Many if not all of the erosions of civil liberties over the last five decades were modelled in Nixon‟s War on Drugs, well before the sex offender and anti-terrorism laws: mandatory sentencing; reverse onus of proof; warrantless invasion of homes based on reasonable suspicion; proceeds of crime laws allowing confiscation without conviction; phone tapping laws; cash transaction laws; and „civilisation‟ of crime generally by replacing the criminal standard with the civil standard of proof
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