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Originally Posted by jtdavis:

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

                      Frederic Bastiat,  1848

 

Is this the idea behind police confiscation of property?

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Bastiat would have meant the Obama governing style and of course any sort of confiscation.

 

Bastiat asserted that the sole purpose of government is to protect the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property, and why it is dangerous and morally wrong for government to interfere with an individual's other personal matters. From this, Bastiat concluded that the law cannot defend life, liberty, and property if it promotes "legal [or legalized] plunder," which he defined as using government force and laws to take something from one individual and give it to others (as opposed to a transfer of property via mutually-agreed contracts, without using fraud nor violent threats against the other party, which Bastiat considered a legitimate transfer of property).[17]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat

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