I have so much respect for these fine patriots who have a conscience. Some cops are not corrupt, some cops have been corrupt but miraculously recover and repent, and then there are those who are still corrupt and may always be corrupt.
I had a debate with several opponents of Proposition 19 in California who at least one of them despite being a cannabis consumer is very much in favor of socialism, and also an strong opponent of Prop 19.
When she said this about capitalism, I was sure she didn’t fully understand socialism:
“Ha! We’l have to agree to dis agree my friend. You don’t see what the government is truly doing when it enacts these “socialist” policies. You should really do some research into what you’re saying. Have you ever read “A People’s History o…f the United States”? If not, I highly reccomend it. Perhaps it will explain some misconceptions you have about socialism. Good luck when the shit hits the fan, because we will be FORCED to cooperate or DIE. Socialism DOES work, when capitalists don’t come and screw it all up. Get educated, please.”
First, lets look at what socialism is, socialism is based on Marxism. This is the role of the state in socialism.
“In Marxist theory, the state is a mechanism dominated by and utilized in the interests of the ruling class to subjugate other classes, to legitimize the existing socio-economic system and to promote the interests of the dominant class.[7]“
An accurate portrait of socialism was WWII Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. I don’t think much explaination needs to be posted about those two eras. The point is, when the government control various social aspects of our life, such as social security, affirmative action, etc. Then the government controls more of our lives. Socialism leads to fascism, its proven over and over again.
Our country was stronger and freer in a free market capitalistic society. But when the government continued to take hold of more and more of our lives, via socialistic policies we started losing more and more of our freedom, and our will.
Now in socialist America, we have huge banks getting bailed out with our tax dollars, huge insurance companies getting bailed out with our tax dollars, all in the name of “doing the right thing for the people”. Meanwhile these companies who made poor decisions and failed are giving million dollar bonus to their executives with our tax dollars, because we ignore our constitution and we have embraced socialism in the USA.
This is a great illustration from Milton Friedman:
“The fundamental problem we face is not the war on drugs-although some of us are most interested in that issue. The war on drugs and the harm which it does are simply manifestations of a much broader problem: the substitution of political mechanisms for market mechanisms in a wide variety of areas.
To illustrate, I want to go beyond the war on drugs. We all recognize that the war on drugs is destroying our inner cities. But if I were to ask any one of you what is the next most important factor that is destroying the inner cities, I suspect a great many would agree with me that the next most important factor is our defective educational system, the terrible schools in our inner cities, schools which do not teach, but which are essentially places to keep kids off the streets for a certain number of hours a day.
Both failures have the same source. The war on drugs is a failure because it is a socialist enterprise. Our schooling is deteriorating because it is a socialist enterprise. Except possibly for the military, education is the largest socialist enterprise in the United States. There are a few loopholes: private schools to which parents can send their children if they can afford to pay or, in the case of parochial schools, if they have certain religious views. However, ninety percent of all kids are in government schools. And that socialist institution performs the same as most other socialist institutions.”
I am amazed at how obvious this is, and yet how all of these socialists fail to grasp that socialism equals government control.
Free market capitalism equals less government control.
If you are interested in trying socialism on, maybe try going to a different country to see how you like it. Or open your history books up to the section about Nazi Germany. But get that out of my country quick! We don’t want your government regulations!
It’s too bad the LDS church doesn’t spend more time and money helping out the poor, and the hungry as opposed to spending 10s of millions of dollars to take freedom away from others. Approximately 77% (22 Million dollars) of funding for Prop 8 came from LDS sources, and that equaled millions and millions of dollars that could have been spent better and more compassionately. Now Prop 8 was repealed and the LDS church is exposed as fighting AGAINST freedom.. What was the benefits of funding Prop 8?
Historically, Mormons have strong reasons to stand on the side of freedom as opposed to anti-freedom. So why is the LDS Apostle Dallin Oaks and other ranking LDS leaders so incredibly in favor of anti-freedom propositions like Prop 8?
In the late 1800′s the LDS church and the settlers of Utah almost lost Utah’s statehood. They had to changed one of their oldest and most sacred doctrines because of the laws passed against their marriage practices. If the LDS church wouldn’t have repealed polygamy as one of their religious doctrines (Doctrine and Covenants Section 132), then Utah would have continued to be considered in a state of rebellion and they would have lost their statehood, their property and a lot of realty assets including their sacred temple.
Making polygamy against the law, is just as bad as making gay marriage against the law. This is what sums it up for me. “No victim, no crime”, and a contract between two or more consenting adults should be no one elses business except for those people.
Between the unique and bizzare liquor laws in Utah, and the tenacity of the LDS church to promote and encourage support for Proposition 8, its hard to see how this group supports or values freedom and liberty (except for themselves).. Sad state of affairs here.
On a brighter note, my cousin Becki who is gay, took care of me with her partner when I was a troubled and homeless teen. The time and care that she gave me in my life will always stick out much more than the cruelty and persecution by the LDS church. I love her and support her choice and if she chooses to get married, I will be there for that in loving support. Unfortunately thats not legal in Utah.
John Stossel interviews Detroit’s police chief Jerry Oliver who points out that since the dealing of drugs is between willing buyers and sellers, the War on Drugs forces cops to use deceit to catch those dealing drugs. Despite all the law enforcement resources put into fighting the drug war, availability of drugs is just as high as before the drug war began.
Video showing the police acting like pot dealers on the street baiting customers into buying pot from a fake dealer. Most of the allegid buyers are looking for less than $25 worth of weed. Some of these ‘offenders’ get their car seized, or more.
Yet there are no less drug users now, than before the drug war started. Why are we losing the war on drugs? Why in the Netherlands, where drugs are essentially legalized and sold in legal cafe’s do they have less users than we have in the USA?
It’s only too bad that the Canadians are showing us up here in the USA. We are supposed to be “Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE”.
Instead we are seeming like “Land of the FEES and home of the SLAVES”. How many times do we participate in brave and peaceful protests such as this?
It is time to drop the complacency and start making our founding fathers PROUD!
