Government Theft Of Farmland In Miaoli County

This is absolutely outrageous. Not on account of the stated grounds of the Miaoli County Government allegedly neglecting to complete the "expropriation process" (i.e. theft) in full accordance with the letter of the law, but that such a provision even exists in the first place. The invention of the word "expropriation" to replace the commonly accepted word "theft" was a necessary disguise for the conceptual referent of applying overwhelming violence (or the threat of such) to deprive someone of his or her property (and what is property - and the moral right to it, if not an important technology by which someone may further his or her survival?). That R.O.C law provides for such theft of private property by government organs is in direct trespass of the supposed right of individuals to property under Article 15 of this circus-tent constitution.

Again, however, this is, and it will be proven to be, just a single example of where democratic mechanisms fail to prevent the abuse of government power. Such abject violations of private property arise, not because the democratic form within which government power sits has been too roughly sculpted, but because the political culture which shapes modern politics continues to try to weave together two incompatible ideological premises - the individualism predicated upon the principle that property be privately owned, and the violent subjugation of some individuals to the interests of particular others which will be falsely proclaimed as collective interests - this is the essence of government power, democratic or not. Ain't no third way.