Obama’s Failings and Our Rights

Posted on October 22, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the Obama administration has been engaging in the ignorance defense. Both Obama and Biden, in their respective debates, used it in their defense of their role in the Libyan debacle. The Libyan debacle has grown in magnitude as more information has petered out. The hubris of the Obama administration to claim they didn’t have all the facts, the ignorance defense, so they claimed the whole affair was due to a “spontaneous demonstration against an [explanatory adjectives deleted] movie. The administration wants it both ways. That they had no responsibility for the Benghazi consulate, had no knowledge of what was going on there, were unaware of any previous terrorist attacks there in the prior months, were not curious about how their coop against Muammar had turned out, but, were so on top of public opinion they knew, beforehand, a “spontaneous protest” would spring up on September 11, so they had the foresight to “preapologize” for the movie, requires a willing suspension of disbelief.

The Ignorance defense was a tried and true method the Clinton administration used on many occasions. The ignorance defense was Clinton’s fall back defense whenever he was caught doing something. The missing FBI files about the Clinton’s political enemies, that were found in Hilary’s study didn’t point at the Clintons, they were ignorant of how those files got there. Now, Obama claims he was so ignorant of high level security shows at least a disregard for the most important duties of his job, keeping America safe.

If someone is ignorant of a law in the US, and they commit a violation of that law, they are punished the same as someone who broke it knowingly and willfully…. unless they have high political office. If you unintentionally violate an EPA clean water regulation you or I could be prosecuted, criminally, and punished with jail time if we were found to be in violation. Yet the President of the United States, a person supposedly learned, with a Harvard Law Degree, is ignorant of the fact that, leaving an American ambassador in so unsafe a condition he is sodomized and murdered on September 11, and covering up for it with a blatant lie, is not so much ignorance but incompetence. He should understand that seeding the Arab populace with a propaganda tool, (I maintain that the Arab populace knew nothing about the movie before the Administration preapologized for it), to change the subject from protests to get the Blind Shaikh released and a terrorist attack on an American consulate, which members of his administration did watch and he could have watched in real time, but Obama and Biden were too ignorant of World affairs, to a movie he told them about, is absolutely corrupt.

The ignorant defense is something democrats have used but would be off limits for a republican. The unbiased media would jump on a republican who allowed that he or she were ignorant of anything. They would be labeled out of touch, uncaring, etc… the vitriol that would be heaped on a republican, who even entertained that they were not fully aware and fully responsible, would be unending. That is why the ignorance defense works for democrats but would be an epic fail for republicans.

Now, we have the Obama administration using the ignorance defense, with the unblinking support of the unbiased media. They are forced to report new information when it comes out, but they only give it a day’s play, while Mitt Romney’s file folder of qualified women, gets a weeks wall to wall coverage. The blatant lying of this administration, else incompetence if the ignorant defense is actually true, should open eyes. Because it worked for Clinton gives it a good chance of working here; but it is corrupt no matter who uses it. Yet it shouldn’t work anyway because anyone, you or I, who used it would quickly find it useless and worst than useless a tool of confirming our guilt! The ignorance defense requires as a perquisite a complicit media. They create the decrepit conditions in public awareness that allow such obviously sophist arguments to have any standing. This is where we have come. We have given our enemies, the Islamofascists, a propaganda victory, our president has given them more fuel to offend their rabid religious sensibilities, and our President is proven corrupt, incompetent and possibly complicit, at the same time. If this doesn’t make you want to vote for change I don’t know what would…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Ecological Economics

Posted on October 18, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the business culture of a country is to the economy, what climate is to an ecosystem. We all understand intuitively; a frigid arid tundra is not the place you will find a great diversity of flora and fauna. We also implicitly know that a warm wet rain forest will have a great deal of bio diversity. It follows then, where conditions are pleasant, there is more abundance and where conditions are unpleasant, there will be less diversity. The flora and fauna that does get by, in unfriendly conditions, will be clinging on by their toenails. This sets up the conditions, for the extinction of most of the life in these scarcely habitable regions… with only slight disturbances. If we take this logic and apply it to economics, we can understand why some countries have poorly working economies, while others have flourishing and diverse ones. The economy of a country has tremendous effect on the lives and standard of living of the people, this makes it important to understand, and this framework may help enlighten.

Economies exist outside of government. Even where there is no government, if there are people, there is an economy. Government is an elite group of people who have asserted that, since they have the backing of the people, they have the right to interfere with trade and other interpersonal action. This makes government an adjunct to the economy. Since the economy is functional outside of, and independent of… government. Yet, by this power to effect regulation, government sets much of the local business climate.

