Eric Garner: 100% innocent under libertarian law - Ilana Mercer, Return to Reason, World Net Daily:
December 11, 2014 - "Eric Garner was doing nothing naturally illicit when he was tackled and placed in the chokehold that killed him. It can be argued, if anything, that Garner was being entrepreneurial. He had been trading untaxed cigarettes in defiance of the state’s 'slave patrol' and 'Comrade' Andrew Cuomo’s 'Cigarette Strike Force'.... Had Garner’s naturally licit trade not been criminalized by today’s Tammany Hall, he’d be alive today....
"Garner was selling his own cigarettes. The 'law' he violated was one that violated Garner’s individual, natural right to dispose of his own property – 'loosies' – at will.
"In libertarian law, Garner is thus 100 percent innocent, for the good libertarian abides by the axiom of non-aggression. When enforcers of the shakedown syndicate came around to bust him, Garner raised his voice, gestured and turned to walk away from his harassers. He did not aggress against or hurt any of the goons.
"To plagiarize myself in 'Tasers ‘R’ Us,' 'Liberty is a simple thing. It’s the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, even verbally provoke a politician [or policeman] unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, even killed.'
"Again: Garner had obeyed the libertarian, natural law absolutely. He was trading peacefully. In the same spirit, he turned to walk away from a confrontation. Befitting this pacific pattern, Garner had broken up a street fight prior to his murder....
"The government has a monopoly over making and enforcing law – it decides what is legal and what isn’t. Thus it behooves thinking people to question the monopolist and his laws. After all, cautioned the great Southern constitutional scholar James McClellan, 'What is legally just, may not be what is naturally just'....
"Unlike the positive law, which is state-created; natural law [is] not enacted. Rather, it is a higher law – a system of ethics – knowable through reason, revelation and experience. 'By natural law,' propounded McClellan in Liberty, Order, And Justice, 'we mean those principles which are inherent in man’s nature as a rational, moral, and social being, and which cannot be casually ignored.'
"Eric Garner was on 'public' property. Had he been trespassing on private property, the proprietor would have been in his right to remove him. However, Garner was not violating anyone’s rights or harming anyone by standing on a street corner and peddling his wares – that is unless the malevolent competition that sicced the cops on him has a property right in their prior profits. They don’t."
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December 11, 2014 - "Eric Garner was doing nothing naturally illicit when he was tackled and placed in the chokehold that killed him. It can be argued, if anything, that Garner was being entrepreneurial. He had been trading untaxed cigarettes in defiance of the state’s 'slave patrol' and 'Comrade' Andrew Cuomo’s 'Cigarette Strike Force'.... Had Garner’s naturally licit trade not been criminalized by today’s Tammany Hall, he’d be alive today....
"Garner was selling his own cigarettes. The 'law' he violated was one that violated Garner’s individual, natural right to dispose of his own property – 'loosies' – at will.
"In libertarian law, Garner is thus 100 percent innocent, for the good libertarian abides by the axiom of non-aggression. When enforcers of the shakedown syndicate came around to bust him, Garner raised his voice, gestured and turned to walk away from his harassers. He did not aggress against or hurt any of the goons.
"To plagiarize myself in 'Tasers ‘R’ Us,' 'Liberty is a simple thing. It’s the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, even verbally provoke a politician [or policeman] unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, even killed.'
"Again: Garner had obeyed the libertarian, natural law absolutely. He was trading peacefully. In the same spirit, he turned to walk away from a confrontation. Befitting this pacific pattern, Garner had broken up a street fight prior to his murder....
"The government has a monopoly over making and enforcing law – it decides what is legal and what isn’t. Thus it behooves thinking people to question the monopolist and his laws. After all, cautioned the great Southern constitutional scholar James McClellan, 'What is legally just, may not be what is naturally just'....
"Unlike the positive law, which is state-created; natural law [is] not enacted. Rather, it is a higher law – a system of ethics – knowable through reason, revelation and experience. 'By natural law,' propounded McClellan in Liberty, Order, And Justice, 'we mean those principles which are inherent in man’s nature as a rational, moral, and social being, and which cannot be casually ignored.'
"Eric Garner was on 'public' property. Had he been trespassing on private property, the proprietor would have been in his right to remove him. However, Garner was not violating anyone’s rights or harming anyone by standing on a street corner and peddling his wares – that is unless the malevolent competition that sicced the cops on him has a property right in their prior profits. They don’t."
Read more: http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/eric-garner-100-innocent-under-libertarian-law/
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