence Darrow
Posted by: ? | Aug 3, 2004 4:16:51 PM
Here's some stuff on CAPRA documents:
CAPRA, "C"ivil "A"sset "F"orfeiture "R"eform "A"ct of 2000, enacted under Saint Big Dog's watch.
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Aug 3, 2004 4:17:34 PM
Sounds to me like SME nailed it: Why this specific category of documents, unless they're planning to expand the use of confiscations and forfeitures?
I'd give a lot to know what prompted this move.
Posted by: prof fate | Aug 3, 2004 10:14:57 PM
More on forfeiture from an advocacy group in California:
F.E.A.R. (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Aug 4, 2004 12:07:57 PM
