Posted on 11/11/2002 1:36:55 AM PST by JohnHuang2
This is his land. What he wants to do with it is of no concern to the government. What he wants to do with it is of no concern to his neighbors.
The below post was to a anti-tobacco/anti-property rights thread:
It's irrational and often dishonest to put forth that a person can assign or give to a person, group of persons or government a right he doesn't himself possess in the first place.
No person has the right to barge onto another person's property uninvited. Nor does a person have the right to "camp" or take up a seat on another person's property once the property owner has asked the person -- whom the property owner invited in the first place -- to leave. Who is to say when a person is uninvited? The property owner. Who is to say when an invited guest has overstayed their welcome? The property owner.
That law, if you will, is universal. It's objective law. Objective laws exist beyond the reach of man-made law or political-agenda law or media agenda or media bias. That is, objective law regarding access to property and who holds the right is valid on all property at the property owner's discretion.
The American news media proclaims from on high that the individual belonging to this group of people and that group of people and all manner or segments of individuals that can be corralled into a group have, as an individual member of said group, the right to barge in uninvited, and when invited, the right to overstay his or her welcome.
That communitarian agenda is proclaimed form on high to protect the "little guy". The little guy being an individual of any special interest group. Special interest groups that self-proclaim to have rights that as separate individuals no person in the group has the right to impose on another individual.
It's the rule of tribalism -- tyranny of a majority over the individual. It's a form of terrorism inflicted on the individual that if the individual doesn't bow to the tribe's irrationality, dishonesty and mysticism he or she will become the tribe's next victim. There in lies the underlying motive and cause of almost all politicians, bureaucrats, mainstream news media "personalities" and many academics: to undermine honesty.
Dishonesty, mysticism and irrationality are the problem/cancer that terrorize the little guy.
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Politics suck. Politics suck objectivity out and insert irrationality in. Sometimes a small error will be compounded over and over until it becomes a massive problem. In mid-term and presidential elections tens-of-millions of people vote for the lesser of evils despite that it still begets evil. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong?
The tide is turning; the pendulum is swinging the other direction. Reality asserts as sure as honesty outlives the lie. It always has and always will. In politics, democrats are but the first party in the pendulum's path to be defeated in their irrationality and dishonesty.
Would that it were so. I see the pendulum slowing slightly in its leftward swing a little, but that is a long way from swinging the other direction.
The Republicans have both legislative and executive branches for the first time since long before my time, but there are enough RINOS and milquetoasts in there to keep the media at bay and do the right thing.
I'm cautiously optimistic, but, like a lot of others, I'll believe it when I see it.
Would that it were so. I see the pendulum slowing slightly in its leftward swing a little, but that is a long way from swinging the other direction.
It's not a pendulum swinging from right (conservative, Republican) to left (liberal, Democrat), or vise versa. It is a pendulum swinging away from dishonesty, irrationality and mysticism moving toward honesty, rationality and objectivity. It just so happens that in politics, democrats are and will be but the first party in the pendulum's path to be defeated in their irrationality and dishonesty.
In case you missed the salient point: politics suck objectivity out and insert irrationality in. Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem. Yet politics is still but a symptom of the cancer. Loss of objectivity can lead a person to believe that the pendulum swing is from Republican to Democrat or vise versa (the symptom) rather than the real, valid Pendulum motion is from dishonesty/irrationality/mysticism to honesty/rationality/objectivity (the cure). No matter which political party may be the lesser of evils or greater of evils at any given time, all evils are in the pendulums path of restoring honesty, rationality and objectivity.
Dishonesty, mysticism and irrationality are the problem/cancer that terrorize the little guy.
Gingrich and Lott zapped the very same agenda in '95. - Hastert is very pro government, anti-freedom.
GWs brother Jeb is singlehandedly in the process of ruining my community because he bedded the rich and powerful Greens. I've pretty much shut up about it because around here you love the Bushes or suffer the consequences. Never mind that an entire community of good people (who I care about deeply) are being desroyed in a wholesale fashion.
And just the opposite is true. Stop paying your property taxes for about 3 years and see who owns your property!
And every single politician in my chain of representation, regardless of party, has signed up with them.
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