1. It's probably impossible to find any society that has never been involved in slavery, either as slaves or as slave-owners. Now…why is that? It is because slavery is the ground floor of any economic system.
The concepts is best understood when one realized the necessity of collateral in business ventures.
A fundamental principle of our society is property rights. When property rights have not been formally established, the costs of legally validating ownership of a home, a farm, or a business may be prohibitively expensive relative to the average income level, a crippling handicap for those seeking to rise from poverty to prosperity. Without property rights, one with entrepreneurial talents loses the access to other people’s money: homes or other assets not recognized by a legal system cannot be used as collateral.
What, then is the very least that one can own? Yes….their body. One can promise servitude…or be made to give same.
a. Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels - Forbes
b. Even OWS, who oppose private property can learn:
“Who’d have thought that a crowd of people demanding the seizure of wealth from banks, corporations, and the wealthy might also have a few thieves? I’m shocked,shocked to find theft occurring in a group that has hijacked private property it refuses to leave. I can’t imagine that a crowd that demands free higher education and the forgiveness of tens of thousands in student debt would also think of someone’s Mac or an iPhone as equally as communal as a college education…. Law and order! Get tough on crime! Defend private property!”
Celebrated redistributionists discover healthy respect for private property « Hot Air
2. The first Africans brought in captivity to colonial Virginia in 1619 became indentured servants, like the white indentured servants who were common at that time. Both were released as free people after a set number of years.
Maldwyn Allen Jones, “American Immigration,” p. 13, 32.
a. How and when this changed to perpetual slavery for blacks is unclear, but by the 1640’s, Africans brought to Virginia no longer had indenture contracts. Yet as late as 1651, some Negroes whose period of indenture expired were still being assigned land for themselves, as were the white indentured servants.
Franklin, “From Slavery to Freedom,” p. 71-72.
b. Why the law for blacks changed from indenture to slavery might be suggested here: 1647 Nathaniel Bacon born. Led Bacon’s Rebellion which united poor blacks and poor whites in Virginia to kill all Indians. Ruling class feared that such union might threaten them; hastened transition to racial slavery.
c. The first explicit law passed in America that recognized slavery as a perpetual condition, extending to future offspring, appeared in 1661 in Virginia.
Franklin, Ibid.
d. While slavery has existed in virtually every part of the world, politically and morally accepted without question, in America it was embroiled in controversy from the beginning. Some colonies passed laws to prevent it, but these laws were nullified by the British government.
Brawley, “A Social History of the American Negro,” p. 15.
3. Under United States law the principal limitations on whether and the extent to which the State may interfere with property rights are set by the Constitution. The "Takings" clause requires that the government (whether state or federal—for the 14th Amendment's due process clause imposes the 5th Amendment's takings clause on state governments) may take private property only for a public purpose, after exercising due process of law, and upon making "just compensation." Property - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. Here is the link to the environmental movement: The movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property.
In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common.
Effectively, the taking of a person's property, ostensibly to save some obscure organism, e.g., the spotted owl, is to steal his livelihood, his options, and his liberty.
5. Let's be clear: environmentalist regulations to 'save' the spotted owl are a fraud and a pretense.
a. Ten years of research and more than 1,000 published studies detail the threats to its survival, but there's still no sure way to stop its decline. Saving the Spotted Owl : NPR
b. “The spotted owl was dying anyway. First of all, its prey was being eaten by the larger barred owl, which had been moving west for the last hundred years, but its supposed natural habitat was dying. In eastern Oregon and Washington’s Blue Mountain forests. 6 million acres are dead and dying. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest- formally designated spotted owl habitat- has so much root rot that it is called the Valley of Death. One breeding pair remains.” Nickson, "Eco-Fascists", p.131.
Without liberty....one is a slave to the collective.
Environmentalism is the thinly veiled snake in the Medusa of state control of every aspect of the individual's life.
The goal is to make 'citizen' into 'subject.'
