Not a Constitutional question is it, but a matter for the states to decide. And that issue depends entirely on how much money is behind the unnecessary, intrusive government overreach and how much of it the hidden faces who grabbed all that money are willing to spend to fight me in the courts for the power to secure my own privacy just like they do for themselves.
Since the government was able to function without this violation of private property for 250 years, then they can very well get along without it for the rest of all time.
I own my body and my face and any images of them constitute part of my my privately owned intellectual property, which the government is not permitted to seize without compensating me for the theft.
I and many others might set far too dear a price on our liberty than they are willing to pay. Like the prophecy from the Ghost of Christmas Future, Old Scrooge may find he has but little time to enjoy his wealth.
The prophecies of the indigenous peoples of this continent are not far from fruition, either. There are greater forces at work here than the petty purse-strings of political power. The people pulling those strings right and left will do well to keep this in mind: blood trumps money and spirit trumps blood.
Of course, the money people will always be able to buy the laws and punishments they want. So the question is moot in practical terms. But despite the undoubted power of the rich to coerce, corral, and oppress the poor, the question of human liberty continues to hang in the air, still unsatisfied. And it SHALL hang there for a long, long time.
Maybe – just maybe – it is about to be answered in a fashion those who have ears can hear. Time and oil prices will tell.
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Since the government was able to function without this violation of private property for 250 years, then they can very well get along without it for the rest of all time.
I own my body and my face and any images of them constitute part of my my privately owned intellectual property, which the government is not permitted to seize without compensating me for the theft.
I and many others might set far too dear a price on our liberty than they are willing to pay. Like the prophecy from the Ghost of Christmas Future, Old Scrooge may find he has but little time to enjoy his wealth.
The prophecies of the indigenous peoples of this continent are not far from fruition, either. There are greater forces at work here than the petty purse-strings of political power. The people pulling those strings right and left will do well to keep this in mind: blood trumps money and spirit trumps blood.
Of course, the money people will always be able to buy the laws and punishments they want. So the question is moot in practical terms. But despite the undoubted power of the rich to coerce, corral, and oppress the poor, the question of human liberty continues to hang in the air, still unsatisfied. And it SHALL hang there for a long, long time.
Maybe – just maybe – it is about to be answered in a fashion those who have ears can hear. Time and oil prices will tell.