Imperialist Powers

Posted on July 1, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that when a European calls the US an “imperialist” and “Colonialist” power it is the height of hypocrisy. The US, Canada, and all the countries of the Americas were colonies of European powers. The US has never had a colony. The US has never conquered territory (other than the continental US) and not given it back to the inhabitants. The Philippines are one example of many the most recent is Iraq…

The US has no empire to give it the name imperialist power. Without empire or the desire for such the term imperialist is not applicable. It is applicable for Great Briton, Germany, Russia, France, Spain, Persia, Italy, Macedonia, Prussia, etc… they were imperialist powers. They had empires. The US did and does not.

To claim the US has an economic empire is as sophomoric as it is moronic. The European powers answer to themselves only, (to their detriment). Japan is independent and is an economic power unto itself, There is no American hegemony in economics. Capitalism is available for any country to use to improve the lot of it’s citizens. That they don’t, is not the fault of the US, it is the fault of the Elite in those countries.

But everyone knows this. When the Communists, Progressives and Socialists call Capitalist nations “imperialist” what they mean is that they CPS’s want imperial power. They always decry that which they themselves want.

That is how the CPS operates. They condemn that which they crave. Notice how they disparage the ousting of a communist from power in Honduras but call for the ouster of a rightist executive in Columbia. They know the unbiased media will not bring attention to their hypocrisy. When a rightist government was in control of the USA (George Bush and a republican legislature) the unbiased media called the amassing of power in the hands of one party extremely dangerous for democracy. Remember the Rightists had only the slimmest of majorities in the House and Senate. That was dangerous in the hands of the party that at least in doctrine if not in practice wants less government and less government intrusion into the lives of it’s citizens. Today the Leftist have total supremacy in the House and Senate. With an executive that is a cult of personality himself. That is no threat to democracy? What about liberty?

Why is it then when someone such as I, call for a more lasses faire attitude towards markets, the CPSs call us “poor deluded Pollyannaish people… to be so innocent as to think markets would be fair… for it is the nature of men to be greedy…” So men are only greedy when they are Capitalists? Government officials are not greedy? Greedy for money (avarice), greedy for power (ambition) and greedy for fame (hubris). Government officials the world over have proven themselves to be far less trustworthy than any robber baron.

So let the CPS in Europe and elsewhere call Capitalists imperialists and Colonialists. They are showing the world what it is they want. Colonies and Empire… again.

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Wise Goernment… We Have Not…

Posted on June 28, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that we have the least wise politicians in the last two hundred years. They toy with that with which they know nothing. (No way that could go bad).

This energy /climate change bill the house just passed will slow growth for decades. Until the year 2050 if it gets passed in it’s present form. The cap and trade part alone will inevitably drive up electrical bills around the nation. No state will escape unharmed.

To pass this giant power grab/tax increase by the Federal government at a time of economic malaise is actually stupid. Any recovery that gets started will have the caret pulled out from under it by this huge increase (legislated increase) of energy prices. The result will be a Wv-v-w-w-w–w, with each successive w smaller, recession.

I think the Elite are counting on their Industrialist friends to keep the economy moving. The Elite will punish those that don’t go along and reward those that do. Look at the example of Bank of America. If the government gets away with forcing BOA to open it’s own jugular vein, then all bets are off, as to the eventual end of the Elite’s power, to shape and mold industry. Ala command and control economy.

Illegal immigration into the United States and Europe generates societal upheaval. To have the Elite encourage it so they can have access to cheap nannies and gardeners, is tantamount to condoning it. The example of the Hyscos people in ancient Egypt shows us why unrestrained and unassimilated immigration is dangerous. Immigration pressure is always an effect of a good economy especially when coupled with liberty. Together they are a powerful draw to humanity.

Immigrants must be assimilated into society as a whole. There must be a societal myth among immigrants they need to assimilate and there must be real demands of immigrants to assimilate. This way immigrants can add their fortes to society in general. Keeping immigrants ignorant of the prevalent language generates societal friction. Keeping immigrants poor generates more societal friction. Throw them in slums and friction abounds. Add to this racism and you have a perfect recipe for societal upheaval.

Our leaders have decided before we hit the bottom of a recession, “the worse since the great depression”, to raise taxes (historical in magnitude), generate societal upheaval, and take command of the economy. Do these look and sound like the actions of wise individuals?

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Control

Posted on June 21, 2009 by john

Dear friends,

It seems to me that our predilection to always want greater and greater control is starting to hold us back. Our desire to control our environment led to the development of heating and cooling. The desire to have our physical needs met led to plumbing. Our desire to control has been a font of good for us in the past.

