Understanding Your Most Fundamental Rights: Part 2

The Coach's Team ^ | 1/4/17 | Bill Norton

[Oldpuppymax]

Suppose you, as a good neighbor, noticed an imbalance between a couple of families down the street. The Smiths — husband and wife, no kids, yet they have two cars. Then there is the Jones family — husband and wife, five kids and no car. A difficult life the Joneses have, hard to get to work or to the store, difficult to get the kids to school. You would like to help, because you are a kind, compassionate and merciful individual, but you only have one car for yourself, your wife and three kids.

You decide one day to talk to Mr. Smith about this perceived injustice. “I have a suggestion for you Mr. Smith,” you say. “Why don’t you give one of your cars to the Joneses?” “Well, that’s a suggestion alright,” he responds, “but I think I will keep my cars.” This infuriates you because you cannot understand his lack of compassion. “Actually, I insist,” you exclaim. “You insist” objects an exasperated Mr. Smith? “Get out of here! I’m not going to just give a car to the Joneses.”

This situation has you quite flustered. You can’t even sleep at night. So, you get up late one evening, go to the Smith’s, hot wire their car and drive it over to the Jones. You knock on the door and out comes Mr. Jones to see his new gift. “For me?” he asks. “Sure,” you say.”Now you can get the kids to school easier, get to work and the store easier, sorry I don’t have a key, but if you just touch these two wires together…” You go home feeling so good, because you are a kind, compassionate, merciful individual and you sleep...

[fruser1]

If we are to operate under the premise that government gets its authority from the people, which ours does, then government cannot give authority which we do not already have ourselves. If we do not have the authority to take from one neighbor and give to another, as individuals or collectively, we do not have the ability to delegate that to government. We can only delegate that which is ours.

Great rendition of a concept I've always known intuitively.

[Little Ray]

Well, in a Democracy the Mob has the authority to what it darn well pleases.

Which is why Democracy is a bad thing.

It is not an accident that our leaders and our government keep on talking about “our Democracy” even though our government is not supposed to be a Democracy.

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, our Framers and certainly others I am not aware of wrote extensively on this topic. What you and everyone else knows intuitively is Natural Law. Theft is theft. Thou shalt not steal does not exempt government.