Civil Forfeiture: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver did a great job explaining the problem this week on his show. Basically, Kane and Nestor might be innocent, but their money is on trial separately, as dumb as that sounds. [VIDEO]

This is John Oliver's commentary on this issue. [VIDEO] note: Not sure if we can post youtube videos here, but the commentary on the video very relevant to the topic

Civil forfeiture is really screwed up [1]. >So he basically loses them before he even can prove that they are his or not? Yes goods are guilty until proven innocent in court. >It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty. It kinda is. Watch the link. [1] [VIDEO]

Related: If you haven't seen John Oliver's segment on civil asset forfeiture, you should really check it out - [VIDEO]

It's true, its un-american, and here's a video from John Oliver so you can learn more about this ongoing heinous practice the police use to prey on the poor and defenseless. [VIDEO]

Letting the Police take the money from Civil Forfeit is bonkers, John Oliver has an entertaining take on it: [VIDEO]

As someone not from the US I thought John Oliver did a great job of explaining Civil Forfeiture a few years back [VIDEO]

Civil asset forfeiture is wild shit. John Oliver had a great episode on it: [VIDEO] They make criminal accusations against your property and not against you, and because of that, you have no rights or recourse. This is just blatant nonsense under the US legal system, but that's kind of irrelevant. Civil forfeiture was introduced to take houses and cars from drug dealers as part of the War on Drugs, which was really started as war on minorities and hippies. The government wants to take stuff from drug dealers, so it gets to do it (see legal realism: [LINK] ).