Now that we have achieved so much with our scientific curiosity and engineering innovation we have began to display hubris. We now seek to eliminate all risk. To do so is impossible but moreover it is a Faustian bargain. One that gives less and less even as it asks greater and greater sacrifices.

As government regulates more and more of our personal behavior, to protect us from ourselves, we will become resentful sheep. We will fall asleep as the wasp grubs eats us from the inside. Lulled into a false sense of protection we will continue to cede our rights and responsibilities, to government, for the imagined artifact of safety.

Take seat belt laws. They were enacted ostensibly to protect people from collisions and the negative results of them. Seat belts were regulated into cars, then, we were regulated to wear them. That is the dominant paradigm for government intervention into protecting us… government determines the means. However, studies have proven… the use of helmets in cars would dramatically reduce the most debilitating and mortal danger of collisions. Even more then seat belts. So, if protecting the people were the driving force, helmet laws would have been enacted.

They weren’t seat belts were. Helmets were not doable… politically . Seat belts were. The faction that was weak was crushed by the faction that was strong. Aristotle’s definition of Democracy “the strong tyrannize the weak“. The government decided the technology that is to be our primary defense in a collision by means of the most politically expedient way.

How about legislating outcome? Instead of legislating details legislate outcomes. Using our original example, car accident survivability and injury prevention, what would have happened if government had legislated that in a head on collision, by some date certain, at some speed given, one hundred percent of people would walk away unharmed else the car would be resolved unsafe and banned. Letting market forces determine the means. It’s better to let government determine the ends… not the means. Maybe if government ceded some control over us and we ceded some control to God… we would all be better for it.

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Action or Opinion… You Decide…

Posted on June 18, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that today we are not judged so much by our actions as by our opinions. The new logic must go something like this; since actions are a reflection of opinions, opinions must be more bad than actions. This is the only logical argument for it.

But if we accept this as a premise, we must necessarily control thought, or to put it another way, we are stepping onto the slippery slope to the thought police. The first step to the thought police was hate crime legislation. Now that certain opinions are illegal we have put a foot down that wet, clay, bank. Hoping that the one foot, still on the sod, will save us…

The opinions I am talking about? Racist opinions? Political opinions? Nationalistic opinions? No, just common ordinary opinions like should I buy that SUV, someone who believes in nuclear power, or the evil person who believes in the right to life? (do you know everyone who is right to life helped pull the trigger on that abortion doctor…) Opinions like these that are held by average, ordinary, good people.

Some will argue, “We don’t need to control all thought… just bad thought.” So the question must be asked… “who decides what thought is bad thought?” they would reply, “Why, The Government of course!” I would respond, “ So, if a neo Nazi or other hate group, won sufficient elections to have sufficient power, they could rightfully decide what is legal thought and what is not?”

There is a maxim we at the International Capitalist Party like to say, “No matter how much you agree with how they are undermining the Constitution today, fear that your enemies will be in power tomorrow, the precedent is set.”

But at the same time we are told not to judge people by their actions. Someone who murders another is troubled. If they are troubled it is the government that made him so. Isn’t it the government that has our children in school for most of their waking hours? Isn’t it the government that monopolizes our children’s time at home with homework? When do parents have time alone with their children to impart morals and values. Think about this, children are in school being taught atheistic philosophy for thirty two hours a week with several hours of homework a week. And one hour in Sunday school being taught morals. In the case of who is to blame for a young adult’s troubles, who do you think has the most time to impart their moors on them… the government or the parent?

That may be one reason the Elite want us to judge opinions and not actions. They can say what is bad opinion. Their policies are also, at least somewhat, responsible for bad actions. Naturally they wish to elude blame and cast it elsewhere. It is a way of gaining power. That is the natural law, as related from the Gaul King to the Roman diplomat, “That the strong must take from the weak.” In this case it is our right to our own thoughts… Are, they strong enough and we weak enough?

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Our Innate Need to be Productive

Posted on June 13, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that most people have an innate need to be productive and resent it if circumstances prevent it. I also think this is a major reason people are so dissatisfied in the European countries. Discord, like riots largely by young, unemployed or underemployed, youths. People with too much time on their hands. They are fed by the State. They are clothed by the State. They are housed by the State. And they resent it. Their resentment is manifested in riots.

Socialism, progressivism, and communism (SPC) smothers the need to be productive with the pillow of a cradle to grave mentality. An ethos of work is replaced with the chant that work is a means of exploiting the workers. Soon thereafter the foundation of an economy, the working person, is drunk by Ten AM instead of at coffee break…

A man, drunk all day and supported by the State, is an angry man. His innate need is not being met. He doesn’t know why he is angry but he is livid. When a need is not met anger is the result. The rest of us are threatened by his anger. So why make more angry people?

