Let’s put this notion to bed already: “No one is illegal on stolen land”. A statement that sounds enlightening to the unenlightened, intelligent to the unintelligent.
Sovereignty is the name of the game here. You either have it or you don’t. There is no in-between.
Libertarians argue that everyone has their own personal sovereignty. And that we cede some of that sovereignty to create governments to protect that personal sovereignty. In much the way States ceded some of their sovereignty when creating the Federal government via the Constitution.
Part of the personal sovereignty we ceded to create governments is the power to make and enforce laws. So let’s take this to its logical conclusion.
“Stolen land” means there is an illegitimate claim to it. And I’ll avoid diving into the complication that would create if you tried to unravel that. Since… if you were to actually try to completely unravel that, you’d be talking about undoing millennia of land conquest across the world. Including by the various Native American Tribes in North and South America. Yeah, no, they absolutely are NOT innocent in history, and it’s about fucking time leftists stop pretending they are.
But, again, to say that the land occupied by the States comprising the United States is “stolen land”, you are, in short, saying that the sovereignty of the United States and all States therein is illegitimate. And by saying that, you are, by extension, saying that the Constitution is illegitimate because the sovereignty of the States that created it is illegitimate.
And the sovereignty of the States is illegitimate because the sovereignty of the people who created those State Constitutions is also illegitimate.
Again, there is no in-between.
This all means the United States has no right to national defense, since national sovereignty implies that right. So if any other country were to come into the United States and try to take us over, our military should, in short, just stand down and… let it happen. And, alongside that, anyone who wants to enter the United States is free to do so at any time and cannot be removed for any reason – i.e., “no one is illegal on stolen land”. No one can have an immigration status, so no one can have an illegal immigration status because… the sovereignty of the United States is illegitimate.
And before you scream “actually… your argument is invalid because it’s a slippery slope”, a slippery slope argument is not prima facie invalid, though a lot of people like to argue such. Because they can’t respond to what’s been said, and so need an easy out while screaming “Your argument is invalid, so I win by default!” Yeah… no.
Especially since we are seeing that very slippery slope play out in real life. With the attempts to interfere with immigration enforcement that have already led to two high-profile deaths.
And we’re seeing the erosion of sovereignty – both Federal and State sovereignty – play out in leftist cities when it comes to property rights – i.e. personal sovereignty – and the abject refusal by city and State prosecutors to actually prosecute personal property crimes like theft and squatting, which has led to some interesting political swings as well.
Yet Billie Eilish wants her property rights protected, hence the restraining order.
Again, you can’t have it both ways. Either the sovereignty of the United States is legitimate, meaning so are any laws passed that comply with the Constitution, or it is not.
Saying “no one is illegal on stolen land” immediately implies you see the sovereignty of the United States as illegitimate. So… when are you leaving?
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