Those incidents are examples of a vengeful, roguish government. Americans are beginning to understand that minor examples of abuse take place every day. But their is nothing minor about government abuse when it happens to you. I know this hearing is specifically about property rights. But I submit to you, Mr. Chairman, that an assault on any American citizen is an assault on their private property rights.
Land is property, money is property, freedom is property.
Therefore, the Endangered Species Act is an assault on my land, the oppressive tax code is an assault on my money, and the Food and Drug Administration is an assault on my freedom. Until we begin to understand property rights in its entirety, then we will never win this battle. To see property rights as simply rewriting ESA is a major mistake. We must see the ESA as a small piece in a puzzle of forgotten freedoms. Until we wipe out all assaults on our personal freedoms, our land, our money, our rights and our citizenship will not be complete.