There has been a growing abuse of forfeiture and eminent domain by government at all levels to seize private property. Statists view the Constitution as an obnoxious barrier to what they feel is the right for the state to own everything. There isn't a goose laying golden eggs they won't eagerly slaughter in their mindless greed for possession of all wealth.

Between outright seizure and unlawful declarations of properties as "public", the government steamroller is out of control. Even private retirement wealth is under siege, under the guise of mechanisms like the "MYIRA" concept. The Federal government can't stand the fact that trillions of dollars are out of their reach in IRAs, 401Ks, and Keogh accounts, and want to either seize those privates monies outright, to be dispensed "fairly" in the form of "Guaranteed Retirement Accounts", or force the makeup of those existing retirement accounts to consist mostly of government bonds and securities.

How is it that they need to pass a law in this country to protect rights already protected? I'm glad they passed it but it is nuts that they had to.

This story is 5 months old.
Did anyone hear about this on the news at that time?
I don't have a tv so I wouldn't have seen it, but wondering if this was ignored or not.

had to prove a negative? anyone who has studied
logic knows that this is not possible. this is a very
fine correction for a stupid law. -- j

Who says the government doesn't embrace the profit motive!!!

It is about time, Whitman for all her lack of luster supported a similar bill in NJ when she was Gov., after a big scandal in Monmouth over a Corvette that was seized for the County Prosecutor's personal use. But the jerk did get put in jail and disbarred even when the Libs in our legislature killed the law.
Our real problem is that we are not pursuing the hooked users, and putting them in a controlled military environment until they are cured. As far as the recreational users, well, orange jump suits and a broom with 60 days contiguous Public Service cleaning streets and ditches for each count and they'll quit.
The crooks and sellers will find something else to do when nobody's buying their stuff.

Thank you Minnesota

Excellent! About time. My only beef is that since it should never have been legal in the first place why are they waiting till August 1, 2014 to put it into effect? In the mean time more people will unjustly be deprived of their property.

Over a decade ago I saw some news show I cannot recall that investigated Louisiana cops targeting and confiscating very expensive cars along Interstate 10. The charge was almost always "improper lane change."
A camera crew drove such a car along Interstate 10, always remained in the same lane and were at least, to the best of my recollection, pulled over twice. The charge both times: improper lane change."
Since the camera crew was not intoxicated and there was no marijuana to be sniffed, the car was not searched or confiscated. Maybe the camera also helped.
I could not find the above with my PC search engine or on Youtube but I did find the following--

http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breakin...

Hallelujah. Now we need every other State in the Union to pass this same kind of legislation.