If a cop can take your property with no consequences and you will be arrested or killed if you defend yourself and your property, then what the law says doesn’t matter as the defacto state of reality isn’t concerned with such petty things as laws.

Yes, imminent domain. You don’t own land you only lease it from the government.

You’ll forgive me if I neither know who Tom Waits is, or particularly care, but I can say I’ve seen enough people turn into corpses from this line of thought before and don’t relish the thought of burying any more.

Yay anti-intelectualism! You know what’s better then knowledge and understanding? Ignorance and conjecture! I bet that hasn’t hurt anyone before

Victor dropped out of college, he has no doctorate.