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Old 09-20-2005, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by David
If you have no right to property that supersedes the political body in which you live, then no power on Earth (or elsewhere) can assure you of your right to liberty or even life itself. If you are in every respect SECONDARY to the state, the state can annihilate you, can crush you under its massively impersonal boot. That is the importance of your right to property.
Doesn't the recent Supreme court ruling on eminent domain pretty much eradicate our property rights, though?
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