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To: Solon who wrote (44905)	1/24/2006 11:35:42 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Deadly force" is not a court process. Agreed, or at least it usually isn't. You could call executions deadly force as a penalty assigned by the judicial process, but we are not talking about executions. Unless you are acting under coercion (such as being kidnapped) In this case being restrained or arrested. If you voluntarily decide to break agreements What agreements? You will only face the possible use of deadly force in the event that you have endangered the life of someone. If the feds come to take your boat because you didn't pay taxes and you get in the way they will initiate force against you. If you resist that force in any way other then the weakest and most futile effort than it can easily escalate to deadly force. Nothing voluntary about this process, any more than paying "protection" to the mob is voluntary. True you get to vote for the government, and hopefully you benefit from the government's spending, but neither fact makes paying taxes voluntary. I'm not even arguing that they should be voluntary, just pointing out the fact that they are not. "Deadly force" is a limited remedy to extreme danger. In this case danger from a confrontation that is initiated by the agents of the government. Tim