Category: Freedom & Responsibility

Liberal..  Now there’s a misnomer for you! The Middle English/Old French Origin came from the Latin “liber” and had the meaning ‘free man’ as in independent or free from restraint.  Interestingly there was also another sense, ‘generous’.  Liberals like to point to the dictionary definition, “Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.”  Which, in a sense, they are, but it may be better said, “Favoring typically unacceptable behavior and desiring to impugn, discard, and forget traditional values”.  And in the doing of this, Liberals are closer to the “generous” definition as in generous governing.  This is not to say giving everybody everything, (indeed one of their tools) but rather, heaping government on everything in generous doses.  Proffering an association with “liberty” but striving for total governmental control of everything.  Liberalism being as far removed from pure liberty as it is possible to be.

Conservative..  Also from the Latin, “conservativus” meaning to preserve.  The current definition “Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion”, is closer to the truth yet still far removed from the original intent of liberty, held by the founding fathers.  Here again we find battalions of politicians eager to govern you, particularly your behavior and attitude.  From conservatives we get the “war on drugs”, illegalized prostitution, Illegalized gambling and so on, governmental control on behaviors that are not, in and of themselves, harmful.  “Conservative” legislation is fairly easy to promote because of the religious background of America.  Obumasorass is honest and correct in his statement “America is not a Christian country”.  It is, however, a country full of Christians, established and built by Christians for the most part, and the Christian value system is heavily ensconced in America. Thus governmental control of such “sinful” activities as drugs, drinking, smoking, prostitution, sex, gambling and the like is not seen by most for what it really is, governmental control and lack of liberty.

These two philosophies are seen in the two political parties which dominate America today.  Democrats tend towards Liberal and Republicans (used to) tend towards Conservative.  Whichever you choose, you are choosing to sacrifice liberty and freedom for governmental control of one sort or another.  Whichever you choose you are voting for more and ever-growing governmental control.

There is a grove of alternative political parties, Communist, Socialist (our current President), Constitution, Green, Nazi, Tea Party, Objectivist, Libertarian, on and on and on.  But only the two in domination are worthy of consideration at this point.  I’m rather partial to the Libertarian party myself, my religion being freedom and my tithe being responsibility, but I simply can’t vote Libertarian as much as I’d like to, particularly in todays’ environment.  The Liberal side of the demonic governmental coin has succeeded in trampling freedom practically out of existence.  Their success in this has been facilitated by the “generous” aspect of Liberalism.  43% of America has it’s hands in the pockets of all.  Welfare, government, military, education, waste disposal, public transportation, healthcare (thanks Obumasorass) and on and on it goes.  Those in the pockets of our “generous” liberal friends are going to vote for???

Thus, at this point, the only valid option is whomever has a chance to defeat the liberal candidate in question.  It’s no longer a question of maintaining our liberty, it’s a question of getting it back.  Our current administration is currently embroiled in the gun control race, gun control long established as the first step toward people control.  We currently have a “fiasco” going on over US guns going to the drug cartels in Mexico.  What’s that about? Do you think Obumasorass will begin ranting about how we need to clamp down on gun ownership because, “Look the Mexican drug lords are getting hold of American guns.”  There is, my friends, a reason for this and it’s not Freedom and Responsibility!

So what’s the solution?  Well..  I’m gonna think about it and I’ll let you know real soon!

Stay tuned for our next exciting episode!

(Dark mysterious music goes here.)

~Bacon

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I came out of the gate, hard-core dead set against the legalization of abortion.  I stumbled into the Libertarian stream and the concept of liberty hit me hard.  Who is the drug user harming by using drugs? No one, until he starts stealing, cheating, or otherwise hurting someone, and then the crime is the harm he does, not his reason for doing it.  Should driving be illegal because some speed, drive drunk and end up killing someone?  Nope.  Should Islam be illegal because some commit horrible terrorist actions?  Well… maybe..  kidding, the crime is terrorism. Belonging to a religion which promotes it, is not terrorsm.

The religious opposition is no reason to oppose abortion.  In fact, if you live in the God will punish you world, you believe that there will be a just reward coming from God, which seems to mean that legal or not, you will be punished for abortion and since it is your body in which the fetus resides, you should have the liberty to decide whether or not to allow that fetus to remain.

This is indeed liberty for the parent, and I can clearly see the libertarian reasoning behind it, however there are a few problems.  Has the fetus/unborn child any crumblings from the liberty cake?  Does it have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?  One of my philosophical idols, Ayn Rand, said a fetus having a “right to life” is vicious nonsense.  “An embryo has no rights…a child cannot acquire any rights until it is born.”  I can’t help but wonder what gives her the right/liberty to make that determination.

Wherever the line is drawn, at any age, or even before that passage through the birth canal which constitutes for a huge number, the beginning of life, you are dissecting a line, which has led in my case, at 55 years, to skiing, guitar & banjo picking, mountain climbing, smoked salmon, hunting, fishing puttin’ around on rollin’ thunder and now, the writing of this article.  Also, there is behavior going on before that passage.  Things are learned, things, such as mom’s voice, music and more become familiar, reactions in what many interpret to be emotional ways to various stimuli.

Whatever your religious stance, there is absolutely no doubt that the process which begins at the very instant of conception ends at death, regardless of whatever the cause of the death might be.  Abortion delivers the death at a very early point and is done by decision. Not the decision of the fetus.  Liberty?

