is all over.
Doug ___________________________________
I'd say you have some company.
"But it is a firm principle of Socialism never to interfere with personal property in order to investigate its origin or to arrange it in a different way. Never and nowhere! And whoever asserts to the contrary either does not know the principles of Socialism or willingly and knowingly asserts an untruth. The Socialists deem an investigation into the origin of an acknowledged personal property an unnecessary trouble. They do not envy the Duke of Westminster or Lord Brassey their wealth. Although they perceive very well the constant changes with regard to property; although they investigate and are acquainted with the causes producing those changes; although they are well aware that fraud, and meanness and violence in a great many instances are among those causes, they forbear to investigate how much these causes, how much others, have influenced the state of property of this or that single person. They consider the personal property an accomplished fact, and respect it; so much so that they consider stealing a crime. Every time Revolution was victorious in Paris bills were seen at the street corners threatening death to thieves. A remarkable fact is that Baron Rothschild fled suddenly from Paris as soon as these bills were posted. At Lyons during an insurrection in 1832 a man who had appropriated another man's property was shot by a labourer in command. During the reign of the Commune of 1871 Paris had no thieves, no prostitutes." -- Victor Adolph Sorge, "Socialism and the Worker," 1876, http://www.marxists.org/archive/sorge/1876/socialism-worker.htm
I venture to say that if one's body isn't one's property, nothing is. What would have happened to RP during the Paris commune. (not a question)
Somebody should write a book about how we got to these weird ideas about crime, punishment, and justice. Maybe someone has.