Danny Schechter - Remember Rousseau: Property Rights and Human Rights Are Still At War
January 30, 2012 Listen to Danny's show (The News Dissector) every Friday at 1pm(ET) only on PRN.fm.
The conflict between property rights and human rights has entered a new chapter. It is a debate that goes back to the challenge by landowners and merchants behind the American Revolution’s war on British control over the colonial economy.
Only today, as those speaking in the name of the 99% challenge the super wealthy of the 1% (actually the .001 %) there is a new battleground in what’s known as the housing market with as many as 14 million Americans in or facing foreclosure.
The defense of property rights is the holy of the holies for the propertied classes with a whole industry set up to enforce their claims of ownership.
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