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THE Asset Confiscation Thread (merged)

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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation

Unread postby Cloud9 » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 07:39:37

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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation

Unread postby kakkerlak » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 08:19:05

When you're dead or in prison you can't use your money, food, house or land. So, they can take it from me without protest.

When dealing with the state, in good or bad times, you only have two just options; persuade them or be obedient.

Of course i will not give into tyranny. Let 'em be warned!
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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation

Unread postby Serial_Worrier » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 18:09:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kakkerlak', 'W')hen you're dead or in prison you can't use your money, food, house or land. So, they can take it from me without protest.

When dealing with the state, in good or bad times, you only have two just options; persuade them or be obedient.

Of course i will not give into tyranny. Let 'em be warned!


Even in prison, you can maintain your own sense of freedom in your mind! They can't take your mind away...
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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation

Unread postby Arsenal » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 18:19:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kakkerlak', 'W')hen you're dead or in prison you can't use your money, food, house or land. So, they can take it from me without protest.

When dealing with the state, in good or bad times, you only have two just options; persuade them or be obedient.

Of course i will not give into tyranny. Let 'em be warned!


Screw that. If they/gov take your food and preps it is pretty much a death sentence if TSHTF. So either don't keep all you eggs in one basket or fight. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'p')ersuade them or be obedient until you can inflict the most damage to them.
There... Fixed that for ya.

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For real: mercenaries & gun confiscation in USA

Unread postby Jotapay » Wed 28 Jan 2009, 00:37:28

This happened years ago in New Orleans. Check this out. This is Bill Moyers here. I always heard about this but never saw proof. But there is tons of video documentation here.

It is chilling when the soldier says, "You may have to shoot an American."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko74IxSVj3Q
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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation?

Unread postby patience » Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:39:45

What would I do?

I don't know,exactly. What I do know is that nobody really wants to find out.
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Re: What would you do facing prospect of assets confiscation?

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 01:26:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', 'W')hat would I do?

I don't know,exactly. What I do know is that nobody really wants to find out.


Fundamentally, this goes to the point that you only really own what you can protect. Whether its another individual taking away your preps by stealing or the Goobermint taking them away by confiscation, you can try to keep the property, but in the case of the Goobermint doing the taking trying to stop them likely comes at the expense of either your life or your freedom. So then your question is to yourself "Is my property worth my life?"

Some property is worth your life, for instance the Clothes off your back or your Boots are probably worth your life to fight for, because without them you really stand no chance at all. However, past that, given the choice of being blown away by Goobermint Storm Troopers after my Preps or walking away from them, I would walk away. I would however try to beat them to the punch by giving the stuff away before they had the chance to take it away.

The less you own, the less you have to worry about being taken from you. As was mentioned here in the thread, what you have in your head really can never be taken from you, you always will own what you know. If what material goods you have get taken from you, you still have what is in your head with which to start over.

This is not to say you should not try to protect your preps, but just speaks to the fact that trying to protect them alone probably won't be successful. You are btter off working with a community, becuase in numbers there is some power. Together we stand, divided we fall.

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