When my son suggested he would furnish a team to create a blog site for me if I would write the articles, I was thrilled because I love writing stories about persons, places, conditions, things and ideas. I leaped at the opportunity and through a creative art department, proofreader, editor, and PR person, he set everything up and told me to write about anything I felt like.
To date, I think I have submitted around 70 articles to my editor in New York. I still have trouble spelling, type with two fingers, and know very little about computers or anything else that is mechanical or electronic. One thing I do understand is the philosophy of freedom and the principles behind it.
I place the highest of values on my freedom and have the highest regard and respect for the boundaries of the freedom of others. I love to write about it. And how every phase of our lives and every fiber of our being is in some way connected to the principle of freedom, whether we acknowledge or recognize it.
I’m neither a psychologist nor a psychiatrist. However, there was a period in my life a number of years ago when I developed a self-help program and people would come to me for sessions to help them work through their problems. Mostly what I did was listen and ask questions to guide them through the sessions, helping them figure out their own problems. Usually the sessions were once a week with five or six people at a time. They seemed to find help and I personally learned a great deal. Much was discovery by trial and error.
One of the things I discovered was that we as human beings always act according to our highest value at any given moment. And we always act for a profit or gain. Despite the fact many times our actions result in some degree of loss, our purpose and aim by our very nature is for a profit or some pay-off. There’s nothing wrong with that; it’s our nature. Our expectations may be for some gain. For example, when one holds a door open for another, there is the expectation of hearing, “thank you.”
In this connection, in the middle of a heated political campaign, the two selected candidates for president frequently speak about how what they are doing is not for them, but for YOU. It is a pervasive theme in many of their speeches and interviews in the news media. It appears to me a deliberate ploy to come across as some kind of self-sacrificing position to convey to you that they are not in this intense battle for power over your life and property for their benefit, but only doing it for YOU.
It belies all reason and rationale to consider a politician is seeking a position of power over your life for your benefit and not his. He does not even know YOU. Any one with one eye and half sense knows this is not true. Nevertheless, the seeking of the position of power is for his agenda and benefit. By his very nature, his actions are for a profit or gain for himself.
Today, most of the news is about the government bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which will run into trillions for hard-working Americans to pay for through tax collection. And I remind everyone that taxation is an involuntary relinquishment of your property. It is legal plunder and a system of thievery. Otherwise, it would be called something else.
Sometimes I hear people say, “Well I don’t mind paying taxes.” I seriously doubt if any one would be paying taxes if they were not mandatory with the threat of a gun or jail were not hanging over their heads.
Despite the obvious truth about what is taking place and the obvious facts of all that has already taken place, millions are flocking around the politicians with adulation and expectations, under the false illusion they will be working for them. The politicians are merely soaking the rich and redistributing to them. How sad. We are smarter than that.
And to me personally, it’s an insult when a politician tries to convince me he’s working for me and not himself. Frankly, it’s an insult to our intelligence.
Today I recalled something I read many years ago that I had not thought about in a long time. It was a letter found on the dead body of a soldier in Korea he had written to God before he died. In the letter he said, “It’s so strange I had to reach this hellish place and state before I ever saw your shining face.”
It brings tears to my eyes when I think of that and about the hellish state of freedom in this country I love so dearly, which is only worsening as we read such news items like the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bailout. A heavy-duty burden is on the backs of the American people already laden with governmental controls and harsh taxation. With no end in sight, we march towards the election in less than two months for the changing of the guards in Washington.
Then I’m reminded of something I have heard as far back as I can remember, which is this—the tempo of political government in this country is never far ahead of, nor very far behind the tempo of the American people. In this connection, the majority are marching to the drumbeat of politicians . . . buying the line, hook and sinker of their false promises of a future of milk and honey.
Freedom of the individual is the most precious commodity any of us have and has been so squandered we rarely hear the word mentioned anymore in the flowery speeches of politicians and news pundits. As such, the momentum gathers on this march down the road of socialism. It’s a progression like a hurricane gathering speed as it continues on its path of destruction.
The bearer of bad news is never very popular. But the good news is the shining light of freedom is still available to us if we only reclaim it as our moral God-given right.
Unfortunately, we have failed to sustain and maintain it.
Let Freedom Ring!
JUST ME,
AC
