"...the LAW...."
Posted on 08/27/2009 10:06:36 PM PDT by ReadTheLaw
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When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it — without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud — to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.
I say that this act is exactly what the law is supposed to suppress, always and everywhere. When the law itself commits this act that it is supposed to suppress, I say that plunder is still committed, and I add that from the point of view of society and welfare, this aggression against rights is even worse. In this case of legal plunder, however, the person who receives the benefits is not responsible for the act of plundering. The responsibility for this legal plunder rests with the law, the legislator, and society itself. Therein lies the political danger.
The Choice Before Us
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it:
1. The few plunder the many. 2. Everybody plunders everybody. 3. Nobody plunders anybody.
We must make our choice among limited plunder, universal plunder, and no plunder. The law can follow only one of these three.
Limited legal plunder: This system prevailed when the right to vote was restricted. One would turn back to this system to prevent the invasion of socialism.
Universal legal plunder: We have been threatened with this system since the franchise was made universal. The newly enfranchised majority has decided to formulate law on the same principle of legal plunder that was used by their predecessors when the vote was limited.
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).
“I am not sure you fully realize the danger of post-modernism and the pop culture that values style and emotion over substance...but this is getting off topic from a very good post for those who are still attracted to logic and reason.”
All people are attracted to logic and reason but some need the most elemental version in order to grasp the concepts. “The Law” delivers in terms that everyone can understand even if the logic circuits in their brains are missing a few synapses.
Thank you for the link.
Government is the collective power of man.
As such, government can have no power over man that any other man might have over another person or group.
For example, you have no right to chain lesbians to a fence and whip them. Nor do you have a right to simply walk in to Chinese Americans homes and take what you like.
The great conflict now seems to e between the “Government’s job is to protect my rights and let me do what I need to succeed” faction and the “Government owes me everything and should take care of me no matter whether I try or not” groups.
Governments job is not to be our parents. Or our Pastors. Government rarely even screws it’s own ass on right. It amounts to a summary, a crystallization of what we ourselves are. If we are greedy, can we expect our government to be thrifty? If we are unfaithful, will a dedicated, honest government result?
Impossible.
Government can have no values, it can have no aspirations, it can have no goals or ethics if the people themselves have lost them.
Thanks...A Very Good read.
I saved the pdf to share.
"...the LAW...."
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