How Much Further Will We Let This Go?

[jackelgull]

This is why I don't support state rights. It is a nice theory that states are less oppressive than the federal government, but they have consistently proven to be the less accountable, less responsible and more stupid than the federal government. Between two poisons, I want to choose the one that hurts less.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html

This is the work of a state legislature. The federal government has yet to do something as stupid. I really want the federal government to force states to reform civil forfeiture, but it doesn't seem likely that it will happen. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I feel the police will improve drastically once policing for profit has been removed from the equation, and that would require an overhaul to the civil forfeiture code.

 

[nc-1701]

I don't see how that's not murder...

It is murder. But nobody will be punished.

The policing of civil forfeiture is designed to discourage you from using cash. If you deal in checks, credit cards, wire transfers, etc., there is a record of your transactions and they can track it. They don't want you dealing in cash because they can't track it.

Big brother, pure and simple.

Bingo!

 

[Tahuti]

This is why I don't support state rights. It is a nice theory that states are less oppressive than the federal government, but they have consistently proven to be the less accountable, less responsible and more stupid than the federal government. Between two poisons, I want to choose the one that hurts less.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html

This is the work of a state legislature. The federal government has yet to do something as stupid. I really want the federal government to force states to reform civil forfeiture, but it doesn't seem likely that it will happen. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I feel the police will improve drastically once policing for profit has been removed from the equation, and that would require an overhaul to the civil forfeiture code.

The pros of state laws is that their effects are largely contained to the state itself. If you can't bear it's laws, nobody is preventing you from moving to another state. Any acts of stupidity by the Federal government immediately cause the whole USA to suffer. Besides, Florida did not invade Iraq in 2003, the Federal government did.

 

[Commodore]

The pros of state laws is that their effects are largely contained to the state itself. If you can't bear it's laws, nobody is preventing you from moving to another state. Any acts of stupidity by the Federal government immediately cause the whole USA to suffer. Besides, Florida did not invade Iraq in 2003, the Federal government did.

It is true that one could simply move to another state, but without the federal government to "regulate" the states, who's to say each and every one of them wouldn't become unbearable hell-holes.

Now that's not to say I think the feds should have all the power, but I do think it is better if the balance of power is tipped just a bit in their favor.