Personal freedom. What is it?

**VestnikRA** · 05-09-2009, 08:13 AM

"Personal freedom is impossible without economic freedom. A working family, even one living in a modern city apartment, cannot be free, dependent as it is on an employer who determines one’s salary, on utility companies with the power to supply or withhold heat, water and electricity, on the availability of groceries and on the prices of food products and consumer services. The family is slave to all of these, and the children in such a family are born into a slave mentality."
-- Vladimir Megre, from Book 5 "Who Are We?" of the Ringing Cedar series of Books

Any comments?

**narayan** · 05-14-2009, 06:46 AM

Let's go through the Bill of Rights:
-freedom of religion
-freedom of speech
-freedom of the press
-freedom to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances
-freedom for a well regulated militia to keep and bear arms
-freedom to not have the government force you to put up soldiers in your house
-right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures of your property without probable cause or a warrant
-right to due process of law
-right to not be subjected to double jeopardy
-right not to incriminate yourself
-right for your property to not be taken by the government arbitrarily or without just compensation
-right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury in criminal prosecutions
-right to confront accusers and witnesses and to have good counsel in a criminal trial
-[7th Amendment has not been incorporated yet, though many state constitutions have parallel provisions]
-right to not have excessive bail or to face cruel and unusual punishment

**VestnikRA** · 05-14-2009, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by narayan

Let's go through the Bill of Rights:
-freedom of religion
-freedom of speech
-freedom of the press
-freedom to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances
-freedom for a well regulated militia to keep and bear arms
-freedom to not have the government force you to put up soldiers in your house
-right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures of your property without probable cause or a warrant
-right to due process of law
-right to not be subjected to double jeopardy
-right not to incriminate yourself
-right for your property to not be taken by the government arbitrarily or without just compensation
-right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury in criminal prosecutions
-right to confront accusers and witnesses and to have good counsel in a criminal trial
-[7th Amendment has not been incorporated yet, though many state constitutions have parallel provisions]
-right to not have excessive bail or to face cruel and unusual punishment

Very well!
What about freedom to to possess a piece of land?
It should had been given to man from the very beginning, don't you think so?