"Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help."
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Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
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Truer words were never spoken, we are seeing it played out before our eyes!
 -- Mike, Pleasant Hill     
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     -- Ronw13, Idaho      
    Welcome to Amerika. I have to rate this with 5 stars because the accuracy here distills such anguish. Those who forget history (or don't know history because of ecclesiastical seminaries / government schools) will relive it (along with those sovereign and noble few).

     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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     -- Mary, MI      
    The Socialist presents reasonable solutions to all problems. The Socialist presents the most mature path for the human journey serving the best interests of all.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, the Socialist is incapable of contemplating, let a lone offering a reasonable solution to any problem. Socialists uniquely present the most destructive path to any human journey. Socialism is the worst / most destructive theology to all of humanity's constructive interests.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, as always with you, nothing specified, nothing really expressed. Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik 🤣 as always, your empty word salad is void of anything that might resemble facts or truth. Socialism challenges individual sovereignty, inalienable rights and liberty at nature's law. Socialism, through its many denominations, creates censorship, illogical dialogue, pain, suffering, poverty, anger, violence, death, war and all else that is contrary to the nobility of man.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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