Per various headlines, Joe Biden was denied communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina. Apparently, for supporting abortion "rights", as well the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, a law he previously supported, barring federal funds for abortions other than in cases of rape, incest, and threat of mother's life.
American Catholics as well Evangelicals have taken such stands on abortion many times since 1973 Roe v. Wade as they are now. Yet interestingly, where is the Christian concern for 1.5 million+ lives (by some estimates, including unborn children) in Mideastern/African countries per US Imperial Wars "of" Terror as chiefly commanded by Caesars Bush, Obama and Trump, of course former Vice President Biden administratively supported. The priest however did not include this monstrosity in his clerical statement regarding the withholding of communion from the co-warmonger Joe Biden.
"I am an INDIVIDUALIST who believes that there is NO CLASH OF INTEREST among people and that ANY TALENT IS A HELP, not a threat, to another talent." --- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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Quote was recently posted online by UK Liberty Party, consequently my post.
It is because of this statement and others similar by this tremendously intelligent lady, as well many related implications by the gentleman Ludwig von Mises, that I began to prefer then embrace the word INDIVIDUALISM. As I consistently define, INDIVIDUALISM is merely "the singular human right to consent" or not consent on all matters, as the conclusion to "the peculiar human ability to reason" (thus titles of my 10th and forthcoming 11th books). Not to the exclusion of other compatible isms of course, rather those considerations synonymous and/or subset of INDIVIDUALISM.
The sanctity of private property, personal liberty and one's very life are not foundations themselves nor rights as often categorized. Instead the three along with any other like examination will root and root deeply near or next to the stream of reasoning, the sole human distinction among all nonhuman species, the peculiar ability singularly manifested by the conclusion of consent versus dissent, hence INDIVIDUALISM. All other notions of rights as well isms must flow from this else not a right nor ism justified at all, and the atrocity resulted; the singular right to consent inhumanely trampled.
For what is Libertarianism if not the expression of INDIVIDUALISM's various arrangements and activities as consented. For what is Capitalism if not the expression of INDIVIDUALISM's particular arrangements and activities as consented regarding his/her capital. For what is Non-Interventionism if not the expression of INDIVIDUALISM's respect and regard for others' various arrangements and activities as consented by them. And the logic, right, ethic thus truth carries on and on without exception. To clarify further, all isms political, social and economic lacking the consent of one or more, therefore disrespecting and disregarding the dissent of one or more, commits violence against INDIVIDUALISM.
"Gentleman, that is fair,” concluded Dave Chappelle during his Netflix special Sticks and Stones (see YouTube link below), after clarifying that women should be allowed to consult any or no one on the issue of abortion. "And ladies, to be fair to us, I also believe that if you decide to have the baby, a man should not have to pay," Mr. Chappelle equalizes then categorizes, “That’s fair." To take the matter further, he interestingly compares, "If you can kill this motherfucker, then I can at least abandon ‘em. It’s my money, my choice." He finalizes the segment by logically dismantling the comfortable nest of inconsistency that many prefer so to satiate their arbitrary preference, "And if I’m wrong, then perhaps we’re wrong."
My point is, without consistency in ponder, purpose and practice there is no right, no morality, no ethic, no principle and certainly no truth, only preference and presumption remain.
On a personal note (not Mr. Chappelle's)...
I can already hear the retorts categorizing the pre-born child as nonhuman, or mere tissue similar to an appendix or tonsil while post-born child as quite human therefore Mr. Chappelle inappropriately even insensitively compares apples with oranges. Yet is he really? For who is more likely risking arbitrariness, one arguing the pre-born child as nonhuman or tissue, versus one arguing the pre-born child as quite human? A fertilized hand (forgive for my frankness) will never become a human child, nor fertilized skin anywhere else on the body, certainly not a fertilized appendix, tonsil, etc. All across the universe and beyond, only a "humanly fertilized human egg" will become human and human only, not fowl nor fish, not reptile nor beast in the field; human! Upon conception, empirically, logically it is at least prehuman, potentially human, partially human, a bit human if not human completely.
If to insist the pre-born child as nonhuman, then one must also insist on rescinding laws protecting fertilized eggs of eagles and condors, for it follows those too are non-eagle and non-condor although scientists, protectionists and environmentalists say otherwise. My point is, again, without consistency in ponder, purpose and practice there is no right, no morality, no ethic, no principle and certainly no truth, only preference and presumption remain.
The current doomsday fanaticism over climate change is not new, nor a mystery as to why it reappears time after time. As the writer suggests back in 2014, "Scientists seeking funding and journalists seeking an audience agree: panic sells." See link below for entire article.
