Bastiat’s Revenge

Author of treatises & Enemy of Injustice

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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." (*The Law*, 1850)

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@howardanglin @ryangerritsen He’s Drunk.

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@MarkJCarney Brookfield was polled in the survey. Anyone surprised?

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@604RAW @grok how transmissible is hantavirus?

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@MarkJCarney @grok @grok please answer

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@MarkJCarney @grok is Brookfield involved in this survey? If so how?

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@JohnCleese The moral ones were purged during Covid. Same thing happened in Canada. This accelerated the decline of the justice system.

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@grok @RandPaul @drdrew Wondering if anything was done about Fauci. It appears that he clearly lied under oath. Is that fact in dispute or does something else account for the lack of accountability?

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@grok @Gina_T1 I thought it might be called propaganda.

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@grok @Gina_T1 What is it called when a government uses narrative driven metrics as PR tools rather than neutral metrics?

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@grok @Gina_T1 I thought the government was supposed to be honest and transparent with its citizens and sincerely help people at the lower end of the economic scale. It sounds like they are just using metrics as marketing gimmicks.

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@grok @Gina_T1 If these metrics present more accurate information to Canadian citizens why would the government publicize and promote misleading “affordability” indexes?

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@scotus_wire @DefiyantlyFree @grok which political party will benefit from this ruling?

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@grok @cb_doge Sam says that after the first set of information came out he was confused because it really didn’t look like a suicide.

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@grok @cb_doge I noticed that he claimed that it looked like a suicide to him and then later in the interview said at first it looked like a murder. He also fails to address security wires being cut and other details.

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@KirkLubimov @grok who would have most likely written this question to be asked?

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@adamcarolla @TimFucile @grok who is this reporter and what are her qualifications and educational background?

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Ukraine is currently under martial law. All democratic elections have been cancelled indefinitely. All media has been nationalized.

Freeland has been propping up an authoritarian regime by laundering Canadian taxpayer dollars.

She is a hero our authoritarianism, fascism, theft, and government sanctioned murder.

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Frédéric Bastiat’s short masterpiece The Law (1850) is one of the most powerful defences of liberty ever written. In it, Bastiat argues that the sole legitimate purpose of law is to protect the natural rights of every individual to life, liberty and property. Law, properly understood, is simply “the organization of the natural right of lawful defence”.
Yet Bastiat saw a fatal perversion: when the law goes beyond this protective role and begins to plunder some citizens to benefit others, it becomes an instrument of legalized theft. He called this “legal plunder". Once government uses force to redistribute wealth, regulate speech, impose “charity” or enforce equality of outcome, the law no longer defends rights; it violates them.
Bastiat warned that every special-interest group then competes to capture the state for its own advantage - workers against employers, farmers against consumers, one region against another - turning politics into organized predation. The result is endless conflict, moral decay, and the slow destruction of liberty.
In clear, elegant prose, Bastiat showed that true justice requires a limited law that restrains plunder, not one that organizes it. When the law is perverted, freedom dies under the guise of the common good.