Michigan Police Raid Home Over Marijuana -- Seize Contents Of Family's Safety Deposit Box At BankAfter ransacking and looting family's home through asset forfeiture, police loot family's safety deposit boxChris | InformationLiberation Aug. 27, 2012 |
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Michigan police officers who raided a family's home over marijuana reportedly took a woman's "safety deposit box information" out of her purse, then raided her safety deposit box and seized $3,000 she had stored at her bank. While the whole story is noteworthy, as this was an armed raid over meager amounts of marijuana used for personal use, using "asset forfeiture seizure," also known as armed robbery, to seize the contents of someone's safety deposit box over marijuana seems to be taking their robbery to a whole new level. Via MLive: Members of a local family said they are upset after eight BAYANET officers broke open their front door Monday night, ransacking the home to seize marijuana, cash and property.Overkill much? What in the hell is wrong with these police, all this over marijuana? Marijuana is quite possibly one of the most harmless substances on planet earth. If you drink too much water, you can die. Take too many vitamins, you can die. If you smoke ungodly amounts of marijuana, well, then "be prepared to spend a lot of time laughing with your friends," to quote Mr. Jellyneck from Strangers with Candy. It's literally impossible to overdose on marijuana, yet the majority of "legal" prescription and over the counter drugs can kill you if consumed in large enough amounts. Alcohol, no doubt the most destructive of all drugs, and the biggest gateway drug, in many states is sold exclusively by the government! Yet if you smoke a harmless plant substance armed goon-squads employed by the same drug pushers will be searching through your trash! That's why I say it's not enough to merely end the war on drugs, we need restitution. All the police who stole people's property and stole their liberty by throwing people in jail need to first return any drugs they stole from all their victims, then second pay damages to their victims to make them whole again, the same as would happen to any other criminal. Stealing from people and denying people their liberties because "it's the law," is no more an excuse for criminality than jailing black people because "the law" said they're slaves. These "laws" are meaningless paper legislation signed by criminals the majority of Americans despise, their arbitrary edicts are meaningless garbage and in no way justify hardcore criminal actions carried out by their moron enforcers who are "just doing their jobs," and "just following orders." _ Chris runs the website InformationLiberation.com, you can read more of his writings here. Follow infolib on twitter here. |