| Sunday, 19 July 2009 12:14 |
| Quintessential Liberal vs. Extreme Marxist
By JB Williams ©2009 USA Since 52% of American voters were foolish enough to buy the story that Barack Hussein Obama is some sort of “liberal messiah,” I thought it would be interesting to compare the belief systems of America’s father of liberalism and author of our Declaration of Independence, with the Marxist belief system of the false messiah. And since today’s liberals have so much trouble properly interpreting our Founders’ simple message to future generations, I am under no illusion that these facts will carry anymore weight with modern Marxists than Article II – Section I of the Constitution, which clearly states that Barack Obama cannot be President of the United States. But for the rest of America, namely those who have been baffled by decades of leftist balderdash via the NEA’s academia and the state run media complex, a few real facts might help sort things out. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Just for you leftists out there, what Jefferson was trying to say here is, you can’t be both stupid and free. This is the fly in your ointment friends. You think you can be stupid and irresponsible AND free. But you can’t… You think that freedom belongs to the spineless thief, but it doesn’t. You think you can use a democratic process to force others to accept responsibility for your ignorance, but you can’t. Oh sure, you can cast your vote on this basis and even elect a president and congress, who will seat a Supreme Court on this basis. But in the end, one of two things will happen. Either those who earned the gold you seek to steal, will take their gold and leave you holding your empty sack of broken promises, – or – you will trade your individual freedom for a pittance of “free stuff” from the public trough. You can be stupid, or you can be free, but you can’t be both… In the end, there is no way to be both stupid and free! Jefferson knew this, Obamanation doesn’t. “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” This is why Jefferson and fellow Founders designed and gave birth to a Constitutional Representative Republic instead of a “democracy,” and guaranteed every state a “republican” form of government. Their Republic was limited to governance which was “representative” of the people, AND limited to the letter of Constitutional authority. The 10th Amendment says it all… “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” If the Constitution does not specifically grant the federal government authority over a specific matter, then no such authority exists and any effort by the Fed to step into that territory is simply “unconstitutional.” Yet Obama and the modern “liberal” (aka 21st Century Marxist) believe that there are no such limitations on our federal government and that they are free to “take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent of Americans” on the basis that they won an election by “democratic process.” Their system of government is NOT a Constitutional Republic, but rather Democratic Socialism, in which their ends justify their means and the Constitution is no barrier. “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.” According to Jefferson, but not according to Obama, Pelosi or Reid, and their many minions and international friends, all of whom believe that the sum of good government is to “take from those who have used their freedom well, and redistribute to those who have not.” For modern leftists, there is a good greater than freedom. There is political power, bought with gifts from the public treasury for our nation’s “less fortunate” and paid for by America’s most productive. But unlike today’s faux liberals, Jefferson was THE quintessential liberal, believing in a maximum abundance of individual liberty. In fact, he went so far as to state unequivocally… “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” On the other side of complete individual liberty is anarchy. Yet Jefferson states that he would prefer the inconveniences of too much liberty, as opposed to too little. By today’s perverted definitions, this would undoubtedly make Jefferson a quintessential libertarian, not a modern liberal. “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Still, over the last hundred years or so, self-proclaimed liberals have built a political dynasty on the unparalleled practice of wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. There’s no special interest or minority group they haven’t exploited, and no social engineering program they haven’t bankrupted. Despite the very real fact that our federal government has never touched an issue it didn’t wreck, or established a budget it didn’t bust, the left has used its new power to confiscate control of banking, investment, lending, energy, auto manufacturing and individual income. Next they seek control of health care and insurance, all under the false pretense of taking care of the people while simply stockpiling their own personal power over those people. Jefferson would obviously, support no such thing. “Information is the currency of democracy.” I have always found this to be one of Jefferson’s most interesting quotes. Why would someone so clearly opposed to pure democracy, make this statement? In further studying Jefferson’s many writings, I discovered what Jefferson meant by this statement. As our nation’s most well-studied Founder and certainly our most prolific, Jefferson was clearly a lover of information – history in particular. As a result, he was right over and over again, including here… information is indeed the currency of democracy. He who controls the flow and content of information can thereby control public opinion, and therefore, the decisions made by democratic process. This indeed makes “information” the most important “currency” to any democratic society. Hence, the state run media complex. And again, Jefferson makes his point… “It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.” Today’s self-styled liberal believes in concepts that are historically proven to be wrong. Communism and Socialism have failed miserably everywhere on earth they have been tried. Still, the modern liberal believes it can work. That’s because they have to believe it to justify robbing their fellow citizens of the rightful earnings. It would be better for them to believe nothing at all, than to believe that which is clearly false. But doing so would not serve their agenda. Even after congressional leftists bankrupted Fannie and Freddie, forcing every homeowner into falling property values, investors into bad investments supported by bad mortgages, falling markets that threaten the US dollar and the future of the free market that made America the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth, the left remains determined to stick with their failed belief system. It has never worked anywhere on earth, but they are married to it just the same. “Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.” Obama has appointed more unconstitutional Czars in six months than the Soviet Union did in thirty years. They are not accountable to the people, the states, or even congressional oversight. They are appointed minions accountable only to the dictator-in-chief. Yet… “Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.” America’s day of reckoning for decades of ignorance, apathy and arrogance has arrived. