News (Media Awareness Project) - US NM: PUB LTE: Depraved On-Accounta? |
| Title: | US NM: PUB LTE: Depraved On-Accounta? |
| Published On: | 2001-03-01 |
| Source: | Santa Fe New Mexican (NM) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-26 22:50:00 |
DEPRAVED ON-ACCOUNTA?
In the headline article on page A-6 of the Feb. 13 edition about problems
related to the war on drugs, you quoted Katharine Huffman as saying "Civil
forfeiture is a good example where essentially a person's Constitutional
right to due process before depravation of their property is just gone."
Is it really necessary for the authorities to deprave (pervert, corrupt) a
person's property just because the person has been nabbed for possible
illegal drug activity? It seems to me that just depriving a person of
property is already a rather severe act!
Martha Nelson
Santa Fe
via e-mail
In the headline article on page A-6 of the Feb. 13 edition about problems
related to the war on drugs, you quoted Katharine Huffman as saying "Civil
forfeiture is a good example where essentially a person's Constitutional
right to due process before depravation of their property is just gone."
Is it really necessary for the authorities to deprave (pervert, corrupt) a
person's property just because the person has been nabbed for possible
illegal drug activity? It seems to me that just depriving a person of
property is already a rather severe act!
Martha Nelson
Santa Fe
via e-mail
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