{"id":1686,"date":"2008-03-21T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-03-21T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T22:09:42","slug":"always_think_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"<u>A<\/u>lways <u>T<\/u>hink <u>F<\/u>orfeiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/spg\/DOJ\/BATF\/APMD\/840400000029\/Amendment%20to%20Combined%20Synopsis_Solicitation%2003.html\" target=\"browser\">ATF had a 2007 solicitation<\/a> for bids to deliver 2,000 Leatherman tools.<\/p>\n<p>Engraved with the following:<\/p>\n<p><font size=+2><b>ATF-Asset Forfeiture AND &#8220;always think forfeiture&#8221;<\/b><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;are you outraged yet?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_P._Scott_(Malibu,_CA)\" target=\"browser\">Donald Scott&#8217;s<\/a> family feels about that?<\/p>\n<p>I think asset forfeiture is reprehensible, and when it funds law enforcement corrupting. I think it should be banned outright; I can understand it being used very narrowly in the case of convicted criminals &#8211; but very narrowly. And when a law enforcement agency sends little promotional items to the troops reminding them that it&#8217;s really about marque and reprisal &#8211; will, I&#8217;m deeply disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>I debated posting the contract officers information here, and encouraging everyone to let him know what you think of this &#8220;opportunity&#8221;, but I think instead you ought to send a message to your Congressmember. You can find them at Congress.org; you can find your local officials by entering your zip in the box at the upper left, and then create your own message about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATF = Always Think Forfeiture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}