The day our liberty died

By Darren Weeks

June 23, 2005 will go down in history as the day we lost our private property rights.

The representative republic, set up by our forefathers, has been bleeding from a million slices of treachery by elected and non-elected office occupants.

Last Thursday, without a whimper of protest from TV-occupied Americans, five black-robed demons on the U.S. Supreme Court put a gun to Lady Liberty's head and pulled the trigger. They dealt the fatal blow to everything for which America has stood for 200 years.

In a 5 to 4 ruling, the court rendered the "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment null and void. They ruled that if cities want to take your land, they are free to do so. All that is needed is some made-up excuse as to why the seizure is for the good of the public.

The ability to own and control private property is the very foundation of individual liberty. Without it, there can be no liberty. The founders clearly understood that truth.

James Madison said,

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort.... This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own."

We no longer have a "just" government. We have a government which is hostile to the concept of the sacred liberties that were acknowledged by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. We are rapidly moving toward a system of governance, where the rights of individuals are supplanted by the "well-being" of the community.

The very first plank of the Communist Manifesto gives us the goal:

"Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes."

Until last Thursday, this plank was only partially implemented.

The "application of all rents of land..." alludes to the extortion we have to pay to be able to live upon and use the land that God created. Note that I said it was God who created the land — not government. Yet they charge us to use what the Divine One has created, and thus have set themselves up in the place of the Almighty.

We've had property taxes for many years and, therefore, have not really owned our property. We've effectively rented it from government. If the extortion taxes aren't paid, government will take the property. It's called paying "your fair share". But, if they can take away what you have, then you don't really own it.

The arrogant, gavel-weilding copperheads on the high court have taken the first Communist plank to its fullest implementation. They have broadened the definition of "public purpose" to include private development. Hence, only the most affluent will be able to afford to take part in the American dream of home ownership. Eventually, only the most affluent will be able to have land upon which to run businesses.

You'd think such a massive encroachment upon our rights would illicit riots of furious torch bearers, shouting slogans and beating down courtroom doors. You'd have thought that parades would be organized to display the outrage of the aggreived. Some might have even suggested a tar and feathering for the traitorous villains who jammed the rigid knife of death into the chest of our republic.

Nope. With the exception of an occasional radio talk show, the silence of the American people was deafening. There were no marches, no demonstrations, no vociferous protests of any kind. America was murdered, and her people replied with a yawn.

Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, in the 1888 edition of the Communist Manifesto wrote,

"...the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

The ruling elite have been working on the usurpation of individual rights for many years. The reason they want to take away your property rights is that they are implementing communism on a community level. And the word they use to describe their community-based communism is "Communitarianism".

Under communitarianism, the rights of the individual are supplanted in favor of the "needs" of the community. This falls right in line with marxist principles. Marx said,

"from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

In other words, take from the haves and give to the have-nots. Level the playing field so that no one has more than their neighbor. In this regard, they'll decide for you what your "needs" entail.

The socialist United Nations calls this "equality" — a nice-sounding word which draws in a lot of people. It's hard to argue against a world where everyone is "equal". It sounds fair. Even our own Constitution refers to all men being created equal.

But there is a drastic difference in being created equal, and building a world where all individuals are forcefully set on the same financial footing. Indeed, the latter is deadly to the rights of the individual, and robs the individual of the rewards of hard work, and the necessary incentive to achieve excellence.

The diabolical ruling-class have "protected areas", "biosphere reserves", "conservation easements", "buffer zones", "scenic byways", "endangered species", and the ever-expanding national parks system to get people off their land in the country. And they have eminent domain, oppressive zoning ordinances, and outrageous property taxes to get humans out of their houses in the city.

The agenda is to relocate populations of people into sustainable communities, where every aspect of their lives can be controlled. Thanks to the traitorous turn-coats of the high federal judiciary, the Communitarian plan of population relocation will be hastened, as more individuals have their houses razed for community development "needs", and multi-national corporations swallow up and control all the land that isn't owned or controlled by government. "Affordable housing" units will be built to cage the displaced masses of dumbed-down docile Americans.

Calvin Coolidge once said,

"Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing. The one cannot be preserved if the other be violated."

Last Thursday, America was gang-raped by five so-called "justices", and then she was left to die. Sadly, most Americans scarely took notice. Will they be so silent when they come for the guns?