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” There are none more ignorant than those who refuse to see… or learn from history. They are doomed to learn the hard way, again and again! Jefferson is America’s quintessential liberal and he had absolutely NOTHING in common with Barack Obama or any other modern liberal. In fact, quite the contrary. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Under the Obama administration, these two statements from Jefferson would qualify Jefferson as a “right-wing extremist” and “potential domestic terrorist,” according to Obama’s Department of Homeland Security. That’s because Barack Obama’s belief system is based upon the concepts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He takes his orders from ACORN, represented by the Congressional Black Caucus, established by card carrying member of the Communist Party, John Conyers. His entire agenda was written by the Democratic Socialists of America, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established by card carrying member of the Socialist Party, Bernie Sanders Jefferson, like every other Founding Father, is rolling over in his grave at what now passes for “liberal” in America. Not one Founding Father would stand for what is happening to this wonderful country today, nor would any call themselves “liberal” by today’s perverted definition. The people running Washington DC today are not American. They belong in prison, not in power. But instead, on July 16, 2009, two days before the writing of this column, Obama’s Department of Justice, headed by Obama’s man Eric Holder, issued a written threat to the state of Tennessee, signed by Assistant Director of the ATF Carson W. Carroll. In that letter, Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stated the following… The passage of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, H.B. 1796, 106th Leg. (Tenn. 2009) 1796 (“Act”), effective June 19, 2009, has generated questions from industry members as to how this State law may affect them while engaged in a firearms business activity. The Act purports to exempt personal firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition manufactured in the State, and which remain in the State, from most Federal firearms laws and regulations. However, because the Act conflicts with Federal firearms laws and regulations, Federal law supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations, continue to apply. A full copy of the ATF letter can be found here – http://www.tfaonline.org/downloads/ATFfirearmsfreedomact.pdf Even though the Tennessee state legislature, through its proper course and authority, passed both a Tenth Amendment bill reminding the Obama administration that it is a sovereign state with constitutional rights, and that the federal government exists at the pleasure of the people and the states, not the other way around, and a Second Amendment affirmation in H.B. 1796, Obama does not see it that way. At the time of passage through the TN House and Senate, Judiciary Chairman Mae Beavers had this to say- “Be it the federal government mandating changes in order for states to receive federal funds or the federal government telling us how to regulate commerce contained completely within this state – enough is enough. Our founders fought too hard to ensure states’ sovereignty and I am sick and tired of activist federal officials and judges sticking their noses where they don’t belong.” But despite the fact that the Tennessee legislature passed and ratified H.B. 1796, the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act of 2009, securing the rights of firearms owners and dealers in the state of Tennessee, Obama’s ATF believes that “federal laws supersede state laws.” This concept could be applied to any law in any state, of course. It is NOT true however… The US Constitution supersedes both federal and state laws. Neither legislature can pass laws at odds with constitutional text. Under the US Constitution, the vast power is entrusted to the people and their states, not the Fed. (See Amendment X of the US Constitution) — Federal laws trump state laws only in the unbridled imaginations of leftists and federal law makers. But only because both act as though the Constitution no longer exists. For this reason, I share another of Jefferson’s sentiments… “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” American citizens have come to fear their tyrannical federal government. Decades of leftist fiscal insanity in Washington DC have left the nation in financial ruin. The moral relativity of the left has shoved the nation into an immoral abyss and the day of reckoning has arrived. The people must organize with local and state leaders in their individual states. According to the US Constitution, the Fed exists and serves at the pleasure of the people and their respective states. These principles either stand, or everything collapses. See Tenth Amendment action reports here – http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/07/18/the-battle-begins-atf-vs-the-constitution/ “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” JB Williams
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It is said by many that America is a free country and many come here because of the perception that it is a free country. However, by any measure, it is anything but a free country because without individual freedom, there is no freedom and individual freedom has been trashed, as the first 10 Amendments… have been, or will be repealed…
Rather distressing to note that this article comes not from the USA, but from Canada! At least author Ron Ewart can see thru the smoke. Really, it won’t take you long to read it and realize how we’re being struck down, “one by one”.
