A good article here that was posted to my cannabis list [SFBayCannabisCommunity@yahoogroups.com] on how Colorado authorities are seeking to undo protections against government agents arbitrarily seizing peoples' money, cars,guns, property, etc.
"Now, some in the law-enforcement community want to revert to the way things
were before the 2002 law passed, when they could take people's money,
jewelry, cars and homes without first getting a criminal conviction and keep
the majority of it without any public accountability. It's a recession,
after all, and they need money from somewhere."
In Colorado, the bill to oppose is HB 1238. For everyone else, it's good to know about this stuff, because unfortunately this kind of abuse has happened (and in some cases is presumably still happening) across the country.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
This is terrible bill coming up. On line I found the following information about people to contact.
According to the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, the bill is to be reviewed on March 16, 2009 at 1:30pm in House Judiciary Committee and they do not yet know the position of the following members of the House Judiciary Committee:
Rep. Beth McCann (D-Denver), vice chairman 303 866 2959 chmccann@...
Rep. Lois Court (D Denver) 303 866 2967 loiscourt@msmcom
Rep. Steve King (R-Delta) 303 866 3068 steve.king.house@...
Rep. Ellen Robeerts (R-Archuleta) 303 866 2914 ellen.roberts.house@...
Rep. Su Rden (D-Arapahoe) 303 866 2942 su@...
The following members have indicated they will vote no: Claire Levy, Dennis Apuan, Bob Gardner, Joe Miklosi, Sal Pace, Mark Waller
Send e-mails. From the amount of e-mails we get from the lpsf, I think you all like sending e-mails. If it can happen in Colorado, it can spread to other money hungry places.
Marge and Bob
The recession probably has a lot to do with it. Before, the pigs could take protection payoffs from the drug dealers; now they want to loot their competitors outright.