Under civil forfeiture, property owners do not have to be convicted of a crime, or even charged with one, to permanently lose their property. Instead, the government can forfeit a property if it’s found to “facilitate” a crime, no matter how tenuous the connection. So rather than sue the owner, in civil forfeiture proceedings, the government sues the property itself.
This needs to end, how can you seize someones property without a conviction? I understand if the property was paid for by using ill gotten money with a criminal conviction.
So I ask you my fellow Americans to sign this petition to protect the right of people of this nation to have the right of due process and their civil liberties and property protected.