with or rather ignore what the criminals have to say about excusing/justifying their thefts.  I have to get past that and project IF this American peasant and his family gets to survive and how.

They are after all the "government" and they routinely seize the assets of "terrorists", drug dealers and criminals of all sorts.  They just fail to do so when those criminals put them in office.

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/kissinger.html