Enemies of Private Property

Many blogs have "Markets in Everything"-type posts; I instead will have "Enemies of Private Property" posts. If I come upon a more clever title, I'll use it.

My inaugural jerk of mankind is none other than Martin Luther King, Jr. I am absolutely tired of race-baiters such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, all the way down to "libertarians/conservatives" such as Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, praising this enemy of private property. King did not stop short of discouraging Jim Crow laws and segregation on state-owned grounds; on the contrary, King lobbied heavily for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which destroys the precious notion of private property probably most effectively in Title II:

"All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation... any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests... any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises... any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment."

I need not go any further with this analysis because it is obvious that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made absolute haste in destroying the definition of private and public property. The necessity of the ability to exclude others from privately-owned property is made perfectly clear when we realize that without this power, anybody could at any time rape our bodies, sleep in our beds, and drink our beer without reservation. State education has so baldly obfuscated this obvious point that to say anything negative about King is simply heresy.

King was also supportive of economic reparations and the idea of some form of "economic justice," which has long been popular amongst intellectuals and politicians. I need not talk about this because anybody not under the influence of heroine can point out the fallacies in such thinking.