August 01, 2007 ... The peril of human rights as the underpinnings to an EU constitution.

Not too long ago, one had to be a property owner to have a vote. Property being limited to land and disposable assets. More modern thinking recognises that property ownership begins with one’s physical self and the product of one’s intellect. The more modern thinking being limited to capitalists who recognise the value of property rights and the associated laws based on the principles of property rights.

Unfortunately, this type of thinking is totally at odds with modern government, which is feverishly working to replace property rights with human rights**. Property rights are not contingent upon government fiat to exist, but human rights are. Property rights limit the capability of government to interfere in one’s life, but human rights are potentially boundless in their scope to empower government to interfere in one’s life.

With this in mind, the following is not improbable, given that coercion and the maintenance of an impoverished underclass across the EU and beyond, is government’s answer to inequality.

1. An impoverished mother has children who must, in the face prosecution, be educated and maintained in a fashion determined by government, in all its forms, as a remedy for the inequality divide.

2. The mother has a comprehensive, officially accessible-on-demand and compulsory biometric ID-card as a necessity in the fight against terrorism.

3. A victim of circumstance is suffering from the inequality of having dangerously decreased or nonexistent kidney function.

4. The mother needs between 12 and 20% kidney function to have sufficient kidney function for normal activity, as defined by government experts.

5. The mother is sensitively compelled by government to give up the right to the property of a kidney to provide the necessary equality under human rights legislation to someone else, if she wishes to avail herself of that which she enjoys, and which has been expropriated from others by government under various interpretations of human rights legislation.

6. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need ...

In short, under property rights secured by government and the law, the mother and everyone else always has equality. But under human rights, except for a political elite and a favoured few, there is only the equality of having no rights. For without property rights, there is not even the right to life.

** Human rights are natural rights which are the product of human nature and include the right to private property. However, in the world of modern politics, this fundamental equivalence between property rights and the more friendly sounding human rights, enables the general understanding to be subtly transformed so that human rights have no more meaning than ‘organic food’ and ‘legal-tender money’.

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