"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun"
Thousands bankrupted over unpaid council tax - Times Online
Bailiffs were used in 1.2 million cases to recover council tax arrears last year, and 2.5 million households received courts summonses. Of 19,156 bankruptcy petitions, one in five was lodged by local authorities. In 1992-93 the proportion was one in a hundred.
Only a couple of weeks ago we learnt; "bailiffs would for the first time be given permission to restrain or pin down householders. They would also be able to force their way into homes to seize property to pay off debts,...Bailiffs have for hundreds of years been denied powers to break into homes for civil debt or to use force against debtors, except in self-defence. In a famous declaration, William Pitt the Elder, the 18th-century prime minister, said: “The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown.”...The proposals are just a thugs' charter. Anyone can be a bailiff, you can be finishing a jail sentence for manslaughter one day and be out battering down doors on behalf of a debt-collection agency the next.
It is extraordinary how less free citizens are in this respect than they were 400 years ago. Medieval laws against overbearing bailiffs were confirmed in a case in 1604....
Increasingly the State is turning violent against its own citizens as it tries to gobble up their possessions and freedom.
