Re: Staying is Acquiescing
While it’s true that – he who owns the land, makes the rules – continuing to live on his Majesty’s land is not acquiescing to his Majesty’s rule. Why? Because this land is not his Majesty’s. Even if his Majesty has sent warships and armies of brave dutiful soldiers into battle to prevent other’s from reigning this territory – it is still not his land.
His Majesty’s reign depends on the superstitious belief from the masses that he has rights and powers above and beyond what men naturally have, vis, his Majesty is that of super-natural. And man, being a very superstitious creature, is often willing to kill and die for his Majesty. But us rebels are different; we know something very dangerous – the truth – and the truth is his Majesty is simply a mortal man, and as such, he has no more natural rights than any other man.
All men are created equal. No man has any natural rights that another man does not have. If I have no right to rob, enslave, murder, etc, then no man, or aggregate of men, has the right to do such. Decreeing rights and powers on parchment does not make them valid. A majority's vote for rights and powers does not make them valid. Rights are inherent to each being and they are inalienable.
The superstitious belief that a man, or group of men, may own land by decree is absurd. It would be unfounded and unjust for me, as an example, to declare all of this land in Alaska as my own property and then enforce my rules upon the inhabitants of “my” territory. I don’t have that right, and I cannot delegate rights that I don’t have to other men. If I do not have the right to own land by decree, no-one does, not his Majesty, not “the people” of democratic governments, nor their agents. Ownership of property comes about through homesteading or voluntary exchange/gift – not by fiat.
It is incorrect to infer a man’s consent to be ruled simply by remaining on HIS OWN property. The fiat property claim by others be it a King, “the people” of democratic governments, or their agents are invalid, and so continuing to live within the territory in which others improperly decree as their own is not acquiescing to their rule. And when their rule is imposed on him without his free, uncoerced consent, he is no longer a free man, but is made a subject of the ruler(s).
"A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions, calling themselves a government." –Lysander Spooner
What is the Lockean (John Locke) homesteading principle? In short, each person has a natural ownership in themselves, a property in themselves. You own your life. And when you mix a part of yourself – your time and energy – with a part of nature, then that part of nature becomes an extension of you – it becomes yours – your 'property'.
Defending/protecting other people or their property is a nice thing to do. But it does not follow that one then has ownership of those people or their property.
If I defend/protect you or your home from marauders, this does not mean I now own you or your property. While it’s true that I expend my labor in providing defense/protection of you or your property – me expending my time and energy into another’s person or property does not give me any ownership – they still own themselves and their property.
The Lockean homesteading principle is not to be applied to property – to that which is currently owned. It’s to be applied to nature – to that which is unowned or forsaken/abandoned.
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