"You're a SOCIALIST? Do you advocate confiscating private property?"

[Taverner]

"What - you mean like they do in the War on Drugs?"

:evilgrin:

[Deep13]

1. If you mean should people pay taxes, then yes.

Another possible answer:

No, it means I think people should get their country back from the rich parasites who stole it.

[MilesColtrane]

2. Who are you quoting?

[el_bryanto]

3. That's an odd response

Do you favor a "war on private property?" Or do you think it's wrong to confiscate Drugs and wrong to confiscate private property?

Bryant

[Taverner]

6. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the statement

And, as has been pointed out elsewhere on this thread, confiscation of private property is hardly new

[el_bryanto]

7. Well confiscation of private property during a criminal investigation is hardly new

Do you think owing property should be seen as a crime?

[Taverner]

8. No - and definitely not for growing funny plants

Although a case could be made for News Corporation having EVERYTHING taken

[JoeyT]

14. A criminal investigation isn't necessary.

Thanks to asset forfeiture, you can have your money, car, and house seized without ever having been charged with a crime. You can sue to get it back, of course. And good luck doing that with no assets. Especially since you have to "prove" you somehow made every single penny of it through completely legal means, which is virtually impossible.

[Snotcicles]

4. Eminent Domain. nt

[banned from Kos]

9. Eminent Domain involves compensation though

Compensate me fairly for my stash and I don't mind confiscation.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. The Largest confiscation private property in US history

Was the Emancipation Proclamation it was about $1 trillion in today's monies.

Damn right I approve

[Deep13]

12. +1

[damntexdem]

10. Well, I don't want the TSA to think that my privates are their property.

;-)

[JHB]

11. I'm not a socialist, I just get called one by TV loudmouths...

...and radio ranters, and people with some really wacky tea in their teabags.

Because somehow ensuring capitalism has some checks and balances equals a Stalinist police state.
That's not just leaps of logic, it's teleportation: from one place to another without crossing the intervening space.

[liberal4war]

13. Socialism is not statism.

I have no problem with collective and democratic means of the ownership of production.