John Stossel asks, “Is your property yours?” Not if politicians grab your property to build roads, railroad tracks, a border wall or anything they claim is for public use, all in the name of eminent domain.
In this episode, Stossel explains how the government climbed on its eminent domain bully pulpit to uproot the life of Susette Kelo and her little pink house. She fought the feds all the way to the Supreme Court, but lost. More with Stossel.
G. Edward Griffin, founder of Freedom Force International and Red Pill University, says the condition of property rights in the U.S. is deteriorating.
Appearing on London Real, with host Brian Rose, Griffin bluntly submits that the state wants your property. “All collective regimes and tyrannies do not like people to have property because that gives them independence, gives them the ability to resist the tyrannical power. They don’t like that at all,” Griffin says.
He explains further, including the right to defend your life and liberty as it pertains to property rights and the 2nd Amendment.
The “Right Angle” crew dissect the plight of an old church building in Manhattan, where the congregation can no longer afford its upkeep, so they agreed to sell it for $30 million, which thy planned to use for feeding the homeless and other worthy charitable aims.
Enter Hollyweird! Actor Mark Ruffalo, comedian Amy Schumer and other rich and powerful celebrities, who once rehearsed in the building, blocked the sale of the property. These multimillionaires could have simply bought the property, but instead went to court and started a crowdfunding campaign so that other people could pay for their cherished space.
Meanwhile, the court deprived the owners of the right to sell and the homeless in New York City go hungrier. Here’s more from Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott.
Thanks to property rights and free markets, humanity has achieved prosperity and freedom that our ancestors hardly dreamed about. Americans are now 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago.
That perspective is lost on populist complainers, such as Bernie Sanders, who falsely claim “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” If he and his followers understood their history, they might be less eager to tear down the free-market system that made lives better. In the following segment, John Stossel is joined by the Cato Institute’s David Boaz to discuss the consequences of liberty.
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Cowboy Scout, leader of the Cowboy MC Militia, joins the Sarah Westall program to discuss the state of the country and how his his militia has mobilized in this critical time. The Cowboy MC Militia is a veteran/military organization that has dedicated itself to protecting the Constitution and standing against violence and destruction of citizen property and rights.
In the first go-round, all nations across the globe approved the United Nations’ Open Borders Pact except the United States, Austria and Hungary. But then Poland and the Czech Republic joined the naysayers, and now Bulgaria and Croatia have as well. In addition, there’s rising sentiment in other European nations to reject the pact, notably in Estonia, which is close to abandoning it.
The Soros-supported pact stipulates how nations will be forced to accept migrants and thereafter treat them. A draft version of the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration – or GCM pact – was given tentative approval last July. That means that nations like China, Russia and North Korea agreed to the pact – in hopes that Europe and the U.S. would blindly fall in line. And how do you think a caravan of several thousand Muslim men of fighting age would be treated at the gates of Moscow or Beijing? Welcomed with open arms and an open checkbook from the national largesse? Dream on! More from Bill Still.
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Stefan Molyneux offers an in-depth look at the UN migration compact. He says, “In December 2018, world leaders gather to sign the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration – a disaster for Western countries which virtually eliminates property rights and free speech, enshrining the right for everyone to enter Western countries and live off the taxpayer.”
There’s no arguing that the United States is the most powerful and prosperous country in the world. So, asks investigative reporter John Stossel, why hasn’t the power to prosper spread to other nations. Hernando DeSoto, of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, tells Stossel the answer lies in the rule of law and property rights. “The rules of the game have to say and recognize who really owns what,” DeSoto says. “Because how you relate to the assets you have determines how you relate to your neighbor and the rest of the world.” DeSoto explains in more detail in this edition of Liberty Pen.
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