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by OutOfHere 696 days ago
While that's true, you absolutely don't have to settle for monarchy because a lot of democratic countries don't have this problem. Start with Canada (ignoring its namesake monarch). Civil forfeiture is a US specialty.
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While perhaps specifically Canada does not have this type of asset forfeiture, I’m not sure they’re a good example of financial liberty that we should aspire to here in the US.
So let me understand this please: Canada is bad because it doesn't have what the US doesn't have either but aspires to have?
It's bad because they deem a protest a terrorist event and freeze your bank account if they found you donated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...

As a Canadian I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you what you know about Canada.

Like what do you really know about Canada?

Because I'm getting the same "Montreal is the capital of Canada" vibes that I got from an American tourist when I was a little kid visiting the same tourist town that they were on summer vacation.

It astounds me how confidentially incorrect Americans (I'm assuming that you're American) are when it comes to their close neighbour.

So please, tell me more about Canada.

I'm not an American, and instead of asking an open-ended counter question you could try to address the issue

Did they not freeze bank accounts of people donating to the freedom convoy? Please note that this is a question of facts and not opinions. It is also completely removed from whether you (or I for that matter) support this cause or find the means that they chose legitimate.

Are you refuting the NYT story, or do you just like playing trivia games?
Not refuting it at all, just find it hard to see the relevance to the thread.

I would imagine that the funds that Canada froze in a unique situation are a rounding error compared to the funds some random US state seizes in a year.

Whatever their flaws so many other countries including Canada are so much better at this thing than the United States.

Given the horrible wealth disparity in the US, I'd say it absolutely is. Or pretty much any other western country would do also.
"What about all the bad things in Canada"

Whataboutism is not a great argument. We should aspire to take the best features from each country, not to mirror any country exactly.

I think it exists in Ireland too. I suspect it may be a legislative flaw that can be exploited in all common law countries (with the buy in of legislatures of course).
Yeah, the point wasn't aiming for monarchy but shaming them for being so bad at governance that monarchs did a better job in the one particular area.