Personal Note:
When in high school in early 1970s, the panic then perpetuated by some teachers, professors and politicians was over an exploding population growth, as conveniently reflected in various sci-fi, futuristic movies. One in particular I remember seeing at Tower Theater in Sacramento, the 1973 film Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston. However 46 years later, there is no such a product on the super market shelves nor corporate bulldozers scooping up people living in overcrowded streets. And still, the worst polluters remain unchecked, unaccounted while exempted from environmental laws, regulations and policies per national interests of course; government and it's contracted corporate cronies.
Easily observed thus rightly suggested, the worst atrocities against humanity have been underwritten by government's revenue bureau therefore excessive taxation and government's central bank therefore monetary expansionism.
Whether one has misplaced pride or recreational scorn regarding the celebration of COLUMBUS DAY, one "far more important" consideration is often overlooked.
The European/Columbian discovery of the Americas as sponsored by the Spanish Crown was of course a government endeavor. Like all government endeavors (i.e. public roads, space program, solar/wind projects, etc.), it preempted any effort to do the same or something more innovating by private enterprise. Worse, these poorly placed publicly funds create a "path of least resistance", thereby becoming a economic as well political magnet for further malinvestment by government's corporate cronies as well other companies, investors, speculators, manufacturers, developers, etc.
If a private enterprise, would the New World discovery occurred in the 15th century or soon thereafter, and would it occurred as it did with all the associated atrocities against the indigenous that followed? It could be said with some reservation, private endeavors would have occurred later in history, perhaps much later. For in the 1490s, consumer demands at the time were insufficient enough to discourage such a grandly expensive speculation.
It could be also said however with certainty, far less atrocities against the indigenous would have occurred. If by no other reason per lack of government involvement and expenditure making private enterprise incapable of the same large-scale acts, hence facilitating mutually agreeable negotiations between European speculators and Indigenous landowners. For when involved, government thus its endeavors have far reaching ill effects per backing by the central bank as well taxes, purposefully favoring far fewer benefactors while unavoidably disfavoring far more victims than any private endeavor would have otherwise.
Most who are scorning Columbus Day do so unaware for the wrong or lesser reason. And if aware, they prefer not thus discount my aforementioned consideration for it indicts present-day government endeavors therefore atrocities they covet consequently support, hoping to parasitically glean.
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In the US capitol's rotunda is the painting Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), commissioned in 1836, installed in 1847. I suppose Columbus' discovery of New World resources therefore his landing mirrors quite well the US government's discovery of Mideast resources and subsequent landings decades later by the American Imperial Legions led by Caesars Bush, Obama and now Trump.
Left/Democrats would like you to think they are not Fascists nor Militarists/Imperialists although suggesting otherwise by their preferred top-down regulatory methodology as well their supported and instigated forms of warmongering around the world.
It is also quite true...
Right/Republicans would like you to think they are not Socialists nor Centralists/Interventionists although suggesting otherwise by their preferred social policies and programs as well their supported forms of government expansion and intrusion.
Whether Left or Right, Democrats or Republicans, lurking in the darkest shadows are the following evils. FIRST, Covetousness per lustfully desiring to determine others' Life, person or existence thus termination or allowance of it, to control others' Liberty, preference or behavior thus manipulation of it, and to have others' Property, possession, resource, asset, profit or capital thus confiscation of it. SECOND, Presumption per regarding, valuing, prioritizing therefore protecting, benefiting one's own Life, Liberty and Property at the expense and detriment of others. And THIRD, Arrogance per overt molesting and violating by legislation against others' Life, Liberty and Property.
The two major parties' respective delusions or purposes (i.e. propaganda) have reached such bizarre breadths and disturbing depths, they each accuse the other of the very same characteristics they are themselves and perhaps more so. Clearly, the Biblical passages apply for Mathew chapter 7, verses 3-5 rightly describe and equally condemn both parties and supporters.
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
"The fiasco of building socialism on demand due to its economic unsustainability and a prevailing trend toward moral decadence has not brought an end to socialist thinking. The Left has not given up and has excavated once again an old argument of the existence of communist bands of hunter-gatherers, who did not know of private property. They argue, therefore, that there is an obligation for all progressive-thinking people to put society back on the right track and embrace collectivization again as it is imprinted in human genes. As is often the case with socialists, they are right about precisely the opposite."
Allen Gindler
Scholar from the former U.S.S.R., specializing in Political Economy, Econometrics, and Industrial Engineering. He taught Economic Cybernetics, Standard Data Systems, and Computer-Aided Work Design in the Khmelnytskyi National University, Ukraine. He is currently a private consultant to IT industry on Database Administration and Cryptography.
