It's sad that people are willing to give up all their rights in order to put people in prison, whether those people are really guilty or not. Asset seizure is one of the biggest abuses of police power these days.
The law says that the assets or funds can be frozen if they can directly be linked to the crime under prosecution. If a bank robber steals $50,000 and is caught, those funds can be frozen and he can't use it to hire an attorney. They should not be able to freeze any other assets to prevent him from hiring an attorney.
And that's a bank robber. How about putting a freeze on a 30 year old kid's bank accounts AND a lien on his house, and to top it all off he's barely making ends meet and was only earning off a half-sheet to begin with. Oh, and he was recently married with a baby on the way when the case broke. The kid just turned seven!
It happened to one of them. And
THAT makes my blood boil. They pick on the poorest and the youngest hoping that they'll find the weak leak because they're broke with no one to help. They drag the poor fuck in front of a Grand Jury, he takes the fifth, they throw immunity at him, he still refuses to talk, so he ends up with an obstruction charge to boot. That young man stood tall, though.
Nah, the Government doesn't stack the deck in their own favor or abuse their own power (especially with those fucking Grand Juries). You try not to be anti-government, then you hear a story like that. It's like Superman kicking a three legged dog. Who you gonna feel for?
