“Disappointed!”

With permission, below I am publishing an email I received from a reader here at Black Bear Blog.

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In light of today’s yes vote on the ‘Rescue’ package. I was compelled to E-Mail our state Rep. the Honorable Jim Gerlach.

Sir, I am most disappointed in your YES vote on the Bail Out!

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, ‘The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.’

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

While imperfect in its execution, the founders of our nation sought to make an exception to this ugly part of mankind’s history.

Unfortunately, at the urging of the American people, we are unwittingly in the process of returning to mankind’s normal state of affairs.

Americans demand that Congress spend trillions of dollars on farm subsidies, business bailouts, education subsidies, Social Security, Medicare and prescription drugs and other elements of a welfare state.

The problem is that Congress produces nothing. Whatever Congress wishes to give, it has to first take other people’s money. Thus, at the root of the welfare state is the immorality of intimidation, threats and coercion backed up with the threat of violence by the agents of the U.S. Congress.

In order for Congress to do what some Americans deem as good, it must first do evil. It must do that which if done privately would mean a jail sentence; namely, take the property of one American to give to another.

If we Americans didn’t give Washington such enormous control over our lives, I doubt whether there would be 10 percent of the money currently spent on lobbying and campaign contributions. This enormous control that Congress has over our lives also goes a long way toward explaining much of the government corruption that we see in Washington.

There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter – more government control over our lives.

We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.

I wondered how we had gotten to this time and place, in which television personalities would express open disdain for America’s constitutional system. The exchange between Caruso-Cabrera and her colleagues demonstrated that those who posture as ‘pro-business’ can really be socialists at heart.

On CNBC, which I thought was pro-business, news analysts frequently complained that the ‘ideology’ of the House Republicans had gotten in the way of the planned takeover of the financial sector. That ‘ideology’ is free enterprise capitalism.

Over at the ‘conservative’ Fox News Channel, the TV personalities keep referring to this plan as a ‘rescue,’ in order to play down the magnitude of the socialist transformation of the U.S. economy. The term ‘rescue’ sounds so much better than ‘bailout’ or ‘Marxism’ or ‘socialism.’

Meanwhile―and this is no joke―Wachovia is still running TV ads on Fox News saying that people who invest in the company get showered with money from the sky as they walk down the street. This is the same company that just sold its failing banking operations.

If the ‘bailout’ passes―and it seems as if the plan is to keep voting until Congress gets it ‘right’―then the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve will take control of U.S. credit markets. The next phase of the plan is global.

‘If he were to rise from the dead today, Marx might be delighted to discover that most economists and financial commentators, including many who claim to favor the free market, agree with him.

The Socialist International, meanwhile, is preparing for a high-level meeting in Mexico on November 17-18, ‘to discuss an agenda with the urgent world financial situation at its center, following U.S. elections.’

Congressional passage of the ‘bailout’ bill, strongly supported by Obama and Senator John McCain, sets the stage for an Obama White House win on November 4 and even further expansion of the federal government into the economy and other sectors. In short, socialism is coming, and American-style capitalism is on the way out. But it’s socialism at home and abroad.

Need I mention that you NO LONGER HAVE MY VOTE! George Law