CHAPTER 4
The MikeMilkenist Party’s Fundamentals
The Teenage Q&A show frequently invited Apollo Marianto. An eighteen-year-old boy from the audience asked, “Mr. Marianto, could we have a youngsters-friendly, rapid-fire Q&A about political principles?”
“Individual Rights?”
“Live and let live. Thou shall not coerce. A right is an action that can be exercised without anyone’s permission, limited only by the equal right of others.”
“Capitalism?”
“Mind your own business. Good work is the key to good fortune. The wall of separation between force and economics.”
“Socialism?”
“Babysitting adults by force. Legalization of robbery.”
“Mixed economy?”
“Clean water with drops of poison. A mixture of freedom and controls devoid of principles.”
“Antitrust Laws?”
“Russian roulette with the government holding the gun to every businessman’s head. Government-mined fields traversed by businessmen. Brazenly anti-logic.”
“Regulations?”
“Shackles for wealth and job creators.”
“Profit?”
“To the irrational: damn if you do; damn if you don’t. Greed if you profit; greed if you don’t.”
“Do good by force?”
“What President George Washington called ‘Abhorrent!’. The power-luster’s subterfuge. Absolving the lazy from the necessity of thinking.”
“Coercion?”
“Military draft. Taxation. Government as CEO of the economy. The breach of the wall of separation between government and any non-force realm like religion or the economy.”
“Centrist?”
“Too lazy or cowardly to take up a position. Revels in contradictions. Relativist.”
“Extremist?”
“A pragmatist’s description of one who has integrity.”
“Pragmatist?”
“Anti-reality. Anti-reason. One who blanks out the past, the future, the whys, the wherefores, and the hows.”
“Lobbying?”
“Courting crooks.”
“Dirty Politicians?”
“Power-hungry. Tax-guzzlers.”
“Freedom?”
“Coercion-free existence. The wall of separation between government, the entity that holds the monopoly on legal coercive power, and all non-force realms.”
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The Edition 1 version is here:
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2009/10/youngsters-friendly-rapid-fire-q-about.html
"We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government."
- Thomas Jefferson
8 comments:
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."
— Frédéric Bastiat (The Law)
Socialism: an individual's life belongs to society. Babysitting adults by force. Legalization of robbery.
Socialists: Adults Demanding to be Babysat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRsfCD1Bh0&feature=player_embedded
"Apollo also declares..."
Uh-oh.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-am-a-Jeffersonian/102951273112979?v=wall#!/photo.php?fbid=2397694105535&set=a.1268872285695.139307.1346466773&type=1&theater
Capitalism is COERCION-FREE economics: the separation of state and economics. Since the state's ONLY proper function is "to secure [EQUAL inherent inalienable] rights", since the proper BUSINESS of the state is USING FORCE only to prevent, repel, defeat, and punish those who INITIATE force, government intervention in a non-force realm, like economics, has no place in a FREE society.
"Rightful li...berty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
"A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings."
"The first principle of association [is] the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
"We both consider the people as our children, and love them with parental affection. But you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust without nurses; and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government."
“It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.... Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.”
"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/01/jeffersonian.html
"All clean men are as good as I ...
I dream no dreams of a nursemaid State
That will spoon me out my food."
http://pc.blogspot.com/2007/08/westerner-by-badger-clark-1947.html
Capitalism is the government minding its only proper business: "secure [equal inherent inalienable] rights." It is the wall of separation between economics and legal force.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=138339309630194&set=a.132972150166910.25706.127918544005604&type=1&theater#!/photo.php?fbid=485025531522793&set=a.328819400476741.90498.328808787144469&type=1&theater
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, BUT THE MIDDLE IS ALWAYS EVIL. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube . . .
When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil."
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html
West is a self-described pragmatist, i.e. Progressive. He is a THEOCRACY warrior to boot.
Pragmatist -> Anti-reality. Anti-reason. One who blanks out the past, the future, the whys, the wherefores, and the hows.
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/03/socialists-adults-demanding-to-be.html
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