„Last Week Tonight‘s“ John Oliver is again taking an entertaining swing at a subject that has made its way into Techdirt‘s pages: asset seizure and forfeiture. Going beyond the „robbery at badgepoint“ (Cory Doctorow‘s term) to civil asset forfeiture (in which the government files suit against property that is presumed guilty of criminal ties), Oliver is his usual entertaining self while still managing to highlight the obscene depths these programs — started with the intent of breaking up criminal enterprises and returning assets to those defrauded, etc. — have sunk, thanks to the perversion of incentives.