One of the biggest affronts to personal liberty in America is a concept called Civil Asset Forfeiture. This is a legal fiction held over from medieval times, believe it or not, where physical property is charged with a crime and thereby seized by law enforcement.
Typically this statute is used in drug cases. Law enforcement declares that an individual's private properties -- cash, cars, homes, boats, land, etc. -- have been acquired through extra-legal means. For example, cops will pull over a car, find it full of smuggled marijuana, and declare that the car was bought with drug money, so they keep the car. The property is considered guilty until proven innocent, therefore the owner has the burden of proving that he acquired his property legally.
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