Articles containing the tag: money

Unlawful “lawful” seizure

Published under Law Enforcement

God's Law

Every person is secure in his possessions and property, and there is no special class of government thugs entitled to steal with impunity. Any forfeiture or penalty must be the result of a court verdict, issued on specific crime, where a specific private victim complained and sued. The government has no right to confiscate any private property against the will of the owner for no reason whatsoever, whether by taxes, penalties, or eminent domain.

Man's Law

Any government thug has the legal right to steal a private individual’s money (civil forfeiture, fines), time (traffic stops, bureaucratic red tape), or property (eminent domain) with no option for restitution to the victim. But what do I know, theonomy is “tyranny,” and we are much better off under the laws of men.

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Complaint for Forfeiture

Published under Law Enforcement

God's Law

A person is safe in his life, liberty, and property, unless a complaint is filed against him by an alleged victim of a crime. Actions that do not involve harming another person are not arbitrarily criminalized by the government, neither does the government track or control how a person spends, saves, or transports his own belongings. Borders are for restricting governments, not people. The government’s role is only to declare judgment on crimes against private persons, and execute that jud (cont.)
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Man's Law

No individual is immune to harassment by a government that has declared itself divine. Every day newer and newer laws are passed to criminalize all kinds of morally innocent behavior: whether it is choice of currency for savings or transactions, business or charity decisions, educational choices for the children, culinary habits, methods of transportation, technological advances, healthcare choices, use of property, etc., etc., etc. The land is filled with checkpoints, bureaucrats’ offices (cont.)
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Canadian Snitch Line

Published under Taxes

God's Law

The worker deserves his wages and keeps them. The functions of the government are limited and either relegated to the local communities (Ex. 18:17-23), or where a national government is involved, only the strangers in the land are taxed with customs duties (Matt. 17:25-26).

Man's Law

The government declares all its citizens “debtors” by default and criminalizes those who are trying to keep for themselves the fruit of their own labor. An army of bureaucrats is then formed to control and spy on individuals whose only “crime” is that they want to protect their property from government theft. At the end, the government creates conditions for mutual distrust and resentment between the citizens, an application of the “divide et impera” principle (cont.)
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The Robin Hood Effect

Published under Finance

God's Law

Individuals are free to decide between themselves what medium of exchange they are going to use (or barter goods), with no government coercion to use certain “legal tender.” The government doesn’t control the currency, and there is no central bank with the exclusive privilege to have a monopoly on money and credit. Arbitrary creation of money supply (inflation) and fractional reserve banking (arbitrary extension of credit, and therefore more inflation) are criminalized; thus, b (cont.)
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Man's Law

A small elite of bankers and politicians, using the coercive power of the state, forces everyone in the economy to use one currency only (“legal tender laws”), and then destroys that currency debasing its value to reflect only the decisions of the social planners. The market is left to the mercy of those who “produce” the currency, and to their clients – the corporations who get early access to the newly created currency. Once such monopolistic position is achieved, (cont.)
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Unequal punishment

Published under Law Enforcement

God's Law

This man would have never been brought to court unless there was a complaint by the victim (the bank), and if brought to court, his maximum penalty would have been restitution to the amount of $120 (Num. 5:6-7).

Man's Law

He will rot in prison for 15 years, at taxpayers’ expense, for the profit of crony companies, without a chance to redeem himself, acquire the skills to become productive, and be restored to the society.

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