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On Property Rights…

By: Claude A. Bohn (8-20-01)

In an article in the Aug. 13 edition of the JeffersonReview.com, editor, Theresa Fritz Camoriano, wrote a very interesting and enlightening article entitled: "Collegiate’s Property Problems," which dealt with the subject of property rights. At the end of that article, Ms. Camoriano included a very appropriate quote from one of history's most infamous criminals, Adolph Hitler, who said:

            "I want everyone to keep the property he has acquired for himself according to the principle: the common good takes precedence over self-interest. But the state must retain control and each property owner should consider himself an agent of the state. . . . The Third Reich will always retain the right to control the owners of property."

            Hitler was the originator of the term "Third Way," a term recently resurrected and bandied about by, among others, President Clinton and England's Tony Blair. What is "The Third Way"? It was- and IS - a term used to refer to a mixed economy - part socialist command, part "free-market" capitalist. It was, and is, a very apt term for both Clinton and Blair to use, because it describes the present economies - and reality - of both England and America.

            Oh! To be sure, we THINK of our economy - and our country - as a capitalist system, but that's only an illusion. Like Hitler's Germany (VERY MUCH like Hitler’s Germany!!), the citizens may indeed hold titles to “their” property, but, if they DO NOT possess the right to do what they will with that property, can they really be said to OWN it? After all, a title TO property without the right to dispose of that property when and as YOU see fit is merely window dressing.

The article about Collegiate’s problems got me to thinking about something I had read some time ago, which I thought I might share with the readers of the JeffersonReview.com. A few years ago, I stumbled on a fascinating - and disturbing - report, prepared by Dr. Eugene Schroder, and others, with the American Agricultural Movement out of Colorado.  The report, entitled simply: "War & Emergency Powers: A Special Report on the National Emergency in the United States," dealt with the War & Emergency Powers, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt used, among other things, to demonetize and seize all the gold money (property) and, in effect, to nationalize industry in this country, thereby, voiding property rights - along with the Constitution! And, since the "legal" apparatus used to accomplish this coup is still in effect and in use today, property rights, in a very real sense, were permanently altered – if not destroyed - in this “free” country.

NOTE: For more on this important and fascinating topic read the report for yourself at: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a383

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            In that report you can read yet another interesting quote, as chilling - if not moreso - than the words of Hitler above. During the debate over the passage of what became known as House Joint RESOLUTION 192 (June 5, 1933) – which, although a resolution IS NOT a law, effectively voided all contracts payable in gold - a document (Senate Document #43), entitled: "Contracts Payable in Gold," by one George C. Thorpe) was introduced. I quote from that document:

            "The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called 'ownership' is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State."

            Upon reading the above quote, you may be wondering if "George C. Thorpe" was merely a pseudonym for Adolph Hitler. And, I hope the fact that Congress even considered such a document as this, and used it as "justification" to craft and pass a RESOLUTION, which lead to the abolition of contracts in a so-called "free" country, shocks and horrifies you as much as it did me. And I hope that it might make clearer what has happened, and is happening, in this country. I leave you with another quote; this one from German philosopher Johann von Goethe, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."