By David R. Young as published on TheBrennerBrief.com
“We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks with interest.” – President Obama
“…the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence….” – Joseph Lieberman
“The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody’s constitutionally protected rights.” – Janet Napolitano
Doing what is “right” is relative. What is good for the butcher is bad for the livestock. In a free society, the wrongness or rightness of political action is relative to one essential element; Freedom. Not “freedom from”, “freedom for” or “freedom to”; but just freedom: The ability to act without restriction. The challenge for government is not to create sweeping laws which restrict criminal actions en masse, that’s lazy, dull and all too common. The real challenge is to enact precise laws which restrict antisocial actions that inhibit human rights. Laws are created for the criminal, but only law-abiding people follow them. Therefore, laws mainly have the effect of restricting freedoms of law-abiding and rational thinking men, such as sitting at a red light at night for three minutes with no cross traffic in sight. That is a lazy and stupid law.
A criminal is easily defined: it is basically a person who takes something and gives nothing in return; be it a watch, a car or a life. The criminal seeks to obtain without giving back something of comparable value. Communism attempted to solve this problem by eliminating private property; for where is the crime if someone takes from you an item you don’t own? And yet, a communist government forcibly takes all property without any equitable compensation. Thus, the basic precept of communism is based on criminal reasoning. (more…)