Government has the power to effect the local economic conditions. It can establish banking standards, that allow the more efficient utilization of money, it can establish weights and measure standards, to further facilitate trade and it can help ensure the populace is well educated, making the next generation qualified to compete in the marketplace of the economy. (Fight tooth and nail in the economic jungle). Along with these goods however, governments also, have thousands of bureaucrats, working diligently, writing thousands of pages of laws and regulations, many often have a corrupt civil service, demanding bribes and such, and governments too often overspend to push up their GDP, by feeding their businesses high fructose corn syrup. (Government Stimulus).

The more positive things governments do to their economies; the more lush their economic landscapes. It would be like making a local ecosystem warmer, say from USDA Zone 3 down to Zone 6. The environment is far more productive in a warmer climate just as a warmer business environment is more conductive of business growth. The more hostile to the free market government policies are; the less productive will be their economic landscape. Often to the point, as of North Korea, that government policies have rendered the local economic conditions, so dry and chilling to business, that no amount of land could feed the people. This would be like, removing all the rain from a piece of land and at the same time, perpetually chilling it to winter conditions. We understand the environmental argument but the economic argument seems so much harder to folks.

If we start thinking of economics, as we do ecology, we will have a better context to measure the economic policies of our governments. If someone proposes a policy that will chill the economic atmosphere, even if we feel it makes things more “fair,” we can now apply the new regulation to our environmental model of economics… and understand that it will in fact, make conditions less fair and less prosperous, by chilling the economic environment. If we do choose to follow that path however, we can apply our environmental model of economics, and know why the economy is failing. We wont have to blame some nebulous villain, as the fiend who destroyed our economy, we will know that it was us, by our actions, who are the fiends.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How Lives Can Be Improved

Posted on October 14, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the way Romney could improve the lives of the American people, both economically and socially, (by diminishing crime and improving education)… would be to implement the concepts from the International Capitalist Party. The ideas we have put forth, throughout our series of articles, is a historically proven road map, to a society that is entrepreneurial. When a society has good education and a fast growing economy it necessarily has less crime. The growing crime rate, drop in educational scores and flat GDP growth, are all signs the policies in place today are ineffectual at best, but more likely, pernicious and counter productive. The true cost of counter productive government policy is the cumulative drop in future GDP growth. This not only impacts our standard of living… but the effect is magnified over a generation.

The economy is both the easiest and the hardest to fix. The answer we have pointed out, time and again, is to clean every regulation on the books, in regards to their applicability, economic impact, and redundancy. To do this, we could set up a panel of learned people, give them six months to produce an initial report, and then implement as much of that report as possible. Subsequent reports can be every six months for two years, then every two years after that, to keep regulation from running amok again. The final report should have something on the state of regulation in the US. The releasing of the US, (or any economy), from the onerous regulation that has built up over generations, would propel the economy into fast GDP growth, driven by the release of the US entrepreneurial spirit.

Tax law is another avenue of improving the lives of Americans, by helping the profitability of US businesses and therefore, their competitiveness in the World economy. Tax law can be pernicious, because when high wage earners are targeted, they tend to be business owners, and so it is business profitability that is effected. The rhetoric always presupposes some “rich” people will be punished but it is never the actual rich who are victimized. The victims are those trying to get rich, and the laborers who are denied work, when government tax policy extinguishes their jobs.

The schools have become an arm of the US government’s jobs program. They have lost their original mandate and have replaced it with a new one. That is, to provide high paying jobs to overly educated people, while insuring that the students are indoctrinated away from the morals of their family, and inculcate them into a blind worship of State power. To change the education system, back to one where students are educated in, math, reading, history and creative thinking, and also, interpersonal discourse, rhetoric and logical thinking, would require the hated repair be applied, one that has worked every time, everywhere and in every circumstance… competition.

The Societies of most “advanced” countries in the World, have made the conscious decision, to pay for education with government largess. The non excludable good argument has been made, and in my opinion, is the best grounds to justify such a system. Since we as a people have made this decision it is best to work within it as much as possible. The best means, within our criteria, to competition… is a voucher system. Under a voucher system, parents would be empowered, to be consumers in the education market. This education market would be geared so that children would be educated, in such a way as to be in the best position, when graduating, to participate effectively in the market system. The value for each school would be the achievement of the students that came from them. This would set up a whole series of positive feedback loops within the complex system of our society.

Crime is a result of, rendering risk takers hopeless, and giving them bad role models. This leads to a glamorization of crime, and the view that law-breaking is the only means to get ahead. (Notice this implies, onerous regulations are a cause of crime, if legal means are impossible)? The breakup of the nuclear family is largely due to government relegating the role of father irrelevant. The rampant drug use among our youth is a sign that there is a lack of opportunities for them. At least opportunities that they see as feasible.