Even “Libertarians for Life”, who are opposed to abortion look at it from a weird perspective.  “Non-aggression is an ongoing obligation: it is never optional for anyone, even pregnant women. If the non-aggression obligation did not apply, then earning money versus stealing it and consensual sex versus rape would be morally indifferent behaviors. The obligation not to aggress is pre-political and pre-legal. It does not arise out of contract, agreement, or the law; rather, such devices presuppose this obligation. The obligation would exist even in a state of nature. This is because the obligation comes with our human nature, and we acquire this nature at conception.”

Hmmm..  Agression?  It has nothing to do with agression.  It has nothing to do with sin. It boils down simply to liberty.  What liberty is being exercised when a life is ended entirely by another’s decision to do so?  Seems to me as far away from liberty as it is possible to get.

~Bacon

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I’ve been workin’ on poetry lately, believe it or not, and I’ve been listening to masters of the craft speak about their art.  These particular individuals have all been University Professors.  Beyond having been educational for me,  I’ve noticed some items of interest in these elders who are educating our youth.

For one thing, they appear, as a general rule, to be suffering from insecurities of various types and as they tell their tales, they simply can’t resist adorning their educational stories with a good deal of self-aggrandizing ornamentation.  I just finished listening to an English Professor explain in a few short moments, her capability of speaking in several languages, her association with important writers from around the world, her having published several books, her managerial position in the English division of her University, somehow she avoided comment on her own beauty, but I expect it crossed her mind.

None, so far, have actually spoken of hating the concepts of freedom and responsibility, nor their embarrassment in being Americans, yet their aversion is quite apparent.  I recently listened to another poetic Professor speak of a ridiculous poet who dreamt himself worthy of becoming a Poet Laureate.  This poor fool had actually written a poem for the George Bush inauguration! A horrible poem that spoke of eagles, soaring, freedom, reaching higher heights, even such absurdity as loyalty and commitment to the U.S.!! For Shame!  She read the poem and the crowd of students responded as she’d hoped, with approval of her disapproval.  She pointed out that she’d not waste time dissecting the poem (big laugh from the crowd). This disappointed me, because I would have liked to have heard her reasoning.  I’m a sucker for comedy, especially tragic comedy.

This modest treachery extends to other fields on the University campuses as well.  I heard a Humanities Professor teaching a course she dubbed, “The Quest for Justice”, tell the class that we are fortunate enough to live in a country governed by a “liberal democracy”.  She used this interesting terminology numerous times.  Unfortunately, she is right, well… left, but correct in this never the less.  “A Republic if you can keep it.” said Franklin as he peered into the future.  We’ve not kept it.  Even Republicans don’t know what a representative republic is.

The book, “Outcasts United” was not much of a book in my opinion but it did cover racial issues, immigration issues, gang issues, welfare issues and so much more.  I wondered why it was required reading in an Academic Prose course.  Roaming the halls I heard the book mentioned in other classes as well.  For some reason this boring bit of rhetorical redundance was being used throughout the department.

In an Ancient History class we learned of Muhammad and Islam.  We learned of the pillars of the Islamic faith.  The 5 pillars.  Isn’t it 6? Well it’s five if you don’t count the part about convert or destroy, which this professor didn’t.

America is finally presided over by a truly great man, socialism is a sure sign of true civility, CocaCola is a Republican plot, government is the ultimate solution to every imaginable problem…

Does America remain powerful and free when the cream of it’s crop is fertilized with such powerful bullshit? Well… America ELECTED Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barragh Hussein Obumie, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer and on and on and on.

We protect our children from the evils of the F-word but we pay thousands to have them educated in the evils of freedom and responsibility.

The crop is beginning to blossom.

~Bacon

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Why is it that huge numbers of people, who survive by the sweat of the brow of those who work for a living, love to point out the “Grrrreeeeedd” of those who are maintaining their own existence.  As Welfare Willie sleeps in in the morning, George the Greedy gets up, gets ready and heads out for a day at work.  As Welfare Willie pours his mornin’ coffee at noon, George the Greedy washes his hands and sits down fer a couple of sandwiches he’ll have 20 minutes to eat before gettin’ back to work.  Welfare Willie turns on the TV and sits down to watch programs which will point out the evils of the greedy rich and the conservative right, the Libertarian lovers of that damn fool concept of “freedom and responsibility”.  His existence is justified by the nobility of the “Left” by the world’s largest enemy of Freedom, the Propagandia (main stream media, some call it)

George the Greedy does hard work, but he makes pretty good money.  He actually sees a fair percentage of it, but an ever expanding chunk is taken by his government.  Some of which goes to pay for the security of his country, for enforcers of the law, Emergency rescue workers, fire-fighters, maintenance of the roads and sidewalks, many aspects of living, the benefits of which he and his family enjoy. However a pretty fair chunk of the money he gets paid for the hours he spends working, gets used to pay for the livings of a huge number of people who are like Welfare Willie, and those who operate and work in the offices required to organize and maintain the operation of this Welfare system.  What does George the Greedy get out of this? Must be something, you know the greedy bastard doesn’t do things for nothing.

Another fair (depending upon how you look at it) chunk goes to pay the salaries, ”expense accounts” and retirement benefits of the politicians he’s chosen to speak for him.  These politicians tend to get a much better cut of the pie than the solders who literally lay their lives on the line for both George the Greedy AND Welfare Willie. The politicians like to refer to themselves as “public servants”.  In view of the reward it seems quite the servitude.

But I digress.  The question is, who really, are the greedy and what are we to do about it?

The answer is Socialism, right Barrack Hussein Obama?

…Sigh.

~Bacon

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