Bush warns of threats to freedom, economic growth – Washington Times

As President Bush said: “the role of government is not to create wealth, but to create the conditions that allow entrepreneurs and innovators to thrive.” This is true. Yet, more fundamentally, the government cannot create wealth; this is because it has the legal use of physical force over its citizens, which it should use only on those who initiate force, whether domestic or foreign.

However, no government can force a person to be productive or creative; governments can only stifle creativity and production.

No private citizen has the legal use of physical force over anyone. Private citizens deal with each other by voluntary consent through contractual relationships.

Private citizens need government to protect their individual rights so that they *can* be creative and productive.

Unfortunately, President Bush did not apply his own beliefs properly (witness Medicare D), and President Obama is acting like a dipsomaniac at an AA meeting by taking over the means of production and trade in the USA while having no intention of protecting the individual rights of the producers and traders.

What is he counting on? How long does President Obama think he can continue on this course before the USA collapses into a fascist dictatorship? It’s sooner than you might think.

Don’t let it go. It’s time to rediscover individual rights, liberty, and capitalism.

Mark A. Hurt, MD
Physician, Patriot

This kind of video needs as wide dissemination as possible.  When people in the president’s administration talk very seriously about power coming from the barrel of a gun, we need to pay attention.  Even if it’s just a minor functionary in a vague position of indeterminable power, for the president to surround himself with so many extremists makes a clear statement to anyone willing to listen.

I think for most Americans our mental image of Communist revolutionaries is one of somewhat comical sunglasses-and-green-fatigue-wearing Latin dictators, Vietcong guerrillas from an endless list of war movies, or the grumpy old vodka-swilling Soviet Politburo members whom we defeated in the Cold War.

Human history is full of people being caught flat flooted, saying “that’s a crazy idea” just as drastic, transformative change sweeps over them.  It happens in the world of business every day as an innovative company quickly muscles its competition out of a market.  It happens in the realm of politics, usually at the cost of thousands or millions of lives (the widely admired Chairman Mao for example).  It may not be time to barricade ourselves in a remote cave stocked with food and ammunition, but it is most definitely time to start asking questions and preparing ourselves for eventualities it is very easy, convenient, and comforting to dismiss, telling ourselves ”that’s crazy…no way that could happen in America”.

We need to change our perspective drastically.  The Communist revolutionaries in America have decided not to play by the old, convenient rules.  They wont be showing up to the fight in grungy green fatigues holding signs for Marxist revolution.  Those protestors have grown up, and apparently they’re very much in the system now, Marxist termites gnawing on the structure of American freedom, exceptionalism, and capitalism.

These revolutionaries will be well dressed, bearing advanced degrees from Harvard and Columbia.  They are far more insidious and more dangerous than anything America has faced before.  We need to change our perspective to fit the threat that faces us.  I recommend exercising your 2nd amendment rights while you still have them.  Whatever else happens, I will always believe that a few million well-armed, freedom loving Americans can accomplish anything.  I don’t think the Gestapo would have fared quite as well in rural America as they did in Germany.  Hopefully that theory will never be tested.