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It's the David Knight Show.

Welcome on this Thursday, February the 21st, 2019. I'm David Knight, your host.

We've had a lot of things happen in the last 24 hours or so. We've had the Supreme Court

unanimously rule on a forfeiture case. Now, this is interesting. Now, they disagree somewhat as to the rationale for this,

but this is not really as good a news as you might hope. At first I looked at this, I thought,

are we going to push back against civil asset forfeiture altogether? Because the greatest

injustice, I think, about civil forfeiture asset, yes, they took one part of this, which is excessive fines.

But the biggest crime committed by the government is civil asset forfeiture is to say that we're not going to wait until we convict you of something.

We're going to take your property without even charging you with a crime.

Forget the conviction.

We're not even going to charge you.

We're going to charge your property.

That legal fiction that's been going on for decades started in the Reagan administration.

And we've had this fiction of U.S. government versus Learjet serial number, blah, blah, blah,

or U.S. government versus a $9,000 that they confiscate from a black man who's flying with some cash to

pick up a truck and drive it back, full of agricultural supplies.

That's what he does as a landscaper.

That was one of the ones that I saw in the early days.

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