<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0764a412-be5f-41e4-9fc8-a16db5c7d8a0/46F41150-49FB-4E7C-A913-2754EBF1585D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name" href="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npri.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name"><P>Multiple sources define the word as "any <EM>wrongful</EM> taking of property." Others define it as "any <EM>unlawful</EM> taking of property."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name"><P>Note the distinction: between <EM>wrongful</EM> and <EM>unlawful</EM>. While some people believe that taking others' property is simply wrong, others believe it's OK if some government law permits it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name">during the Reagan administration, the 1983 edition of <EM>Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary</EM> defined the word as "... the act of taking and carrying away the goods or personal property of another without his consent and with the intention of depriving him of it." No mention of government or law there.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name"><P>Indifferent to the principles of the American founding and scornful of the letter of the U.S. Constitution, this claque is attempting to pass its legislation before voters fully grasp what's happening. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name">once the larceny involved is made "lawful,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npri.org/publications/larceny-by-any-other-name">a <EM>legal monopoly on lethal force </EM>— can be set in motion against those who refuse to obey the "law." </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46F41150-49FB-4E7C-A913-2754EBF1585D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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