“Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas.” – Lord Action As I watch our political “leaders” vote to steal the wealth of our children and grandchildren, as I watch our nation running to embrace the concepts of socialism as a solution for the nation’s economic crisis, I must say [...]
Category Archives: Freedom Philosophy
SOCIALISM?…What Now?…Reflect, Assess, Plan and Act!
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This Question of Legal Plunder Must be Settled Once and For All
This is my final post from the writings of Frederic Bastiat’s, “The Law.” Hopefully, through the discussion of the fundamental,, God given freedoms, which Bastiat has provided for us in “The Law,” you are able to more clearly identify the means by which the legal system is perverted resulting in the usurpation of the freedoms [...]
Also posted in Constitutional Government, Higher Law, Laws of Nature Tagged Frederic Bastiat, God Given Freedoms, Legal Plunder, liberty, life, Pursuit of Happiness, The Law, unalienable rights 1 Comment
The Results of Legal Plunder – Frederic Bastiat
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. [Emphasis added] What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking. [...]
Also posted in Laws of Nature Tagged Evil, Frederic Bastiat, Law of Nature, Maintain Justice 2 Comments
Government Slowly Taking Control of the Private Sector
If you want to get a glimpse of how the federal government is making its move to take control of, and therefore begin to eliminate, freedom in the marketplace read this article, “Idiots’ Indeed” published in The Wall Street Journal Digital Network at the following link. Idiot’s Indeed – WSJ Digital Network I’m afraid that [...]
The Law Should Protect Property and Punish Plunder
As I posted earlier quoting Frederic Bastiat from his work entitled, “The Law”, answering the question “what, then, is law? Bastiat states, “[it] is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Each of us has a natural right—from God—to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.” Now we move on to [...]
Inaugural Post – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
