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<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001193t4JUlHXiIO8BJn3oPcCSdYSOgy7bw0c7mK51uXw8jz4GGAuIzv_xD9ZIQiF0TR4mx-fsaJn_PLKLhOtRHdOFJw611cOVIPrjDDRWiENT3n1QmVOAryTtLiCuwDhiCr_MEHxIrYgQjB500BOd5C8zZtX3aCPoqBg-AqksNyab4NfkXMdcx5w==&c=4LQfvL9I_Ai5GGgoKsJDwwQdvzoqBvulP6t6s33znjOLzHeiPk7sXw==&ch=a37SPuH5upSPTOrbw_5NF3sKC25p1rJW-rjIndpQm1qAPtfIA8N6Zg==> August 13, 2014 You Own You, I Own Me There's been a lot of talk about Robert Draper's New York Times <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001193t4JUlHXiIO8BJn3oPcCSdYSOgy7bw0c7mK51uXw8jz4GGAuIzv2AetUep4_eeDRUUC7NkolQoJDVKPD9qyYKCEyFs7jRVkx6_CGSDkHuOzQhNjz1NBuNTi_S4h20-Cci1G9aDNwhEpmr854-wfkG3qKt38Abl9jt6u_Hq8XM3ANn4GzvD-OEj3pSZA2jQvVRbYAiVNCYd5WwM69n_82pS_NSx9DJONPGGFCT6muOXuTGQYDUje76X1R1JJ8yAsYulyPAFr_Fskgs0zrrBpdTgrD4x6qak&c=4LQfvL9I_Ai5GGgoKsJDwwQdvzoqBvulP6t6s33znjOLzHeiPk7sXw==&ch=a37SPuH5upSPTOrbw_5NF3sKC25p1rJW-rjIndpQm1qAPtfIA8N6Zg==> article on a possible "libertarian moment." On <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001193t4JUlHXiIO8BJn3oPcCSdYSOgy7bw0c7mK51uXw8jz4GGAuIzv2AetUep4_eeZbmG777Xr8U5TXlUl5xK8CQVqY_LQ62I44TXUlJw7aLNyokks22s4U6yaBrBe58WEkNxIM9lIfOrx7A7rzpDH_kA8N-P-7w06vKCjkSAuSebv06js1mvf4ZAd9_l3Hn6Cg9cdM8Wpeo=&c=4LQfvL9I_Ai5GGgoKsJDwwQdvzoqBvulP6t6s33znjOLzHeiPk7sXw==&ch=a37SPuH5upSPTOrbw_5NF3sKC25p1rJW-rjIndpQm1qAPtfIA8N6Zg==> Townhall, " <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001193t4JUlHXiIO8BJn3oPcCSdYSOgy7bw0c7mK51uXw8jz4GGAuIzv2AetUep4_ee6AZZx4iICT4CZl_nStev_80MZIC1om7TMxM4U24t4kHOMlpMIXoaZYDwluGQeHJc62Mg3VK9DGS8Jrq83LgXWef_NCnK7K7Cu2Q_GkrgFFwo2NTbm3cKbWTO3nNuPPo7dIEla4eNa163tpLCPMcWlqLzqNTpYmXi_I3XqjC-QBV-X9vT4b582w==&c=4LQfvL9I_Ai5GGgoKsJDwwQdvzoqBvulP6t6s33znjOLzHeiPk7sXw==&ch=a37SPuH5upSPTOrbw_5NF3sKC25p1rJW-rjIndpQm1qAPtfIA8N6Zg==> last weekend," I focused on the partisan political aspect of the movement. There was a lot of curious stuff in the article, and I haven't seen anyone comment on one of its stranger passages. Call it a moment of culture shock. The article briefly profiled a "Washington-based journalist" who sported "a tattoo under her right biceps that reads, 'I Own Me.'" This is a provocation, of course, sure to annoy authoritarians and collectivists and . . . David Frum: <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/DavidFrum.jpg> "What does that mean, 'I own myself?' " David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush and Republican commentator, sputtered in exasperation when we spoke later. "Can I sell myself? If I can't, I don't own myself." Taken at face value, one could simply answer Frum by mentioning that in olden times people could sell themselves — into slavery. Or one could make an extended political point. "Haven't we all sold ourselves long ago?" That might be unnerving. But the informed answer is this: "We can't sell ourselves because our 'self-propriety' (as <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001193t4JUlHXiIO8BJn3oPcCSdYSOgy7bw0c7mK51uXw8jz4GGAuIzv2AetUep4_eei1MBQCi-5wcYKmEWZ9xrH5nJzZ1HI547NanrYNjpoRdC5xWYdcz_v_tDidUfbM25ka2uHtTPA_PQLK9tYuafO6nhZGimwnlmJzK6_b15p-fleGy8PNU9TMuSxlzxaChBazVkDUYfl9E=&c=4LQfvL9I_Ai5GGgoKsJDwwQdvzoqBvulP6t6s33znjOLzHeiPk7sXw==&ch=a37SPuH5upSPTOrbw_5NF3sKC25p1rJW-rjIndpQm1qAPtfIA8N6Zg==> Richard Overton put it long ago) differs from other kinds of ownership. Our self-ownership is inalienable. That's why it's so important." It's like this: You own you, I own me — we are free. It turns out, Mr. Frum, that this "inalienability" idea was central to much discussion of rights at the founding of our country. Funny you don't seem to know anything about that. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. 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Thought For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self-propriety, else could he not be himself; and of this no second may presume to deprive any of without manifest violation and affront to the very principles of nature and of the rules of equity and justice between man and man. Mine and thine cannot be, except this be. No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's. I may be but an individual, enjoy my self and my self-propriety and may right myself no more than my self, or presume any further; if I do, I am an encroacher and an invader upon another man's right — to which I have no right. For by natural birth all men are equally and alike born to like propriety, liberty and freedom.… —Richard Overton Video Click HERE <http://thisiscommonsense.com/2014/02/15/video-our-pension-problem/> to see Paul's latest! <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/TFM-logo-220square.png> Common Sense is sponsored by Think Freely Media, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that assists other nonprofits in promoting freedom in a persuasive manner. Paul Jacob is President of the Liberty Initiative Fund <http://libertyifund.org/> (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge and Citizens in Charge Foundation. 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