Slavery in Chinatown

An editor tells me that local news should be scoured and devoured, for it holds the events close to the emotions of the masses. I listen. You and I tend to perk our ears when startling events occur in our neighborhoods. The news is the reporting of startling events. When I study the State, there is no bureaucratic shortage of news.

Los Angeles Downtown News reports that

Macy Liquor, a Chinatown shop that many community stakeholders long complained about, quietly closed about a month ago.

Why? Was it the bumbling incompetency of the American free market? Was it the poor recovery of the economy "after" the Great Recession? No comrade. Our enemy strikes again.

area leaders urged a city zoning administrator to revoke Macy's permit to sell alcohol

 Where to begin? This is an issue of dominion. Dominion is simply who owns what. Republican politicians and commentariat, and the rare Democrat, voice their approval of private property. They don't want to seem unAmerican. Though their voices may be legion, they are hosts to the level of falsehood that Greek sirens screeched at Odysseus. If I have dominion over my property, then no one can tell me what to do with it, so long as I do not use it to harm my fellow man. There is no middle path , when it comes to property. You either absolutely affirm it, or absolutely deny it. To partially affirm my right to my property, is to say someone else has dominion over it. When our, the proprietors, interests conflict, whom has the ultimate decision making power? Whomever she is, she has dominion.

I believe land ownership is the most important issue to those advocating free enterprise. A woman's house is her castle. You do not tell a woman what to do with her castle. The State, backed by its monopoly on kidnapping, does not allow a woman to sell alcohol without a permission slip from its licensing commissars. The State, backed by its monopoly on kidnapping, does not allow a woman to establish a shop without a permission slip from its zoning commissars. The State, backed by its monopoly on kidnapping, allows area leaders to petition it to crush the castles of women. If the State can do all of this, then we do not have private property. Instead, we have a world in which the State has dominion over all property. If we are told we have private property, yet it is only by the permission of the State that we can use it, we are under the dominion of the State. We are slaves to the State. Macy Liquor is a victim of slavery.

God bless America. Furthermore, we must end the State.

Post Scriptum:

Alexis de Tocqueville warned us of the tyranny of the majority in his magnum opus of American life, Democracy in America. Whenever people talk about the "public good", they are usually about to advocate the theft of private property. Eminent domain, or guidelines given to proper usage of property ensue.