More extreme shopkeeper's privilege in the works
With the gutting of a long-defunct and mostly fictitious "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" which has for the most part only served as a debt collection agency for businesses
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The absolute unchecked authority of shopkeepers to claim and collect "debts" from consumers as a class privilege without the due process of law is, supposedly, what enables the consumer credit and lending on which 2/3 of the economy depends.
Pawn shops, insurers, payday lenders, tow companies, parking managers, builder's supply houses, utility companies, mechanics and materialmen, and various other service providers are assuming more and more control, power, and authority to collect falsely alleged debts and wrongfully appropriate consumers' property through summary executions, liens and non-judicial foreclosures without court orders.
Meanwhile, physical retail stores are assuming more and more authority to issue arbitrary warrants and trespasses against law-abiding customers who are not guilty of robbery or shoplifting or pickpocketing or any other crimes of the shopkeepers' concern.
The legal presumption of innocence on the part of consumers also being overridden in a corrupt courthouse and police procedure system by an aggressive and well-organized imposition of a pseudo-legal presumption of criminal guilt and civil liability on innocent consumers and otherwise law-abiding and financially responsible patrons, customers and visitors of unlawfully privileged shops.
White collar crimes such as simulating legal process are not being prosecuted against shopkeepers who obstruct justice and abuse the court system as well as non-judicial police procedures to have walk-in customers jailed arbitrarily and without cause.
