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Owners who wish to contest often find that the cost of hiring a lawyer far exceeds the value of their seized goods. Washington, D.C., charges up to twenty-five hundred dollars simply for the right to challenge a police seizure in court, which can take months or even years to resolve.

Trolling seems to have become the 21st century's biggest problem facing the "rule of law". I suppose once law became expensive relative to the median income, it was inevitable, but it really seems to have become the dominant emergent behavior of today's unsavories nearly overnight.



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