For those who have trouble grasping the fact that we are subject to
having our property stolen at the side of the road or at a checkpoint by
government employed highwaymen, there is an article for you to read:

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/08/highway-to-serfdom.html

Please follow the links to the references.

I will just quote the end of the article below:

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Using almost exactly the same methods -- traffic stops, contrived
searches, and armed extortion in lieu of prosecution -- the Dallas
County, Iowa Sheriff's Department sucked up $1.7 billion from motorists
traveling along I-80 between 2002 and 2006. This profitable racket had to
gear down just a bit after Sheriff Brian Gilbert was convicted of
stealing $120,000 in stolen money.

But Gilbert's lenient sentence -- a $1,000 fine, a year's probation, and
a brief term of "community service," rather than a prison term --
suggests that his comrades have a license to steal from the general
public, as long as they don't skim from the State's take.

The same priorities governed the Soviet Union, of course: The police were
free to expropriate the bourgeoise at whim, but stealing from the State
was a capital offense.

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