Seizing property without due process. Does this sound like something that anyone in their right mind should accept as a legitimate function of government? Maybe a tyrannical government, but certainly not a government built in the principles of liberty as ours is. Yet this is exactly what we have.

Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. Samuel Adams.