The Elimination Of Property Ownership

Interview With a Parasite

Eric Peters

Yesterday, there was a knock at the door – so I went to see who was there. I knew it wasn’t any of my local friends as they all know it’s ok to open the side door and holler to see whether anyone’s home.

It’s a country thing.

Well, it wasn’t a friend at the door. It was a parasite. A two-legged leech hired by the county to “assess” the value of other people’s property, so that the higher-up leeches can decide how much money property owners (sic) “owe” the county – for “services” they didn’t ask for, don’t use and object to being made to pay for.

Such as the “services” of this parasite who appeared at my door to “assess” my property.

Attention Property Owners reads the little notice the son-of-a-bitch left on my door.

“In accordance with state law, a reassessment program is under way for the purpose of equalizing real estate assessments. A research assistant or appraiser from the Reassessment Office visited your property in connection with this program.”

The casual effrontery of it is truly astounding. Shake your head as a dog does when he’s wet and try to get it straight. Some geek shows up to decide how much what you thought was yours is worth so that the worthless leeches who sent him can “assess” how much you will pay them in order to be permitted to retain what amounts to conditional possession of what isn’t your home.

It is the “neighborliness” of totalitarianism – where everyone’s a comrade – but friends are few. A friend asks to borrow a tool that you are free to not lend him. You lend it to him because he is a friend and because you know he’ll bring it back – or replace it, if he breaks it. A comrade says what’s yours belong to him – and he’ll help himself to it.

America is full of such people now and most Americans don’t even realize that’s who they are now. Like this guy who showed up to “assess” the value of my home, that I paid for with my money. That I have worked to keep up – also with my money (and my sweat). Yet this guy feels no compunction walking around my place with his clipboard, taking inventory of my place. An inventory he knows will be used to increase the “assessment” and thus, the amount of money I will be told I “owe” for God-knows-what as I haven’t to my knowledge incurred a legitimate debt to anyone.

Yes, indeed – the schools. Another plank of that vicious son-of-a-bitch (and parasite, too) Karl Marx’s Manifesto. Government schools. To inculcate in kids the glib and casual civility of socialist “neighborliness.” And also to provide the pretext for that other plank of the son-of-a-bitch’s Manifesto: Elimination of property ownership.

Bingo. Check. Because that’s what you’re forced to write out once or twice a year in order to be allowed to continue to retain conditional possession of that which is self-evidently no longer your property. If that were not so, you would not be obliged to write that check once or twice a year, courtesy of Americans like the sob who showed up at my door the other day and all the others like him who think it’s right to “assess” other people’s property (sic) and that they are just doing their job.

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