Frederik Bastiat, in his classic “The Law”, wrote: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. How true these words are, yet they're miles and miles from our current reality. Today governments decree what we may own, … [Read more...]
Individual Rights: What’s the big deal?
I am in the middle of an email conversation with a colleague who professes to believe in the Individual Rights and Freedoms of all Canadians. I say “professes”, because this individual seems unable to grasp the concept of Individual Rights at all. This individual asked a small group of us whether or not we each individually believed in the Supremacy of God. Now before any … [Read more...]