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Re:Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk ... by StavrosK on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:54AM (#15669104)
No. I mean, "theft" means "we made a law making it theft". By definition, government seizures are not theft.
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Re:Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk ... by erasmuse on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:02AM (#15669320)
I don't have a dog in this fight but surely neither the government nor anyone else gets to define what ordinary English words mean.
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Re:Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk ... by alphydan on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:50AM (#15670177)
Of course they do. What do you call: "Taking a person's life with your own hands?"

- For a white westerner: Crime, Murder, etc

- For the government/military: war, being a hero, etc

- For "brown" people in the wrong countries: Terrorism

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