Via a comment by John Lopez at No Treason!, I find this interesting Russell Madden article:
The Iraqi people want to be free.What does that mean? At its simplest level, of course, this states that the goal sought by Iraqis is "freedom." Sounds good, no?
The crucial question then becomes: what is "freedom"?
[...]...most Americans say they want freedom. Indeed - even though I cringe every time I hear them say it - virtually every politician proclaims his devout devotion to the shining star of freedom.
Yet when presented with the gritty reality of what freedom is and what it implies, the American public runs shrieking in fright and terror into the strong and comforting arms of the Demicans and Republicrats...who are only too eager to calm their dread: "Hush, hush, there. Don't worry your little heads, dear voters. We don't actually mean it when we say we're pro-freedom." When 98% of Americans who vote consistently reject full freedom in favor of their preferred flavor of statism - mostly of the fascist variety - how seriously can the words of these ignorant folk be taken?
[...]
Tell an American that "to be free" means:
No Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, no welfare, no guaranteed loans...
No "gun" control laws...
No drug prohibition...
No restrictions on marriage or sex among adults...
No government mandates for occupational or food or drug "safety"...
No banning of pornography...
No State-issued fiat money or banking regulations...
No censorship...
No national identification cards...
No checks on private discrimination or verbal sexual harassment...
No "public" schools...
No "public" roads...
No taxation...
No antitrust laws...
No affirmative action...
No minimum wage...
No draft...
No State-run postal "service"...
No smoking bans...
No cellphone bans...
No art subsidies...
No NASA...
No United Nations...
No national or state or city parks...
No mandated recycling...
No State-run airports and security...
Yes. Inform the average American of what "freedom" means and he that he will have to live within its parameters forever and he will crawl into a fetal ball and weep in abject panic...
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I wanna print this out and give it to my retardly leftist boss. Stupid shit recently decided he is "Libertarian" because he hates the government. I shake my head at his cluelessness. He almost defines 'idiotarian', I swear to god.
Be nice to give him that one. Even I wont claim Im liberatarian, and I'm considered 'radical' by his scale.
Posted by: Ken on December 13, 2003 06:18 AM