>>> ... "non-aggression principle"...

(AKA "Zero...[etc]" or "ZAP" ) IMO, it's a calorie-free nerfing of the considerably less arbitray NIOF principle -- and chiefly exists in order to enable allegedly "anti-war" leftists to hijack the LP by making similar noises.)

>>> We're talking about Souter's private property here, not government property.

The mistake you're making here is affording a predator rights equivalent to those of civilized men, rather than observing that rights are conditional upon behavior. For instance, your right to liberty ends upon you lifting my wallet -- at which point your very life is my putty to play with.

Souter cannot morally claim a right which he will not extend to others (e.g., we do not possess rights merely on account of possessing deoxyribonucleic acid bent and twisted "just so" ). Souter, via E.D. law, has essentially asserted that ALL property is de facto state property merely leased to individuals (and withdrawn from them) at state discretion. In doing so, Souter thereby forswears a claim to "his" property. Perhaps he'd argue otherwise if you got in his face -- but he'd so so from a position of gross hypocrisy.)

>>> What's next... advocating the arrest and imprisonment of the Drug Czar's children if they are caught with some dope?

This analogy is doubly false, as it introduces third-party innocents and then equates them to inanimate objects.

>>> If you think Souter needs such a come-uppance and have no problem with such seizure taking place, then why don't you gather up a bunch of like-minded people and carry out such an action yourselves instead of relying on the State to do so?

For the same reason I don't crap into my own personally-built sewage-treatment plant: the state has nationalized the market for it -- and I'm stuck with the situation as it is.

The mere fact that the state has nationalized a particular market (the one in this case being justice) does not mean that all need for the product is rendered morally illegitimate.

If the state is actually willing to shoot itself in the foot, it ought to be encouraged to at every oppotunity.

(Whether engaging the state in self-mutilation is, in purely pragmatic consideration more or less likely to result in a more rapid (if any) transition to a freer society than, say, a rally in Washington where thousands light up joints off flaming SSN cards -- or *nuking* Washington for that matter -- is separate issue.)