Everyone claims he is for FREEDOM. But to most people, FREEDOM represents the condition that exists when their own views prevail over all others. This is NOT freedom.
FREEDOM IS THE SOCIETAL CONDITION THAT EXISTS WHEN EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS FULL (i.e. 100%) CONTROL OVER HIS OWN PROPERTY.
In this definition of FREEDOM, no one’s views can be used to dominate or to rule over others. Everyone can rule himself — but not others. This is so, because no one has any control over the property of another without the owner’s voluntary consent. This necessarily follows from the definition of FREEDOM because, were someone’s property controlled to any extent by another, then he could no longer be 100% in control over his own property, and the original definition would stand contradicted.
Thus, in a free society, anyone may do anything that he pleases — with no exceptions — so long as his actions affect only his own property; he may do nothing which affects the property of another without obtaining consent of its owner.
In FREEDOM, therefore, aggressive coercion of any kind by any one individual (or group of individuals, or organization) over another is totally outside the scope of proper activity.
This is because aggressive coercion always has the effect of seizure, destruction, regulation, or unsanctioned use of the property of another; this converts the property into plunder and contradicts FREEDOM.
He stands for FREEDOM, then, who respects property absolutely and works for the establishment of a society in which all property is fully under the control of its owner.
If you want FREEDOM — respect the property of all!
PROPERTY PROTECTION PRODUCES TRUE FREEDOM.
From THRUST FOR FREEDOM - No. 3, by Joseph A. Galambos