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Friday, April 22, 2005

Leviathan and Libertarian

The Indian stands free, and unconstrained in nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest,and hence wears her easily,and gracefully. But the 'civilized" man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison. There must be a posting of the guard lest he escape. And so we have the origin of government.

I put forth the premise that "he who is governed least is governed best", and that he who is truly governed best of all is not governed at all except by that celestial fire called conscience, which owes allegiance to no other authority than its own understanding of that which it calls God.I,therefore, move that all government must have its origin, and therefore its authority in and by that understanding.In other words, my right to define what I consider to be "the pursuit of happiness" comes from what I call, and understand to be "God".

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes called the institution of human government "Leviathan", which by definition is a "monster often representing evil intentions". Thus, every good intention of a truly civilized man must be to throw off any attempt by this "monster" to devour him. So, how does it become a man to behave toward this American government, this modern-day "leviathan", this usurper of the soul?

My answer to that fundamental question which will so heavily determine any future course of action is that he cannot, without disgrace, be associated with it. And as we should be men first, and subjects afterward, it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. A man in the right constitutes a majority of one.

By definition,a libertarian is quite simply "a person who believes in liberty of thought, and action",in other words, a person who believes that his thoughts are worth putting into action,at least for him. If he is right, which I believe he will be if he allows others to do the same,he will then place himself in the best possible position to achieve the end of any definition he may have constituting the pursuit of whatever he may call happiness.Essentially,he advances the thought,and some of you may find this controversial,that freedom is the natural state of man,pure and unencumbered, without limitations, or boundaries save by that which is placed there by himself.

A prudent man will never leave that which is right to the mercy of chance, nor will he expect it to prevail through the power of any said majority. There is little of anything that can pass for truth in the action of even a democratic mass. The Declaration of Independence put forth the notion that "all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,that among these are life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness". The Constitution was created to protect these rights. My take on that is that since I have decided to build the prison(house) that I am living in, it would behoove me to be the guard that keeps my gate and lock, and that I need not be subordinate to any man in this regard,and that ultimately, the degree of freedom that remains to me will be in direct proportion to that which I keep to myself.

I think the founding brothers would be smiling. I also think most of them would be Libertarians today for the same reasons that I am.Today's rendition of the Democratic and Republican parties offer only slightly different versions of similar failed,unconstitutional practices. Both of them are promoting more,and bigger government, with an ongoing assault on the remaining civil liberties at home,while pursuing a policy of entangling alliances, and unnecessary military actions abroad.It would seem the present American Left is no longer content with their usurpation of the word "liberal"which previously referred to a person who believed in "free markets and social tolerance",and is now attempting to steal the word "libertarian" to apply to classical liberals to describe themselves.

The Republican Right is no better. They project the image of defending our rights as they are guaranteed by the Constitution, while in reality quietly continuing the advance of the nanny state,conducting illegal pre-emptive military strikes,and enforcing federal mandates that are a violation of personal freedom and the privacy of individual citizens. All in direct opposition to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which they have sworn under oath to protect. True libertarianism,simply stated,means that a man has the right to be left alone in the life he has chosen,and as such, has only the obligations that he has consented to accept.

While some may find this vague in its application, it is in effect,the ultimate "declaration of independence" from all tyranny in its many forms. To a libertarian,there isn't nearly enough difference between Democrats and Republicans to override the fact that they are both in league with the enemies of freedom, and under those circumstances neither can justify any pretensions of intellectual superiority. This is the reason that anyone who genuinely believes that freedom is a gift from God,and not a grant from man,has to be Libertarian, as there is no other choice.

The Revolution will not be televised.

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  • At 7:37 AM , Blogger RightWingRocker said...

    Sage and I have talked at length about these subjects, and with most of the post, I agree.

    I do have more optimism, however, when it comes to the Republicans. With more conservative Republicans in the House and Senate, enough to create a "supermajority", I believe we would see more and faster dismantling of socialist programs in the US.

    In the meantime, we have to work with the same kind of incrementalism that the socialist systems with which we are dealing were created and built up. This isn't the end of the world, as long as progress is in the direction of increased freedom and decreased socialism.

    Rome (American socialism) wasn't built in a day. Therefore it won't come down in one, either. Look at the way the Left screams and moans and cries foul when one of their programs is put into the "growing only at the rate of inflation" category. There are still far too many Americans who are willing to accept their ideas and their rhetoric for us to succeed in dismantling their oppression that quickly. We must work to change hearts and minds and to bring Americans into the clear understanding that entitlements are not rights, and that, in fact, these kinds of things actually interfere with the basic rights with which we have been endowed.

    Along with this, I believe that many of the less conservative Republicans may come around. Those that do not will be forced to move over.

    There is clear evidence that this may happen sooner rather than later. The Donks (a little Mr. Minority lingo there) have crowned Howard Dean the leader of their party, and Her Highness Hillary is starting to play the "I'm not really a communist" game that her husband played so successfully. I do believe America knows Mrs. Clinton well enough to finish her off at the ballot box, and it is already clear that Mr. Dean is only going to succeed in getting more Republicans elected.

    The demise of the Democratic Party is happening right before our very eyes (Baby What a Big Surprise). It will be very interesting, indeed, to see what the Republican Party does with the situation. One of two things will have to happen:

    1. The party will do as I have enumerated above, speeding up the repeal of socialism, and placing preventive provisions into the Constitution through Amendment.

    or 2. The party will miss the opportunity to empower the people, and a more conservative party will rise up as the conservative alternative. There are a few of these already out there, such as the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. Both have the same (very limited) potential at this point in time. More likely, however, I see a coalition of such parties forming and coming together into a new party that will serve as the more conservative alternative if the Republicans choose this course of action. The new party would then be charged with speeding up the repeal of socialism, and placing preventive provisions into the Constitution through Amendment.

    The way I see it today, the Republican Party is in a very unique situation. They are the ones writing the history books right now, as they are the only political party that is really relevant from a political standpoint. They are the ones who are going to be choosing which course of action to take, and it will be very interesting to see what they choose to do.

    My hope is that they will choose option 1, and I think the leadership of the party will be wise enough to see the writing on the wall and do that. As of right now, though, there is still plenty of potential for the party to swing the other way.

    The reason I believe they will choose the first of the two options I stated above is that the majority of Republicans in power today, at the very least, KNOW what the right thing to do is. What is holding them back is the anxiety of the implementation. The current opposition favors big government and making it bigger and more intrusive. If the opposition is weakened to the point of complete irrelevancy (which will be happening sooner rather than later), the Republicans will be in a better position to do the right thing, as it will become imperative for fiscal and constitutional reasons, and to be certain that a new opposition coming from the other side of the spectrum doesn't create for them a similar fate that the Donks are facing now. I believe that when it comes down to brass tax (read that survival as the majority party), the Republicans will come through and do the right thing. The Libertarians and the other conservative parties are the insurance policy we have taken out.

    RWR

     
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