The Galt and the Lamers 0
Ron Paul considers that property rights trump civil rights.
Bob Cesca transcribed the exchange. Here’s a little bit:
PAUL: Because — because of the property rights element, not because it got rid of the Jim Crow law.
MATTHEWS: Right. The guy who owns a bar says, no blacks allowed, you say that’s fine. … This was a local shop saying no blacks allowed. You say that should be legal?
That property rights trumped civil rights is exactly what Edmund Ruffin, Jefferson Davis, Chief Justice Roger Tanney, and others of their ilk, also thought.
Afterthought:
What I find most striking about Libertarianism is this:
Its adherents are either
- strikingly devious, building their frothy meringues of baseless logic with knowing intent to deceive or, what I consider more likely,
- blindingly naive in a touching faith that somehow, in Libertarian world, there would be neither sin nor iniquity.
Well, I guess there is a third option:
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that they are strikingly, blindingly, stupidly, naively self-centered.
Now that would be the Libertarian Randian Way.
