Republican (fascist/socialist) President Reagan signs the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, allowing unlimited seizures of private property by Federal law enforcement agents, without compensation or even having to find evidence of a crime.  The act also establishes mandatory sentencing for non-violent drug offenders.  This forces prisons to release violent criminals early.

       NOTES:

• This act was put together in such poor fashion, and the act passed in such haste that not all pages were included in the bill presented to Reagan for his signature.  A year later, the Federal court for the district of colorado would condemn the CCCA, in United states v. Rogers (D. Colo. 1985).  The Opinion of the Court included the following footnote:

       The exact contents of the Act were so uncertain that portions of the bill not enacted were included in the United states Code Annotated advance sheet of the law [statute]. … Because of the haphazard nature of the passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, tracing its legislative history is difficult, if not impossible.

• One of the original duties of the Secret Service is to investigate counterfeiting.  Although punishment of counterfeiting is one of the three crimes that are punishable under the Constitution for the united States, the SS has yet to investigate the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks for its issuance of “paper vapor” money: Bills of Credit that are not redeemable in gold or silver Coin (lawful Money), and are produced in excess of growth available good and services that they lose value (inflation).

       Postscript: In the two decades following the passage of this act, the Federal government netted over 500,000,000,000 “dollars” a year in asset seizures.

      [updated 8/23/2025] Thanks to Jim Lorenz, Chuck McGlawn and Bill Holmes for this entry.

       Too bad the court didn’t have the guts to declare it as no law at all, for if this garbage has no legislative history, is it legislation in any case? –– JL

       Republican President Reagan signs house joint resolution 658, violating the privacy of the Attorney-Client relationship by requiring defense attorneys to disclose Internal Revenue Service the identity of clients who pay their retainers in Federal Reserve Notes for amounts over 10,000 “dollars.”

       [added 8/23/2025]

       The Reagan Reverie (“Revolution?”) continues: Republican President Reagan signs the Trademark Counterfeiting Act, raising the national debt limit from 1,490,000,000,000 to 1,520,000,000,000 “dollars.”

       NOTE: So much for conservative Republicans!

       [added 8/23/2025]