"Everyone is the proper owner of his own physical body, as well as of all places and nature-given goods that he occupies and puts to use by means of his body, provided that no one else has already occupied or used the same places and goods before him."
Hans-Herman Hoppe’s first axiom of his Theory of Property Rights
Economist, Philosopher, Author, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, former Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Founder/President of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey.
I would rather have a self-serving congress and vice-ridden president opportunistically rescinding upon rescinding as well wildly vetoing upon vetoing laws, regulations, taxes, programs, bans, sanctions, treaties, wars and so on, than a dutiful congress and decorous president righteously legislating and virtuously signing a single well-intended law, regulation, tax, program, ban, sanction, treaty, war or anything else their presumption may imagine and propose.
If I cannot have that, then perhaps a sharply partisan stalemate within and among legislative and executive branches hence nearly no further passages of laws, regulations, taxes, programs, bans, sanctions, treaties, wars and so on. Media will as before critique government as broken, I will declare government as hobbled thus fixed.
Either way, far better restored or longer preserved Life, Liberty and Property therefore logically, practically moving closer bit by bit to respecting the Individual's singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez's latest push for rent controls will only exasperate the homelessness she hopes to eradicate. She is either unable or unwilling to see the very polices she supports, particularly regarding minimum wage, as contributors to further unemployment thus gateways to homelessness. She lacks understanding of the detriments as well, for just as price caps lead to less goods and services, just as wage hikes lead to less jobs, so do rent controls lead to less rentals.
Additionally, if she succeeds in imposing rent controls, is Ms Ocasio-Cortez prepared on behalf of landlords to cap prices for replacing water heaters, cap estimates for replacing roof shingles, or (God forbid) cap related wages for such repairs? Of course not, for most elected officials are incapable of perceiving the entire ripple effect per the political stones they toss into the economic pond, proceeding headlong without thought and upon inevitable failure without responsibility. Within these conditions, why would anyone speculate and venture into rental property, and/or maintain similar existing assets.
The congresswoman along with many colleagues and supporters rant clueless to the many past failed attempts by government to manipulate the economy, necessitating her present attempt already doomed, subsequently inspiring her and other politicians to propose more government manipulations until ultimate ruination of the economy. Hence the solution is not more legislation but rescission, rescission, rescission.
The capitalistic social order acquires meaning and purpose through the market. Hampering the functions of the market and the formation of prices does not create order. Instead it leads to chaos, to economic crisis.
"How dare" those who use a 16 year old girl like some poster child for their political agenda, obviously without sufficient maturity, experience and education, yet encouraging her to recklessly speak regarding environmental and economical issues far more complex than any one adult can manage and grasp even with some recognized maturity, experience, education as well electorally given authority. Nonetheless, they dare to do so, consequently the 16 year old girl dares others too, mimicking the same sort of presumption and arrogance. Astonishingly, they go further by banally slandering any criticism as "hate" towards the child, so to shroud their own hate with the jejune accusation against any and all who accurately disagree and rightly dissent.
Let us allow scientists, engineers, economists, and an array of other specialists to freely discuss and competitively debate at length within both private and public forums, without media and government's manipulative influences. Let us encourage our children to mimic those logical processes in classrooms as they continue to mature, experience and learn, oppose to the popular madness now on display.
To clarify, I shall define my use of particular words and terms...
Fascism like Communism are first and foremost economic isms; the former a top-down regulatory methodology from initially partial to ultimately total control of the economy versus the latter a bottom-up confiscatory methodology from initially partial to ultimately total control of the economy. Both power-exchange with the masses using Socialism as the tossed bread to appease the Roman mob whether underwritten by Fascistic and/or Communistic methods. By this understanding, American Cronyism is a close first cousin to Fascism thus the path most likely to it.
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American Cronyism is also referred to as Crony-Capitalism or Corporatism. Not to be confused by the uniquely sustainable Capitalism, a mere subset of activities within the peculiarly ethical Individualism hence the singular human right to consent or dissent on ALL matters.
Nothing more than a Green version of Fascism is the latest of popular environmental movements therefore political proposals, fanatically emphasizing Global Warming as though some indisputable Great Satan of a Bourgeoisie sort of course, to be self-righteously eradicated by Government's brutish force with faddish support in Endlösung-esque fashion. In this way, overtly slandered as deplorable perhaps covertly considered as expendable are those who reject, disagree, question even merely suggest further discussion.
To be fair, this Green Fascism coupled with American Socialism are not without precedent. For decades, both Democrats and Republicans have been quite Socialistic thus Fascistic in their own respectively convenient demagoguery thus economic methodology where differences exist solely among a few objectives and degrees.
