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March 5, 2007
Confused Americans for Truth - Beware of Socialists Living in Abandoned Buildings
Some time ago, the United States Supreme Court, in the landmark case Kelo v. New London, ruled that higher tax revenue is a form of public use, and therefore a municipality could seize private land in order to convert it from a bunch of homes into a shopping center.
This was a sad day for conservatives and libertarians all over the country, but it's nothing compared to what's going on in the Denmark welfare state. Last week, demonstrations over the disposition of an abandoned house turned violent.
Six years ago a church group bought the house, but for a very long time it has been used as a gathering place for "anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups". These people didn't pay for the house and they did not have permission to use it. They simply moved in, secure in the knowledge that squatter-friendly courts would save them from eviction by the real owners.
The economic justification for squatting is that if people use a particular property that the owner is not using, it brings an economic benefit to the region. This is a natural extension of the socialist principle that the people as a whole represent the highest moral imperative and the individual is way down at the bottom of the heap.
Imagine, then, if you were trying to sell your house, and in the meantime, local entertainers had turned it into a coffee shop. If you take too long to find a buyer, the locals have just bought your house for the staggeringly low bargain price of exactly zero dollars.
We have in our recent past seen the law tied in knots by a victim mentality: we have to provide free education to illegal aliens, we have to let minor girls get abortions without notifying their parents, and we have to make decisions that lead to a proper racial economic balance. In all cases, a reasonable desire to be nice has led to unreasonable law. At the end of this road of good intentions is the ultimate hell in which no one has anything because everybody owns everything.
American literature is rife with tales of evil bankers taking land away from poor farmers, but very little is said about the local hippies moving in and changing the locks. We really need to change that if we don't want Denmark's plight in our future.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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