Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
My argument was gonna be: the government can do whatever it wants, and take your property if it sees fit.
And from the stuff I've read, the owner of this site hasn't even been charged with any criminal offenses. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. So the government is taking his property because other people are committing crimes on it. That's like saying the state can take over someone's house because they caught their 17 year old kid drinking and smoking pot.
Last Edit: Nov 17, 2010 21:47:38 GMT -5 by LD - Back to Top
Well my specific problems since you asked oh grand and mighty poobah lawyer. Is that first off this is a state matter that was handed to the feds in order to use a broader seizure law, and to circumvent Mo's seizure law in which the money goes to schools instead of the cops. I also have an issue with the presumption of guilt aspect where the gov't does not have to make a case to convict your property, but you have to make one to keep it. Finally I have a problem with his Bank Accounts being seized stopping people from being paid, expenses from being met, and lawyers from being hired. It is a patently unfair process.
Is it unconstitutional, I don't know I didn't go to Law school, it does suck, and to certain extent it seems to be a racket. Now as to why I brought it up here; a lot of current festivals own the grounds that they are held on so it seems like this same procedure without criminal charges could be used against Bonnaroo, AllGood, Mulberry Mtn etc.
The seizure of money and freezing of assets is to keep criminals from spending ill-gotten gains on big fancy lawyers to buy their way out trouble. In this case the only money that the owner made was off a music festival (and possibly legal vending). How is it fair to freeze his assets when he was not committing a crime? None of his money would be considered drugg money.
Post by JustSoYouKnow on Nov 19, 2010 1:59:22 GMT -5
not fair... but I remember 10 yrs ago Georgia shutting down rave clubs by enacting a "crackhouse" law where you can't knowingly operate a business where drugs are being sold, you don't have to be the seller itself.
Zoe has top notch pro bono legal council. If the feds see they might lose, they'll just drag it out as long as they can, to the point where Zoe gets foreclosed on. It's so F'd up it's sad.
