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U.S. Marshals Service: Asset Forfeiture Program
The US Marshals Service explains the goals and benefits of the asset forfeiture
program.
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www.usdoj.gov/marshals/assets/assets.html - cached


American Forfeiture Law: Property Owners Meet the Prosecutor
A Policy Analysis from the Cato Institute that discusses the history of forfeiture
and how it has enhanced the power of government over people and their property in
ways that are difficult to reconcile with long-cherished constitutional rights.
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www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-179es.html - cached


Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation
FEAR is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to reform of federal and state
asset forfeiture laws to restore due process and protect property rights in the
forfeiture process.
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www.fear.org - cached


Justice Management Division: Asset Forfeiture Program
The primary asset forfeiture pages of the US Department of Justice.
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www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp - cached


American RadioWorks : Corrections Inc.
The war on drugs took off when police agencies got a new incentive to chase drug
offenders: the ability to keep cash and vehicles seized in drug operations. Critics
say asset forfeiture skews police priorities by giving them a monetary stake in the
war on drugs. Read, Listen (Real Audio, 19:30 min)
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americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/corrections/cops1.html - cached


Drug loot fuels drug war
A series of articles on forfeiture by the Standard Times newspaper of SouthCoast,
MA. Very balanced, providing views from both sides of this issue.
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www.s-t.com/daily/08-99/08-08-99/a01lo010.htm - published: Aug 08 1999 - cached


Executive Privateers
A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly
Reform the Practice of Forfeiture
Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Law Reform
www.fear.org/hadaway.html - published: Nov 14 2002 - cached


Introduction to "Your House is Under Arrest"
Excerpt from book about how police can seize you home, car and business without a
trial and how to protect yourself, by Brenda Grantland.
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www.serendipity.li/wod/yhiua_in.html - cached


JMD: AFP: 2001 Asset Forfeiture Fund Reports
Here you can see the annual reports on the looting by the Justice Department.
Treasury has similar reports.
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www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp/02fundreport/FY2001AFPLinks.htm - cached


Property and Liberty: You can't give up one without losing the other
Asserting that private property rights are necessary for personal freedom.
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www.progress.org/leon01.htm - published: Jan 02 1999 - cached


Reforming Property Forfeiture Laws to Protect Citizens' Rights
A study of asset forfeiture by the Macinac Center, which concludes nine specific
reforms are necessary to reduce the unfairness and abuses of the present system.
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www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=792 - cached


The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act 1997 (Testimony)
Congressional testimony from Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Fellow and Director
Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, before the Committee on the
Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, June 11, 1997.
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www.cato.org/testimony/ct-rp061197.html - published: Jun 11 1997 - cached


The Devil is in the Details
The Forfeiture Example of American 'Justice'. A heavy criticism of asset forfeiture
by S. Leon Felkins.
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www.lewrockwell.com/orig/felkins11.html - published: Jan 17 2001 - cached


Liberty, Attainder, Bills of Attainder & the Constitution
Includes information relating the prohibition of Bills of Attainder to asset
forfeiture.
jimo9.freeservers.com - published: May 09 2000 - cached


 PDF  Losing Ones Livelihood to the Grasp of Fiction
An introductory article on the law of civil forfeiture in the United States written
in 1996 by Robert Shaw. Provides an overview of laws and legal standards,
forfeiture's origins and history, law enforcement relationships and abuses, and
suggestions for reform.
www.qualitylegalcounsel.com/CivilForfeiture.pdf


Steven L. Kessler
Online articles, from an attorney and author with expertise in RICO and forfeiture.
www.kessleronforfeiture.com - cached


The Government's Legal Theft Racket
Spirited attack on forfeiture law, by Michael Fumento. Discusses Tina Bennis case
and others.
www.fumento.com/theft.html - published: Jan 02 1996 - cached


Bill Of Attainder Project
A civil liberties organization started by the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma, which
contacts political activists, organizations and others to oppose forfeiture.
frontpage.brightok.net/~sempai/billofattainder - cached




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