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To: Joe Brower; davidosborne
There is nothing more conservative at its base than the notion of property rights.

Quoting from Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles:

Separate property from private possession, and Leviathan becomes master of all. Upon the foundation of private property, great civilizations are built. The more widespread is the possession of private property, the more stable and productive is a commonwealth. Economic levelling, conservatives maintain, is not economic progress. Getting and spending are not the chief aims of human existence; but a sound economic basis for the person, the family, and the commonwealth is much to be desired.

You are not the owner of my property, you can't use the force of government to usurp my rights as a property owner, and continue calling yourself a conservative.

If forcing me via legislation to allow you to enter my property bearing arms against my wishes is conservative, then imminent domain is as well.

81 posted on 02/10/2006 12:28:13 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Could an employer require that everyone drive a specific make/model/yr/color of vehicle in order to park in THEIR lot. even if it has no relevence to the JOB in which you are performing?


85 posted on 02/10/2006 12:31:36 PM PST by davidosborne (DavidOsborne.net)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
You are not the owner of my property, you can't use the force of government to usurp my rights as a property owner, and continue calling yourself a conservative.

The government does this all the time. There are all sorts of laws regulating what you can and cannot do on "your" (stop paying your taxes and find out who really owns it) property. If you conduct a business open to the public or have employees on your own property, there are even more rules to follow. Do you support the repeal of ALL of these laws? If not, you're just being a chump to allow big corporations to run over the Rights of individual citizens.

If forcing me via legislation to allow you to enter my property bearing arms against my wishes is conservative, then imminent domain is as well.

No comparison whatsoever.

108 posted on 02/10/2006 1:52:39 PM PST by Mulder (“The spirit of resistance is so valuable, that I wish it to be always kept alive" Thomas Jefferson)
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