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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Solon who wrote (44966)1/30/2006 4:24:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
No, it is NOT. UNLESS the agent is corrupt, then he/she is simply protecting my/your rights and freedoms under the Constitution. A rapist ought to be arrested to put it more succinctly.

We were not talking about rapists, or anyone else who has attacked other people. Not paying your taxes or buying some marijuana is not an attack on other people. People enforcing those laws are not protecting the rights and freedoms of others at least not directly. The tax collector at least has the argument that without revenue the state can not protect the rights and freedoms of others, so he is contributing to that effort, but he still is initiating force. The cop arresting someone for marijuana possession can't effectively make that argument IMO.
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