tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post4214616321468286374..comments2024-02-27T15:47:47.923-05:00Comments on Principled Perspectives: "Corporatists" Are Individuals, Too principled perspectiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-45833132923253169962013-08-21T11:55:14.396-04:002013-08-21T11:55:14.396-04:00Control over the economy and power to dish out fav...Control over the economy and power to dish out favors, both by force. That's part of the 'mixed' economy, and the 'mixed' economy is a framework of statism. Within statism we assemble, petition the state, lobby for our respective turns at the trough, certainly not for our rights. Any rights involved are displaced by legislation (not law), directives and 'judicial' decision, and they are unrecognized. We exercise 1st. Amend. rights within statism to lobby for permission, privilege, and a turn at the trough.<br /><br />What if we, or somebody (business, for example) exercised it for individual rights, to the faces of judges and elected politicians (and appointed officials)? That would be stepping outside statism and into law & gvt. to demand, not lobby for, rights, because statism is not law & gvt. Statism is crime, and criminals. Ultimately, how do you demand or get anything out of a crook?<br /><br />That's what it's all about and that's what we have to do. It will be legitimate; it will be by law & gvt.; it will BE law & gvt.; we've GOT the law & gvt. It's buried under the statist, which is to say, CRIMINAL regime and its criminal plans posing as legislation, directives and 'judicial' decisions. We need to dig it back up and put it into action.<br /><br />The intellectual and educational process MUST ultimately be instrumental to that. Otherwise, why bother? But we who already know can start now. We can already be instrumental, now, toward re-securing law & gvt. and individual rights.<br /><br />I'm sure there are still some elected and appointed officials and judges who geniunely respect rights, even if they're not egoists, who can be starting points. Actually, a start has probably been made, elsewhere. Leading Objectivists' engagements with House & Senate staffs is a good start. In any event, it's a resurrection of law & gvt. and neutralizing a criminal regime.Mike Kevittnoreply@blogger.com