For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

Another viewpoint

Published Tue, Jun 5 2007 12:52 AM
Technorati Tags: Liberals, Transportation

The discussion of the Sound Transit proposal has got my blood boiling, and it's lead me to ask the following question: What do the following things have in common?

  • The "taking" of private property through eminent-domain;
  • A heavily progressive graduated income tax;
  • The estate tax;
  • Centralized banks;
  • Government regulated telecommunications industries;
  • Government controlled mass transit systems.

Come on... I'm sure you can guess... give it a try... No? Would a quote from a famous author help?

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

That's right... The items in my first list all have this list from the Communist Manifesto in common. They ALL, every one of them are part of the ten measures leading to Communist revolution outlined by Marx and Engels. The only item in the first six of those measures not in my list is the confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Of course, we don't really need to worry about that one here. We'll just confiscate the property of American citizens and give it to illegal immigrants through social programs. That'll have the same effect.

The world has been fighting this battle since the 1840s. Our liberal friends have added a few things to the list in the name of "social welfare". We're on a downward slide. Bigger government won't solve our problems, whether it's in the realm of health care or transportation. Instead it will only lead to despotism, those "despotic inroads on the rights of property" that Marx was talking about.

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