>I think the government has gone too far with these armed raids, as if a bunch of store people are going to mount an attack against armed police? What kind of a country is this that we allow this to happen?

In ancient Rome the state inherited rich peoples estates sometimes actively
- by forcing the wills to be made out to the state,
confiscating or eliminating other inheritors and/or previous owners.

We followed with panem et circenses, now other traditions linked to debt will be rediscovered.