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From: michael libby [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:31 PM
To: Mpls Forum
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Asset Forfeiture (was "Attorney General Mike Hatch...")
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 05:45 pm, Victoria Heller wrote:
> property, your ideas, your identity - all of these things are your
> property and are protected by the 5th Amendment of our Constitution.
> Property rights secure almost every other freedom we enjoy.
Michael Libby wrote
I doubt it. Not when due process or just compensation are all that are
needed to deprive one of them. I'd say our freedoms are founded in the
rule of law, justly applied. Or maybe we've just been lucky for a while.
What the Fifth does seem to preclude are things like asset forfeiture
laws, where the police take, keep, and sell your stuff without your ever
having had due process of law or just compensation. What the ACLU calls "a
license to steal" (http://www.aclu.org/forfeiture/index.html).
Do the Minneapolis police engage in this unsavory practice? I know
nationally it is some problem, has it come here as well? Desperately
attempting to steer this into Minneapolis-specific territory both out of
concern for the list and because I'm curious if the Minneapolis police
force is currently incented to raid citizens' homes to fill City Hall
coffers. I'm not sure how to ascertain this myself, anyone know?
- Michael Libby, Cleveland/North Minneapolis
[Mel]
Its not the rank and file Police
However the MCDA and politically connected
profit and non-profit developers are suspect.
"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important
individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which,
united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth
of civilization than any other institution established by the human race."
William Howard Taft, President
To learn more visit the Mpls. Property Rights Action Comm.
tonight at the Eagles Club 2507 E. 25th St. 7 PM
Tonight's guest
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MIKE HATCH
Mel Gregerson, So. Mpls.
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