Here help yourself
Posted on 04/07/2017 7:30:07 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
People without college degrees, or even high school diplomas, appear to understand property rights. Why can't law school professors?
Evidence of the former can be found trend can be found in the number of signs one sees that read, "This house protected by shotgun three nights a week. You guess which three." Fences and walls are other good indicators of this cognizance.
Evidence of the latter phenomenon seems almost as overwhelming. "Property is just a bundle of sticks, according to law professors," Adam Macleod, a professor at Faulkner University's Jones School of Law said at the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Society in Dallas last weekend. "They consider it a creation of the state." The Philadelphia Society is a group of conservative intellectuals formed in the wake of the Goldwater defeat in 1964.
Moreover, "The American Law and Property Society thinks property rights are an entitlement," MacLeod avers.
When the Supreme Court does issue a ruling that reaffirms property rights, law school professors are generally aghast. They "baffle my colleagues who think the Koch brothers are sitting on the Supreme Court."
MacLeod did note drily that law school students can be a tough sell too: "'I can't wait for property class!' are words that have passed through the mouths of no law student ever."
Can I steal all their work as claim it as my own?
Take the keys to his car and walk out of the room....see what he says....
Only to argue for property rights tommorow if the money is right. They are lawyers after all.
Here help yourself
Reminds me of Pete Seeger. Against all individual property rights but that wasn’t a problem with his 18 acres of Hudson waterfront property.
Jefferson envisioned the US as a small-community based, agrarian society of (predominantly yeomen) citizens. Once the property taxes were jacked up high enough to make this impossible (and to fund the shtate-run education system at that, a double whammy), that vision died. And look where we are now. Sprawling urban jungles filled with dangerous, violent, lazy wrecks of men, millions upon millions of weak, godless citizens across the fruited plain terrified of their own shadow and offended by everyone else's, seeking government control over every aspect of their own and your and my life...
Ask a professor about his views on Plagiarism. If he objects to it then ask him ‘Why’? It’s only intellectual ‘property rights’. No big deal... Right?
there’s probably a family on food stamps who could really use that Lexus;>)
try claiming it for “the people.” That’s what they always do. When the hell do they ever meet people? They only talk to each other.
Well that is a depressing thought.
Social justice is a reincarnation of communism, but instead of dividing society by warring classes, it is divided by demographic groups.
The calls for communitarianism from group identity denying individual identity, calls for equal distribution of wealth and equality of outcome despite the horrors of enforcing it come straight from the Soviet Union.
Property is just a faggot?
Except those who own property on the US-Mexico border. They can stop the wall from being built because it’s on their property. /s
“...a professor at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law...”
Never heard of the school. Is it the US equivalent of one of those Caribbean medical schools?
Never heard of it.
Now THAT they would understand...
The most fundamental principle of communism is that there is no ownership of property (except for the ruling elite). You don’t own a house, a car, or money.
If these “professors” were true to their principles, they would live in a commune where nothing was privately owned, not even beds or toothbrushes.
My predecessor at AIA, Dan Flynn, did a pretty exhaustive history of the American Left and concluded that the three things they always attacked were marriage, religion and property.
not quite. It’s in Alabama. Come to think of it, though, this might be the first time we’ve covered them.
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