"Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups. Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces? If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all." Bastiat

Events for Fall 2018

September 2018

St. Augustine FL   September 08, 2018 - September 09, 2018
Myakka City FL    September 15, 2018 - September 16, 2018
Tallahassee FL      September 22, 2018 - September 23, 2018
Gainesville FL      September 29, 2018 - September 30, 2018
Hernando FL        September 29, 2018 - September 30, 2018
Palm Bay FL        September 29, 2018 - September 30, 2018

October 2018

Pensacola FL           October 06, 2018 - October 07, 2018
New Smyrna Beach FL October 13, 2018 - October 14, 2018
St. Augustine FL     October 13, 2018 - October 14, 2018
Clearwater FL         October 20, 2018 - October 21, 2018
Palm Bay FL           October 20, 2018 - October 21, 2018
Tallahassee FL        October 20, 2018 - October 21, 2018

November 2018

Bunnell FL            November 03, 2018 - November 04, 2018
Hurlburt Field FL November 03, 2018 - November 04, 2018
Tallahassee FL      November 10, 2018 - November 11, 2018
Clearwater FL       November 17, 2018 - November 18, 2018
Palm Bay FL         November 17, 2018 - November 18, 2018
Immokalee FL       November 24, 2018 - November 25, 2018

Well ?

If I were to say to you, “A well-educated population, being necessary to the productivity of a free state, the right of the people to read and write, shall not be infringed,” would you take that to mean that people can only read and write if doing so is in service of the state? Or only because the State desires a well-educated population?