Tuesday After
Restoring the Lost Republic
Trayvon Martin, undated family photo (NPR)
The death of any child is always a tragedy. The pain and suffering the survivors feel simply cannot be dismissed; and most definitely should not be exploited! Sadly that appears to me at least to be the motivation behind the manufactured outrage in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL last week. I only know what has been reported, which is to say I really know little if anything factual about the shooting. I can state with some certainty after hearing partial excerpts of the 911 call made by George Zimmerman that the entire incident was avoidable in my opinion.
The usual players appear to have seized on this tragedy in an effort to demonize policies with which they disagree regarding individual Liberty. We are bombarded with images that attempt to convince us it is the individual’s freedom to carry a specific instrument not the individual’s misuse of the instrument that is the root cause of tragedies such as this. If this argument is not strong enough then we must accept that the individual’s deep seated hatred of the ethnic background of the victim brought on by some underlying societal norm that caused the tragedy; not the individual’s irrational behavior unique to him that is at fault. The second argument, more so than the first is in greater play in this incomprehensible attempt to exploit this tragedy. It can be seen in this thinly veiled attempt by the President to hide what I believe to be the underlying motive behind his sympathetic remarks to the young man’s parents. Continue reading
In this election cycle it would appear all the stops are being pulled out with regard to compartmentalizing us and pitting us against each other. One case in point is the recent 9th Circuit decision casting aside the California ban on homosexual marriage. In a strange twist the court would appear to have arrived at the right result for the wrong reason. The Court appeared to touch on the core issue and then breeze over it focusing on an activity, intimate behavior between consenting adults rather than a core legal tenant, the contractual recognition marriage implies.
The Court appears to focus on the right for to obtain a marriage license rather than the need for the state to be involved in the consensual relationships of two adults.
All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolizes state legitimization an societal recognition of their committed relationships.
To be honest the quoted banner is not true to his words. At the time candidate Obama was speaking of electricity rates and his plan for Cap and Trade. The full quote from the Washington Examiner Online is:
You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
Yesterday evening I watched with amusement, as I am am sure many you did, as Senator Schumer (D-NY) seemed positively giddy at the supposed trap sprung on those intransigent Republicans in the House side of the Congress. When asked if the Senate would return to appoint conferees to work out the differences in the two bills he responds indicating the House will do what Leader Reid and the President have asked them to do. Forget for a moment that the House is independent from the Senate and represents the people while the Senate is supposed to represent the State Legislatures under our Federalist system; not act solely as a submissive arm of the other chamber. Put aside that all spending measures are supposed to originate in the House and receive vetting from the Senate. What is this dog and pony show really about?
According to the good Senator from New York we are to accept a 60 day arguably meaningless extension of a tax holiday as a bi-partisan “mission accomplished” from the Senate. A measure that NO payroll department will be able to incorporate into employees paychecks based on the normal payroll cycle of 90 days or 1 quarter in the business cycle. So by my reasoning if the House does buckle and pass the Senate version we still see a tax hike returning to former tax levels January 1st and gear up for the next dog and pony show at the end of February.
As we roll into the next election cycle the gamesmanship orchestrated here is all too familiar. What the right and left wings of the Progressive party appear to be communicating is their belief in how utterly clueless they consider us to be. Under the banner of bi-partisanship we are supposed to be lulled into believing they are working in our best interest and if we don’t see it we are just too stupid or intransigent to accept the truth as they see it. If this observation is true, and I sincerely believe it is, then we have reached that point where the political class sees us as serfs if not out right slaves that they have total power over based on their ability to craft any law needed to keep us subservient. This is not a new phenomenon , regretfully, as this behavior has been so clearly pointed out by Frederic Bastiat over 160 years ago.
I cannot avoid coming to this conclusion – that there are too many great men in the world; there are too many legislators, organizers, institutors of society, conductors of the people, fathers of nations, etc., etc. Too many persons place themselves above mankind, to rule and patronize it; too many persons make a trade looking after it. – Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850
We have a choice in front of us: Continue to send the same thieves to steal in our name and rule over us or seize back the liberty we have surrendered and restore this once great Republic to the vision our founders laid out for us. Cast aside party and look at what the politician is truly saying in both speech and deed. Does he or she advocate the continued use of the government to steal in your name or does he or she advocate restoring your liberty as found in natural law?
Is it just me or does the controversy the Cain campaign is now facing seem conveniently manufactured? I woke this morning to Fox & Friends breaking news on payouts to make sexual harassment charges go away (italics mine). The show was leading with a Geraldo At Large segment where Geraldo was holding a phone with a Cain campaign staffer on the other end quizzing him on the report from two “anonymous” sources. He was asking the staffer if the reports were true; the classic “do you still beat your wife” trap. Continue reading
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