Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
--- Begin Message ---
-Caveat Lector- --------------- Please cross-post to other lists -----------------------------
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
www.fear.org
September 8, 2004
Almost-banned DOJ publication now available online on the FEAR website!
This summer the U.S. Department of Justice ordered public libraries to destroy five government publications on asset forfeiture -- publications that had already been distributed to public libraries throughout the country. As FEAR-List previously reported, under pressure from public librarians and the public, the DOJ rescinded its order that the public libraries destroy the publications.
The DOJ's attempt to suppress these publications attracted our attention to these publications. We borrowed them and made copies. Four of these publications are very useful to forfeiture lawyers, victims, legislators and forfeiture reformers! No wonder DOJ didn't want the public to have them! (The fifth was a telephone directory of forfeiture personnel at the different federal agencies - we didn't bother copying that one.)
So far we have scanned in two of these publications, and today we posted the first of them in pdf format on the FEAR website.
We're working on posting this one, which will be up in a couple of days:
- Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA), Pub. L. No. 106-185, 114 Stat. 202 (August, 2000). This publication is made up entirely of the text of statutes amended by CAFRA or provisions added by CAFRA, with strike-through fonts used to delineated omitted language. What exactly were they thinking when they tried to ban this publication?
Both of these publications are handy tools for those who regularly defend forfeiture cases. Selected Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes is useful because it puts all the forfeiture statutes and rules together in a concise format you can print out and put in a notebook to keep on your desk. The CAFRA publication is handy when you need to compare the language of a section before and after it was amended by CAFRA.
- Selected Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes, including statutes amended by the Criminal Law Technical Amendments Act of 2002, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and CAFRA (January 2004). This publication is made up of the text of forfeiture statutes and court rules applicable to forfeiture. Except for formatting and organization, there is very little difference between this publication and the portion of the FEAR website Law Library devoted to Federal Forfeiture Statutes -- (which, by the way, we have recently updated). However, this publication includes portions of statutes that were never codified in U.S. Code, and the advisory committee notes to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 32.2. But all of that information was already in the public domain!
These documents are in the public domain. The text of the statutes was created by legislative act. Even the page formatting was done by government employees in the course of their government jobs. There are no copyright notices on any of the documents. So the material can be freely distributed without worry of copyrights.
Check the FEAR website (http://www.fear.org) for new postings of the banned publications in the next few weeks.
www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
--- End Message ---
