As for the Department of Education, a spokesman said, "We have not received any reports on this, not in terms of confiscations and not in terms of disciplinary actions".
A specialized Criminal Court and prosecution office came into operation in Bulgaria last month and a Commission on Asset Forfeiture has achieved "significant results in terms of confiscations," he said.
The term "certificate of confiscation" was coined in the late 1970s, when inflation was rising.
In fact, the most abiding tradition was that of an authoritarian, arbitrary government, personified as Ma-Bap (or Mother-Father), but Ma-Bep was more feared than loved, more remote and awesome than personal and indulgent; the only experience most subjects had of Ma-Bap was in terms of persecutions, exactions, and confiscations.
"Would it not be just and fair for those who try to extract a living from the uncertain arts of writing and composing to be freed from a form of confiscation not visited upon any one else?" But such "confiscation" continues so long as copyright terms are limited at all.
But what Israel was doing now in the West Bank, in terms of continued occupation, settlement expansion and the confiscation of Palestinian land, was "leading to the one-state solution, which we reject".
Some Border State representatives objected to any form of confiscation.
(Pet stores are not beyond the realm of confiscation).
Now, Labour is said to be planning some act of confiscation.
"Where would an Iraqi get $3,000?" one sergeant asked when the question of confiscation was raised.
Writing poetry is a form of confiscation, its returns always speculative.
