Wednesday 3 October 2007

What drives the educated man?


Of the State of Nature.

Sec. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty.

I stole this extract from John Locke's The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690.
At a time when the mass majority no longer care who governs them, is it not about time that they are reminded of their responsibilities as Citizens of this once GREAT NATION.
Not voting is an abrogation of that responsibility. If you do not find a candidate that suits, then write that on your spoiled ballot paper.
If Labour has allowed unfettered immigration because the foreigner is a Labour support, have the courage to tell those worthless, self interested sycophants called Labour MP's that enough is enough. 200,000 decent Brits emigrating each year is probably a great under-estimation. Just walk through Oldham, Burnley, Bradford...in fact any town in this once GREAT NATION and see for yourself.
"The social structure or commonwealth, then, depends for its formation and maintenance on the express consent of those who are governed by its political powers. Majority rule thus becomes the cornerstone of all political order, and dissatisfied citizens reserve a lasting right to revolution. Similarly, Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) argued for a broad (though not limitless) acceptance of alternative religious convictions".

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