New Book Cover Element

This is going to be on the book cover. I just have not decided if it will be the only element of the book cover.

The 1st Amendment As A Vehicle For Socialism?

New York Judge Lucy Billings: ACLU activist

Those #Occupy clowns and their ACLU allies have "discovered" that the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution applies to private property.  Who knew?

Well, this nonsense goes beyond that. Mayor Bloomberg is quoted saying:

“The First Amendment protects speech,” Bloomberg said in a press conference at City Hall . “It doesn’t protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public space. Protesters have had two months to occupy the park with tents and sleeping bags. Now they will have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments.”

No, little man, the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting certain forms of free speech, especially political speech.  It does not give anybody the right to take over private property at all, even to make speeches that the government cannot prohibit in a public square.  Easement law and some other crazy bits of British Common Law that still float around like landmines in American real property law might apply, but the 1st Amendment don't.

Bloomberg made another statement, probably by accident, that gets to the core of the problem:

The mayor, at his news conference, read a statement he had issued around 6 a.m. explaining the reasoning behind the sweep. “The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” the mayor said in the statement. “Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with” because the protesters had taken over the park, “making it unavailable to anyone else.”

Zuccotti Park

What law could possibly be in effect to force a private property owner to make their property available for any delinquent or Nazi who wants to hang out there?  Sounds like some sort of Socialism from on high, which it is.  It is called "Privately Owned Public Space" which is a short name for an element of National Socialism where private property owners are forced to provide services that the government would/should provide if the government would just buy property for public use.

The 1961 Zoning Resolution inaugurated the incentive zoning program in New York City. The program encouraged private developers to provide spaces for the public within or outside their buildings by allowing them greater density in certain high-density districts. Since its inception, the program has produced more than 3.5 million square feet of public space in exchange for additional building area or other considerations such as relief from certain height and setback restrictions.

Of course, a heavy helping of rent-seeking is at play for owners of enough property to make some "public space" in return for privileged zoning rules just for them.

Here is a thought: if government wants public parks, let them buy the land on the free market (or use donated land) and build them, taking public responsibility for them, and let the private property owners do what they will with their own property?  Of course, that is too simple.

#OWS Socialists: NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Another story I heard about on the Limbaugh show:

Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

Interesting turn of phrase in this article.  The "professional homeless" is a phrase used by the #Occupy clowns for homeless people that they just do not like.

Apparently, if someone seeking a meal is not a young White snot with an expensive degree in the Arts, they are not welcome and the socialist kitchen staff is going on strike to get rid of these unsavory individuals.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

Get that?  If you really are homeless, or if you look like you have the wrong kind of criminal record, then NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Officers made at least 10 arrests when rowdy demonstrators refused to get out of the street and stop blocking traffic. A dozen cops on scooters tried to force them back to the sidewalk.

Just a wild guess here, that those arrested get an exemption from the "no criminals served here" rule.

National Socialism, AKA, Communism Kills

Victim of Soviet Russian Socialism attempts to enlighten Che Guevara Socialists at #OccupyWallStreet about what really happens under a Socialist regime. via Glenn Beck

Operation #OccupySmokyMountains

#OccupyShockTroop uses communal transportation.

Operation #OccupySmokyMountains strike force is launched.  The crack shock-troop is on the way to keep the wilderness corporate capitalists free.

"Would You Like Borders With That Socialism?" New Non-Fiction Project by John Tagliaferro.

Socialists Love To Play With Words

Did you know that Capitalism polls much lower than Free Market?  Michael Moore does and he uses it for another big lie.

No, not that Marx, but Groucho always made more sense.

The Socialists of today, neigh, the Socialists of all time have loved to play with words.  One of their favorites is playing with the word Capitalism until it has become an invective.

When rational, sane, normal people say capitalism, they usually mean it in the sense of a Free-Market, where people put their capital at risk in hopes of accomplishing something.  Usually they wish to increase their capital through an investment or business venture.  Sometimes, they use their capital in an altruistic manner, with making someone (even themselves) feel better or have a better go at life as their objective.

However, today when professors, news writers and script writers (sorry for the redundancy) use the word capitalism, it has a more sinister meaning, that of class division and worker exploitation.  'Oddly, ' the World Socialist Movement definition just happens to be the version that has been embedded in the minds of every student of anything in the Western world from those broadcasting it from "the commanding heights of society."

Now, even the dimmest of the wealthy useful idiots thinks this (from the "facts" behind Capitalism: A Love Story):

More Socialistic tripe from Michael Moore

Despite fear-mongering about the word "socialism," particularly around the time of the 2008 Presidential election, only 37% of young people prefer capitalism over socialism, while 33% prefer socialism to capitalism.
Rasmussen Poll: "Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided."

Yes, Michael Moore and others of his stripe, truly believe that the poll he cites "proves" that Socialism is a,most equally desired as a US national economic system as capitalism.  But is this really true?  As we have seen over the years since the mid-1930s, the English, French and German speaking world has been under the illusion that Nazism is interchangeable with Fascism (not true) or the opposite of Communism, when in fact they are all just different flavors of Socialism. That is the problem that we run into when we allow the illiberal left to define our language.  Eventually, the words mean nothing beyond something to fling at an opponent that may or may not have anything to do with anything, really.

So, that sly little Rasmussen fellow came out with another poll, using equivalently descriptive terms rather than nicknames: 72% Favor Free Market Economy Over One Managed by the Government


Now, when your favorite little Socialist friends quote Michael Moore to you, you have a good fact for a response.  The Free Market vs Government Managed numbers have been pretty close for years.

Socialism A Product Of The Industrial Age? HA!

If you thought Socialism began around the time of the steam engine, you are horribly wrong.










As John Derbyshire has noted in the past and in today's National Review blog, it is a part of the human condition that has appeared in literature as early as 391 BC in the play The Congresswoman. I will add, it is as part of the human condition as is jealousy, theft, rape and murder.