01/02/2017
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"I think no one who listens to these horrendous abuses of our civil liberties should be not moved to think that we really do need reform in our country."
"My hope is as the Committee moves forward, that you will use some of our ideas or include some of our ideas in your deliberation."
"These laws were originally intended to disrupt criminal networks, but they have increasingly been used against innocent citizens to strip them of their property without a lawyer to defend their rights..."
"This program provides a perverse incentive that encourages government to confiscate property because government officials get to keep up to 80 percent of the proceeds."