The Law (Loi)

The bride gave me this book for Christmas three years ago.  She had heard a recommendation on the Neal Boortz radio show and thought it was something I would enjoy.
She was right.
The Law is a book written by Frédéric Bastiat, a Frenchman who lived from 1801 to 1850.
The book is merely a collection of short essays or statements if you will about how inevitable evolution of socialism will lead to a tyrannical a government that features leaders having a disproportionately high self worth attached to their evaluation of society human nature. This false sense of superiority leads the demigods to the temptation that the human design is more "uptopian" than the natural evolution of personal and financial transaction.  In short they see problems and advocate government induced corrections.
Does this sound familiar?
A quote that I enjoyed on this subject in the essay titled What is Liberty? In speaking of liberty in France being thwarted.

This is greatly due to a fatal desire - learned from the teachings of antiquity - that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

The book is really short, a little more than a hundred pages, possibly better described as a pamphlet.

The author coins the term "legalized plunder," which he defines as:

If the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

The book is worth reading and given the right mind set, will take only a day to breeze through.  For myself, it is refreshing to see that what we are experiencing now is merely repetition in history.  A repetition of situations that have always failed.

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