&gt; No one thinks they have any culpability for opting to carry $10k+ in cash over vastly safer and free alternatives.<p>Why would you have &#x27;culpability&#x27; for carrying your own money? Why would you have culpability for not always doing the normal thing - it&#x27;s also not normal to be an religious minority, a homosexual, or a member of the Green Party; do they also deserve the blame for whatever arbitrary measures that the government chooses to take against them?<p>I think that you&#x27;re saying that it&#x27;s wise to treat your government as hostile, and to hide anything that you do that is out of the ordinary. Fine. But the idea that that makes it a bad case against civil asset forfeiture is like saying that the best cases for religious&#x2F;racial discrimination should be to defend white Protestants.