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theft laws require the government to prove that a defendant took property "with the intent to permanently deprive a person of the property." To convict a defendant of theft, the government has to prove that a thief's plan was to forever part a victim from his or her property. For example, a culprit who drives off in another's car without permission and returns it a few hours later might be convicted only of "joyriding." However, the same culprit who drives off in another's car without permission and takes it across the country probably demonstrates a specific intent to permanently deprive the owner of the car and would be guilty of the more serious crime of car theft.

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If you're going to convict a guy of theft, then you have to prove that he intended to PERMANENTLY keep property belonging to another

No court in the country requires proof of that to convict someone of theft. (Your statement would make selling something that was stolen a proof it wasn't theft since by the act of selling it the thief is not keeping it permanently.) Being in possession of an item belonging to another is all that is required to charge someone with theft. One can certainly argue in their defense that they only "borrowed" it but there is not a prosecution requirement to prove intent to keep it permanently.

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"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so." (Mark Twain)

The government's property is the people's property. You can't steal from yourself. This is Constitutional reclamation and not merely a right but a duty.

I'm going out this afternoon, for the people, to recover a nuclear submarine. Also, some very expensive bolts.

Damn Bernie, I was considering the same point.

Love the idea than anyone can force open your car locks in your own driveway and drive your car away and then claim that as he did not in fact steal your car as someday he had the intentions of returning the car.

Possession is 9/10th of the law.

Damn Bernie, I was considering the same point.

Yeah, once I was at a McDonald's, and a guy left his table and walked out the door. I saw that he left his wallet on the table he was sitting at. I went over to that table and picked it up. It was pretty fat with bills. And as I held it, I was watching him walk to his car. And I thought to myself, if our roles were reversed, what would I want. There was no doubt about it, I'd want to be taught a lesson. So I walked up to the counter and ordered every damn thing I wanted, and then I went shopping for other stuff I wanted.

The trollish Ann Coulter has actually said that white Southern segregationists were liberal Democrats!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110734364

You don't have to prove anything to charge it.