To increase the need for government. Machiavelli said a corrupt people can never be free. So when normal societal structures break down people will turn to a more and more autocratic government to provide them freedom. They don’t get security and loose liberty. The State replaces the thug as oppressor… With the thug always lurking in the background.

Now, I don’t believe that the Elite, consciously, want a breakdown in societal structure, to facilitate their evolution into power. I think they are inept at governing. Their actions and policies lead the masses to corruption, (destroying the work ethic). This corruption of the masses feeds back into the need for government. The only beneficiaries are the Elite… The beast begins growing by eating itself and every thing else it comes to… Eventually starving once everything has been consumed.

All because an innate human need is undermined by the State. Nations that have giant populations should see the people as a resource that can be tapped to improve the lives of it’s people. The people’s innate need to be productive will manifest itself. All government needs to do to facilitate this process… is to stand aside and let it happen.

I know, I know, impossible for government…

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Iran and the Nuke

Posted on June 7, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that President Obama’s retreat on Iranian Nukes assures our grand children of breathing radioactive air.

In his speech in the Middle East this week President Obama all but gave permission to Iran to build nuclear weapons. By saying all States have the right to nuclear technology Obama ceded the question to Iran. Now Iran will redouble it’s efforts to produce a bomb as soon as possible. Before the President comes to his senses.

Every other word out of Akmadenijad’s mouth is a open threat to use nuclear weapons on Israel. But, underlying the surface threat that Iran having nuclear bombs is to Israel, the Arab States are fearful as well. They have long history with the Persians. A history the Arab States fear will be revisited were the Persians to get nuclear bombs. The Arab countries will have to respond with a nuclear program of their own. How can they not? The threat posed by a nuclear armed Iran is too immediate. They have no wish to be under the thumb of an Iranian dictator.

The threat to Israel is existential. This retreat on the part of the US administration puts enormous pressure on Israel to mount a preventative strike on Iran. To do so would almost certainly require over flight of some Arab country. With or without tacit approval of that country. No matter what the outcome of such a strike, the resulting International tensions that would be ratcheted up by this action by the Israelis, will poison the atmosphere of any peace talks.

If Iran does get a nuclear bomb, and the means to deliver it, the world is in great peril. The people of Iran are sane, but, their leadership is not. They are religious zealots. Mutually assured destruction does not work on religious zealots. Their reward is in the afterlife. What matter if the world is destroy by their actions? Zealots are always dangerous, whether they are environmental zealots, political zealots, or religious zealots, they pose a real danger to stable society.

Does anyone really think that if Iran has a nuclear bomb they will not use it? They will surmise by our weakness in letting them have the bomb in the first place that we are too weak to really respond to an attack on Israel. A first strike on Tel Aviv and Israel’s military installations with nuclear armed missiles would be catastrophic. The amount of radioactivity released into the atmosphere would dwarf the amount released in the nineteen forties and the nineteen fifties. Worldwide cancer deaths would dramatically rise. All because the USA and the UN are too weak kneed to take steps.

If Iran did strike Israel, and achieve a quick and decisive victory, what would be the world reaction? Would the socialist utopias of Europe respond with anything stronger than harsh words? Europe could not respond in kind… The innocent people in Iran shouldn’t be punished for the transgressions of their government…Given the present trajectory of American fortunes, as directed by this administration, the USA will be in no shape to respond in a few years… The answer is, the Arab people will tremble in their shoes. But will have to cheer the destruction of Israel, the destruction they have longed for, for so long. With the Arab people negated as players in a power struggle with the Arab States Iran will become the defacto leader of the Moslem world. A leader that, by it’s actions, will have proven it’s unworthiness…

Once Iran has built nuclear weapons and gotten away with it they will be more likely to use them. The law of human consistency makes this so. We must all act in a way that is consistent with our prior actions. It is ingrained in us. Else the terms flip flop, Vacillate, wishy washy, etc… would be good, not bad. Once Iran has successfully used nukes they will be more likely to use them in the future. The World is imperiled… for a sound bite…

Why deal with a big problem today… when your posterity can deal with a catastrophe later…

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Incentives Count

Posted on June 4, 2009 by john

Dear Reader,

It seems to me that incentives count. Especially when talking about incentives provided by government. They have the ability to enhance the standard of living of a people or they can destroy the standard of living of a people. Our government in the USA is motivating the people to be corrupt, lazy, undermine marriage, disrespect religious officials, and to abort children. I may be wrong, but, I think that incentives like these are bound to lower the lot of Man.

