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Massachusetts Legalizes Cannabis, Cops Keep Arresting People

April 17, 2017May 10, 2017 Asa J 1403 Views 10th amendment, 10th Amendment Center, cannabis, Cannabis legalization, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, decriminalization, Drug war, end the drug war, Essex County, Institute for Justice, Interstate Commerce Clause, licenses, marijuana, marijuana caregivers, marijuana dispensaries, marijuana licenses, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Marijuana Legalization Initiative, pot shops, Question 4, quotas, regulators, Roscoe Filburn, Suffolk County, U.S. Constitution, Wickard v. Filburn

(Police State Daily) Cannabis legalization has been a highly contested issue in Massachusetts during the last decade. Possession of less than

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Cops Take Life Savings, Teens’ College Fund After Medical Marijuana Business Raid

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 Asa J 938 Views cannabis oil, chemical extraction, Civil asset forfeiture, college savings, copblock, copblock.org, Cops Take Life Savings, DEA, Detective Mark Carlson, Drug war, end the drug war, Institute for Justice, James Slatic, Med-West Distribution, Medical marijuana, Medical Marijuana Business Raid, Medical Marijuana Raid, no victim no crime, personal accounts, personal bank accounts, police raid, Police State, safe cracking, san diego, San Diego police, san diego police department, seizure warrants, sledge hammer, vaporizer pen cartridges, Wesley Hottot

In yet another case outlining the absurdity and outright theft involved in civil asset forfeiture cases, a San Diego family is

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Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Alternative Policing Within an Anarchist Justice System

October 19, 2016March 11, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1361 Views 3%ers, ABC, Accountability, ACLU, agorist defense services, american civil liberties union, Anarchist Black Cross, anarchists, anti-statist, assault, Black and Pink, black guerrilla family, Black Panther style community patrols, black panthers, Books for Prisoners, Brutality, C4SS, Cell 411, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, cop watch, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, crowdfunding, de-arrest, directly democratic community watch groups, Dishonesty, DoJ, Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Creating an Anarchist Justice System, Double Standard, entertainment and education, Eric Garner, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, FAMM, FIJA, Food Not Bombs, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, fully informed jury association, General Defense Committee, government agencies, high environmental costs of prisons, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, Institute for Justice, IWOC, IWW, jury duty, Jury nullification, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kurdish People’s Protection Units, legal fees, Libertarians, Logan Glitterbomb, media promotion, mike brown, mutual aid, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, national lawyers guild, Nationalism, NCADP, networking, nonviolent communication techniques, Patriotism, peacekeeper, people of color, Pink Pistols, police, police departments, Police State, Prison Ecology Project, prison industrial complex, prisons, public freedom campaign, Public Relations, punishment, radical public defender, Rest In Power, restorative and/or transformative justice process, RIP, Rojava, Shield Mutual, sounds good in theory, soveriegn citizen crap, soveriegn citizens, supplies reading materials, Sylvia Rivera Gun Club for Self Defense, TSA, unarrest, unfair living conditions, voluntary militias, Zapatistas

This post was written by Logan Glitterbomb and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title

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Civil Asset Forfeiture Goes Digital In OK, Cops Emptying Bank Accounts

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Asa J 1091 Views bank accounts, bank cards, Civil asset forfeiture, Civil rights, constitution, copblock, copblock.org, corporate scheme, electronic civil asset forfeiture, electronic device, Electronic Recovery and Access to Data, Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, ERAD, ERAD Group Inc, FBI, Institute for Justice, Justice System, Lt. John Vincent, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Policing for Profit, prepaid cards, revenue generation, rights, seized cash, Sen. Kyle Loveless

Civil asset forfeiture has gone digital in Oklahoma with the state’s highway patrol now utilizing an electronic device that allows

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Theft

April 27, 2016May 5, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2828 Views Attorney General Loretta Lynch, cash, cash is criminal, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, criminalization, criminalization of the poor, Department of Justice, double-standards, drug cartels, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, equitable sharing, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, HSBC, Human rights, incentives, Institute for Justice, marijuana, overcriminalization, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, state-sanctioned theft, unbanked, underbanked, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This is the first article in a series on how the war on drugs is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and

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Oklahoma Sheriff, Deputy Indicted For Asset Forfeiture Extortion

