Police can charge lawful citizens who attend demonstrations and other public events with affording support to demonstrators whose activities may constitute Terrorist Activities under USC18 2991. Innocent attending demonstrators run the risk of being charged as terrorists, then having to prove by their presence at a demonstration, they were not supporting the illegal activities of the alleged terrorist demonstrators. Lawful demonstrators may be convicted simply because they did not think to leave an event where some demonstrators were committing illegal acts. Conviction of an activist or organization is NOT necessary for government to forfeit an owner's property. The statute of limitations, the time period police have to civilly forfeit property, begin five years from the time police claim to have learned an asset was made subject to forfeiture.
Police can claim that anytime in the future.
Corporate security and private intelligence companies now work so closely with U.S. police agencies, they appear to merge. Neither charged defendants, nor anyone else, can use the Freedom of Information Act to penetrate corporate information banks to learn if a corporation illegally obtained or provided information to a police agency. Increasingly, corporate informants work both sides of the street when they get paid for providing police the same information about, e.g., a political or environmental group. It is a dangerous trend in the United States when police agencies merge with corporate security forces, become perhaps an illegal enterprise, to violate a persons Constitutional and civil rights. All this secrecy can be invoked by U.S. Government to protect alleged-national security, an ongoing investigation, undisclosed witnesses and jurors.