Take corruption. I appears that most of the people running our present government are tax cheats. The American people look at Timothy Geithner and see him getting away Scot free from not paying $100,000.00 of taxes. ONLY for the years that were audited. It is most likely that he still owes on past years that were not looked into! When we look at our leaders, and they don’t pay their fair share of taxes, but expect us to pay the tax increases that they pass, is an incentive to not pay our taxes or at least chisel a little. But more importantly, it is also an incentive for the people to disobey the law. If a societies leaders are disobeying the law the people will disobey the law. They are simply following their leaders.

Punishing that which government doesn’t like is also an incentive. Like passing laws that will cause people who have been virtuous to be punished, so that those that don’t live as virtuously will be protected and helped, is a disincentive to do the right things. Keep your credit card paid off every month for example. The government has passed a law forbidding credit card companies from charging high interest rates to people who don’t pay their debts. The companies will have to pass on this added cost of doing business to those who are more fiscally responsible. Punishing those who have been frugal.

Rewarding those that were corrupt and who’s corruption led to the present recession that we find ourselves in is another example of incentives that make corruption more interesting to the average man. The government has decided to tax those that are being hurt by the downturn and give the largess to those that caused it. Can you say TARP 1, and TARP 2?

Lately every law and court order seems to be aimed at destroying marriage. Gay marriage is an example of this. Even in ancient Greece, where homosexual behavior was the norm, didn’t see a need for gay marriage. It was common for men to lay together. In fact homosexuality was elevated to political edict in Sparta under the laws of Lycurgus. Plutarch relates that Lycurgus said that a man would never turn in battle in front of someone with whom he is a lover. So why do we find such a pressing need? There are civil options that don’t have the religious, child rearing and societal significance of Marriage. We are told it is a matter of “fairness”. So let me get this strait… a gay man and a lesbian cannot legally marry? Of course they could. Why? Because marriage is not really about love. It is about child rearing. If marriage were really about love why would so many cultures have arraigned marriages? No… western literature and societal myth has made love the primary concern of marriage. This perversion of the reality of marriage has led to an atrocious divorce rate in the USA. Over fifty percent…

We were shown a murderer in the unbiased media who killed an abortion doctor. The fourth killed since 1992. The government is talking about stationing soldiers to protect abortion clinics. (Didn’t Publius (the Federalist Papers) have something to say about stationing troops among the public?) Meanwhile a nineteen year old Army recruiter was shot to death and another wounded by a Moslem convert. An act of domestic terrorism. Not a word in the unbiased press about it. Why??? I heard it on right wing talk radio. Not the place I would like to get news. But one must seek information where it is. If the unbiased media won’t do their job maybe we could import some illegal aliens to do it for them. They could go on the public dole. Like they espouse for the rest of us…

Today our government is pushing change. They claim it is change we can believe in. I’m starting to no only believe, but to tremble, for our future and the future of our children. Incentives do matter. Think about it. I have only mentioned a very few examples. What else, have I not mentioned, that the government is motivating the people to do?

Well, You get what you vote for…

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India

Posted on May 31, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that India has just finished a free and fair election. (at least as viewed from my vantage point). The subcontinent is on it’s way to economic power. And I am impressed that India has a manned Space Exploration initiative! The shackles on India are the caste system, too much government, terrorism, too much ignorance that fosters socialist and communist thought.

The potential of India is staggering. With a giant population as a titanic resource at it’s disposal, India can become wealthy and powerful in a generation, (if it has the will). The problem is that people’s opinions have momentum. They are hard to move but opinion builds on itself. The communists and progressives have been using this tool to gain power since their inception. Take the “green” movement…

People’s opinions in India are deeply entrenched. The caste system will not go away soon. Terrorism is out of the hands of the Indian government and people. All they can do is mitigate the occurrences and outcomes.

But too much government can be swept away with a bold enough pen. The people must be well read enough to know the positive outcomes that these innovations hold for them and their children. Not immediately but in a decade or so…

The communists, progressives and socialists chant immediate fixes. They always do redistribute someone else’s money. The result of which is the lowering of the total wealth of the nation. Thus the worsening of the lot of every person in that nation. Causing the need for more redistribution, and on and on…

Education in the entrepreneurial spirit in the hinterlands would be great if the wasn’t an underlying societal myth of the caste system. Using religion as justification the caste system will hold India back for generations. Nonetheless, actually unbiased Education, about Twentieth Century history would go a long way to stemming the communists and socialists.

That is not to say India has not done a terrific job educating her children. The people of India are as well educated as any in the World. Reading rates are very high. India has come a long way in the World community. From the Raj to free and fair elections. India is coming fast… the rest of the World should take notice.

