PrivateLaw / Warrants

The concept of a "warrant" is for A to give B permission to invade C's property. This of course is incompatible with any concept of freedom; it makes no more sense than A giving B permission to rob C, or kill him. It is entirely a statist concept.

But, regarding searching property that you don't have permission to be on, there are basically two possibilities:

A warrant in a statist society does not, after all, convey any new right; it just asserts that the police invaders' masters have given their permission—a permission they have no right to give. And so, with this illegitimate permission, they (by force, not right) invade the property of the owner. I.e., even today, police exercising a warrant are committing a crime against the property owner. It's not different in a free society, except that it is better understood that Magic Paper doesn't exist.

However, a free society necessarily denies the existence of a magic right to invade someone else's property because you want to, or because some self-created authority says so. (DBR)

last edited 2012-09-23 03:37:32 by DavidRobins