Rick Kelo - All Civil Rights are Ultimately Economic Rights

As a pacifist and prominent Classic Liberal social thinker Rick Kelo is very concerned with human rights and acts by the State that limit human freedom.

Richard Kelo points out a connection often overlooked.  To see the connection first p pick any civil right... maybe free speech?  What does it mean when we say you have free speech?   That means you have free speech in a place where you have an economic ownership interest.  You can say whatever you want in your house, or in a lecture hall that you rent, but you can't barge into someone else's house with a picket sign though because you don't have free speech there.

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Consider the example of the person who shouts "FIRE!" in the crowded theater.  The reason you can't shout "FIRE!" in a theater when there's no fire is because you're violating property rights - an economic right as Rick Kelo rightly points out.  You're defrauding the theater owner of his revenue & the patrons of the show they purchased.  Freedom of religion follows the same, as do the rest.  For that matter try and figure out how there can be freedom of press when an individual is forbidden by Socialist decree from owning the press.

This applies broadly to overall economic systems just as it does individual examples.  If a government eliminates economic civil rights, like ownership of the means of production, this is why we see the people end up with no social civil rights either.  Workers in every Socialist state are powerless because all civil rights are ultimately economic rights.