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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I can see why the house belonging to drug manufacturers would be considered a proceed...when it actually belongs to the drug dealers.
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Not unless it was actually purchased with funds that were generated by the commission of a crime. If I buy a house today with the money I made from my job, and decide to use it to start my criminal empire tomorrow, it is not the "proceeds" of a crime. It's the proceeds of my current job.
Any law that permits its seizure is effectively saying, "we think this guy is a really bad guy, so it's okay if we take his stuff without any oversight whatsoever without even proving he's a bad guy". That is just taking a giant crap on the rule of law.