We need to change the paradigm, from one that creates the problems, into one that erases them. To do that we need a competitive educational system, an entrepreneurial people, clean and fair tax code, and government officials who model good behavior… not bad. These are concrete policy points Romney should make to the American public, how he would improve their lives, and thereby, the lives of every human being on the Planet.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Weapons of Mass Destruction and Western Leaders’ Stupidity

Posted on October 11, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, unseating Muammar Gaddafi,was as stupid a thing as has been done in a generation. We are seeing the foolishness of this action, by the European and American governments, play out before our very eyes. Not that the present government of Libya is as diabolic as the government of Egypt, (that we also brought into power), but the precedent is so pernicious and the incentives it set up so negative, the future will be full of treatises about the folly of our leaders. This idiotic action will visit many evils on the people of the World. No person is safe from the ramifications of this singularly moronic action. You and yours, and me and mine, will experience tragedy first hand as a result.

The Islamist government in Libya was as predictable as spring after winter. To believe that there would be any other result was wishful thinking at best and intentionally damaging the West at worst. The people of Libya had lived under a tyrant for many years. This renders people incomprehensible to liberty. They become used to a despot and will be uncomfortable in liberty. Therefore, it is obvious that they will turn to the autocrat they believe will have the lightest hand, when given liberty to do so.

The outcome was predictable but the pernicious incentives the ouster of Muammar were equally certain. Muammar had publicly given up his weapons of mass destruction. The moment he did he drew the attention of every dictator on the planet. They watched his fortune as they did their own. His outcome would be theirs if they gave up their weapons of mass destruction. Despots are not stupid people. If they were, they would be quickly murdered, and replaced with intelligent tyrants. As soon as the Western powers turned on Muammar it sent a chill through the spines of every oppressor around the World. They understood that the only thing protecting them from the same fate as Muammar was, is, their weapons of mass destruction.

The Islamic regime in Iran watched events unfold in Libya with bated breath. The fate of their nuclear program was, is, intricately tied with Muammar’s destiny. They saw, and understood, as soon as they relinquish their nuke program, they would come under the same threat as Gaddafi. The massing of the western powers, against the single dictator who gave up his weapons of mass destruction, publicly and permanently, ensured that the Islamist regime in Iran would not make the same mistake. In short, Muammar’s ouster, insured the completion of Iran’s nuclear program.

Compare the horrible end of Muammar with the treatment of North Korea as soon as they tested a nuclear bomb. Kim Jong Il was as evil a dictator as Muammar ever was yet he had a nuke at his disposal. The Nuclear bomb he had, insured his fair treatment, and respect, at the hands of the West. Iran watched this side of the World too. They have the ability to comprehend the actions of the West and apply them to their own situation. Iran saw, as did every tyrant on the planet, that the West will do nothing to stop them from getting weapons of mass destruction. BUT, if they ever gave them up, a terrible end would await them as well. This is a strong incentive to speed up development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons… or to start one.

As soon as Muammar gave up his weapons of mass destruction, a sane West, would have given him a get out of jail free card. He should have been held up, as a benevolent dictator, to other oppressors. The example of a tyrant giving up his weapons should have been a opportunity to pry these fearsome things from the hands of insane people. But instead, European leaders and Obama made the ultimate mistake, sending a different message to the despots around the World. In this, there is nothing they could have done that was more stupid, or more destructive of World peace.

Unless we believe them to be drooling idiots their actions are irreconcilable with common sense. Their protection of Al Queda and ouster of Muammar has made the World an exponentially more dangerous place, and indeed, has set up the conditions for a new world war. They have insured that despots the World over will seek nuclear weapons, at all costs, making the world war they apparently want, a nuclear affair. Raining down radioactive evil on every person on the Planet… and it all could have been avoided, had our leaders not been so imprudent. Well, as I have said before, the dross floats to the top. In the case of Europe and America this couldn’t have been more true!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Decadence and Our Cultural Elite

Posted on October 8, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that every evil we face as a people is a direct result of our culture. We have allowed people to control our culture who despise our way of life. It is obvious, to give such power to someone who hates our society and founding principles, is a path to certain destruction. Our cultural Elite move us, as a people, through television, the government monopoly schools, news, and printed media, towards a society that they believe will be better. The unfortunate fact however is, the future they seek has proven itself, over and over, to be filled with unspeakable horrors. Some of the worst atrocities ever visited on mankind have been by people who have held these same ideas. To stop the slide to oblivion, we must take back the reigns of the culture, steering it to a society based on the original values of our founders, guided by our religious morality and human heartedness.

The breakup of the nuclear family is a direct result of the glamorizing of affairs by influential celebrities. We all look to the beautiful people for examples of what is a good life. When they model decadence, idleness and debauchery we follow them to it. The push now for gay marriage has nothing to do with rights but everything to do with the lowering of people’s esteem for marriage. The Brown shirts were led by a gay man. Once their usefulness was exhausted Hitler massacred them and made all the gay people wear upside down pink pyramids. His tolerance for the gay agenda went only as far as it served his interests but no further. Today’s gay culture will relive history once their “allies” have achieved their pernicious ends. The intolerant have no tolerance once they have total power.

