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No. I mean, "theft" means "we made a law making it theft". By definition, government seizures are not theft.

I don't have a dog in this fight but surely neither the government nor anyone else gets to define what ordinary English words mean.

Of course they do. What do you call: "Taking a person's life with your own hands?"

- For a white westerner: Crime, Murder, etc

- For the government/military: war, being a hero, etc

- For "brown" people in the wrong countries: Terrorism