“STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.” FROM WHAT?
Being the host of a radio talk show is a lot of fun. I get all kinds of compliments. Especially from those who disagree with me.
According to those on the political left, I am the worst kind of human being there is. In their parlance I’m a right-wing, Christian conservative neanderthaloid. And worse than that, I’m one of those “anti-government types”. Well, three out of four ain’t bad. (My knuckles won’t quite reach to the ground.)
Am I a right-winger? Yes, as long as there are left-wingers. Am I Christian conservative? Guilty. Am I anti-government? Proudly! Let me explain.
Government, in the mind of any right thinking person is evil. It is in some cases a necessary evil but still evil. Government by definition exists for the sole reason of control over the individual.
How many times have you read or heard the phrase “man’s struggle for freedom”? Most history books will advance this quest as being the driving force behind man’s entire story. Today, thanks to our pro-government cultists, that struggle continues. As an example of this, look to the current invasion of our own country by law breaking elements of other countries. When the question is asked, “why do these people risk their lives and willingly break the law to do this?” the answer is always the same. They want freedom.
If man’s history, then, is a constant struggle for freedom, the obvious question is; freedom from what? The answer is, of course, government.
Being “anti-government” is man’s story. Freedom of speech? You’ve got that unless some government limits it. Freedom of religion? You’ve got that unless some government limits it. Right to privacy? You’ve got that unless some government limits it. Freedom to think? You’ve got that unless some government limits it.
If all of this sounds kind of familiar, it should. The Constitution of the United States, the greatest document ever conceived by man, was written for one reason. And that reason was to recognize government for the evil it is and limit it’s evil-doing. That’s right. Our Constitution is anti-government!
H. L Mencken, to many a cynic but to me a philosopher, once said: “The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.”
Now, I recognize that people are not perfect; and if left to their own devices people will inevitably seek power over others. We need some form of “governance” to protect us from one another. But government is made up of people; people with the same imperfections. And therein lies the quandary. If there is anything worse that a conniving, self-serving, power seeking individual, it is a conniving, self-serving, power seeking gang.
Government consists of people just like you and me. They have no special talent for the business of governing. They are nothing more than a gang. They are, therefore, capable of nothing but group-think and by extension are the enemy of the individual. Like any gang they like to stick together, to “belong” and to stay a member. The only thing they are real good at is getting office and then holding office.
A professional “governor” is, in my opinion, a discreditable person; a person who will do or say anything to stay a member of the gang and is so willing to “sell” his loyalties that he becomes no better than a common street hustler.
The tendency then is for government to grow progressively more collective. To them we are a rival gang. And to remind them of their constitutional limits is to trespass onto their turf. Government always ends up being an “us against them” collective and exists despite the individual instead of for the individual. It inevitably then grows worse and exists for its own satisfaction and against the ambitions of those who pay for it.
H. L. Mencken made another statement about the individual verses the collectivists: “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
Do I love my country? No. Do I believe in “my country, right or wrong”? God forbid. Am I a patriot? Yes. To me a patriot or one who is patriotic is a person who believes not in just his country, but what his country stands for. And my country stands for individual freedom. Or at least it was created for that reason…..back when we were free.
Yes, I am proudly anti-government. Yes, I hold the Constitution to be sacred. You may call me a radical. You may call me an extremist. You may call me a zealot. You may call me dangerous to today’s political correctness. That’s up to you. But I insist that you call me anti-government.