Schools are facing hordes of maladjusted children today due to the negative effects of our culture. The dramatic rise in emotionally challenged youth, is because of the undermining of the nuclear family and the undermining of moral behavior, by our cultural Elite. The message that Western culture is bad and any alternative is good saturates their lives. They see that Christians are forced to pay for Piss Christ but when someone disparages Islam, in a foolish movie, they are arrested in the dark of the night. The message is clear… Christianity is bad Islam is good. The daily monstrosities that Islam visits on the people of the Middle East are glossed over and every historical atrocity the Christians have committed is dramatized by the cultural Elite. Moral equivalence is the rage in our schools. The philosophical concept, that when someone does an atrocity that is against their religion, it reflects on them not the religion, but when someone engages in atrocities, as their religion commands, it reflects on the religion not them… is lost or purposely misplaced on the purveyors of culture.

The crime we deal with is a result of the culture denigrating hard work in favor of idleness. The entitlement mentality could not take hold unless we are inculcated to it. People, by nature, seek activity but when we are told over and over that diversion is the highest good, and labor is the worst evil, we fall into the trap of indolence. The message our children are taught is, to flip burgers at McDonald is humiliating, but to take food stamps is not. Every possible means to elevate taking food stamps to a virtue, is employed by the elite, in both culture and government. In a society where working is a undignified act but taking a handout is virtue, cannot long sustain it’s standard of living, and must become destitute sooner rather than later.

These are only a few examples of how our cultural Elite create the conditions in our society that disintegrate the foundation of it. Our children are the chief victims but their children will take the brunt of the worst results. Unless we change the course our posterity will live under the totalitarian conditions of depravity and want. They will have totally lost the ability to recognize good and their humanity will be “evolved” away from them. We are as complicit as the cultural Elite in this. They work in plain sight and we say nothing. They undermine the family at every turn and we cheer them on. They turn the protestant work ethic, that has served America so well for so long, into a forest of arms raised for a social security disability check, and we chuckle at Charlie Sheen boffing some bimbo and passing life in a drunken haze. We are not hand puppets but human beings with self determination and free will. It is up to us to return our culture to a positive influence on our children. Else they and their children will suffer the consequences. To do nothing is voting for our own collapse.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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What is in the way of job creation.

Posted on October 4, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, what is holding the American economy back, is red tape, regulation and redistribution. These three R’s create an environment that is toxic to small business development. In the economic ecosystem of a country, small businesses must have room to start, grow and compete. Untangling red tape ties up an entrepreneur’s capital, regulation steals the business owner’s time, and redistribution seizes his or her capital. The government and the oligarchy both have a vested interest in creating more red tape, more regulation and more redistribution, because they work to the advantage of the Elite. This paradigm is why it is so dangerous to a person’s finances to start a business. They also teach the people of a country, there is no sense trying to start a business, even if they have a great idea. The government will toss so many road blocks in the way that it is almost certain to fail. We see this play out in everyday life, whenever someone doesn’t start a business due to fear of government, and in the statistic of how many small businesses fail within a year of starting up. We have to get a grip on the three R’s, if we want to have any hope of jump starting the American economy, let alone the European train wreck.

Red tape can be a minor as a town requirement for a license. Especially if that license comes at the suffrage of a town council. The person who is friends with the town fathers will face little difficulty to start any business he or she sees fit. The person who is not a member of the town elite however, will face a long uphill slog, to get even the most basic permits from a town council. This is magnified if the new person is going to compete with an existing business that has the ear of a council member. Politics at city hall decorates small business start ups with red garland.

In a mature economy regulation grows faster than algae in an anaerobic pond. It is in the self interest of the oligarchy, (the legal system), to increase regulation and make it as undecipherable as possible. The entrepreneur who seeks to do business, must hire an attorney, to navigate through the shoals the regulation has piled up. This costs money that otherwise could have been spent improving the business’ capital stock. Every new regulation that is passed, increases the demand for lawyers, and therefore, every lawyer is in favor of more regulation.

Regulation also protects the jobs of entrenched bureaucrats. The bureaucrat must justify his or her well paid job. As more regulation is passed the bureaucrat not only becomes more secure in their job, but with more rules, comes more prestige to the dutiful public servant. As a result they work tirelessly at creating more regulation. Some regulate this and others regulate that. They don’t really communicate and so, the regulation overlaps, is contradictory and grows ever more smothering. Again driving up the need for attorneys to get a small business through the morass.