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 Asa J 1496 Views Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, audit, Bob Colbert, Bribery, Civil asset forfeiture, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Dan Alban, deputy Jeffrey Gragg, drug forfeiture, Drug war, E. Scott Pruitt, extortion, Indictments, Institute for Justice, Jeffrey Gragg, Michon Hughes, misconduct, Oklahoma, Police State, police state daily, Policing for Profit, road pirates, routine drug interdiction, sheriff Bob Colbert, sheriff indicted, Suspension, Torell Wallace, Wagoner County, wagoner county sheriff, Wagoner County Sheriffs Office, Wagoner County Treasurer’s Office

An Oklahoma sheriff has suspended himself after he and a deputy were indicted and jailed last week on felony extortion and

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Austin Petersen, Libertarian Presidential Candidate, On Policing Issues

October 5, 2015October 4, 2015 Georgia Sand 1871 Views 8th Amendment, Accountability, andrew napolitano, Austin Petersen, Big Government, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, cruel and unusual punishment, Executive, film the police, free market, freedom, Institute for Justice, john stossel, Judge Napolitano, Justice System, Leadership, libertarian, libertarianism, Love Gov, militarization of police, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, president, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Rhetoric, prison system, private prisons, privatization, Surveillance, taxes, The Libertarian Republic, victimization

Austin Peterson, Editor-in-Chief of The Libertarian Republic, has announced his plan to run for President as a Libertarian candidate. He

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Civil-Asset-Forfeiture Builds $4.1M Police Station In Town Of 7000

May 19, 2015February 28, 2016 Asa J 1359 Views $4.1 million police station, Civil asset forfeiture, civil forfeiture, copblock, Institute for Justice, Lee McGrath, Legislative counsel Lee McGrath, Mayor Mark Scarborough, Mississippi, police station, police training center, Rankin County, Rankin County MS, Richland Mayor Mark Scarborough, Richland MS

A small Mississippi town of just around 7,033 residents, has built a new $4.1 million police station, equipped with a

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Police Seize Life Savings From Man Because He Had It In A Shopping Bag

April 29, 2015April 28, 2015 Ademo Freeman 2931 Views Civil asset forfeiture, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Deputy Dave Wintle, Dishonesty, Double Standard, Douglas County, Drug war, Featured, Harassment, Institute for Justice, Interstate 680, Judge Bobby E. Shepherd, Justice System, mark a brewer, ne, nebraska, New Mexico, Nick Sibilla, no victim no crime, omaha, police, police abuse, Police State, rights, road pirates, seizure, strike the root, U.S. Magistrate F.A. Gossett, veteran, war on drugs

*Originally posted at OffTheGridNews.com by Daniel Jennings* Simply carrying a large amount of cash in a grocery sack in your

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Des Moines Register Suggests Iowa Asset Forfeiture System Is A ‘System of Legal Thievery’

April 8, 2015April 9, 2015 Alia Atreides 1565 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, asset forfeiture, badged bullies, Cato Institute, Civil asset forfeiture, civil forfeiture, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Des Moines, Des Moines Register, Dishonesty, Drug war, Featured, forfeiture, freedom, Institute for Justice, Iowa, Joshua H, Justice System, legal theft, legalized theft, Michael Sanchez-Ratliff, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, rights, road pirates, system of legal thievery, the free thought project, Theft, thievery, traffic stops, video, war on drugs

In a recent investigation into the asset forfeiture laws of Iowa and how they are being applied, the Des Moines

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NYPD Seized an Innocent’s Man Cash, Used It to Pad Their Pensions

January 16, 2014January 15, 2014 CopBlock 626 Views Bronx District Attorney, civil forfeiture, copblock.org, Gerald Bryan, Institute for Justice, legalized theft, Liberty in Action, new york police department, Nick Sibilla, nypd, Policing for Profit, Steven Kessler

Nick Sibilla shared this post via CopBlock.org’s submit page. Without a warrant, the New York Police Department (NYPD) burst into the

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Institute for Justice Takes on Feds

October 7, 2011January 1, 2014 Ademo Freeman 418 Views asset forfeiture, copblock.org, Institute for Justice, russ caswell

The Institute for Justice is taking on the federal government over assest forfeiture. See their video about motel owner Russ

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