Pubdate: Sat, 13 Apr 2002
Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News (CO)
Copyright: 2002, Denver Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/371
Author: Ken Gorman
Note: Ken Gorman is a candidate for governor of Colorado in 2002.  His 
website is accessible at http://www.kengorman.org/.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/af.htm (Asset Forfeiture)

TO POLICE AND DAS: WE'LL MAKE THE LAWS, NOT YOU

It's disgusting to hear that the police and DAs would publicly voice their 
opposition to the rationalization and reversal of the insane forfeiture 
laws in criminal cases. As far as I'm concerned, they are public servants 
acting as public masters. The forfeiture laws were promoted by agencies 
that had no right to make public policy.

I was raised as an American with the knowledge that guilt had to be proven 
before a penalty could be assessed. The drug war has established a nation 
of police actions that flaunt their own criminal activity, from outright 
theft to murder, in the face of the very freedoms this country was founded 
upon. The explosive rate of drug use in this country can be tied directly 
to the bootlickers of the police state.

My advice to the DAs and police is to shut up and do the job you're paid to 
do. We will make the laws; not you.

Ken Gorman

Denver
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MAP posted-by: Ariel