Property seizures go on all the time.

Get caught soliciting prostitution, buh-bye car. It is seized right there on the scene.

Go rob a liguor store with a gun and flee in a car, get caught, buh-bye gun and car.

Frankly it looks to me like you are using this as just an excuse to engage in partisan attacks on Ashcroft. You could very well attack any previous AG for such practices.

Try again.

Yes, asset forfeiture is a serious problem of due process, but there is a big difference in a democracy in violating every other right and violating the First. In a democracy, if any right is violated, you still have the first amendment right to complain about it and try to change the law, however unfair.

But when the government can go around seizing the printing press (or equivalent) of its critics, the chance to even complain and politically mobilize in response is undermined.

The First Amendment is the core of all rights in a democracy-- and this kind of forfeiture without trial is a far graver threat to democracy than any traditional seizures of cars or other drug-associated assets that has been common in the past.

The way i see it is that if people want to go to the web page they will and they will not stop buying these products. Did you guys hear about the capture of the web site that sold chips to modify xboxs to play copied games. Plus the DOJ will not disclose how they are taking care of the logs of the people who have been there and how they are taking care of the IP logs of people that are just there to look. The way the government is they will use this to take advantage of people and try and use this against them.