On: What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA

[jimt1234]

I can't believe it's been 6 years since I wrote this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395675#17398314 ... It basically explains local cops and "civil forfeiture", and how it ruined an innocent man's life, someone close to me. This was back in the early/mid-90s; "civil forfeiture" was brand new, and talk of "due process" - well, that just didn't exist.

[kragen → jimt1234]

civil forfeiture in what is now the united states goes back to the 01600s and was used actively during the alcohol prohibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

thank you for linking your excellent comment

incidentally, the thread six years ago was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana, and you may be pleased to know that tyson timbs got his land rover back