[unspun]

Posited: "Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort." Ayn Rand, The Property Status of Airwaves? (1964)"

If true, then the following should all be private property:

- airwaves
- military equipment, weaponry, technology, and bases
- police cars and facilities
- "government" capitol buldings, court buildings, office buildings, technology, supplies
- national parklands
- the Internet

In other words, we must own nothing through our own Republic.

Please get real, Randites. Come -- join the American Republic with us! :-) Afterall, we won our liberty (i.e., the right to govern ourselves) quite awhile ago now and way before revisionists from Russia came upon our shores.

BTW, if we build a complex of government management with private ownership and enterprise in all of the above, we build, by the textbook definition, fascism --on whatever scale it exists.

No thanks.... Give me good old American Capitalism, within the Founding Fathers' framework of Republicanism.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the ping! I'll take that good old "American Capitalism within Founding Fathers' framework of Republicanism" also!

[Paul C. Jesup]

Your arguement contradicts itself in that if we doing nothing it will lead to tyranny and if we do something it will lead to tyranny.

That sort of thinking is what helps lead to tyranny, because it states that any solution will lead to tyranny, which is quite wrong.