The concepts is best understood when one realized the necessity of collateral in business ventures.
A fundamental principle of our society is property rights. When property rights have not been formally established, the costs of legally validating ownership of a home, a farm, or a business may be prohibitively expensive relative to the average income level, a crippling handicap for those seeking to rise from poverty to prosperity. Without property rights, one with entrepreneurial talents loses the access to other people’s money: homes or other assets not recognized by a legal system cannot be used as collateral.
What, then is the very least that one can own? Yes….their body. One can promise servitude…or be made to give same.
a. Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels - Forbes
b. Even OWS, who oppose private property can learn:
“Who’d have thought that a crowd of people demanding the seizure of wealth from banks, corporations, and the wealthy might also have a few thieves? I’m shocked,shocked to find theft occurring in a group that has hijacked private property it refuses to leave. I can’t imagine that a crowd that demands free higher education and the forgiveness of tens of thousands in student debt would also think of someone’s Mac or an iPhone as equally as communal as a college education…. Law and order! Get tough on crime! Defend private property!”
Celebrated redistributionists discover healthy respect for private property « Hot Air
2. The first Africans brought in captivity to colonial Virginia in 1619 became indentured servants, like the white indentured servants who were common at that time. Both were released as free people after a set number of years.
Maldwyn Allen Jones, “American Immigration,” p. 13, 32.
a. How and when this changed to perpetual slavery for blacks is unclear, but by the 1640’s, Africans brought to Virginia no longer had indenture contracts. Yet as late as 1651, some Negroes whose period of indenture expired were still being assigned land for themselves, as were the white indentured servants.
Franklin, “From Slavery to Freedom,” p. 71-72.
b. Why the law for blacks changed from indenture to slavery might be suggested here: 1647 Nathaniel Bacon born. Led Bacon’s Rebellion which united poor blacks and poor whites in Virginia to kill all Indians. Ruling class feared that such union might threaten them; hastened transition to racial slavery.
c. The first explicit law passed in America that recognized slavery as a perpetual condition, extending to future offspring, appeared in 1661 in Virginia.
Franklin, Ibid.
d. While slavery has existed in virtually every part of the world, politically and morally accepted without question, in America it was embroiled in controversy from the beginning. Some colonies passed laws to prevent it, but these laws were nullified by the British government.
Brawley, “A Social History of the American Negro,” p. 15.
3. Under United States law the principal limitations on whether and the extent to which the State may interfere with property rights are set by the Constitution. The "Takings" clause requires that the government (whether state or federal—for the 14th Amendment's due process clause imposes the 5th Amendment's takings clause on state governments) may take private property only for a public purpose, after exercising due process of law, and upon making "just compensation." Property - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. Here is the link to the environmental movement: The movement is based on voiding of property rights. Land which is not public can be so bound by regulation that it ceases to be private property.
In effect, the handmaiden of collectivism, environmentalism’s claim to be of a higher value is a step backward….toward a time when slavery was common.
Effectively, the taking of a person's property, ostensibly to save some obscure organism, e.g., the spotted owl, is to steal his livelihood, his options, and his liberty.
5. Let's be clear: environmentalist regulations to 'save' the spotted owl are a fraud and a pretense.
a. Ten years of research and more than 1,000 published studies detail the threats to its survival, but there's still no sure way to stop its decline. Saving the Spotted Owl : NPR
b. “The spotted owl was dying anyway. First of all, its prey was being eaten by the larger barred owl, which had been moving west for the last hundred years, but its supposed natural habitat was dying. In eastern Oregon and Washington’s Blue Mountain forests. 6 million acres are dead and dying. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest- formally designated spotted owl habitat- has so much root rot that it is called the Valley of Death. One breeding pair remains.” Nickson, "Eco-Fascists", p.131.
Without liberty....one is a slave to the collective.
Environmentalism is the thinly veiled snake in the Medusa of state control of every aspect of the individual's life.
The goal is to make 'citizen' into 'subject.'
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