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Yup. And it's been that way since the '80s. Welcome to the drug war.

Today's quiz in remedial civics: what happens when law enforcement gains the power to control their own funding depending on the way they enforce the law.

P.S. If you'd like a bit of disheartening theater, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700

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> Today's quiz in remedial civics: what happens when law enforcement gains the power to control their own funding depending on the way they enforce the law.

Market-driven police state?

Police operate using violence. Markets operate with free exchange. Thus you posit a contradiction.

Yup. It's more like greed-driven police state.

> Thus you posit a contradiction.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

USA v. $124,700 shows that the coruption extends all the way up the ranks. The 8th circuit is corrupt. (and the supreme court has upheld this as well, I'm sure, making it corrupt.)

For the record, nowhere in the constitution is the government given the power to seize property, without a warrant describing its evidentiary nature in advance.

Asset Forfeiture is nothing more than theft.

And every prosecutor, cop, or judge who engages in it or allows it is a criminal.

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