“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”
This past Saturday, the 603 Alliance held it’s all day and evening event called “Liberty trumps Socialism”. Well timed, in my opinion, given all of the talk on the Left about their racing towards Socialism. Liberty demands freedom and amongst the condition of being free is to be free from an intrusive, coercive, and overreaching government. Socialism, on the other hands, demands the exact opposite; instead of raising up the Individual, the State becomes preeminent. With Liberty, the Individual decides; in Socialism, the government decides. The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen. Saturday was chockfull of speakers approaching this from various viewpoints: studied, anecdotally, fire and brimstone – but all were unabashedly for Liberty as our Founders defined it in their writings, in our Declaration of Independence, and in our Constitution (which was meant to divvy up any attempts at power concentration in recognizing that human nature craves power). Socialism/Communism is the anti-Liberty path – at no time has it ever worked as it denies its subjects the liberty and freedom to make decisions on their own and for their own best interests – government proscribes what is not allowed (a long list) and what is (a short list). We have interviewed those who grew up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain or who escaped from Socialist countries – they just can’t understand why America is turning into what they ran away from (and often losing everything in doing so).
This video is a presentation by Jonathan Hanen representing the Foundation for Immigration Reform. The obvious question is “what is fair?” followed by “for whom?
Once again, when I get his PDF I will update this page – the materials that he is pointing to on the screen you can’t see (at least, not yet).
