"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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Yup. Good guy. Shoulda been governor. But Ahnold was “electable.”
-PJ
Do you know how we can find out if local governments in California have passed anti-Kelo statutes as well? My town of Fairfield seems to be on a real land-grab lately - using public park land for condo developers - I know they’d just LOVE to take the housing tract I live in (and own) if the right opportunity presented itself.
And heck yeah vote yes!
Let’s hope we can make that Governor McClintock
For your consideration. Perhaps Tom can use one or more of these when debating the subject.
“It is not enough for a legislator to equalize possessions; he must aim at fixing an amount midway between extremes. But even if one were to fix a moderate amount for all, that would still be no use: for it is more necessary to equalize appetites than possessions.” - Aristotle, Politics, Bk. II. 334-23 B.C.
“I have truly no property in that which another can by right take from me when he pleases against my consent.” - John Locke, The True End of Civil Government. 1690.
“A man’s property and honor are the points upon which he will be most keenly sensitive.” - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses, Bk. III. 1517.
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, — but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!” - William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech on the Excise Bill.
“The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence – to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.” - Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics,” symposium, Madison, WI, February 9, 1961.
“Those of our day are cleverer, for they style themselves kings of France, of Spain, of England, and so forth. Thus, by controlling the land, they can be very sure of controlling its inhabitants.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. 1762.
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.
- William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 1596.
“Men who have no property can injure one another only in their persons or reputations. But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, though he to whome the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. It is otherwise with injuries to property.” - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Bk.V, Ch.1, Pt.2, 1776.
I am not a “blue badge’r” (delegate) at the present time, but I’m Chair of the 55th A.D. Pubbie Central Comm. and an Assoc. Member. I’m going to the CRP Convention this weekend just to hear Tom on Sunday.