cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13145612

(edit) Would someone please ship some counterfeit money through there and get it confiscated, so the police can then be investigated for spending counterfeit money?

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s not illegal. It’s also not illegal for the police to claim it’s criminal profits and seize it. The courts decided your money, (and other property), does not enjoy the same rights you do. So you have a right against search and seizure but your money and other property does not. This does three things. It opens your stuff up to be seized without a warrant, it makes it a civil case to get your stuff back, and you have to prove you’re not a criminal and your stuff wasn’t used by criminals.

      It is absolutely unconstitutional on the grounds that it’s a naked evasion of our 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights. But good luck explaining that to the guys with the guns.

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        3 months ago

        This is why everyone should have guns. Steal my rent then, assholes!

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            3 months ago

            Yeah it only works if everyone shoots at the police.

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                3 months ago

                More people like me need balls. Especially me. More importantly, I need to be armed and can’t just go buy at a store because of them.

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                  3 months ago

                  By the time you have enough buy in to seriously threaten the cops in an area, you also have enough buy in to just elect politicians that will disarm them.

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                    3 months ago

                    I don’t think you understand just how outnumbered they are and how disadvantaged they are standing out so much.

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      3 months ago

      No it’s not illegal. Yes they are blatantly stealing. Fuck cops. Fuck Republicans voting laws to allow this shit.