[kitchencabinetforum] REAGANITE FREEDOM

I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in war and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

The entropy of an organization drastically increases with the size of the organization. The Greek government does not need more than five ministers, but it has fifty ministers! No wonder Greece goes bankrupt. Greek ministers enjoy full impunity, no matter what they do. And they do many stupid things! On October 18, 2010, a stupid minister locked an innocent dissident in jail for allegedly making fun of her! In reality, another unknown blogger, a fan of the dissident, made fun of her. Nonetheless, the dissident had to resign from his job, and his life has been destroyed. His life has been stolen by the stupid minister. Is Premier Papandreou proud of her? The Greek government has neither restituted nor apologized yet for this freakish behavior.

This is the issue: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon our dignity and confess that a little intellectual elite in a capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: up, man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Lesmiserables syndrome is the prosecution of a minor infraction which catalyzes a series of major infractions. Innocent people suffer from lesmiserables syndrome, whereas kleptocrats enjoy impunity. Jails are full of lesmiserables, an injustice which will result in a global revolt against kleptocrats. There is an elasticity limit to how much abuse innocent people could tolerate. On a clear day, xasteria, lesmiserables and taxstrucks will take their guns and shoot all kleptocrats they could find. Lesmiserables do not need misereres, but guns. We've reached the limit of elasticity, and now is the time to revolt.

In UK, police is considered a friend of the people, whereas in Greece, police is considered an enemy of the people. The Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection is a euphemism for the Greek Ministry of Kleptocrat Protection and Citizen Harassment, George Orwell's Miniluv! Graecokleptocrats use their brutal police to protect themselves from the Greek people. Major global riots against police brutality started on December 6, 2008, when Alexis Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old student, was fatally shot by a police officer without any reason. December 6 is now the International Day Against Police Brutality.