Liberty or Socialism, part 2.

Mark Levin's new book, "Liberty and Tyranny" remains #1 in sales at Amazon.com. Levin outlines the actual properties of the threats to Liberty that are present and persistent in the U.S. government, and he culminates his work with a manifesto for lovers of liberty. I won't repeat that manifesto here, because I absolutely encourage the sale and distribution of his book. Read it and pass it on.

There are certain fundamentals that I think Levin didn't reach down to, not that this is a criticism, just an observation. There are fundamental character issues that have been systematically destroyed by the infiltration of Leftist, socialist, totalitarian thought over the past century, character attributes that were initially American traits, but which fit into liberty, not into egalitarianism and socialism.

The individualistic, self-reliant, drive for personal accomplishment and private ownership of home and estate has been replaced by a constant droning about victimhood… a consistent stripping of personal responsibility and placing it on evil victimizers: big business; corporate greed; Wall Street; white euro-males; straights; Christians; Israel. The Leftist in charge of “homeland security”(1), Janet Napolitano, has now published a document listing possible enemies of the state: returning veterans; Right to Lifers; constitutionalists who support the 2nd, 9th and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. These are juxtaposed with Timothy McVeigh to support the charges by false comparison. The obvious intent is to demonize those who are not in lock-step with the present Leftist power mongers and elitists.

Victimhood and entitlement have replaced individualism and reward for accomplishment with cultural parasitism. Entire minorities have been systematically destroyed by their own bleating, parasitic leadership. Now these minorities have reached majority, and the escalation of personal character degradation is exponential.

The control of the economy is the piece d’resistance of power grabs. And what better chance to encourage parasitism than to dole out hundreds of billions of tax dollars with no accompanying responsibilities, indeed with total secrecy as to the recipient, much less the use to which the recipient makes of the free cash? What better reward for failure and victimhood?

The entire governmental culture has drifted into one of omni-beneficence as a disguise for tentacles into every aspect of personal life, from control of public maleducation, to control of water use, control of food sources, control of all economic and financial systems including poverty of the elderly, and the coming rationing of medical care for all Americans.

The Left hopes that the educational disconnect that leaves the populace ignorant of the actual American roots in freedom and liberty will lead to popular support for a permanent parasitism, and Leftist governmental control of pretty much everything. There are so many power grabs being introduced in Congress that one despairs of keeping up with them: silencing talk radio; silencing the internet; grabbing guns; government financing for Leftist newspapers; government financing of abortion; government financing of Leftist activists such as ACORN, and its hundreds of sub-organizations; government control of the boards of manufacturers.

If there is an antidote to this, it seems that it must come from outside the existing political embedded structures, meaning outside the failed Republican party, which is continuing its Leftward movement, even in its weakened, and useless current position. If the tea party movements continue to grow, perhaps they will produce a constitution based, liberty-based, anti-parasite-based, personal integrity-based political force to replace the current governing elite class.

The official declaration of allegiance of both the governing class and the governed has always been to the U.S. Constitution, not to the government. In fact the Pledge of Allegiance itself ignores that in favor pledging allegiance to the FLAG, not the constitution. This is a surreptitious pledge to the government, not to the constitution, and serves as a dodge.

When Supreme Court Justices defend the use of foreign law in making proclamations that amount to new laws, when the president believes that the constitution is just a suggestion to be altered as he sees fit, when congress repeatedly violates the constitutional restriction of the 9th and 10th amendments and declares the supporters of those amendments to be enemies of the state, the situation is actually pretty desperate. To reverse or rectify this governmental abuse by the Left will require unusual, abnormal force to be exerted from the position of Liberty over Egalitarianism. Originally it required the pledge of one’s life and fortune to the cause of liberty – a position almost unthinkable in today’s parasitic, entitled, victimhood mental state.

Below is a substitute pledge that has been suggested by Libertarian James Ostrowski. This pledge represents a dedication not to a flag, nor a government, not even to a specific document. It is a pledge to the concept behind the document, behind the revolution that produced the document and the republic that we are losing.

"I pledge allegiance to the principles of the American Revolution, stated by Jefferson, and for which the Minutemen and Washington's Army fought: that government's only purpose is to protect our natural rights to life, liberty and property; that any government that does "more" than protect our natural rights must thereby violate those same rights and become a tyranny that the people have the right to alter or abolish. I pledge to resist that tyranny by peaceful means if at all possible."
James Ostrowski

(1) I quote this use of homeland security because the purpose of HSD has been subverted to mean preservation of the imperial government, not the security of the populace.