The national government some years ago adopted a law known as RICO, purportedly to suppress racketeering and "corrupt organizations." A number of the states have adopted similar laws. One of the features of these laws is government seizure of the property of accused persons, prior to a conviction. Governments have also seized property suspected of being used for illegal activities. The owner may be completely innocent; nothing has yet been proven in a court of law. The owner may even be ignorant of the illegal activity. In the case of some of these seizures, the property seized has not even belonged to the person accused, but to a son or daughter, or a tenant, etc. On this basis they seize homes, cars, money, apartment buildings, etc. This is a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment's mandate that "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Such laws should be amended or repealed.