My Reply to Occupy Wall Street

Your existence does not place a claim on my resources, my wealth, my life, or the fruits of the sweat of my brow.  Your existence permits - nay, compels you - to serve others by competing in the commercial marketplace to meet the needs, wants, and desires of your fellow man.   To assert your claim on that which belongs to others is to essentially contradict the principle of the inviolability of personal property rights.  It is through our understanding of personal property and the cooperative exchange of goods and services that we organize society.  To demand that that which belongs to one person  be coercively taken from him and redistributed to other persons or groups is nothing less than tyranny, and it is against this I stand.  Demands to punitively "tax the rich" will neither create more jobs nor increase prosperity throughout the land.  From the current phase of capital strike will emerge full-fledged capital flight, capital controls, rationing and shortages, general want and poverty.  If each person occupying Wall Street would decamp, buy one ounce of physical silver, and take positive steps to hold our elected officials accountable for their votes, then far more would be accomplished to correct the economic ills which our nation and people suffer.