This all ties up capital and time the entrepreneur could better spend improving their business. Capital spent on an attorney, to protect the business owner from regulatory risks, could be better spent on buying more productive tools for his or her employees to use. This addition to capital stock makes the US more competitive with other nations. But when the money is wasted on regulatory compliance, only the elite benefit… the workers are less productive and our job prospects are more and more limited.

Redistribution through taxation is as pernicious as flesh eating bacteria. This allows the Elite to achieve the epitome of Thrasymachus’ philosophy. They get to appear all caring and virtuous while at the same time being all selfish and corrupt. They use other people’s money to be generous, but as Cicero said, “We must, then, take care that in our generosity, while we do good to our friends, we injure no one. Therefore the transfer of property by Lucius Sulla and Caius Caesar from its rightful owners to those to whom it did not belong ought not to be deemed generous; for nothing is generous that is not at the same time just… There is, too, connected with generosity of this type, in almost every instance, a disposition to seize and appropriate wrongfully the property of other men, in order to furnish means for prodigal giving.” We see from this, it is not by virtue that we seize the property of another to be lavish in our giving, it is in fact a self aggrandizing vice.

The last point to make is that more small business means more demand for labor. As everyone who has even an inkling of sense knows, as demand increases within a limited supply framework, cost goes up. In this case the increase in demand for labor increases the cost of labor. The cost of labor is the paycheck of the working man or woman. Couple this with, better tools make an employee more productive, a productive employee is worth more, and the worker is the primary beneficiary of increasing small businesses and higher productivity. Both are casualties of the three R’s.

Taken in it’s totality, we clearly see the negative incentives the system of red tape, regulation and redistribution, have on our economic ecosystem. These three things empower and enrich the elite in the legal system and government, but come at cost to the working man and woman… as well as the entrepreneur. The profit to the elite is a cost to the rest of society. To change this paradigm is very difficult; but not to change it would be disastrous.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Obama and the Islamic Riots

Posted on September 30, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the narrative the Obama administration has put out about the 9-11 attacks, against American embassies World wide, is sophistry. The fact that they have verifiably lied about the whole thing makes their intentions and statements suspect. Moreover, there are many facets of this affair that make no sense, unless they are put to the template of the election of a egoistic man, who cares for nothing and no one… but himself. In other words, the actions and spurious logic of the Obama administration, seem to imply that the whole affair has been turned into election propaganda, at the cost of American lives, including an ambassador. Apparently, a cost Obama is willing, for others to pay. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. If true… that the Obama administration covered up the truth, and in fact, created an entirely new conversation, one that changes the topic putting the onus on America for the riots, and therefore is more responsible for the violence than the filmmaker, for merely political considerations… there has been an impeachable offense committed.

Three days before the riots, the Obama administration was warned that there would be protests, they would be to urge the United States to release the Blind Shaikh. The Egyptian and Libyan governments were a source, but there were other credible sources, like the CIA. Therefore, the Obama administration had forewarning of the impending riots, but did nothing to prepare. People in this administration had to understand that such a riot, on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, would stir up righteous indignation on the part of the American people. Especially since they were to be focused on our holding the mass murderer the Blind Shaikh.

The Obama administration made a great deal of clamor that they apologized… before the riots began. Once the US apology was issued, the theme of the riots changed, from a demand for the US to release the mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack, to a protest about a movie that some obscure filmmaker did. This is curious because of the timing of the thing. Why apologize if the Obama administration had no forewarning? Especially on the anniversary of 9-11? Yet, Obama knew that the original protests were about the Blind Shaikh, and the apology changed the subject, to anti Islamic blasphemy speech in America. Obama changed the bad guy from the rioters… to us.

The circumstances must not be ignored. Clearly the Obama administration changed the topic of the riots. But was it intentional or merely ineptitude? The impact of riots in Egypt demanding the first World Trade Center attacker’s release, on the anniversary of 9-11, so close to the coming election, cannot be ignored. The Obama administration has given billions of dollars to the islamofascist regime in Egypt. The Obama administration has claimed, the Islamic theocracy loves the US, since he was elected. Obama himself called the catalyst of the Arab Spring, the guy who set himself on fire in Tunisia, the Muslim Rosa Parks. To infuriate the American people about his mishandling of the Middle East, to such an extent, would be devastating to Obama’s reelection chances. The facts suggest, at the very least, that it was intentional.

Afterward the Obama administration went on a lying tour of the unbiased media. They now admit they had forewarning, the Libyan President and our defense secretary, among others, have claimed as much, yet the Obama administration continues with the lie. They have constructed a false narrative, that it was the movie and not release of the blind Shaikh, that was the instigator of the riots. But it was Obama who told them about the movie before they rioted! The administration purports the riots on the anniversary of 9-11 were a unplanned event triggered by a movie. But again, the rioters didn’t know about the movie, until Obama apologized for it… Then they glommed onto the movie as reason to attack America again on 9-11.

