The anti-canal cause has united leftist critics of the government — including former FSLN leaders — with peasant farmers and small-scale tourist businesses worried about land confiscation, as well as the traditional sources of anti-Ortega vehemence: Contras, conservative political parties and the right-wing daily La Prensa.
Through state-owned companies, government entities and the deployment of totalitarian command-and-control methods, private enterprise is made illegal or at the very least, extremely risky because of the threat of confiscation (as has happened in Venezuela in the last few years) or other extrajudicial action.
Regardless of the history and logic, one result of Heller (and a subsequent decision that extended the personal right as a check on state and local regulation) is to remove the threat of gun confiscation as an option.
These confiscations as well as previous demolitions, compounded by the inability of humanitarian agencies to deliver relief items to the affected households, create a coercive environment that potentially pressures them to leave their current sites against their will.
Austrians Consider Claims VIENNA, March 23, (Agence France-Presse) -- The head of Austria's rightist Freedom Party, Vice Chancellor Susanne Riesaidasser, said today that the government must consider compensating victims of Nazi wartime confiscation laws as soon as claims for forced laborers are settled.
According to state media, a top government official, Bo Xilai, and his aides ordered the confiscation of as much as $15 billion from wealthy families, who were accused of crimes based on sometimes flimsy evidence.
According to public court orders, Bradley is currently in a civil dispute with the state over confiscation laws, as well as facing drugs and conspiracy charges.
Xing, the trafficker, sees the confiscations as the result of poor planning.
In a statement to VICE, councillor Nadia Shah described the confiscations as a last resort offered only when help is refused, saying their Safer Streets team "provides the services and help people need to rebuild their lives away from the streets.
Still, the confiscation of Church property as well as the lay government's direction of Church affairs made the Duke disliked among clerics, whether Reformed or conservative.
13 It also shows the effect of criminalisation of sex work disabling capacities for HIV prevention, for example, through the confiscation of condoms as evidence of prostitution 12 14 as well as indirectly through an increase in violence and mental health problems.
