About those property rights

"Natural rights do not come from government; they spring from our humanity. Or, as our founders put it, we are endowed by our 'Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,' the latter meaning property. We establish governments to secure these rights.

Unfortunately, Americans have permitted governments at every level to become increasingly destructive of the ends they were created to serve. Under the color of law, government often does to us what thieves and crooks do, and like a nation of sheep we stand by and take it, and what's worse, sometimes we ask for it." -- Walter E. Williams