So, Obama changed the subject, to give the Islamofascists cover. The change in subject created a new conversation. The new topic is that the United States First Amendment to our Constitution is intolerant of Islamofascist feelings. Therefore we must curtail our freedom of expression. While at the same time allowing the Islamofascists to exercise total freedom, of not only speech but action… even to the point of calling for the overthrow of the US Constitution, on our own soil! Murdering our diplomat was merely an expression of their total freedom and intolerance of ours.

These are the actions of a thoroughly duplicitous man. For the President of the United States to give cover to people who seek, as a matter of public record, the overthrow of America, is a crime of the highest order. To even consider releasing the Blind Shaikh to the Islamofascists is insanity, unless Obama wants to destroy the morale of American people and soldiers, while giving a huge propaganda victory… to people who seek our destruction. The timing of events, as forwarded by Obama and his surrogates, coupled with the lying tour, not only suggests this, but makes any other consideration a leap of logic. This conclusion is as obvious as putting two and two together and getting four. But, the unbiased media still insist, it is our freedom of speech that so offends the Islamofascists, that we must curtail it. This is another propaganda victory for evil. It is plain to see that Obama is not working in the best interests of the American people, the people of the World, or even the cause of liberty, clearly, he is working to help the Islamic supremacists establish World tyranny.

You would think Obama was a student of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals… Oh yea, he was.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Collective Rights versus Individual Rights

Posted on September 27, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the discussion about rights in America and beyond, is characterized by a lack of understanding about what is really at issue. The focus of the disagreement is collective rights versus individual rights. I will try to explain what each is in this article and how they are applied to societies. In this, I will use historical examples, that illustrate the differences in application and philosophy. Since no productive decision can ever be made in the face of ignorance the difference is important to understand.

Collective rights is a term that is important to the theory of collectivism. In this theory the individual is a member of a collective or whole. The collective can be the government, a nation, or any other group of people. The important thing to keep in mind, when referring to a collectivist philosophy, is that the individual is a part of the whole. The whole being more important than any part, or, put another way, the piece serves the total. As a result, whenever collective rights is used, it refers to the right of the whole over the rights of the unit. In this case the individual.

Individual rights is a concept that was put into overt political practice by the United States founding fathers. Under a regime of individual rights the individual is supreme. The single human being is as important as the group. The group serves the individual, or, put another way, the whole serves the part. This concept, that the individual has intrinsic value above and beyond some societal function, is the basis for the American experiment.

Under a collectivist regime, the person must be evolved, to become indifferent to his or her station… becoming a cog in the machine of the collective. To be more, or less than a cog, creates friction within society. This friction lowers the efficiency of the whole. Since the unit serves the whole, this is unacceptable, for collectivism to function as a viable system of order, the nonconforming individual must be reeducated to become a cog in the sprocket of the society, or be eliminated, as a threat to that society.

Under a regime of individualism, society must evolve, to to recognize that the eccentric is as important and as valued, as the conformist. In this type of system, an individual who exceeds the norm or falls short in some way, is accepted, and in some cases lionized. The individual right to be different is paramount under this type of system. Diversity in thought, action and attributes being a good under a system of individual rights but dangerous under a system of collective rights.

Collectivist theory has been put into practice many times in the past. The French revolution was possibly the first time it was intentionally implemented. The French revolution was singular in it’s efficient cruelty. The government was made the whole, and all other segments of society were made to support it’s function. Those segments that were different were exterminated. Humanity is given lip service by this type of system, by making the extermination of individuals that don’t fit, humane. The guillotine was the method used by the French, Zyklon B was used by the Nazis and a club to the back of the neck was used by the Khmer rouge. Most have used terror, firing squads and famine as a means to mold unacceptable elements into conforming masses. The result is always the same, eccentrics and non conformists are eliminated, for the good of the whole.

The very rare examples of societies that instituted a regime of individual rights, have been characterized by their prosperity, and have been the sources of all improvement to the lot of mankind. Many times in history it has been the non conformist that has ushered in a new paradigm of good to the society. Sometimes it has been in the form of wealth, but more often it has been artistic, cultural, philosophical or medical. The contributions of individuals is the main attribute of all systems that have, as their fundamental theme, individual rights.

All systems of ordering societies have their fundamental attributes. Collectivist systems seem to be inherent in the aging of a civilization. Most that start with individual rights, such as the Roman example, end up with collective rights and then eventually fall or are subjected by invasion. This has been the paradigm of human civilizations throughout history. Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus as a haven for eccentric individuals. This was magnified by the overthrow of the Etruscan King Tarquinius Superbus, and the founding of the Roman Consular system. This system, one that elevated the rights of the citizen over the group, after hundreds of years, was overturned by the praetorian system, where the rights of the State were paramount. This eventually led to the fall of Rome.

