Socialism is not only evil, but deadly. It breaks the financial back of businesses and disrupts the distribution system of goods and services while killing people perceived to be in the way of the utopian mirage. Robert Heinlein said, “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Rather than becoming socialist due to the control of an invading country, the US has been undermined from within, by the Left’s takeover of the schools, media, entertainment, unions and the Deep State’s egregious regulations to control the population.
Our liberties and freedoms are being removed by a plethora of taxes and regulations. Retired Senator and libertarian Ron Paul wrote, “One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
America has become the “Government of No.” “You can’t do that” has become the Deep State’s mantra while it grows like a cancer to devour finance and freedom. You can’t have a straw, smoke, walk or ride in the wilderness, harvest timber, mine, use water, have or carry a gun without permission, build what you want, operate a business your way, enter an occupation without permission, say and believe what you want. There are a million No’s.
Frédéric Bastiat wrote that “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
California is socialism central of America. Steps are taken daily to undo the miracle of freedom that the founders established making this nation a Beacon of Light and Hope to the oppressed of the world. Now the Left is pitching a welfare state in exchange for political power.
Ground Zero of the fight for freedom left the US decades ago and currently is in Hong Kong and mainland China’s Guangdong Province. Mainland China is the most intense Communist country in the world and is exporting that oppression to Hong Kong, once one of the freest places on earth. In terms of free enterprise and minimal regulations Hong Kong has often been rated number one in the world.
However, on the Mainland, everything is controlled and monitored -- where citizens can travel, what building they enter, if they can attend a government permitted church, can they have a child, where they can work, what is said on social media, essentially everything is being governed by a “social credit score.”
The government has an electronic dossier on each citizen granting or denying how they can live and move about. Facial recognition technology is used to watch people wherever they go.
People at an information headquarters permit or deny every citizen’s wish. The dossier / social credit report describes their life, buying habits, likes and dislikes, who their friends and enemies are including their pro or anti-government beliefs, everything. They are marked and controlled by the social credit score.
Hong Kong Chinese that have tasted true freedom under British rule are willing to sacrifice their living and their lives for what the American Founding Fathers created here. Meanwhile the US Left including most college students want the life China offers.
Some patriots have suggested tongue-in-cheek that President Trump make a deal, granting freedom and America to the Chinese protesters and encourage America-haters here to relocate to obtain what they desire, Chinese communism.
It is ironic that Hong Kong freedom fighters, some of the brightest, law abiding and hard-working people in the world, are waving American flags, singing the US National Anthem, carrying Trump posters and singing Christian songs as symbols and themes of their quest.
The Hong Kong ordeal could rival the Berlin Wall removal, Tiananmen Square massacre and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Thousands of unarmed students were murdered at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square but tens of thousands could be killed quickly in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong protesters hate communism and everything America’s left hopes for. This is an historic confrontation unfolding. As Thomas Jefferson said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
(Get Lou’s podcast at “No Hostages Radio” and his articles at nohostagesradio.com)
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