International
Private Property
International
Private Property is being defined to include intellectual property, patent and
copyright protections, property registration, political climate, ease of access
to loans, political stability, judicial independence, control of corruption and
rule of law.
The US
ranks 15th on the international property rights index with a score
of 7.7. Ahead of the US are Finland 8.4, New Zealand 8.3, Luxembourg 8.3,
Norway 8.3, Switzerland 8.2, Singapore 8.1, Sweden 8.1, Japan 8.1 and Canada
8.0.
United States’ IPRI score increased by 0.1 to 7.7
placing it 2nd in the North America and 15th in the world. The USA is
classified by the IMF as part of the Advanced Economies group and the World
Bank as a high income OECD country. The US is a member of the North America
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The Subindex for the Legal and Political
Environment increased by 0.1 to 7.3 with scores of 6.9 in Judicial
Independence, 8.2 in Rule of Law, 6.2 in Political Stability, and 7.6 in
Control of Corruption. The Subindex for Physical Property Rights increased by
0.1 to 7.3 with scores of 7.6 in Property rights, 9.5 in Registering Property,
and 4.9 in Ease of access to loans. The Subindex for Intellectual Property
Rights Increased by 0.2 to 8.6 with scores of 7.9 in Intellectual Property
Protection, 9.8 in Patent Protection, and 8.2 in Copyright Piracy Level.
http://internationalpropertyrightsindex.org/country?c=UNITED+STATES
Global
corporations are interested in solving the problems they encounter in the theft
of their intellectual property, but their support of UN Agenda 21 and its
statement that private land ownership is unsustainable makes them the enemy of
the people.
The
Private Property Secret.
Plymouth
Colony in 1620 went from communism to freedom keeping and owning what you grow
and make. The drive for self-reliance is
embedded in human nature. Motivation and
human nature and needs from safety to self-actualization need to be met.
The Pilgrims’ Failed Experiment With
Socialism Should Teach America A Lesson Written
by: John Evans Worldview
Socialism doesn’t work.
Just ask the Pilgrims. Most Americans are
familiar with the story of the Puritans landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, but
few perhaps understand their early experiment with socialism and how its
failure led them to embrace individual-driven capitalism.
Dr. Judd W. Patton,
professor of economics at Bellevue
University (Nebraska), tracks the development of the
Pilgrims’ settling of New England and their brief flirtation with socialism in
an op-ed titled “The Pilgrim Story: Vital Insights and Lessons for Today.”
According to Patton, the
Pilgrims began in England as Puritan Separatists, Christians so dissatisfied
with the Church of England that they decided to separate from it. Persecuted by
the English government, a group of about 100 fled to Holland.
“But it soon became
apparent that their new homeland was far from ideal,” Patton wrote. “They also
feared that a European war was on the horizon. Thus, after much discussion,
they voted to go to America.”
Since the Pilgrims did not
have enough funds to outfit for the journey and establish a colony, they sought
help from the Virginia Company of London and the Virginia Company of Plymouth,
companies known as “adventurers,” which were organized to fund and equip
colonial enterprises.
One of the key points of
the contract between the Pilgrims and the Adventurers said that all colonists
were to get their food, clothing, drink and provisions from the colony’s
“common stock and goods.” In addition, during the first seven years, all
profits earned by colonists would go into the “common stock” until they were
divided. “Today we would call this a socialist commune,” Patton wrote.
“In other words, the
Pilgrims accepted the socialist principle, ‘from each according to his ability,
to each according to his need.’ Each person was to place his production into
the common warehouse and receive back, through the Governor, only what he
needed for himself or his family. The surplus after seven years was to be
divided equally, along with the houses, lands, and chattels, ‘betwixt the
Adventurers and Planters.’”
The Pilgrims actually
wanted to own their own lands and homes and to work two days a week for their
own gain, but the adventurers would not allow it.
Once the agreement was
signed, two ships were outfitted for the journey, the Speedwell and theMayflower. But the Speedwell proved
unseaworthy, so everyone still willing to make the journey—102 persons—crowded
aboard the Mayflower and
set sail.
Patton wrote that after
landing on Dec 21, 1620, the Pilgrims suffered horribly their first winter,
with around half the colonists perishing. Aid from the now-famous native,
Squanto, helped them survive with new planting techniques, but the harvests of
1621 and 1622 were still small.
The colony’s governor,
William Bradford, wrote that its socialist philosophy greatly hindered its
growth: Young men resented working for the benefit of other men’s wives and
children without compensation; healthy men who worked thought it unjust that
they received no more food than weak men who could not; wives resented doing
household chores for other men, considering it a kind of slavery.
Governor Bradford wrote
that to avoid famine in 1623, the Pilgrims abandoned socialism, Patton said.
“At length, after much
debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them)
gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in
that regard trust to themselves; in all other things to go on in the general
way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land,” Bradford
wrote.
The colonists, each of
whom now had to grow their own food, suddenly became very industrious, with
women and children who earlier claimed weakness now going into the fields to
plant corn. Three times the amount of corn was planted that year under the new
system.
When a drought threatened
the year’s harvest, Governor Bradford called a day of fasting and prayer to
“seek the Lord by humble and fervent prayer in this great distress.” God
answered that same night with rain that continued in coming days, and the year
brought a plentiful harvest.
“By the fall of 1624, the
colonists were able to export a full boat load of corn!” Patton wrote. “And the
Pilgrims settled with the Adventurers. They purchased the Adventurers stock in
the colony and completed the transition to private property and free markets.” And
the Pilgrims learned a valuable lesson about socialism and hard work.
http://www.offthegridnews.com/religion/the-pilgrims-failed-experiment-with-socialism-should-teach-america-a-lesson/
Land
Ownership
18% of
the total land on Earth is owned or controlled by the people. That means that 82% of the land is owned or
controlled by government or corporations.
Key findings:
• Only 16 percent of the total land of the countries studied in Sub-Saharan
Africa is owned or controlled by Indigenous Peoples and local communities,
compared with 18 percent globally. • All 19 countries studied in Sub-Saharan
Africa have enacted laws to enable the recognition of community ownership or
control of land; however, implementation of these laws is often weak or
nonexistent. • In eight of the 19 countries, Indigenous Peoples and local
communities own or control less than 1 percent of the country’s land area,
including both agricultural and forested lands.
With only
18% of the World’s land owned by individuals and taking a tip from the Plymouth
Colony experience, citizens of third-world countries should be permitted to buy
their own farms to feed themselves, sell the excess and keep the money. These countries need clean water and sanitary
sewers like septic tanks as well. Government who do not allow for this
development should be reformed or replaced by its citizens.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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