As I have shown, there is a profound and important difference, between the concepts of collective rights and individual rights. This divergence shows itself in subtle, and not so subtle ways, in both the actions and rhetoric of our political leaders. Knowledge of the differences, is paramount for the voter, in those governments that are democratic. Democracy being compatible with either system of organization, whether collectivist or individualist. Those that want a collectivist system, should understand what they are really striving for, as should those that espouse individual rights. To politically labor in ignorance, of what one is working for and against, is a high form of folly. I hope, by this treatise, the reader has a measure of foreknowledge and understands a bit better, what it is they seek and what it is they forsake.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Coming Catastrophe

Posted on September 24, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the World is in real trouble. The economy of almost every country is crumbling, we are standing at the gates of World war, there is a very real possibility that the US Constitution will fall in the next few years, and, (apparently in an effort to prove my last blog true), the unbiased media are focused, like a laser beam, on a week old story about Mitt Romney putting his foot in his mouth. The reason the planet is in such dire peril, is because the media misdirect us, keeping us ignorant and from taking decisive action, to stop the slide to oblivion. Our lives will change dramatically… if we don’t turn this ship around soon. Time has run out and neo Nero plays the fiddle while our World burns.

The economies of the World are teetering on collapse. The engine of the World’s economy, the United States, is seizing up. If the US economy collapses the World’s economy goes into a tailspin. Take the analogy of a car… if the engine blows up, the car stops functioning. The only way to fix a car with a seized up engine is to replace the engine. But, there are no other players on the World stage, that have the ability to take over the role of economic engine for the World. China is a paper balloon that is wafting dangerously close to the fire. Japan is facing a demographic choke and Europe has destroyed itself with multiculturalism, regulation and the welfare state. Meanwhile Russia’s government is as corrupt as any on the face of the planet.

Regulation and red tape are strangling the entrepreneur in America as well as Europe. Obama is the latest, but we have been tatting red tape for a long time. In the 1970’s Milton Friedman warned us about the increasing amount of regulation. Since then our governments has added millions of regulations to the books. We have gotten to the point where it is nearly impossible to start a business due to the regulatory maze. In Vermont, it takes 25 years and a Supreme Court decision, simply to get a Walmart built! How can a young person, with an excellent idea, start a business on a shoestring budget? It cannot be done. Most of the industries that we rely on for employment today, could not be started in this economic environment… for the red tape and bureaucracy.

The US is about to enter a period of hyper inflation. The US FED has increased the money supply, in the last 3 years by nearly 100%, from 1.4 trillion in 2008 to 2.3 trillion today, in M1 and M2 money! All this money printing while the economy has been stagnant. In the newest incarnation of Quantitative easing, Bernanke says he will print 40 billion dollars a month… until the economy catches on. Indefinite printing of money, is a means to destroy the wealth of the vast majority of Americans… and everyone who has invested in America! No one is safe from the danger of hyper inflation, in the US, or anywhere. When confidence in the dollar is shattered, and it will be, the World economy will fall into a depression, that will make the 1930s seem like boom times.

The Islamic world is becoming more radicalized by the day. The leaders there want a caliphate regardless of the blood shed that will be required to lubricate the process. They see their scripture as impelling them to subjugate the World to their violent, theocratic ideology. Some, the Twelvers, even believe that drenching the World in human blood will bring back their Mahdi, ushering in their vision of a World where only the elect are allowed to live, all others will be killed. These people, who willingly strap bombs to their own children, and send them into a crowded bus, are being allowed to get nuclear weapons! There is only one place this road will lead… to World War III, where nuclear weapons will be used. They could never, in a million years, develop them themselves… but with our help they now have the A-bomb.

The US Constitution, the shining light on a hill for so many subjugated people around the World, is under pernicious attack. The US government has used such tactics as, sending guns to Mexican drug lords and vilifying gun owners in the US for it. The Obama administration told the Muslim Brotherhood about the anti moahamed movie, to change the focus of the 911 attacks on US embassies from protests to get the Blind Shaikh released, to attacking free speech in the US. Obama rules by caveat now, with no push back by the irrelevant Congress. Freedom of religion is under attack in America like never before, and the Judiciary is totally cool with all of it, as long as they can continue suing US Businesses for billions of dollars a year.