Today I made a single Digg comment somewhere, which was picked up by Sassy, and motivated me to get this written.
That comment perhaps gave a slightly wrong impression, that I am leaving Digg. No, I am merely pulling (partly) back from Digg, because it seems more important to me that I have time to write better explanations of morality, and surely hope I am up to that! Seems that “morality” is construed as haughty and overbearing, how sad that it’s really quiet simple! What I hope to get everyone to understand is simply that basic moral principles are the crucial foundation to understanding and correcting the myriad of wrongs by government and socialistic “society”. As I finish these future pages, I will submit them to Digg, in hopes that my Friends will find them useful in future discussions.
For my own personal philosophy, which has continued for about 45 years now, Ayn Rand was quite enough. Then during the 70′s, I helped organize the Libertarian Party, which rather fulfilled me for these many years. For me, this has been much more about a moral philosophy than it is about political action. Along with so many others, I felt that the morality was generally accepted, and given that, our Constitution would protect us, thus continuing discussion of morality was not of critical importance. Of course, that turns out to have been the worst judgment of our lives!
However, as we all know today, seeing here at Digg and elsewhere that the prime morality of the individual has been largely lost. The irrational and immoral leftist / liberal / socialist /communist / fascist / mystical /altruistic mentality, now preferring the moniker “progressive”, has come to reject moral philosophy in favor of force and sacrifice, thus overwhelming America and the world with their striving “for the greater good”, “for the good of our country”, and “with each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. While I am not religious, I cannot help but observe that such mystical statements are promoted as gospel in many churches, along with “God will take care of us”, which seems to me to be the ultimate statement of the brain-dead and hopeless. The key element seems to be that only sacrifice merits honor.
My small library contains mostly the works of Ayn Rand. I adopted “Atlas Shrugged” as my bible about 1964, and never needed to open it again. However, the short absolute statements of Ayn Rand work only for people who have not allowed themselves to brainwashed; those who have kept some ideals and have exercised their ability to reason. Perhaps if Rand had continued with her discipline, she might have left us with the ways of addressing these issues as they arose, but perhaps she expected you and me to carry on? So we raised our family, without lecture, but by example, in objective morality, and I am proud to say that there are at least our 4 children who live by this same creed. However, with perhaps 90% of our citizenry having conceded their reason to altruism and Big Brother, we have a great chore ahead, and must be diligent in it’s pursuit.
What we have lost over these last three generations beginning with FDR cannot be rectified in days or weeks. The situation today has brought America and the world to unavoidable collapse into an unforeseeable Dark Age. It is my hope that the concept of individual (not communal) freedom survives and enables a re-start someday which is wholly based on objectivist morality, which means everyone who agrees must be diligent in that pursuit! The alternative is not pretty, clearly it will be even more of the same.
I have made or recognized some really good Friends here, people who understand morality. On the other hand, at Digg we all also generate “Fans”, all of whom I check out as they appear. Sadly, many of those Fans seem to hang around for the sole purpose of sabotaging our cause. Another problem I have with Digg, for example, is that this election is over. We have no viable choices who might win, and to continue skipping gossip about any of the candidates is a huge waste of time. The only such that has interested me lately is that lawsuit Berg v. Obama which seems to correctly maintain that Obama is not a natural-born citizen, and may be not a citizen at all.
So, just expect that I’ll do very little commenting at Digg in the future, it’s like working 16-hour days for 2-bits an hour! But I’ll be there watching at Digg watching the relevant.
What you, as a Friend, can do — well you already know the Digg part, Digg and Share and Share again. It’s very disheartening to work so hard and never get past the 100-Diggs, you know? Plus, here on Morality101.net, it will be most helpful if you would help build this website, and comment here on morality101 to either enhance or to help keep me on-track! I appreciate your support, both past and future!
Today I Googled trying to learn the cost of building the border fence between Mexico and the USA, for California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Guess what, nobody knows! Often we see estimates of $70 million per mile, and $40 billion total to built and maintain for 25 years. Wikipedia: “The border’s total length is 1,969 miles” which multiplied by $70 million per mile would add up to $137,830,000,000. Hey, that’s 137.83 BILLION dollars!
So why is it so important to have this fence and add this ‘nuther big chunk to the debt?
There MUST be some better answers to this, huh? Without intending to propose anything, perhaps…
Which brings me to a question which haunts me…
How might we accomplish eliminating national borders throughout this world, without further compromising individual freedom?
The United Nations is not an acceptable solution, merely adding yet another level of force, further removing us from personal control of our own rights, freedoms and choices.
I’m just putting this out here because what we’re doing makes isn’t working, makes no sense, and is costing us barrels of money. We need to find direction which expands freedom. Let’s hear from you.
