In summation: “Dangers to freedom”

I ask you, is the principles of individual freedom outdated and irrelevant in today’s society? I ask this because I have heard over and over again that government doesn’t do enough to help people. So people who expect government to do more for people are either ignorant of the fact that to help more people the government has to violate someone’s real rights, or they think that property rights is out of fashion.

I was watching a news program recently when a guest of the program, who was there to defend Obama’s spending plan, said (with conviction): “We are going to be taxing the rich like they should have been taxed all along.” What this guy is really saying is some portions of society don’t deserve to have rights.

Anyway, in conclusion of the “Enemy Within” the threats to freedom have been shown to be pragmatism, altruism, and apathy.

The pragmatist finds no ready made reality; instead one creates his own reality. Relatively there are no absolutes; no facts and no laws of logic. The pragmatist worships at the altar of an alternate reality constructed of emotion and perception without regard to the independent facts. The pragmatist can rationalize anything including appeasing terrorists as a way to achieve peace. This happened when Barrack Obama’s first televised interview, after becoming president, was on an Arab Television station and he apologized for American policies. And when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised the Palestinians $9 hundred million to help rebuild the Gaza strip, she essentially rewarded Hamas for firing rockets into Israel and killing civilians.

The pragmatist can rationalize all these things including the need to marginalize some individual rights for the benefit of society. One way this is done is by changing the terminology such as “fairness” as a disguise for redistributing wealth, the disastrous CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) that caused the housing crash was disguised as “fairness” in lending. Speaking of the Community Reinvestment Act, Barrack Obama has broadened the CRA to become the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (notice the similarity to the disastrous National Recovery Act FDR implemented, deepening and prolonging the “Great Depression”). How does anyone defend the stimulus and the omnibus spending bill? Pragmatism, that’s how.

The altruist demands the individual make sacrifices to society—sacrifice some property; sacrifice some liberty, sacrifice some happiness so that others who don’t act on their own behalf to achieve these things can have them anyway. The altruist says that although man should be responsible for himself, he can’t be trusted with that responsibility, so society must be tasked to do it for him. The final product of altruism is socialism.

Apathy is the ostrich that buries his head in the sand ignoring the problems and allowing others to make decisions for him. Like the altruist he surrenders his responsibilities to society. The apathetic person by default tolerates the abuses of individual rights to go on unopposed.

The government should be the agents for protecting the rights of individuals. The voters should vote anyone out of office who doesn’t respect these rights. If the laws fail to stop oppressive practices of government the voters have to step up to the plate and change the personnel running the country. In other words, fire them.

Listen, the bottom line is if people want freedom to reign supreme in this country they need to understand the majority cannot vote the rights away from the minority—and the individual is the smallest minority.

If people want to stay free, it is time to stand united and demand individual rights be protected. It is the only way save our freedom.