The Last Line of Defense: Property

The American Thinker ^ | August 30, 2012 | Daren Jonescu

[Ladysmith]

"Property is theft."  Proudhon's classic anarchist paradox is more than a catchy slogan for international leftism.  It encapsulates a complete and comprehensively absurd view of humanity -- one which finds its contemporary apotheosis in President Obama's more prosaic rendition, "You didn't build that."  In other words, "You didn't build that" is just "Property is theft" without the irony.

[Ladysmith]

Should have known there was something much deeper and more insidious to Barry's "you didn't build that" quip...

[Iron Munro]

[Iron Munro]

[griswold3]

Those who believe in the fundmentals of individual freedom, private property rights, and rule of law saw Obama coming.

[Pontiac]

The fight to preserve private property is the political expression of something even more profound. It is the last stand of mankind's battle to preserve reason, which teaches the metaphysical and moral primacy of the individual, against the irrational hordes for whom the collective is the only reality, the mindless conformity of "self-expression" the only morality, and coercive brutality the only truth.

This is the fundamental truth of the Left:

We will beat in to submission all who refuse our right to rule.

We will beat in to submission all who stand against our right to any and all property we choose to confiscate (for example Obama’s use of coercion of bond holders in the GM bankruptcy).

We will beat in to submission all who stand against our plan for world domination.

Eventually it will come down to a fight if we do not win a decisive political victory this November. There are no sidelines for any of us. Get out there and get involved. If you don’t have it in you to work for Romney get involved in your Senate or Representatives race.

[ClearCase_guy]

[griswold3]

So far it’s been slow motion, pretty soon some ‘Progressive’ is going to lose patience and then all hell will break lose. Growing up I asked my German mother how in the world Hitler came to power and was able to commit so much evil. Now, I know. Now, mid 90’s, she says she’s lived this all before.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is not one of the ten planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto that Ubama does not support, but DON'T YOU DARE call him a Communist!

The Ten Planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto
(and How Statists Implement Them)

1. Abolition of private property rights (via high property taxes, restrictive zoning laws, "fair housing" edicts, environmental and "wetlands" regulations, and UN Agenda 21)

2. Institution of a heavily graduated income tax (by calling it "taxing the rich")

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance (through a confiscatory estate tax on "the rich")

4. Confiscation of the property of enemies of the state (through lawless application of asset forfeiture and eminent domain)

5. Centralization of credit into the hands of the state (Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, TARP, etc.)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation into the hands of the state (FCC, DOT, FEMA, etc.).

7. Consolidation and subjugation of all major industries to central government control (FDA, EPA, OSHA, ICC, NLRB, EEOC, etc.)

8. Mandatory labor union membership (public-sector unions, unionization of 21-million Obamacare health care workers, automatic withholding of forced union dues, "card check," etc.)

9. Equitable redistribution of all wealth (TANF, SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.)

10. Free public education (and food and health care and cell phones and Internet access, etc.)

[Pontiac]

Now, mid 90’s, she says she’s lived this all before.

"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain

[prairiebreeze]

marker

[TangoLimaSierra]

Obammy: "I'm always struck by people..."

Not enough people.

[silverleaf]

LOL!!!!

[Ladysmith]

There’s a documentary on Chavez done by PBS that aired before the last POTUS elections. What you noted is what Chavez did even to his supporters who started to waffle. It wasn’t hard to see Barry was going to do the same if at all possible.