krebscycle

eccentric-opinion:

clawsofpropinquity:

If (‘if’) the title to a plot of land was obtained by the driving off or the killing or the enslaving of its inhabitants, no amount of buying and selling will launder that title and transform it into a moral claim; the system as it exists can…

Libertarianism – the moral system based on possession-is-the-law and statute-of-limitation, whatever is more lucrative.  Because all that moralizing about the Evil State and its JackBoots forcing you, at gunpoint, to pay property tax is especially piquant when your property was somehow purchased from someone who murdered the original inhabitant.  That’s why posts on Reconstruction draw indignant Libertarians complaining about neglect of the sacred PROPERTY RIGHTS of the kidnappers, torturers, and murderers who lived off the stolen labor of other people. Feh.