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It asserts that government owns the planet, and that men have no right to live on it, except by first getting a permit from the government.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It asserts that government owns the planet, and that men have no right to live on it, except by first getting a permit…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that government control over the planet undermines individual rights to live freely.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.