Saturday, June 30, 2007

Out for Justice

Confusion that never stops
The closing walls and the ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop, that you now know
--Coldplay

What is law? According to Frederic Bastiat, law is common force organized to protect the liberty of individuals and their right to own property. The law is justice, pure and simple. Penned more than 150 years ago as socialism escalated in France, Bastiat's The Law is one of the finest essays on the relationship between liberty and politics that I've read.

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