Government education: Road to hell?
Posted in LFA Flashback by R Lee Wrights on July 31st, 2009 by R. Lee Wrights
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
- Daniel Webster
Good intentions will surely be the downfall of individual liberty and personal freedom. The greatest motivation that mankind has to abandon the principles of freedom is simply being afraid. And, fear plays right into the hands of legislators that use good intentions, whether quite sincere or merely conjured, to usurp individual freedoms and parley them into collective power. The consequences of this exchange is a bloated beast called Bureaucracy controlled by a tyrant, or group of tyrants, that seek to enslave the masses for their own good. In other words, Freedom dies. Remember my personal credo, “More government ALWAYS translates into Less freedom.” In no area is this more evident than the realm of government education.
If there’s one stereotyped profession I dislike nearly as much as I loathe the stereotypical politician, it’s used car salesmen. And in the midst of this presidential campaign, do you know what I’ve been doing? Good guess. I’ve been shopping for a used vehicle.
That zany German powercrat and standup comic, Otto Von Bismarck, is credited with the one-line zinger, “Those who like eating ze sausages and obeying ze laws shouldt neffer watch how either iss maken.”
You can watch the whole thing. It was recorded for the Internet.
In a puzzling editorial in Friday’s edition, the Washington Post blasted the Federal Reserve Transparency Act as “an unserious answer to a serious question.” The Post, which tends to be predictably liberal and quite bland in its editorial pronouncements, used unusually harsh language, calling the bill “wrongheaded in the extreme.” The Post fears the legislation “would destroy financial markets’ faith in the Fed and, by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar, just as surely as a political ‘audit’ of the Supreme Court’s deliberations would undercut public faith in the justice system.”
Ideally, we’d live in a world where no one would ever use violence, or the threat of violence, against anyone else. In reality, however, sometimes one person will inflict harm on another person (pain, injury, or even death), or use the threat of such harm, to influence that other person’s behavior. Such tactics can be used to instill “terror,” not just into the person specifically targeted, but into lots of other people who think they might be next. In other words, the goal is to instill fear in order to coerce people into changing their behavior in a certain way. Let’s call that tactic “terrorism.”
On Monday July 15 [2002], 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was sitting outside the Orange County, California apartment complex where she lived with her mom Erin, playing Clue with her friend Sarah Ahn when a vehicle pulled up and a stranger got out.
In much of what is considered the period of enlightenment up to today, people and governments have been slowly realizing that intolerance is an evil that cannot be allowed if one is maintain a persons basic human rights without aggression.
I am a racist. Not because of racist jokes I do not say or acts of discrimination I do not commit. The reason: I am White.
