From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you're on vacation and buy something, and you come home with it, > you are free to sell it. If you buy 10 thousand units of something > specifically to sell them in America, you are not free to sell them > unless you pay for that privilege. > > Let's say you're on a vacation in Japan and you buy a camera. You use > the camera while on vacation, but when you come home you realize it > won't work with out power. You are free to sell it on eBay to others > who might want it. > > This is entirely different than going to Japan and buying a thousand > cameras to ship them here so you can sell them to stores....or > even on > eBay. > > You do have the right to dispose of your property as you see fit as > long as you haven't purchased that property in a foreign country > specifically to sell here. > > BRINGING GOODS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY INTO AMERICA FOR THE PURPOSE OF > SELLING THEM IS NOT A RIGHT..... IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF A RIGHT. IT > IS A PRIVILEGE. > > Using force to prevent people from bringing foreign goods into America > is the same as using force to prevent people from stealing or > trespass. You can call trespass a PEACEFUL activity all you like, but > that doesn't make it any less of a crime.
So then you are saying that the right to property is conditional. Interesting position. Still not a libertarian one, but interesting none the less. One would also have to wonder which other rights you consider conditional - life maybe, or liberty? I am just curious. BWS ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
