Having property the feds can't easily seize sounds like something only criminals would want (after all, I'm an honest citizen- I got nothing to hide, surely a bank would be safer than my home) up until it happens to you.
We have proof that law enforcement can:
-Steal from you. (Civil Asset forfeiture, no warrant required) -Apply excessive force with good odds of not having to explain themselves. -Lie to your face. -kidnap you -Utilize illegal/unconstitutional investigation techniques, then launder the evidence through parallel construction.
We also have proof that LE is nowhere near as good or thorough as they should be regulating themselves.
The "I have nothing to hide" is spoken like someone who has never been on the wrong side of an automated, impersonal system before. It'sall fun and games and justifiable until it's you caught in the civil rights blast crater.
I'd prefer no one ended up as collateral damage. It is better criminals go free than innocents get caught in dragnets.
For example, the Supreme Court has ruled that you have a Constitutional right to record the police, and yet, some police are still trying to arrest people for recording them.
I guess. In this case it's happening to a bunch of rich folks in Beverly Hills (literally) buying boxes from a seemingly-shady places called "US Private Vaults" (vs. say, the Wells Fargo down the street) that in fact appears to be under legitimate investigation.
My "cry me a river" reflex is twitching hard, sorry. Reason is silent for decades as cops everywhere snatch property from minorities, but they decide to take a stand for their rich donors[1]? Ugh.
[1] Per the article, the victim was a supporter. I'm not making this up. At least they disclosed it, I guess.
That is a pretty lazy and false accusation. They're a libertarian rag so they produces pages of articles on this topic every year:
https://reason.com/tag/civil-asset-forfeiture/
Albeit they do have a tendency towards using very white people as victims.
we've got other articles in this thread explaining how fewer and fewer local banks are offering safe deposit boxes, and they generally want out of the business. and indeed, how when they exit the business, they ship your stuff to a warehouse in alaska and lose it.
so the business which does nothing but rent safe deposit boxes actually sounds like the reasonable place to do business with.
> Reason is silent for decades as cops everywhere snatch property from minorities
you're just making stuff up.
https://reason.com/tag/civil-asset-forfeiture/
they've absolutely been writing about it for decades.
note, being a citizen in good standing with the law does not necessarily prevent this from happening.
I don't understand why you would want it to be easy for your property to be seized.
Lastly, the "I got nothing to hide" argument is a fallacy - as Snowden has said, it is analogous to being against freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.