Nov 9, 2016 | Politics
Writes Alexander Marriott:"Hyperbole is exploding on the internet, good God people sound and look silly. We don't elect dictators. We have a Constitution, time we dust it off and start using it to make sure our elected officials stick to their limited jobs. Maybe Democrats will realize this is precisely why limited government is so important, to prevent ambitious demagogues from abusing power. The more we all stand up to the next President to protect individual rights in all spheres of human activity, then the abysmal election will have a positive result."
Well said Professor Marriott!Sep 20, 2016 | Business, Politics
From UN deletes tweet calling free market an "urgent threat" - UN Watch:
GENEVA, Sept. 5, 2016 — The UN human rights office deleted a bizarre statement on Twitter, published on its account with 1.5 million followers, in which it slammed “free market fundamentalism” as an “urgent threat,” after the head of a watchdog group questioned the tweet.Though the UN tweet from Friday had garnered more than 160 retweets and likes, the world body removed it under criticism from Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch.“This was a loony tweet, and it calls into question the judgment of the UN’s top human rights office,” said Neuer. “While millions of people are suffering from genocide, sexual slavery and starvation, it is far from clear why the UN would instead focus its attention on unidentifiable ‘urgent threats,’ let alone on economic subjects about which it has neither competence nor expertise,” said Neuer.“Tellingly, the same UN human rights office has failed to issue a single tweet about this past month’s dire human rights crisis in Venezuela, where millions face mass hunger in part due to attacks on the free market in the failed economic policies of the late president Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro, which included arbitrary seizure of businesses and private property.”“If the UN did not have a strict policy of ignoring its own guaranteed human right to private property, established in Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then perhaps Venezuelan mothers would not be struggling to find food for their children.”“Virulent anti-capitalism was a policy of the defunct Soviet Union, but it should not be embraced by the UN body which is supposed to be focused on human rights emergencies.”
Perhaps the Tweet should have asked is anti-free market fundamentalism -- the belief in the infallibility of socialist, anti free market economic policies -- an urgent threat to economic and political freedom?
Sep 14, 2016 | Business, Politics
Absolutely chilling.From Obama's opposition to freedom of speech (Citizen's United, campus speech codes, ); freedom to contract (forcing private businesses to pay for contraception, sterilization and ("morning-after") abortion against their will and become an unwilling agent of the welfare state); freedom of expression (speech codes); denying the freedom of association and peaceful "free exercise of religion" (from "live and let live" to "bake me a cake, or else."); assault on due process; restrictions on guns for self-defense; the expansion of executive power by executive order at the expense of individual rights is absolutely chilling.Recommended Read: The Obama legacy: An assault on the Bill of Rights | Washington Examiner
Perhaps the Tweet should have asked is anti-free market fundamentalism -- the belief in the infallibility of socialist, anti free market economic policies -- an urgent threat to economic and political freedom?