Sunday, 31 January 2010

We only own land if everyone else has land

Since we have a right to life, then we must also have a right to land since we cannot live without land. Just as the denial of the right to life is a crime, under law, then by extension, the denial of the right to land is also a crime. It is a crime to uphold the property rights of a Nation or territory that does not provide land for all eligible individuals.

Someone who has committed a crime in the past may no longer be an eligible individual, in effect they are incarcerated.

If there are some who have no land, the land rights are not legitimate as they stand. The legitimacy of all land rights rests on all people have some land, so that they might live independently of favour of (deference to) the landed.

For land rights to be meaningful, everyone must have land.

If there are those without land in a country, then no one legitimately owns land. We only own land if everyone is provided for, with at least a sufficiency to survive. Our rights to land are in jeopardy if others do not have land.

We have a right to land because we have a right to life, and we can't live without land.

We need land to live and so therefore to deny the right to land (to exclude the landless) is a crime...

No one should be without land.

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