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Monday, December 31, 2012

Libertarians, don't fret. We are part of the solution...


Why We Fight
by Jacob G. Hornberger December 31, 2012


Given the statist direction in which our nation continues to head, one might be tempted to succumb to despondency. After all, everywhere you look, there’s a crisis, with calls for even more statism to address the crises. The worse things get, the more hopeless the situation might seem for people striving for the triumph of libertarianism.

There certainly is no guarantee that we libertarians will succeed in restoring liberty to our land within our respective life spans. Many champions of liberty have passed away without seeing the restoration of liberty.

But the fact is though that none of us is in charge of saving the world or the country. The most we can do is fight to restore a free society to our land. We have no control over the outcome, and so there is no need to despair over it.

One thing is for sure, however: If we don’t fight, the chances of restoring liberty to America are virtually nil.

Why do we fight? Not just because it’s a necessary prerequisite to winning but, more important, because it’s the right thing to do. We are who we are — libertarians — and it is incumbent on us to be true to ourselves and to the philosophy that is part of us.

How do we fight? Through the power of ideas. There really isn’t any other way. The statists have their philosophy and we have ours. It’s a matter of whether we libertarians can end up attracting a sufficiently large number of committed, dedicated, passionate people who ultimately reach a critical mass that brings about a major shift toward liberty in American society.

Consider what must have seemed to be insurmountable odds facing statists in, say, 1890. Americans were living in a society without Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, income taxation, paper money, a Federal Reserve, economic regulations, farm subsidies, immigration controls, public schooling, drug laws, a standing army, a military-industrial complex, a CIA, foreign invasions and occupations, torture, regime-change operations, and assassination.

Yet, did the statists throw up their hands in despair and exclaim, “Oh, we’ll never win. Let’s give up.” No, they continued expounding their ideas of socialism, interventionism, and imperialism because they believed in them.

And no one can deny that the statists were persuasive. Within a few decades, they had revolutionized American life, bringing to America the welfare-warfare state under which we now live, under the rubric of “freedom, free enterprise, and national security.”

One of the advantages we libertarians have today is that the results are now in for everyone to see. The welfare-warfare state has brought us an extremely dysfunctional society consisting of political plunder, coerced charity, envy, covetousness, torture, assassination, wars of aggression, masses of drug users, periodic massacres of people, a submissive citizenry with stultified consciences, perpetual crises and chaos, not to mention ever-growing severe infringements on liberty and privacy.

So, at least now we have two different systems and results that we can point to: the system the Founding Fathers brought into existence, which produced the most prosperous, charitable, peaceful, and harmonious society in history, and the system the statists have foisted upon our land, which has produced the opposite. Americans can make the choice.

But regardless of how things work out, the fact is that we libertarians are part of one of the grandest, most glorious movements in history, one that ranks up there with those that brought us such monumental achievements as Magna Carta, the English Petition of Right, habeas corpus, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, due process of law, and the right to keep and bear arms.

Can we prevail? Sure we can. But that’s not why we fight. We fight because we’re right.


Link:
http://fff.org/2012/12/31/47733/

1 comment:

  1. Mr. Hornberger chides the citizens of Argentina who fall for the government propaganda that businesses are responsible for inflation because they raise the price of goods and services.
    Perhaps Mr. Hornberger should review the chaos of the United States and Europe and question whether it is the government or financial institutes that cause---and profit from---inflation. The terms “bought off” and corrupted come to mind.
    The methodology by which the Federal Reserve Board of Governors conceals $4 billion daily from the auction accounts of Treasury securities that are exclusively handled by the FRBNY---and have never been audited or reported to Congress---has been documented. Ref. FEDERAL RESERVE HEIST. The lengthy mathematical analysis of the Fed's Ponzi scheme that dates from Rothschild's “loaning” to European rulers of centuries past to reveal the inherent national bankruptcy of their scheme is posted. Ref. RIP OFF BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

    The use of that money to fund the New World Order using the World Bank and International Monetary Fund has been presented. Ref. FUNDING THE NEW WORLD ORDER. The embezzlement of the Treasury auction funds by the FRBNY and FRBOG has been brought to the attention of the United States government, Ref. AMENDED COMPLAINT—WHISTLEBLOWER SUIT.    All articles available at www.scribd.com/oldereb.
    The “end goal” of the cabal has been stated in internal memos to be the collection of the $17 trillion National Debt of the United States.
    And still Mr. Hornberger is unaware of the future tragedy and demise of the U.S. The academic centers in the U.S. (that must groom economist for future employment with the largest employer of economists---the Fed and the banks) have done a great job in hiding the perfidy of the Fed.

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