Many people are distressed that the financiers on Wall Street, who "lost" other people's money with which they had been entrusted for safe keeping and to "grow," haven't been punished for theft and sent to prison. People don't understand that our criminal law rests on the "taking" of something to which a person is not entitled AND the intent to deprive. Crime has to involve positive acts and, implicitly, the ability to understand past, present and future time. People who exist in an unending present can dream or imagine, but they can't formulate a plan to commit a crime.
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