Here's the absolute gem of a quote:
"It's impossible for a democratically elected government to 'steal' from you." - Mark Bunster, government employee, 28-Dec-2009Wow. It's not theft if the government does it. NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. Bills of Attainder? Okay with Mark, apparently.
Wow.
3 comments:
Mr. Leftist needs to appropriate a dictionary. STEAL: to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force. Oh yes, indeed; our government does this time and again. Just because they are democratically elected does not mean they are not thieves. (And I used the term "democratically" loosely because they cheat and steal the elections, too). They do take property without permission; they are indeed thieves.
Bills of attainder aren't legal, Tom. Thus you cannot steal via one.
Mark -
Only if the democracy in question (a) has outlawed bills of attainder, and (b) follows its own laws.
If you think every democracy always follows its own laws and never oppresses minorities, then you slept through your US History classes.
The greatest threat to individual liberty is always the government. To pretend that democracies "cannot" steal is to blind oneself to reality.
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