• Legal Plunder in Alabama
  Most Americans would take umbrage at the suggestion that they are serfs rather than citizens of the United States. But that just shows how far removed from political reality they are. - Sheldon Richman, October 13, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• It's Not About Crime--It's Your Property They Want
  - Edward J. Williamson, December 20, 2002 [Strike the Root]

• Pittsburgh Stealers
  Asset forfeiture, that lovely spawn of the government’s war against drugs, has once again reared its grotesque head in the hills of western Pennsylvania. - Emmett Harris, May 22, 2002 [Strike the Root]

• When law enforcement asks your client for a friendly interview...
  - Daniel A. Horowitz, 2002

• The Devil is in the Details: The Forfeiture Example of American 'Justice'
  - S. Leon Felkins, January 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Law and Order Tyranny
  In the United States, Blackstone's vision of law -- the protection of the innocent from arbitrary power -- has given way to Jeremy Bentham's vision of law as a device for apprehending the guilty. Blackstone's vision gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Bentham has afflicted us with asset forfeiture and financial profiling. - Paul Craig Roberts, December 16, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Forfeiture Reform: Now, or Never?
  - seminar from the CATO Institute, May 3, 1999, Washington, DC

• Rudy's Car Collection
  Drive drunk, lose your car: It’s the sort of simple, tough-sounding slogan that politicians have trouble resisting. Days after New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced his new policy, Long Island officials were copying him and several New Jersey mayors were thinking about it. - Jacob Sullum, March 3, 1999 [REASON]

• Seizure Disorder
  On June 9, 1994, Hosep Bajakajian was robbed of $357,144 while he and his family were waiting for a flight at Los Angeles International Airport. Customs inspectors seized the money under a federal law that requires travelers leaving the country to inform the government if they are carrying more than $10,000 in cash. - Jacob Sullum, July 1, 1998 [REASON]

• No vacancy for drug dealers: Feds seize hotel
  The government simply seizes a citizen's property, and it's up to the citizen to prove his property is not connected with illegal activity. - Deborah Tedford, 1998 [Houston Chronicle]

• Toward an American Police State
  According to USA Today, there are now 1,000 forfeitures per week in the U.S., or 52,000 per year. - Donald S. McAlvany, November 1993 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Laws That Are Criminal
  Until recently, forfeiture laws were a part of the English and colonial past. They were revived during the Civil War, when — in 1862 — an Abolitionist Congress permitted the president to seize the homes and estates of Confederate soldiers. - Otto Scott, October 1993 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America
  - Jarret B. Wollstein, October 1993 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Fifth Amendment Upheld Against IRS
  An appellate court has ruled that citizens have Fifth Amendment rights in their dealings with tax collectors despite IRS protests. - Vance Beaudreau [Freedom Page]

• Seizure Fever: The War on Property Rights
  - James Bovard [Libertarian World]