Confiscation 2

The confiscation of wealth by any entity always has a certain quality, something in common with its fellows: The one having their wealth confiscated is usually unarmed. One never hears "Let's confiscate the wealth created by those Chinese worker-abusers" because, as much as they deserve it, they would fight. One never hears, "Let's confiscate the money from that Arab monopoly that has us over their barrels" because the Arabs would retaliate by shutting the oil off. Instead, the moral reckoners attack the weak, the vulnerable. It is reminescent of the playbook of the African revolutionary: As soon as he gets an automatic weapon, he attacks a school and, with luck, a nunnery will be attached. So the indignant and moral powers-that-be follow the lead of that great leveler, Henry VIII, and go after churches, pensioners, cringing and desperate savers--anyone who can be looted with righteousness yet without the danger of resistance or retaliation.

They don't follow Willie Sutton. Sutton had some moxie.