&quot;How is civil forfeiture(cash register justice) not a constitutional violation?&quot;<p>It is. But you assume that laws cannot violate the constitution. They can and they do constantly, all the time. The constitution doesn&#x27;t mean shit (I wanted to add &quot;anymore&quot;, but from reading history, I&#x27;m not convinced it ever meant shit). That&#x27;s just reality. It only means something when people in power want it to mean something. And yes, it&#x27;s incredibly ironic that this is the exact system we had a revolution to get away from. Maybe not so much when you consider that a revolution is a 360 degree rotation that ends up in the exact same place. In that case, it probably isn&#x27;t ironic that such programs had a huge resurgence under King George II (2000-2008), although had he been the third, the irony and historical allusion would have been even better.<p>As far as justice and rule by law in the US, I think it&#x27;s time for us to accept reality, that the US &quot;justice&quot; system is beyond broken and unfixable. This simply isn&#x27;t justice and most of what the system deals with is not either: it&#x27;s the opposite. If we keep lying to ourselves that this is justice, we&#x27;ll never be able to stop this horrific system that ruins millions of lives and creates such a terrified, divided society. Once you understand that there are no laws and no Constitution protecting you, that the gang in blue can do whatever the fuck they want and get away with it up to and including murder, shit gets a lot scarier. And no, you don&#x27;t have to be a minority to see this reality.