Saturday, October 18, 2008

Differences in Private Property Ownership

In my view private property in a resource management model would be significantly better protected than the currency system's model. In today's America there is no right for habeus corpus, no stopping federal agents from searching and seizing property, no stopping the sheriff and the IRS from seizing your property if you inadequately meet their system's requirements. You can be tried not by jury of your peers, but by a military tribunal or plucked from anywhere in the world and shipped to a detention center that tortues you to supply false information. The question might arise that most of these can be stopped with adequate representation in our political system. My answer is the deck is stacked against those who aren't perpetuating the ponzi scheme of Central Banking. We don't issue the currency, on any political level, therefore we're always going to have less currency to "pay for" representatives.
Even before the patriot act and the perversion of our judicial system there are several strong anti private property factors that work within a quasi capitalist structure we've been under since the United States of America was founded. The first obstacle being taxes. When you own property you are taxed at the local, county, county and federal levels. Stopping payment forfeits your right to own your property, therefore is it ever really private?
The second obstacle owning private property are the mortgages taken out to finance property. Our monetary system rewards people who go into debt and stay in debt, that's why when you pay off a small business loan it is income and you're taxed on that income. The financial success mantra since the end of world war II was leverage, leverage, leverage which caused alot of people to go into debt several times higher than their yearly income. If you ever default on your mortgage than it is the property of the bank. Because most banks are currently going into ownership to the Federal Reserve System the outcome will be the international financiers who created this financial crisis will essentially own most private property.
The third obstacle is eminent domain. Today it is possible for any government agency, non governmental agency or even private company to "purchase" your property without your consent for the price they're willing to pay. If that doesn't work they can tax your property beyond your means to repay or sanction its use to make it a meaningless investment.
Beyond the people's rights to their own property is the war that was lost to ensure state's rights. Originally the American Civil war was started because the south was being used to supply the north so the north could manufacture supplies and ship them across the world. In effect the south was being used by a similar type of mercantilist system in colonial America. The south wanted to secede from the union and not continue to fund the north's way of life. Only later did the abomination of slavery become an issue between the two warring factions. Today if a state or any other local government ever tried to secede I could only see the outcome as war or complete isolation. As references I look towards Mormon communities that were raided and children taken from their families. Most recently more than 400 children were taken with no cause besides a falsified phone call.
From all of this I understand that private property, no matter what transigent security we believe will protect it, is always under the threat of conquest by some foreign hand. The only way around this theft machine is to place the resources back into the hands of everyone.

It is important to note I don't know anyone associated with "zeitgeist" movies or the venus project. I have been for many years trying to find a way people can get away from the monopolies the central banking system has on most avenues of our life. When the "banker bailout bill" was signed the global depression became certain and the United States of America's political system went into recievership of the International financiers. I think the zeitgeist movie highlighted a plan I think that can work. I have my ideas about how the plan can work and only reflect how I view this model. I'll elaborate on the many modes of transition in a later blog.

Under the resource management model I envision everyone would have private property, that is owned by them. Let me explain how this would work from the perspective of someone who would live in the resource management system: First, there'd be automated house building sites that manufacture homes for their community. So the community inputs how many houses they need and the people within the community choose what they want (as far as function goes, e.g. 3 bedroom, two bath) then the automated house construction sites get to work. I'm not saying it's a perfect system-if someone wanted 2 or 3 houses I don't how that would work, and I'm don't think the system would give bachelors mansions, but the system would support people's ability to live. A house for that person is owned by that person until that person does not want it anymore-then it's given back to the community for either recycling or to be used by a different person.
The same thing goes for automobile transportation-everyone gets what they need. In automobiles there might be less selection.

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