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The process is the punishment. Most likely he will win in court, but after years of legal battles, lost equipment that he has to replace without reimbursement, and having to find funds to pay contractors to repair his residence.

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> lost equipment that he has to replace without reimbursement

This is just theft. How is this legal?

Because the State does it instead of a different organization. I wish I was joking but that is literally their justification- that because it’s done by a State it’s automatically legal. Of course the courts will rule differently but the people who stole won’t be punished.

The "monopoly of violence" at play, which has devolved into "the state has a monopoly on violence, so any application of that violence by the state is justified and moral"

How do you prepose criminal investigators collect possible evidence... without actually collecting it? You come with complaints but no proposed solutions.

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