Chelsea Clinton attempted to smear Donald Trump yesterday – unaware that she was attacking the policies of her own father in the process. It all began with the Department of Justice releasing new guidelines on civil asset forfeiture, greatly expanding the government’s ability to seize assets from private citizens.
JUST IN: DOJ new asset forfeiture policy – police can seize property from people not charged w/crime even in states where it's been banned. pic.twitter.com/P8K0g80m4E
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) July 19, 2017
Civil asset forfeiture is something conservatives should oppose, as it give the government the ability to seize the assets of those merely suspected of crimes, not convicted of them. According to the libertarian Institute for Justice, the total dollar value of assets seized by law enforcement through civil asset forfeiture exceeds losses from burglars.
And among those expressing their outrage was none other than Chelsea Clinton, who called it “Orwellian.”
Orwellian. 1984 in 2017: https://t.co/M3x7TDrT4y
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 19, 2017
There’s only one problem….
Clintonian:
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000
Signed into Law By President Bill Clinton April 25, 2000https://t.co/w5rG7SBIF7— Ben Anderson (@AndStrats) July 19, 2017
In fact, it’s thanks to Bill Clinton that the government’s revenues from asset forfeitures exploded. As Generation Opportunity explains;
Despite its intent to reform civil forfeiture, when all was said and done, the program continued. To put it in perspective, in 1986, the Department of Justice (DOJ) added $93.7 million in revenue to its Assets Forfeiture Fund. By 2014, the annual deposits had increased by 4,467 percent, totaling $4.5 billion.
Additionally, according to the Institute for Justice’s Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture,“The forfeiture funds of the DOJ and Treasury Department together took in nearly $29 billion from 2001 to 2014, and combined annual revenue grew 1,000 percent over the period.”
CAFRA was meant to curb or limit civil asset forfeiture, but it fell short. With more and more cases of civil asset forfeiture drastically affecting the lives of its victims, now is the time for substantial reform.
It’s great to see Chelsea taking such a moral stand we can all rally behind. It’s too bad her father is among those to blame.
And it once again proves that every time Chelsea Clinton opens her mouth, she embarrasses herself.
Chelsea Clinton needs to get off Twitter. Her incoherent comments show just how clueless she is about politics.
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