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To: ThirdEye who wrote (326922)	12/8/2002 11:41:31 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

All realestate is rented from the government. We may discuss semantics, but in the final analysis this is the case. * * *

To: ThirdEye who wrote (326922)	12/8/2002 11:45:05 PM
From: Wildstar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Nobody owns public property? I certainly don't. I can't do with public property what I wish to do with my private property. I can't grow crops on it. I can't build a house on it. I can't exchange it. And therefore, you don't either. You also cannot do what you want with it. If no one owns public land, how did it become public land in the first place? A bunch of individuals with big guns took control of it and told the rest of us that "we all own it." Some people accept their claim. I certainly don't. How does it become private property? It is homesteaded from a state of nature. If no one owns public land, why can't I just take some for myself? You have a natural right to do so, if not a legal right, if you mix your labor with the land. You then have a legitimate claim on that land, and another person would be unjustified in using force to take that land from you, since you labor changed the land from a state of nature to one that meets your individual ends.