Lee Camp on John Kiriakou and Police Corruption

June 30, 2022

Here's the article Lee discusses: JOHN KIRIAKOU: Robbed by Law Enforcement. It's not all bad news:

On the heels of the Justice Department’s decision on Etiennes, the state of Maine became the fourth state in the country — along with New Mexico, Nebraska and North Carolina — to require criminal conviction before any property may be seized.

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The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham, said, “It’s a very simple concept; you don’t lose your property unless you used it in the commission of a crime.”

He ends:

I frankly don’t care what the Supreme Court says about civil asset forfeiture. It’s morally and ethically wrong. It’s stealing. It’s abusive. The law has to be changed.

I’m glad that four states have done the right thing. But that’s not good enough. Congress must take action immediately to end this injustice.

See John Kiriakou and Mujeres Artísticas En El Patrimonio Artistico de Baja California.

Finally, see David Lynch's Weather Report today and The Case of Gerardo Nuñez Guiterres.

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Another law that seems unjust, to me, is the statute of limitations. It means that a theft cannot be prosecuted if the would-be defendant can keep it from being discovered for long enough, no matter what other crimes were committed in the intervening period to prevent the theft from being discovered. The statute of limitations should enable people to prosecute, for example, theft of intellectual property even if it is only discovered decades after the theft occurred.