The Pre-Government Natural Rights Extremist Predates The Postman

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The State Is A Late Arrival

The State Is A Late Arrival

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far right and libertarian frontier.

The Pre-Government Natural Rights Extremist believes the state is a small late arrival to a much older party, and should be more grateful. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Pre-Government Natural Rights Extremist mindset, with help from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Locke and Britannica on natural rights.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Pre-Government Natural Rights Extremist In The Wild

  1. Has explained, at length, that natural rights existed before the postal service.
  2. Refers to the state of nature the way other men refer to backpacking.
  3. Believes any law that conflicts with natural rights is, structurally, a draft.
  4. Has a fantasy in which the state is downsized to a sort of polite reception desk.
  5. Refers to John Locke as our founding analyst.
  6. Considers any new bill of rights an admission that the old one was not enough.
  7. Has a binder of essays on prepolitical liberty.
  8. Refers to the Magna Carta as a fine starting paragraph.
  9. Believes any government that taxes without representation is, fundamentally, a quaint hobby.
  10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to inalienable rights.
  11. Refers to property the way priests refer to grace.
  12. Considers any judge who departs from natural law a kind of weather.
  13. Has a soft spot for trial by jury and a harder one for habeas corpus.
  14. Refers to the rights of man the way other men refer to old albums.
  15. Believes any constitution should fit on a postcard.
  16. Has a fantasy in which the entire body of statute since 1215 is rationalised, gently.
  17. Refers to the social contract as a polite later addition.
  18. Considers any sentence about positive law a small structural sigh.
  19. Has explained that he is, fundamentally, on the side of the unwritten and the older.
  20. Believes the cure for the country is, fundamentally, fewer statutes and more woods.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meetup with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat