Posted by
Dave Kooker on Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:43:41 AM
Everyone should know the story of Robin Hood unless you attended government (public) schools. In that case your school may have substituted the child’s story with the Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Robin Hood was a vindicated criminal because he robbed from the rich and gave it to the poor while hiding out in Sherwood Forest. In essence it is wealth re-distribution.
Why is it that Federal/State/Local government can forcibly take private property from one private individual and give it to another private individual and not be charged with a grand larceny felony? And that is considered compassion. But if I, a caring citizen of mankind, see a citizen down on his/her luck and I walk over to another citizen and forcibly take 100 dollars from their possession and give the 100 dollars to the down trodden individual as assistance I am arrested as a thief and very well will serve time as a convicted criminal. How can the government play Robin Hood and be a hero but if I play Robin Hood I am a criminal?
Where is it stated in the US constitution that the Federal government has this explicit right to forcibly confiscate private property by force and re-distribute it to another? If the action of re-distribution is the same what makes it punishable when I do it?
You would think that the government would praise my action since I am re-distributing the entire 100 dollars instead to the downtrodden individual. No overhead for my act of compassion. When the government re-distributes wealth they typically siphon off at least 50% for handling, processing, and any other task that they can think of before the remainder is given to the down trodden individual.
That would make an interesting experiment. Someone sees a citizen down on his/her luck and walk over to another citizen and forcibly take 100 dollars from their possession. Give 50 dollars to the downtrodden individual as assistance, and then give the other 50 dollars to the Federal government. Would the government still consider the action a crime?
If Robin Hood were alive today, the law enforcement would be in hot pursuit of him. The government really doesn’t like competition for the jobs they do. Especially when someone does the job better and with lower overhead.
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