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What rational justifications exist for seizure laws to allow confiscation without a conviction, or even without a charge?
Great for the budget, sure, so long as we're comfortable throwing out our ethics in the transaction.
Something about these entitlement laws scream of a stake and bonfire mob-mentality. Of a desire for retribution without care from whom it's exacted.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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