Liberating Planet Earth

126 Liberating Planet Earth
worshipers’ heirs. The Moloch state, like the polluting factory, is
a coercive, capital-destroying agent in the economy. But the
polluting factory may provide productive employment for local
residents, and it provides the consumers with lower-priced goods
(lower priced than if the factory had to pay for pollution-control
equipment). The state, in contrast, employs only bureaucrats,
and uses its finds generally to subsidize the improvident
members of society (some of whom may be quite rich), capturing
them in a web of promised benefits, and destroying their incentive
to work for the benefit of consumers.
But how can rich people be improvident? By “improvident; I
mean “one who wastes his capital, or the capital entrusted to him
by others.” This certainly applies to senior executives of major industrial
companies that apply to the Federal government for financial
aid, tariffs, and other stolen economic goods.
The very poor also suffer a reduction of their opportunities to
obtain the work skills they need to advance themselves in modern
economic society. The confiscatory state is a far greater threat to
property and freedom than some local factory which pollutes the
air or water.
The modern state is a threat to human rights, for it is a threat to
property rights. The modern state is a destroyer of human rights,
for it is a destroyer of property rights. Guilt-ridden intellectuals,
politicians, and sons of the rich have promoted an ideology of
wealth-redistribution that destroys capital, and therefore destroys
human aspirations. They have used the misleading slogan, %uman
rights above property rights,” to destroy both human rights and
property rights. They have adopted as their commandment, “Thou
shalt not steal, except by majority vote.” The result, increasingly, is
the decapitdzation of the formerly Christian West.
Never forget: a state that claims to be a savior of mankhd necessarily
becomes the final judge of mankind.
Summary
The Biblical doctrine of ownership is a doctrine of stewardship.
God’s property is to be carefhlly developed by His servants.
The servants have chosen to ignore God, and they have also