February 23, 2005

Important Distinctions

Posted by Anthony Gregory at February 23, 2005 02:28 PM

When a stranger puts a gun to your head, and threatens you with injury if you do not turnover the contents of your wallet, it's robbery.

When the government does it it's tax policy.

When an organized crime syndicate prints massive amounts of cash on worthless pieces of paper, it's counterfeiting.

When the government does it it's monetary policy.

When some reprobate breaks into your home, strips you away from nonviolent activity and takes you into his lair and locks you in a cage, it is breaking and entering and kidnapping.

When the government does it it's drug policy.

When some criminal street gang shoots and kills you in cold blood while engaging in a violent conflict with another criminal gang, it's murder.

When the government does it it's foreign policy.

When a man forces you to work for him, beats or kills you if you don't comply or attempt to escape, and is not subject to any real enforcement when he crosses the legal protections nominally afforded to you, it is slavery.

When the government does it it's conscription policy.

Just so you all know.


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