When You Spread the Wealth Around

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:02:31 GMT <== Politics ==>

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ALL THE EXPERTS AGREE:

"When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Stalin

Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, spread the wealth by confiscating profitable factories, and the productive farm lands of independent farmers he derogatorily referred to as "kulaks". In the Ukraine, formerly the "breadbasket of Europe", millions of people died from famine. He provided abortion-on-demand, and mass-murder at his command. He established Russia's` "communist system" wherein loyal "communist party members" became the effective owners and managers of all profitable enterprises. An illegal system of embezzlement and kick-backs made the party leaders wealthy. Random and Unauthorized Deprivations became commonplace.

Mugabe

Robert Mugabe, self-declared President of Zimbabwe, spread the wealth by confiscating without compensation thousands of profitable farms from white farmers, promising the land to his supporters, triggering food shortages; he printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation. His Kleptocracy appointed judges and legislation granting immunity for government agents who committed unauthorized deprivations of life, liberty and property (e.g. torture and murder of disarmed farm owners who did not leave voluntarily) in the name of spreading the wealth. Once the "bread basket" of southern Africa and a major agricultural exporter, Zimbabwe now depends on food programs and support from outside to feed its population. 700,000 Zimbabweans have lost their home or livelihood.

Mugabe's family now owns three farms.

Obama

Barack Obama, President-elect of the United States, proposes the confiscation and redistribution of income and wealth from the owners of profitable businesses and farmers, initially only those earning more than $250K annually. Obama told Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher of his plan to take money "from each, according to his ability" and to redistribute that money (e.g., for healthcare) "to each, according to his need." Obama taught law students (future judges) that government agents should have unlimited power to commit "random and unauthorized deprivations" of private property, including cash and guns. He proposes collective labor called "Universal Voluntary Public Service" to deter participation in the "money culture" of American capitalism and to "Enable All Americans to Serve" the state and to replace profitable private business enterprises: "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation." Russian emigree Dimitri Vassilaros of the TRIBUNE-REVIEW wrote: "Philosopher and writer Ayn Rand said that the individual is the smallest minority. It doesn't seem that President Obama would do much to ensure that the rights of that minority will be acknowledged, let alone respected." dvassilaros@tribweb.com or 412-380-5637.

Hitler Hitler

Adolf Hitler, founder of National Socialist German Workers Party (a.k.a. the Nazi Party) dedicated to "a better equilibrium between poverty and riches" and "the elimination of vast differences in the scale of salaries". He said the State is best served when individuals are enabled to "work for the benefit of the community" and when the state secures "to the individual the highest possible share in the general output." So, he confiscated private farms, and established a totalitarian dictatorship in order "to master [all] other living beings and make them serve him in his struggle." He confiscated guns from Jews, explaining that "History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing." "Only those should rule who have the natural temperament and gifts of leadership." In his government, "there are no decisions made by the majority vote, but only by [the] man in a position of responsibility". All deprivations in the name of the State are proper when ordered "by that individual person alone ... who alone will be vested with authority and the right to command."

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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

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Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

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-- L. Neil Smith

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Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

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"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

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-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair