Posted on 10/17/2010 3:45:51 AM PDT by Scanian
All you fans of the Left will recognize that title as a twist on Proudhon's historic slogan, "Property is theft."
That's the personal catechism of Obama and his gang. Or, to put it more honestly, "Your property is theft. My property is untouchable."
Gimme that Air Force One. Gimme that trillion-dollar slush fund. Gimme that vacation in Spain at taxpayer expense. It's mine! The Clintons even took the White House silverware, remember?
Some people have a monstrous appetite for power and privilege, but they always claim to do what they do from compassion for the little people. Kim Jong-Il in North Korea is starving his people from love of the people. He's got a Stalinist propaganda apparatus and real concentration camps to make sure that the people actually go along with that. North Korea has the only permanent diet plan in the world that actually works. Has anybody told Michelle?
But forget Stalinism. In the European Union, the power class are so locked in that they don't bother with real elections anymore. The "elected" EU Parliament makes no real laws, and the real lawmakers are not elected. It's a big socialist front, a bureaucratic coup d'état.
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What really kills me are the Socialists who rail against the evil greedy rich. The so called selfish capitalists. In reality the purest form of capitalist monopoly is Socialism.
No. It's not theft.
Theft is taking without the consent of the owner.
Socialism occurs because we in this country sit by and do nothing about it.
The Left steals our right to speak freely, our right to educate our children, our rights to free and honest elections, and our rights to our property...and we let them do it.
It is our passivity that transforms theft into taking with consent.
If someone comes into your yard and, as you watch, drives away your lawn tractor AND YOU DO NOTHING DO STOP HIM...that is not theft because your acquiescence (weakness) is passive consent.
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BRAVISSIMO!
I’d shoot someone who took my stuff if I was there. I can’t do that with the government because they have a legitimate, voter approved monopoly of force. That monopoly of force is becoming less legitimate as socialism spreads and both major national political parties become more corrupt (the Dems are much more than the Repubs, but the Repubs sanction Democrat corruption by ignoring and allowing it).
I think the whole idea behind the tea party movement is repudiation of that so-called legitimacy of the state.
It may take a second American revolution, but the power of the socialist state must be overturned.
BTW, when the government acts in a way that is in opposition to our Constitution, we have the right to rebel. That said, our rebellion may result in our imprisonment or death.
Excellent post! Thank you!
Vive le révolution conservateur!
God didn’t say, “Thou Shalt Not Steal unless Congress passes a different law.”
Perhaps, however, if we are to ever get through to the masses, we had best "keep it simple, stupid!"
For prime example of what I mean, this video is a must see:
How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters
The stupidity...the abject ignorance of the masses is simply stunning.
Locked and Loaded
Around third grade I came to the same conclusion about democracy that John Stewart Mill did. Why don’t the poorest 51% vote to take away all the possessions of the richer 49%? Politicians are working to enlarge the pool of people who are takers dependent on the government.
And the 'haves' from whom such property had been taken would be also be gone...having moved to another country that appreciates their desire and capacity to be productive.
Sorta.
If I'm not home, and the lawn mower hijacker in question has purposely waited until I wasn't home to jack my mower, it is still theft, even if I wasn't aware, and didn't resist, but did not approve.
In many areas, this is the case with government.
Like an army of roaches, they've been stealing crumbs in the middle of the night for decades, and now we realize the entire kitchen is empty.
I can't say I know how the law views a taking of this kind...but if you don't go take your mower back or file a report with the police, from a practical POV you have given passive consent to the act (i.e. it's not theft).
That said, the fact that we are ready to back the country from the scum that has been stealing us blind (by doing whatever it takes, up to and including revolution) is a demonstration that, however much we might be tardy in our action, we are loudly denying any consent to such taking.
And that makes it theft!
Your theory assumes mob consent translates to personal consent. If the mob approves a tax to redistribute my wealth to others, and I vote against it, it is still theft. It's also a form of slavery, since I'm working for others with no compensation.
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