Liberty For All

by Roderick T. Beaman

Barack Obama’s presidency is in complete disarray. His approval ratings are now in the high 40s. By this time next year, they will be in the low 40s or maybe even the high 30s. I have never witnessed anything like this in my entire life. His support seems to be eroding right before our eyes. The hostility expressed to his health plan at the Town Meetings across the country is unprecedented. He has now announced that he no longer regards the public option as crucial to his reformation plans for the health care system.

The willingness of the administration to exclude a public option is enraging his leftist supporters in the Democratic Party which constitutes at least 80% of the party. The extreme left is the most unyielding of any group in America. They will accept nothing short of their goals which is to socialize all that isn’t socialized yet.

Because he staked so much on reforming the American health system, he may never recover from this. Of course, in politics, even months are a long time, just ask Hillary Clinton who declined to run for president in 2004 and saw her 2008 chances evaporate before the juggernaut of an unknown who used his key mark speech at the ‘04 Democratic Convention to steam roller his way to the nomination and the White House. And, to be sure, Pres. Obama is getting a bit of a bounce from his speech to Congress last week but his presidency may never recover.

As usual, Obama gave an effective speech but a void, typical of his worst at its best. South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson made the bounce even greater by shouting out, ‘Liar.’ It’s not that Obama isn’t a liar. Wilson should have waited until the appropriate time to call him a liar and worse; what he truly is, a socialist.

A confluence of forces are coming that will likely see his approval ratings plummet Jimmy Carter style. In six months, Barack Obama will look like Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Bill Clinton in 1994. Those forces include the long anticipated retirement of the Baby Boomers and their consequent burdens on both Social Security & Medicare, the second round of foreclosures from ARMs, commercial real estate foreclosures which are just beginning, the coming and under publicized Sally Mae defaults. The deficit for this fiscal year may reach $2 trillion. To solve the deficit, there are just two choices. The first is for the Federal Reserve to stop cooperating with the White House and allow this recession to go into a full-blown depression to or to monetize the deficit. The first would take courage so the second is the likely course. Such a huge monetization will result in rampant inflation.

The forces of freedom will have an opportunity unparalleled in history. This is the time that freedom lovers can bring their message to the people.

We must be willing to show them where our government, at all levels, not just federal, is in violation of The Constitution, logic and natural law.

Freedom lovers must be willing to ‘go to the mattresses’, to use a phrase from The Godfather. They must parade out The Constitution and especially The Preamble to The Bill of Rights (not the well-known Preamble to The Constitution that begins with ‘We the people’) that along with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments leaves no doubt that The Constitution was meant to be a strait jacket on the federal government. We must be willing to do that in the name of liberty and in the final hopes that these fifty republics that constitute the United States of America can survive.

No lie can continue forever. It dies. Whether it’s with a bang, like National Socialist Germany or a thud like Soviet style socialism, it dies.

The United States of America has lived a Big Lie and it is unraveling before our eyes as all lies do. It began in 1912 when the collectivists scored a Trifecta with the Sixteenth Amendment which permitted the income tax and Seventeenth Amendment which ended direct representation of the states in Congress and the Federal Reserve. It became the fully institutionalized with Franklin D. Roosevelt. It expanded in various ways with Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. It stalled for a while and has now taken accelerated again with the presidencies of William Clinton, George W. Bush and now with the liar to end all liars, Barack Obama. It is important to realize that no president since, perhaps Andrew Jackson, has left office with freedom better than when he took office. Ever. There hasn’t even been a status quo.

The following is from Karl Marx’s Manifesto:

“Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.”

Freedom lovers can begin a campaign of showing exactly how all of these things are in place in the United States. They can show how the country has actually eased into communism Barack Obama’s economic principles are Marxist with tinges of the fascism that arises from the first part of #7. There is also not a single provision in the list that he does not support nor for that matter does any Democrat of any standing.

Freedom lovers can say just that to the public and voters will respond. They are not ‘the booboisie’ and so many libertarians characterize them. Joe America understands simple economics and will even arrive at the correct conclusion of what constitutes communism and what constitutes the free market when shown the simple facts. It is for these reasons that freedom can win and exactly for these reasons why it won’t.

Freedom lovers, and among these I number libertarians, Libertarians, Constitutionalists and those such as I who are members of the Republican Liberty Caucus, RLC, and who are trying to work within the Republican Party to reassert the traditional values of the truest libertarian Republican of the twentieth century, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio. There are others.

Within the Republican Party right now, the forces of the ‘less of same’ socialism and statism that has refused to fully confront the evils of Big Government prevails. Here in Florida, the state GOP is moving to purge members of the RLC from positions of leadership under the chairmanship of Jim Greer, a man whose appetite for his own shoe leather never ceases. If this doesn’t change in the nation’s fourth largest state, how will it change nationally.

Face it, the Libertarian and Constitutionalist Parties, the American parties of libertarian principle, can only succeed through influence on one of the national major parties, more likely the Republican Party. I have joined the RLC in what I knew was going to be a quixotic venture. We are going to fail because the Republican leadership in this country has grown fat and satisfied with the status quo and will refuse to confront the evil head on.

I stick by my prediction that, even with a wholesale likely Republican takeover of both houses in 2010, the country will break apart beginning in 2011 and that national elections will be suspended in 2012. This will be because they will not have enough time but also, they will not do what is necessary.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we have chosen between dishonor and upheaval. We chose dishonor. We will have upheaval.

The United States of America. R.I.P.

Dr. Roderick T. Beaman is an osteopathic family physician practicing in Jacksonville, Florida. Born in New York City, he attended New York University as an undergraduate. A recipient of a 2003 Ron Paul Liberty in Media Award, he has had dreams (delusions?) of becoming a writer. He has written a novel that he has given up hope of ever getting published and so has made it available for the asking through TheFreedomBeam@comcast.net.