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Discrimination

Connor, kudos to you for standing up for liberty. I find it sad that there are those who would so vehemently oppose liberty in any form. As for anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action laws, they are indeed different, and yet the same.

“Redistribution of wealth” is a hot topic these days, perhaps we should coin the term “redistribution of liberty.” It’s an erroneous and an insidious ideal that a group should be made equal, for you can’t make anything equal but the individual. Where a shop owner may refuse credit to a man based entirely on individual merits, how is he to prove his state of mind to the law if that individual happens to be in group $minority protected by the ill-conceived law?

I will reiterate for for clarity’s sake… “Rights can ONLY be protected on an INDIVIDUAL basis.” Note that rights cannot be “granted” except by God, or derived as necessary from those God given rights. To find such words as “minority” or especially enumerated groups in legislation is to find legal and even mandated discrimination. From merriam-webster.com:

3 a: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually

This discrimination may be spelled out such that it is discrimination in favor of a group, but as all things must be balanced, this discrimination is necessarily in hindrance of another group, specifically anyone not belonging to the favored group. I doubt anyone would be all gung-ho for anti-discrimination legislation in favor of caucasian white males. Such legislation would be immediately labeled as bigotry, so why the double standard?

In fact, to be truly anti-discrimanatory, you must allow everyone the discretion to make decisions on an individual basis on any characteristic he deems relevant. And thus it follows that to be anti group discrimination, you must be pro individual discrimination. Unfortunately, such things as skin color and other traits shared by groups are also perfectly valid as individual traits. Such is life, and we must live with the bad judgments of individuals if we are to value liberty over entitlement.

Federalism

I just finished reading an article on how we have strayed in a very fundamental way. It’s called Federalism: The Great Lost Concept. Here’s an excerpt.

A return to federalism, which is what Dr. Paul offers, is a return to the great experiment our Founders started. As a supporter recently said, we can choose between Candidate A and Candidate B’s plans for our lives, or we can choose Ron Paul’s plan to give us back our lives.

And for those of you who think Ron Paul would recklessly take us to anarchy, another excerpt.

It is possible to streamline operations and return to the states the powers they once held. Dr. Paul is not in favor of immediately abolishing programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security because, while these programs are unconstitutional and ultimately harmful, too many Americans have been made dependent on them for those programs to be immediately ended.

And here’s the link.

Freedom

“I believe in limited government. I believe the purpose of government is to protect liberty and not to run our lives, or run the economy, or to police the world.”—Ron Paul

The above quote was from a radio interview. I don’t think anybody could say it any better. That quote is the very embodiment of why I support Ron Paul to the very end.

Want to find out more of what he’s about? Here’s a blog that has video of his speech at CPAC.

If you find yourself dismayed and at a loss with Romney’s suspended campaign, please please take a close look at Ron Paul. If you have any doubts about him or any compelling reason not to support him I would certainly appreciate the chance to look into them, for my own enlightenment as well as yours. One friend of mine brought up a concern that, given any merit, would deeply concern myself as well. I spent many hours that evening looking into it, at the expense of homework, and came up convinced that the allegations were nothing but misrepresentation and slander.

If you wonder what could be done at this point with most primaries already passed, just drop me a line. There is work to be done.