> Your application of the term tyranny here is an insult to those that have actually lived under it.
Tyrannical governments like the Soviet Union were premised on disregarding private property rights. In the name of "the common good" they confiscated private farms and ended up starving tens of millions of people. Obviously the effects of that are much worse, but the mindset -- that private property rights and the rule of law must yield to bureaucrats' view of the "common good" was the same.
Private property is sacrosanct. In the Constitution, "property" comes right after "life" and "liberty." That rule dates back to the Magna Carta, written 805 years ago. Using regulatory powers to end-run around property rights is one of the most tyrannical things a government can do.
> The state trying to force a billionaire to open up a beach is not tyranny.
That's not what I said. I said OP's hypothetical world, where private citizens don't have the "financial" "power" to "see [a] battle through" with the State over property rights would be tyrannical.
To date, Khosla has won on the key legal issue: the public has no easement to access the beach over Khosla's property. Khosla is entirely justified in fighting the State's efforts to do through its fence-permitting powers what it cannot do as a matter of property law. Saying that Khosla shouldn't even be able to engage in that "battle" is espousing tyranny.
Tyrannical governments like the Soviet Union were premised on disregarding private property rights. In the name of "the common good" they confiscated private farms and ended up starving tens of millions of people. Obviously the effects of that are much worse, but the mindset -- that private property rights and the rule of law must yield to bureaucrats' view of the "common good" was the same.
Private property is sacrosanct. In the Constitution, "property" comes right after "life" and "liberty." That rule dates back to the Magna Carta, written 805 years ago. Using regulatory powers to end-run around property rights is one of the most tyrannical things a government can do.
> The state trying to force a billionaire to open up a beach is not tyranny.
That's not what I said. I said OP's hypothetical world, where private citizens don't have the "financial" "power" to "see [a] battle through" with the State over property rights would be tyrannical.
To date, Khosla has won on the key legal issue: the public has no easement to access the beach over Khosla's property. Khosla is entirely justified in fighting the State's efforts to do through its fence-permitting powers what it cannot do as a matter of property law. Saying that Khosla shouldn't even be able to engage in that "battle" is espousing tyranny.