Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
Terrible story. Civil forfeiture seems utterly incompatible with any notion of a just society. It&#x27;s like democracy just gave up and regressed to feudalism.<p>Even _if_ the author had turned out to be 100% guilty of whatever Amazon accused them of - this form of civil forfeiture is still punishment without trial and not in line with the sixth amendment.<p><i>In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.</i>