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Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination

Posted on May 28, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that President Obama’s pick to fill the vacant Supreme Court position, Sonia Sotomayor, has gotten a free pass from the unbiased media. We are poorly served when the media only peers at one political party in a two party system, and gives the other party a free pass. Our representative Democracy (Republic) depends on a truly unbiased media…

During the Clinton administration, every week on NPR, Bill Siemens wrung his hands that negative news about the President shouldn’t even be aired unless it is absolutely true and materially affects his performance in office. Week after week NPR went on that the evil blogs and crazies on the internet were finding out bad things about the President that should be hushed up by the unbiased media. Quite another story during the Bush years…

The unbiased media went along with the total slash and burn politics that characterized the Bork nomination. Rumors and outright lies were reported as truth. Instead of attacking the man’s arguments the Progressive Elites attacked the man personally. Destroying him in the process. The unbiased media happily went along like lap dogs.

Clarence Thomas was run through a wood chipper in the unbiased media. How he got out alive is beyond me. But I feel very sorry for what the unbiased media and the Progressive Elites put him through.

John Roberts and Sam Alito were given prostate exams by the unbiased media… What did all these men have in common? They are constructionists. They don’t think the Constitution should be rewritten by every new Supreme Court that sits. Doing so destroys the document’s value and use. It becomes the side of the barn in George Orwell’s “Animal House”. We must guard against that at all costs!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was given a free pass. There was no looking into possible bias in that she was formerly chief council for the ACLU. Since she has been on the Court she has found that the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States does not give the people the right to keep and bear arms, It gives the GOVERNMENT the right to keep and bear arms. Any cursory reading of the Federalist papers and other founding documents disproves her assertion. So she intends to rewrite the Constitution using her model. Her Hubris in such an action is without parallel. Well, maybe not isn‘t that the definition of the sovereignty of Kings?

From what I have read about Sotomayor’s rulings from the bench she appears to be cut from the same sack cloth as Ginsburg. But not in the unbiased media they have studiously reported nothing of her judicial philosophy. I have had to search the internet crazies and evil blogs to get any examples of her past rulings. They are not flattering, as would be expected, from evil blogs and such… Of course it would be biased for the media to give some representative examples of her past rulings… But she does have a compelling personal story. I guess in this case that is all that counts…

Together they will lobby for more legislation from the bench. Taking on more and more of the Legislative Branch’s authority. Apparently the Legislative Branch is willing to cede this authority willingly… The Senate must confirm her. Apparently things can be passed from the bench, the Progressive Elites believe in, that cannot pass the political process. (Where it belongs).

The Constitution is our only bulwark against the power of out of control government. Toss it out and despite the promises of the Elite we will be enslaved soon there after by out of control government… Yea… lets go back to the sovereignty of Kings… That’ll probably work better for us than it did for thousands of years…

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Bang Bang Bang…

Posted on May 24, 2009 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that in many ways we are like flies trapped in a house. We think we see what is good but it’s only a misdirection. So we keep banging our heads against the window. We see the good, it is right in front of us, but we cannot reach it directly. Like a fly we just bang into the obstruction thinking that it will go away someday…

The problem is that what we think is good is only what we are told and shown is good. We see the Elite having sex with every one they meet and we think that would be good for us. We see the Elite spending gobs of money on foolishness and we think that would be good for us too. We see the Elite living in mansions and we are convinced that is the ticket to happiness.

As a result we fly to what we perceive as good. But we keep hitting a roadblock. Some invisible barrier that stops us from being happy. The Mansion is never big enough, the money is never enough, the joy of things is transitory, and the joy is sexual gratification leads to misery, ala Schopenhauer…

Socrates in his endless discussions about justice always portrayed people as being misdirected to what is really good. The example of the cave is illuminating. Pun intended… We are shown by those that control the projector what to believe. Socrates said that a philosopher is someone who sees the world for what it truly is. Not as we are shown it to be. The reality of what is really good is an example…

He also argued that people are unjust because they do not know better. If they knew what was really good for them… Presumably we would be more like Socrates or Solon and less like Alcibiades or Mineo…

That good is within us. Not outside us. Religions agree that when we seek good externally we find sorrow, when we seek good within us we find happiness. Think about this. Some people who are very poor are happy people. Some people who are very wealthy are unhappy. Some people who are famous are unhappy. Some people who have many things are unhappy. But most tellingly, some people who are sickly, are happy… Obviously wealth, fame, possessions, or even health is not the common denominator. Something else must be…

And so we keep banging our heads against the glass…

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