The Marine Drive Act: Take # 2

Galbraith, who  was Kennedy's ambassador the Nehru, famously described India as a "functioning anarchy." What a truly lovely country we must be.

I am now living in one such part of the vast sub-continent, in the Boom Shankar cafe alongside a cove in Goa, where even the Property is "illegal" because of Legislation from Nude Elly - the coastal zone regulation act purpotedly designed to protect the sand and prevent erosion of the rocks. And conserve mangroves, of course.

Across the cove, I see properties - but they look poor. Nature, on the other hand, has been bountiful in the doling out of beauty, for this is truly a beautiful spot, blessed.

I spent a holiday with myself, looking out across the gently lapping waters, coconut palms and small mountains, rocks, birds... some smoke, some mohitos... and thought... Why can't the properties of Man on this planet be as beautiful and grand as what Nature has created?

What sense does it make to unleash Nature and leash Man?

Think of the stunning cities the Muslims built in the desert - like Samarkand, which Babur conquered when only 13.

So I let out talk of another Act  for The Coastal Zone - called the Marine Drive Act.

Let's ask some "fundamental questions"?

What is Life without Property and Liberty? - neither of which are guaranteed in the Socialist, Secular Constitution of India.

And what can make a City beautiful?

Surely, it must be Private Magnificence - which is a "virtue."

A state might build some great buildings - but everything else much be achieved by Free Society. Through the Production of Wealth.

And there is only One Golden Rule under which this ceaseless Production of Wealth can be carried out:

The Inviolability of Private Property

And this Golden Rule is the Legal Basis of The Marine Drive Act.

Hear Ludwig von  Mises on Liberty:

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man - that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. Such freedom is no natural right. It did not exist under primitive conditions. It arose in the process of social development and its final completion is the work of mature Capitalism.

This, then, is the difference between Socialism and Capitalism. Collective Property versus Private Property. Between Air India, SAIL and ONGC and This is the House that Chuck Built.

Take sides.

There us a War between the Left and Right.