PoliticalChic
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1.With control of the school system, and operating it along the lines of Mushroom Management, .....
"Keep 'em in the dark, and feed 'em.......manure".....government can get most of their captive audience to focus on tiny, finite pieces of data that they can control, rather than through the prism of what America has always stood for.
The most succinct expression of true Americana is the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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
2. Consider this one fact, and every totalitarian/collectivist worldviews fails the test of liberty.
Property rights are inseparable from liberty, freedom, and what ‘America’ stands for. Every collectivist political doctrine…communism, socialism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Nazism, can be summarized thus:
Leon Trotsky long ago pointed out that where there is no private ownership, individuals can be bent to the will of the state”
Some use gulags and concentration camps, some simply use regulations, statutes and rules….but they all restrict and abolish private property.
3. Today is a good time to review the importance of private property, as it is the day John Locke died…
John Locke, (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England—died October 28, 1704, High Laver, Essex), English philosopher whose works lie at the foundation of modern philosophical empiricism and political liberalism. He was an inspirer of both the European Enlightenment and the Constitution of the United States.
Britannica.com
4. . ""Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.... Locke argued in his Two Treatises of Government that political society existed for the sake of protecting "property", which he defined as a person's "life, liberty, and estate".
That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Virginia Declaration of Rights"
Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
...John Locke....expressed the radical view that government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property. He explained the principle of checks and balances to limit government power. He favored representative government and a rule of law."
John Locke Natural Rights to Life Liberty and Property The Freeman Foundation for Economic Education
5. To judge how far popular culture has veered from that view, look at the riots against private property encouraged by the Democrats, descendants of the Bolsheviks.
And this …the Police Chief of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown has a particularly.......odd......view of policing.
She isn't inclined to do it.
At 14:30 “I will not put an officer in harms way to protect the property….”
"Keep 'em in the dark, and feed 'em.......manure".....government can get most of their captive audience to focus on tiny, finite pieces of data that they can control, rather than through the prism of what America has always stood for.
The most succinct expression of true Americana is the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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
2. Consider this one fact, and every totalitarian/collectivist worldviews fails the test of liberty.
Property rights are inseparable from liberty, freedom, and what ‘America’ stands for. Every collectivist political doctrine…communism, socialism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Nazism, can be summarized thus:
Leon Trotsky long ago pointed out that where there is no private ownership, individuals can be bent to the will of the state”
Some use gulags and concentration camps, some simply use regulations, statutes and rules….but they all restrict and abolish private property.
3. Today is a good time to review the importance of private property, as it is the day John Locke died…
John Locke, (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England—died October 28, 1704, High Laver, Essex), English philosopher whose works lie at the foundation of modern philosophical empiricism and political liberalism. He was an inspirer of both the European Enlightenment and the Constitution of the United States.
Britannica.com
4. . ""Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.... Locke argued in his Two Treatises of Government that political society existed for the sake of protecting "property", which he defined as a person's "life, liberty, and estate".
That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Virginia Declaration of Rights"
Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
...John Locke....expressed the radical view that government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property. He explained the principle of checks and balances to limit government power. He favored representative government and a rule of law."
John Locke Natural Rights to Life Liberty and Property The Freeman Foundation for Economic Education
5. To judge how far popular culture has veered from that view, look at the riots against private property encouraged by the Democrats, descendants of the Bolsheviks.
And this …the Police Chief of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown has a particularly.......odd......view of policing.
She isn't inclined to do it.
At 14:30 “I will not put an officer in harms way to protect the property….”
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