What Do You Really Own?
The World Economic Forum says you will own nothing and be happy. The UK is proving that the state even owns human life. The pandemic put the US on the verge of something very dangerous.
Sooo…lots of folks were upset by the WEF’s “You will own nothing and be happy” pronouncement.
“No way”, people said. “Private property is private property. Nobody owns me!”
Well, sort of.
You understand that you already own very little, right?
I mean you may have a house – but with or without a mortgage, if you don’t pay your property taxes, that house can be confiscated and sold at auction.
If you have a car, if you don’t register it and pay your license fee and you get caught, that car can be impounded until you pay up.
If you don’t pay the income tax the IRS believes you owe, they can place a lien on your property and if you can’t pay up, you may have to sell the property to satisfy the lien.
Even if you win a billion dollars in a lottery, the various taxing agencies will take two thirds off the top before you even see the rest of it.
Sure, you have title to something, and you have all the duties and responsibilities of ownership, but if your property can be taken from you, do you really own it?
What about your life?
Do you own it?
I would say that’s a definite maybe.
Think back over the past few years and all the things you were forbidden from doing – for the good of public health, of course. You weren’t even allowed to go see a dying family member or attend their funeral. You couldn’t go to work. You couldn’t go to a store – and unless your store was a source for Democrat campaign contributions like Wal-Mart or other Big Box stores, you couldn’t open your doors.
I was spurred into thinking about this by a few situations in the UK, the most recent is the case of Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old coma patient, whose parents have been barred from seeking any care outside the UK.
Four years ago, I wrote about he cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans.
Charlie Gard was the child of Chris and Connie Gard who was diagnosed as having a genetic disease so rare that only 15 other people in the world had the same diagnosis. Even though Charlie’s parents raised over $1.8 million to bring Charlie to the US for an experimental treatment, the UK government, through the NHS, denied Charlie’s parents the opportunity to even try, denying their efforts to even take Charlie out of the country. The UK effectively sentenced little 10-month-old Charlie to a “death with dignity” rather than allow his parents to try everything within their power to save their child. Charlie Gard died on July 28, 2017.
The Alfie Evans case was very similar to that of Charlie Gard. Alfie had a terminal diagnosis and even though Italy has offered to treat him (going to the extreme of actually granting Alfie Italian citizenship), the UK government forbade his parents from taking him out of the country and ordered his life support be terminated. Alfie’s parents gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate attempt to keep him alive, hoping for a miracle. Alfie died on April 28, 2018.
Why would a state prevent a parent from seeking care for their child?
I believed at the time and still do to this day, that it is less about public health or saving agencies like the NHS money, it is about the power of the state over people to the point of life and death decisions.
Karl Marx wrapped this up for us in a neat package.
Marx despised religion because he reasoned that for communism to work, for government to have the power to plan and decide the total path for the people, there could be no authority greater than the state. If any individual could challenge the dictates of the state due to the teachings of God, the game falls apart. The contemporary vessel of communism, progressivism, is no different. No dissent can be allowed or the progressive con falls apart – and do not be fooled, progressivism is nothing less than a confidence game, a massive Ponzi scheme in which every member, even those who know it is a con, must stay in the game.
If one person stands up and calls BS on the progressive agenda, then more might follow. The parents of Archie Battersbee, Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans could never be allowed to attempt to save their children for one reason - they might succeed, and if they did and other people see that they did, the power of the state is destroyed.
Better a few children die than the state’s supremacy over life and death be challenged.
Sure, the UK is different from America. We don’t do things like that.
Really?
You think it can’t happen here in America?
It already is happening.
Very slowly but very surely, the life guaranteed to you by God and the Founders is being repossessed by the state.
The good news is that we are stopping it, the bad news is there is a legacy of laws and regulations in place that will allow it to continue until the left gets back in control. There is an identifiable cause for this erosion of life, liberty, and property, just as there is an identifiable cause for the spread of monkeypox.
That is why Ron DeSantis’ action to remove a recalcitrant and woke State’s Attorney is so significant.
Ah, a great revelation to us all Chuck, Very good indeed!
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