Tyranny vs Anarchy

Fascism = Big centralized government with central planning for the perfecting of the master-race.

Marx believed in the same thing. before Marx there was Godwin who equally believed in solution based governing for the perfecting of the human race. They viewed man as a perfectible creature that is not limited by natural tendencies.

The Founders and Adam Smith believed otherwise that man has limitations and that those limitations will always be a part of us.

I can't speak for the big-government republicans but I can speak on the behalf of individualism.

The accurate paradigm that should be remembered was the paradigm of the Founders….

Tyranny vs Anarchy

Tyranny is big centralized government where individuals are ruled and do not have individual freedoms to life liberty or property.

Anarchy is the absence of government.

The founders believed being in the middle of that paradigm. Small limited central government so that individuals are not under the yoke of tyranny but big enough to have power to take care of the needs of the States.

Overtime the people and the political class have forgotten this paradigm for expediency sake. Because the natural tendency of any nation is the increase the size the government. It is not solely the fault of the progressive big government types, it is also the fault of us as citizens to keep a watch on the government. The government is our creation, thus a creature of man, man is not a creature of government.

The only good thing about the current regime being in power is that it is igniting the fire of liberty in the hearts and minds of the citizens. It is sad that we had to wake up under these circumstances, but never the less another period of Awakening is happening among liberty loving people. Time will only tell if it lasts and if we as a citizenry are serious about taking back the power from the State and returning it to the people where it rightly belongs.

Getting back to the topic at hand. Fascism, Communism or Socialism are all on the side of tyranny because those "-isms" tend to rob man of individual freedom. It is inaccurate to align libertarian type people with fascism because these types of people believe in the very opposite of what Fascism stands for. 

I have a right to your magical abilites!

I am sorry healthcare is a right? That's like me calling godaddy telling them that they better provide me with hosting service because I have a right to their service.

What's next, education, housing? Before you know it we will be in the alleged marxist utopian of communism.

Rights transcend time. Rights do not evolve they are constants of the human race. If healthcare is a right then that right would extend to every age of human existence.

Yes medieval doctor please bleed me because I have a right to it. Yes african witch doctor please heal me from this evil spirit possessing my body because I have a right to your magical abilities. Healthcare is not a right, it is a service provided by another individual. I do not have the right to plunder goods and services from my follow man.

Responding to a comment at Foxnews

readatextbooksays:

Actually Glenn Beck lies quite often: He said that no other President had never been sworn into office without a Bible. He said he 'checked'. John Qunicy Adams used a law book. Franklin Pierce didn't even swear. He affirmed. Teddy Roosevelt used no Bible. Several Presidents kissed a Bible but did not swear on one. He knows most people don't have the time to check his "facts" so he gets away with it. I checked, He lied

Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 1:16 AM

@readatextbooksays:

That's it that's all you have to condemn Beck and his address, that he got one of his historical facts wrong. You say he lies 'often' please give me more examples of 'often' and let them be a bigger deal than if a president put his hand on the bible or not, how on earth does that derail the message of Natural Law and Personal Liberty that Beck is expressing to people. You don't seem to have a lot of content in your criticism of Beck, the only thing you have is a personal attack which shows how weak your case really is. Please confound us with some Marxist dogma and prove us wrong on those grounds, screw attacking the messenger please attack the message and do so with a little credibility

Raw Deal

In 1939, ten years after the crash on Wall Street, the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. friend to FDR, told the House Ways and Means Committee:

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong…somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises…I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started…And an enormous debt to boot!”

NPR Follow up

During tonight's drive home I heard a story about the failing schools in Los Angeles. The state is handing over districts to private sector charter schools because the state has no funds. The teachers union has their panties in a twist because they will be out of a job and the charter schools don't want the union members and all the baggage that brings.

The story it self was pretty one-sided. The bulk of the report was in favor of the teachers union as every person being interviewed were basically complaining about the students being put in the private sector. Not one time did the journalist bring up the perspective of the charter school and the potential good outcome that could happen.

Interesting trivia: Thomas Jefferson a fierce advocate for education in his day believed that education should be in the private sector as the private sector in his view manages things more efficiently than the government according to an address he sent to the congress during his presidency.

Identical Bombers

An NPR Experiement

I am doing an experiment. For the next few months I am going to start listening regularly to the evening edition of NPR on my drive home from work. Everyone who knows me knows that I love listening to Glenn Beck. Although I do not agree with everything that Beck supports, for instance his position on the US Military and it's presence in the world. I tend to agree with Ron Paul on that one that generally we should minimize our military presence around the globe. But that's another story.

Sometimes I listen to Rush and typically I agree with him on a lot of topics but it seems to me that he likes to bring up the Democrat vs. Republican debate a lot. So if I am bored I dial in but never really stay that long.

I never listen to Hannity. To me he is just a mini-me version of Rush. I can't stand his voice it's whiney and he in my opinion is not a very good debater. A caller called in one time and brought up a historical point of view about Alexander Hamilton which was a good point and all Hannity could muster was "that's a stupid interpretation..." I cannot listen to people who discuss topics like that, though I am sure Beck does it a lot, and usually it's sarcasm when he does it, when Hannity said that I got the feeling that he didn't know enough about the subject to come up with an articulate answer. Beck on the other hand who constantly is bloviating has a great knowledge of history which is one of the main reasons I like him, because of Beck I starting reading books about American history, I read the Constitution again, I am going through the Federalist papers, etc...

I don't like a lot of the local radio host here in the valley. In the morning I will listen to Barry Young on 550 AM. I get the feeling he is your traditional Republican Conservative. I get the feeling he is a supporter of McCain. I love his whit and humor in his show but that's about it. I don't walk away from that show a better-enlightened person.

I used to listen to JD Hayworth on 550 AM on my drive home but again a Republican hack and his voice is like nails on a chalk bored. I am sure I will probably vote for the guy just to get McCain out of office. Unless there is a great libertarian candidate that is running.

And the last resort is 92.3 FM the "republican station" as my mom calls it. Which in reality 550 AM is more of the republican station. The drive home I listen to Mac and Gados (sp?) but they are just so dimwitted that I barely stand them. They are more for entertainment and local issues in the valley.

Okay now that I got that out in the open, on to my experiment. For the next few months I will be listening to NPR for my drive home. I am really not interested in listening to out-right leftist talk shows on the dial but I will give NPR a chance, they try very hard to be objective and centrist in there reporting. I grew up listening to NPR and just couldn't listen anymore a few years back. I will report back often to give my assessment. Even if it might be a light-weight leftist station at least I can feed my brain with different types of stories.

Tonight’s topic was on the stimulus package. I did not support the so-called stimulus package just so you know. The story tried very hard to be fair about it, offering differing view points on it, but the general feeling I got from the story was that the reporter was amenable to the stimulus package. A few points I wish they had brought up. They weren't overly critical of it at all. More to come...

Progressive Imperialism

Still doing my reading about the Progressive movement in America (American Progressivism), apparently all the folk out there who despise America because of it's 'imperialist' tendencies should realize it was the progressives like Woodrow Wilson who had a higher vision for America in spreading it's influence accross the globe.

In contrast it was the founders who preached and practiced nuetrality. A reading of George Washington's farewell address and the Monroe Doctrine attest to this principal. The founders view was to have friendly relations with other countries entangling alliances with none.

Yet now the progressive followers of our day criticize this country of imperilism when it was the progressives of yesteryear that started it! Its amazing what a person can learn if they just turn off the tv and read a book. More to come...