India's Magna Carta Moment Arrives

Let us be completely dispassionate, and only resort to cold reason – for the news today requires sober reflection.

First, from the west, Gujarat, comes the news that a magisterial inquiry has concluded that the Gujarat Police murdered four young people in cold blood. Here is a news report; here is a video story.

The conclusion:

Our The State is violating our Right to Life.

This is a serious charge indeed.

Let us now turn to the east, where, from Calcutta, comes the news that the prestigious Rajarhat IT Park is being cancelled because the land was being illegally “acquired.” For whom: Well, the usual suspects, Infosys, Wipro etc.

The conclusion:

Our The State is violating our Right to Property.

This, too, is a very serious charge.

In Gujarat, the ruling political ideology is that of a “majority community”: the individual, the minority, matter little.

In Bengal, the ruling political ideology is of a “collective” – and here too the individual, and most certainly his property, matter none at all.

Bad ideas have consequences.

We must instead think of catallaxies, of individuals, of strangers, exchanging goods and services freely, under the laws of private property, contracts and torts - laws which arose among the people themselves, and do not require legislation. This is the world of "private law."

Note that in both the top stories in the news today - from the west and from the east - of murder and misappropriation - it is The State that is breaking The Law.

We are therefore at a critical moment in constitutional history – when The State has to be placed under law. This law, of course, being Several Private Property, beginning with one’s body, one’s life, and what one produces or homesteads.

Such law is the only solution to the problem of social order, given the fact that the one institution with a monopoly on force – The State – is violating law.

It is this The State that must be placed under a law that it did not legislate.

Cold reason therefore indicates that India has reached a critical point: the choice between collectivism and individualism, the choice between private property and collective property – like Air India, of course.

They have just put 5000 crores down that hole.

This too is a violation of Property: for these are public revenues being stolen.

Once again, this is a dereliction of “democratic” responsibility – for the idea is to “represent” the taxpayer: these guys represent tax parasites.

And Air India will “compete” with private low-cost airlines. Read Captain Gopinath’s excellent piece on the fabulous prospects of the civil aviation sector in India, prospects which are dimming because of our The State, and its baby, Air India.

5000 crores for Air India? You could build an elevated ring road around Delhi with that money, I think. What a senseless The State. Every action galls.

What galls me most, of course, is that these guys control “education.”

I remain optimistic, because I see the country waking up slowly to another principle by which to conduct its common affairs, one based on the inviolability of private property.

Liberty Under Law.

More importantly, The State Under The Same Law.

Magna Carta time, my fellow citizens.