sum wrote:
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. K*****g people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.
I had a friend who had a few thousand dollars taken out of his banking account without due process. No courts, no nothing. He was behind with the IRS or the VA during the Obama fiasco. One day he looked at his account and it was all gone. they just took it.