Quote Of The Day

"Imagine living in a place where if someone wants your property, instead of renting or buying it, they decide it is cheaper to kill you, and then proceed to make a law that entitles them to do this unabated, and guess what, you can't turn to the government for justice because these guys are the police and the army! So all you can do is run for your life. With your children and family, you run. If I wondered before why the majority are poor, and only a small political elite is wealthy, it takes little brain work to see that one of the reasons is because they have no institutions that protect their right to their land, so that they would profit off its value, and no time and stability to set up a home, let alone a functioning economy." — June Arunga, Kenyan-born libertarian and law student in Britain, on how conditions in Sudan are similar in many other African countries due to lack of freedom and property rights