The unbiased media, in the face of all this paradigm changing news, has focused for a week, on a gaff by the Republican candidate. They have chosen their role in the coming catastrophe. Nothing makes profits for news outlets, like economic collapse, World war and civil upheaval. Our only real hope, is that we replace the people in charge, who are destroying us from within, and replace them with people who will follow the Constitution, stop devaluing the Dollar, and stem the tide of war. In this, we have the intercession of God, for God doesn’t want the World drenched in blood, famine or economic collapse. But… he has given us free will. He will only intercede if we ask him and act on our own behalf. The next decade will be painful. The question is, do we want a painful operation… or a bone wrenching death by cancer. The choice is ours to make. Lets pray for our children, our counties, our World… and back that prayer up with action.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Threat of Media Bias

Posted on September 20, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the biggest threat to our freedom and the liberty of our children, is a uniformly biased media. Not that Obama and his redistributive, socialist, policies are not a huge threat. In a liberal republic, if the media is uniformly biased against the side of liberty and for the side of tyranny, the republic is in dire risk. Since the media is the arbiter of information in a modern society, their skewing that information to vilify liberal capitalism and lionizing socialist redistribution, creates a people who are unable to make rational decisions. Rational decisions must have, as a prerequisite, accurate information. This problem is magnified when those extremely biased purveyors of the public’s information call themselves unbiased. This is indeed the biggest threat to our freedom because it corrodes our ability to make informed decisions.

The melt down in the Middle East is a perfect example. The unbiased media parrot the Obama administration’s obvious lie, that the attacks on the US embassies were entirely the fault of some film maker in California, exercising his first amendment right. This absurdity is paraded in front of the US citizenry as truth constantly. Even though Middle East leaders have said that it was a coordinated attack, planned far in advance and warned that they would happen days in advance. Disregarding the fact, the people who planned and carried out the attacks were not only emboldened by Obama’s actions, but were brought into power by Obama’s policies! Any republican President who presided over such a foreign policy fiasco would be drummed for office by the unbiased media. Instead the media change the subject. They ape the administration’s propaganda and attack the Republican candidate for pointing out the truth.

The example of the gaffs of Obama and Biden as compared to Romney and Ryan are amazing. Obama didn’t know how many States are in the United States of America! What a gaff that is. The unbiased media ignored it. Romney says the truth, that those people who are dependent on the government will not vote for him and are immune to his lower tax argument. The unbiased media pounced on him. They say he will not represent those that don’t vote for him. Yet they ignore Obama’s calls for class warfare. Clearly, Obama is not representing that segment of the population, that he vilifies.

There was a recent news article, that Eric Holder’s “Justice” department was cooperating with Media matters to spin information about Fast and Furious, among other scandals the truth challenged agency is embroiled in. Media matters is an organization the unbiased media go to as a adjudicator of ethics in journalism. NPR had a Sunday morning show where they examined the question of press bias. They always consulted a Media Matters representative. The weekly conclusion was… Ta ta ta da, that even if the press is biased they must not say so! This type of self serving tripe is how they really think. Now it appears that Media matters itself has a pro Obama agenda. Of course, Media Matters considers it ok to be biased… as long as you keep it hidden.

It recently came out that while reporters were covering the democratic party convention, “unbiased” reporters were donating to the Obama campaign, using pseudonyms! This is proof positive that they have an agenda and they try to keep it hidden. Those who believe so much in a candidate, they donate their own money to a campaign, are extremely unlikely to report fairly about that campaign. Logically they are biased.

Today on Bloomberg radio. (A bastion of progressive reporters). I heard a debate between reporters about the race. The theme was that Romney is unlikable. When you favor a candidate you always consider his or her opponent to be unlikeable. I ask you, is such an perspective based observation, reasonable for an unbiased reporter to make?

Speaking to likeability… Romney gives a ton of money and time to charity, he is a religious man, and he made his money from saving failing businesses. Romney came about his money in the traditional American way… he earned it. By every measure Obama is the antithesis of Harry S Truman. Harry Truman said, “Anyone who gets rich in politics is a God damned crook.” Obama made his millions from politics. By Harry Truman’s standard that makes Obama a crook. The unbiased media hated Harry Truman as well. They even printed that Truman lost the election before the votes were even counted! Which tells me that Harry Truman was not a member of the Elite. The media, who adored and worshiped at the feet of Roosevelt, despised Truman with a passion. They took sides then and they are taking sides now.

No correct decision can be made with inaccurate information. That is simply logical. Take a computer. The old saying goes, “garbage in, garbage out.” When any decision is based on faulty information the conclusion cannot be in harmony with reality. In the case of a computer program, the bugs and errors are a mere annoyance, but in the case of the future of Our republic, the outcome can be disastrous.

It is too late for today’s journalists… but tomorrow’s can be saved. Future reporters will have the ability to look back at these times, reflecting on the stupidity of their ancestors, and avoid their mistakes. They will understand, it is in their own best interests, to inform the public of their personal biases. Not that a bias makes it impossible to convey news, but it is important for those that do so, to let the reader know that there is one and what it is, so the reader can judge the information in the proper context. This allows the citizenry to make more informed decisions about the pressing questions at hand. To intentionally lie in the face of the truth is malfeasance of the highest order, future journalists will shake their heads that it was ever done, and go about their calling with a degree more virtue than today’s.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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