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Do You Have an Inalienable Right to Your Neighbor’s Labor?
This next presidential election presents a choice between two social contracts: the socialist-fascist contract of Mr. Obama and the Democrat Party1, and the limited government-free enterprise-capitalist contract of Mr. Romney2 and the Republican Party.
To help you choose your contract, please answer the following question. A simple Yes or No will do.
Do you have and inalienable right to your neighbor’s labor?
I use the term inalienable in the same sense it was used in our Declaration of Independence: a right self-evidently granted by Nature’s God and Creator. It is a permission granted to you by no other merit than your existence. It does not come from others or a government; you are born with it, and to diminish it is inherently evil and against the natural order.
If you believe that you have this right, than it is perfectly acceptable to demand that your neighbor labor for you, and you for him. Practically extending this right, you have a right to the earnings of your neighbors’ labor, such as wages and rents — and they to yours. It means that private property is a meaningless fiction. This sort of social contract — where one is not permitted private property — is either indentured servitude or slavery.
If you believe that you do not have this right, then by definition, you must receive permission to acquire your neighbor’s labor or private property. You must not steal. You must exchange something of sufficient value in trade for your neighbor’s labor.
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
A well written but off-the-mark article by AT.
The people we’re dealing with believe they have a right to our labor/property, but we don’t have a right to theirs – or even ours, once it’s theirs. It’s not a two way street, in their minds.
Logic and equality don’t cancel out emotion and greed.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 15th, 2012
@X–but we don’t have a right to theirs, which would be a simple requirement to work for their welfare income.
Until federal welfare is eliminated, don’t expect cute solutions.
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
@Maudie N Mandeville
Agreed. Welfare is the single largest factor (dare I say it?) chaining the blacks into a self-enslaving culture. I’d like to point out that while I agree with the AT article, I don’t think the voters who are in favor of redistribution grasp the full implications of socialism / communism. To them, it’s just “free shit”.
grace_ia
August 15th, 2012
Conservatives think, liberals feel. It is impossible to reason over complex issues when we are not beginning on the same page.
hanoverfist
August 15th, 2012
The liberal mindset is usually:
Whats mine is mine.
Whats yours in negotiable.
kono
August 15th, 2012
You can’t reason someone out of a postiion they didn’t reason themselves into. Author unknown.
well now
August 15th, 2012
In 1984 I was waitressing at a midtown coffee shop, I was a good waitress and made good money. The owner came to me and told me I should split my tips with Carlos who was a not so hot waiter and was always running outside to do whatever things he was doing. Owner said that Carlos came to him crying that he was’nt making enough money. I told Owner if he was so worried what Carlos was making he should pay him more out of his own pocket not mine. Owner suspended me for 3 days because I would not give in. I walked out and walked down the street and got another waitressing gig in about 15 minutes. 3 years later Original Owner saw me and begged me to come back. I told him to kiss my capitalist ass.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 15th, 2012
@X: Uh oh, I think you stepped in it. The article didn’t mention blacks. Fur may call you on it.
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
@Maudie N Mandeville
Gol-dang-it! Brains all scrambled from Slow Joe’s racist rant in Danville and got all twisted up in my haid. There’s a couple things I’d like to change about that comment, the black thing and inserting [many of] before ‘the voters’…
Ah well, if there a scoldin’ a-comin’ I s’pose it’s deserved.
My left nut for an edit function.
norman einstein
August 15th, 2012
Oy. Could the author not at least proofread his question, since it the crux of his thesis?
“Do you have anD inalienable right…”
This is one of the many excellent Comments at AT:
-jmc
“Our Founders rebelled after a whole lot less than what we have now. The Stamp Act, the tax on tea (which were two of the five Intolerable Acts) sparked the Revolution. Hey, if 0bamacare is not an Intolerable Act then this commenter does not know what is!
If the TSA groping procedures are not Intolerable Acts then this commenter does not know what is. If the U.S. tax code is not an Intolerable Act then this commenter does not know what is.
Affirmative Action is about as intolerable as you can get!
The IRS, now bigger than ever with extra agents hired by 0bama, is also armed — and is well along the way to becoming our own Gestapo.
The U.S. Weather Service is spending our money to buy ammunition according to another report on this site! Please tell me why the Weather Service needs bullets? You don’t shoot at storms. Is weather monitoring equipment so valuable that armed guards have to be posted to protect it?
Most conspiracy theories are pretty off-the-wall but it doesn’t take much to come up with some very ugly scenarios here.
The Department of Education and the EPA both have SWAT teams! Why do we tolerate this? Why do our countrymen keep voting the intolerable slime who foist these acts upon us back into office?
Yes, why has an actual rebellion not broken out? Somebody in power expects it to happen.
(Addendum — we are now told the NWS ammo buy was “a clerical error”, the ammunition was actually purchased by the Fish and Wildlife Service — who often encounter marijuana growers in the execution of their duties. So we can scratch one Intolerable Act off the list.)”
Stirrin the B.S.
August 15th, 2012
“….we are now told the NWS ammo buy was “a clerical error….”
Ahh yes, the old “clerical error”. Ranks right up there with “taken out of context”, when the perpetrator is called out on it.
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
@well now
My niece’s high school class was recently given the opportunity to earn extra credit. When she turned her work in, the teacher told her the work wouldn’t count since she already had an A in the class. When she protested that she’d done the EC assignment the same as everyone else, she was told it was to help those who weren’t as smart.
These lessons are best learned young, aren’t they?
Billy Fuster
August 15th, 2012
This is what happens when you constantly compromise principles. This could have been nipped in the bud years ago by mass civil disobedience spurred by republican leaders. Instead they have assumed their cowardly roles as the token opposition to the socialists and most have become socialists themselves. The solution remains the same–mass civil disobedience and tax revolution. However, now we have an opposition that includes half the population.
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
@norman einstein
About your addendum: Check this out.
Here’s an article showing the cities the ammo was to be delivered to:
yeah, infowars, I know, find another link if you don’t like this one – there’s plenty out there.
http://www.infowars.com/national-weather-service-follows-dhs-in-huge-ammo-purchase/
and here’s the official Fish and Wildlife Service Directory listing:
http://www.fws.gov/offices/directory/default.cfm
odd that none of the cities in the article are on the FWS list.
Anonymous
August 15th, 2012
It’s a trick question: by the posted (and our Creator’s) definition of inalienable, no one has the right to anything that belongs to or was earned by someone else. To do otherwise is theft, which said Creator also frowns on (Exodus 20:15)
Not that “progressive” lefties have ever cared about fairness, inalienable, or what our Creator wants
nome sane
August 15th, 2012
“My left nut for an edit function.”
how ’bout we all just reread what we write before we Leave Reply
Xavier
August 15th, 2012
@nome sane
It’s just not the same. I’ve tried a number of times and still keep making mistakes.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 15th, 2012
“This next presidential election presents a choice between two social contracts: the socialist-fascist contract of Mr. Obama and the Democrat Party1, and the limited government-free enterprise-capitalist contract of Mr. Romney2 and the Republican Party.”
False choice. Unless Romney/Ryan are going to repeal Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc., the election is only about to what extent you have an inalienable right to your neighbors’ labor, and they have one to yours.
nome sane
August 16th, 2012
@Xavier
It’s just not the same.
But, it’s your left NUT.
Katechon
August 16th, 2012
God bless you “well now”