Comments on: U.S. Department of Justice promotes forfeiture overseas https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/u-s-department-justice-promotes-forfeiture-overseas/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: En Passant https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/u-s-department-justice-promotes-forfeiture-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-303696 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:49:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48275#comment-303696

But remember the days when the U.S. sought to export the rule of law, property rights and strong constitutional protections to other lands?

Why do the right thing when the wrong thing is so much more profitable? No government ever went broke by seizing too much property.

]]> By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/u-s-department-justice-promotes-forfeiture-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-303578 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:07:41 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48275#comment-303578 I do not take Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as gospel: the economic collapse she described could take place just as easily under a corrupt anti-Communist regime (eg. Yel’tsin’s Russia).

Nevertheless, this thread about internationalizing “forfeiture” lawlessness reminded me of a major episode in Atlas Shrugged, where corrupt US politicians connive with corrupt Latin American politicians to seize D’Anconia Copper. (The eponymous owner, a typical Randian superhero, saw it coming and had a counterstroke ready.)

]]> By: ras https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/u-s-department-justice-promotes-forfeiture-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-303574 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:05:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48275#comment-303574 This will serve to drive indivs and corps to set up shop in those countries that cooperate the least w/the US.

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