tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post4735233571579610743..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Government must act by law or terror or some combination of them." Clarence B. Carson on the inextricable links between property, liberty and the law.Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-66856224835071988662014-10-01T18:32:20.786-05:002014-10-01T18:32:20.786-05:00I'm a little doubtful of the notion that law r...I'm a little doubtful of the notion that law restrains government. To me it looks like it restrains (more accurately, controls) the peons. The ruling class does not in any real sense feel the pressure of the law. In fact government might be defined as that institution whose acts would be punished if ordinary individuals did them.Paul Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-62191194826159029342014-10-01T13:37:06.866-05:002014-10-01T13:37:06.866-05:00Sort of like Ruby Ridge and Waco. Lest We Forget ...Sort of like Ruby Ridge and Waco. Lest We Forget !!! We Will Not Stand Down !!! Behind Enemy Lines. In Unconstitutional Collectivist Ct. AAA/O , 11B2O.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-58302342930198353282014-10-01T13:32:49.592-05:002014-10-01T13:32:49.592-05:00Gov't terror: Nazi's hanging 100 or so Cze...Gov't terror: Nazi's hanging 100 or so Czechs because two or three dared to blow up Rheinhard Heydrich...Gov't terror: Feds shooting & burning women and children to death because they claimed their religious leader was wanted for some made up crime or another. And yes, our private property is number one when it comes to liberty and actually we've lost that because of their fiat currency. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-52091096172310396102014-10-01T13:04:55.773-05:002014-10-01T13:04:55.773-05:00Private property ownership in the US is an illusio...Private property ownership in the US is an illusion. You are taxed for "owning" property. If you don't pay that tax the State will take the property from you.<br /><br />The deed to any private property is nothing more than a sucker certificate. In exchange for bearing all the cost of maintenance and upkeep for your revenue generating parcel for the State, you get to pretend that the property is yours.<br /><br />Even if all i's are dotted and all t's crossed, the State can still seize "your" property if a determination is maded it will "serve the common good".<br /><br />And how does the State enforce this current order?<br /><br />With guns and violence, of course.<br /><br />From the State's point of view, any alternative arrangement simply wouldn't be civilized.<br /><br />Be sure to mow your lawn and keep the yard neat - the State prefers that it's property be well kept. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-29289978463797760562014-10-01T12:55:41.140-05:002014-10-01T12:55:41.140-05:00Hmmm...IRS, EPA-private property?Hmmm...IRS, EPA-private property?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-24851636922690847162014-10-01T12:15:28.340-05:002014-10-01T12:15:28.340-05:00Excellent article Mike. And the corollary is that ...Excellent article Mike. And the corollary is that all crime is at some level a crime against property. Murder, rape, burglary, theft, coerced taxation of income, eminent domain seizures, bureaucratic regulations that bars citizens from the proper use of their property, etc, are all violations of the sanctity of private property, whether one’s own life, or one’s tangible property. The concepts of the sanctity of private property and the right to the fruit of one’s own labor are essential to the rule of law and respect for others. The Founders linked voting to land ownership because the landed have “skin in the game” that others do not. But we changed that, along with Constitutional limits on the raising of government revenue, and changed the mechanism for electing the upper house, which was a mechanism for protecting State’s and thus, the People’s rights. <br />We often state that we are a nation of laws, and decry a government that constantly acts extra-legally, but we should not be surprised. We live in a nation where that same government is funded by the theft of private property under the color of “law”. The very law we cherish has been perverted, to its own destruction. We have allowed this to happen by electing criminals who have no care for the Rule of Law and the sanctity of private property. Once “We the People” surrendered our sovereignty to ruling class elites, the die was cast. The rudder of the ship of state is not broken, but we have brigands at the helm! Can we set it right again? I sure hope so…<br />1NCCCHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-32865098669238683192014-10-01T09:46:04.098-05:002014-10-01T09:46:04.098-05:00Carson is brilliant!
25 years ago, I used his Hist...Carson is brilliant!<br />25 years ago, I used his History of the U.S. series from the Colonial Period to the Welfare State, as our home-schooling textbooks.<br /><br />He is a right thinking American in possession of an accurate accounting of American History.<br /><br />KPN 3%Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-29376458452029487912014-10-01T08:26:54.848-05:002014-10-01T08:26:54.848-05:00Carson wins a cookie. Such clarity and insight is ...Carson wins a cookie. Such clarity and insight is welcome these days, when booty shake and Obongos obfuscations are what we get instead.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410045398729979497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-42380016132252629622014-10-01T08:19:34.025-05:002014-10-01T08:19:34.025-05:00Great insight to our present condition. I never re...Great insight to our present condition. I never really made the connection so clearly between private property and law. Thanks for sharing that Mike.iwitness02noreply@blogger.com