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Some references that confirm certain arguments made by the author of Freedom v A Tyranny of Rights.
1. On the Constitution - At pages 6 and 7 of the book, the author says this: “[The Founding Fathers] laid the foundations of freedom, they did not build the temple.
“It would be a disservice to their enterprise to let the foundations crumble. Their enterprise was not the fossilization of the endeavor to advance human freedom, but the initiation of a dynamic process,…
"But I should emphasize that the dynamism of the Constitution envisaged by the Founding Fathers is not to be found in the ‘judicial Power’ of the Supreme Court, but under Article V of the Constitution.”
On that point Thomas Jefferson said this: “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” (Letter to Kercheval, July 12, 1816)
2. On Rights – At page 42 of his book, the author defines our Rights as nothing more than procedural expectations. He says this: “That is the difference between Freedom in a real sense, and the procedural expectations accorded by rights.”
Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States said this regarding our Rights: “The Constitution has a Due Process Clause, which says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Now, what does this guarantee? Does it guarantee life, liberty or property? No, indeed! All three can be taken away. You can be fined, you can be incarcerated, you can even be executed, but not without due process of law. It’s a procedural guarantee. …
"You want a right to abortion — create it the way most rights are created in a democratic society, persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and enact it. You want the opposite — persuade them the other way. That’s flexibility.”
Further References to follow ….
Some memorable, and humorous, quotes from Books and Articles by Joseph BH McMillan.
Quote 1 - "Herd man in Europe" (from page 219 0f Freedom v. A Tyranny of Rights).
“Herd man in Europe”, that “proud ape”, is so conditioned to servitude that he is now incapable of what Winston Churchill called “a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour”, to “arise again and take [his] stand for freedom as in the olden time.” And anyway, the European “imperative of herd timidity” wants that some day there will “be nothing more to be afraid of”, and they have “faith”, absolute “faith”, that their safety is to be found in total submission, with the “herd”, to the ‘benediction’ of government. And they cling on to their "equality of rights” as though it were freedom itself, and they cling on to their “morality of shared pity”, to their “sympathy for all that suffers”, as the “sole hope for the future, the consolation of present [European] man, the great absolution from all former guilt” - guilt at their heritage, their culture, and their history. They cling on to their “faith in the community as the savior … in the herd,” in their government.
The European “herd” has “a satisfaction with the dark, with the limited horizon, [with] a Yea and Amen to ignorance”. So that is where I shall leave them, grazing on their ‘rights’ in the "green-pastures” of their ignorance and servitude. Happy with “the herd, with security, lack of danger, comfort, and an easier life for everyone.” It’s all an illusion of course, but that too is for another day.
(References in italics thanks to Friedrich Nietzsche)
Quote 2 - "Logo Man" - (from various sections of Freedom v A Tyranny of Rights, and Escaping Britain)
“Logo Man” – Nietzsche’s “herd man” with a brand. A “proud ape” sporting a Logo’d baseball cap, sweatshirt, or sneakers. Logo Man measures his self-worth by his Logos. Not just the baseball cap, sweatshirt and sneakers, but his Logo’d car, house, holidays, children’s school, and even his children, whom he decorates with Logos. And, of course, Logo Man needs to sport his Logo’d “career’, as well as his Logo’d political ideology. Without his Logo’d ideology, Logo Man wouldn’t know what to think! Logo Man needs a ‘high logo’ diet to feed his insatiable “will-to-vanity”.
Quote 3 - “Liberal Fundamentalists” – Those who take “civil liberties” with your freedom.
Quote 4 - “The High Priest of Liberal Fundamentalism” – Bill Clinton; High Priest, and ‘philanderer-in-chief’ – worshipped by “herd woman”.
Quote 5 - “The High Priestess of Liberal Fundamentalism” – Hillary Rodham Clinton; High Priestess, and ‘victim-in-chief’ of generic ‘philandering man’ – worshipped by “herd man”.
Quote 6 - “Justice” – Invoked by those unable to support their position with rational argument. Thus, as the philosopher Alf Ross said, “invoking justice [in support of an argument] is the same thing as banging on the table.” ‘Justice Man’ loves “banging on the table” about his ‘superior’ intellect, more ‘finely-tuned’ conscience, and ‘higher’ sense of compassion. These ‘qualities’, believes ‘Justice Man’, vest in him some ‘natural’ authority to impose his concept of ‘justice’ on the rest of us.
Quote 7 - “Social Justice” – Stealing from one to give to another, while “banging on the table” to distract your attention.
Quote 8 - “Tolerance” – A Liberal Fundamentalist ‘weapon’ used to destroy our values. ‘Tolerance Man’ doesn’t understand that tolerance is simply a measure of a permissible deviation from a norm – our values. So when the structure is unable to tolerate the extent of deviation they demand, they smash up the supports. Then they survey the rubble with a contented satisfaction - at least the rubble can tolerate anything. Better, they think, rubble that can tolerate everything, than a wholesome and sound structure with a limited and finite tolerance.
Quote 9 - “Equality” – The mercury of philosophy and jurisprudence. Liberal Fundamentalists discover that it can only be held together if confined in a vessel. And, of course, they find that they can’t put their finger on it without it breaking apart. So “equality” has to be imposed by Force of Arms, Force of Numbers, or what Albert Schweitzer called, “bewildering propaganda” – although, usually, large doses of each.
Quote 10 - “Democracy” - Government of the mob, by the mob, for the mob.
Quote 11 - “Liberal Fundamentalist Democracy” – Mob-Rule of the misfits.
Quote 12 - “New Inscription on the Statue of Liberty” – Send us your scum, your criminals, your terrorists, send us your perverts and killers, your rejects yearning to live off others, your wretched garbage clamoring at the borders. Send these, the hopeless morons, that we may drain our people to support them; that we may ignore our laws to welcome them; that we may shower them with the ‘purity’ of our ‘rights’! SEND THEM, that we may cleanse our ‘consciences’ in waves of ‘compassion’!
Quote 13 - “The Way of the Gay” – Not satisfied with their ‘practices’ being tolerated if done in private, they demanded, and got, the ‘right’ to display the “Way of the Gay” in public; not satisfied with the ‘right’ to display the “Way of the Gay” in public, they demanded, and got, the ‘right’ to ‘gay unions’, and thus “equality of rights” with married couples; not satisfied with that, they demanded, and have mostly got, the ‘right’ to ‘marriage’(all over Europe); not satisfied with that, they demanded, and got, the ‘right’ to ‘educate’ our children into the ‘delights’ of the “Way of the Gay”. Not satisfied with ‘equality’, they now demand that the “Way of the Gay” enjoy an elevated status, almost a religious status. They demand ‘immunity’ from criticism, while reserving to themselves the ‘right’ to denigrate others, especially the union of a man and a woman to create new life. The “Way of the Gay”, they think, is an ‘enlightened’ state of ‘being’ derived from the uninhibited indulgence in pure carnal ‘pleasure’ – an ‘enlightened’ state, they think, to which all should aspire, except, of course, there are those who are handicapped by their ‘heterosexual’ inhibitions.
Quote 14 - “Homophobic Hate Crime” – This is courtesy of England’s Crown Prosecution Service, England’s principal prosecution agency. “Homophobic crime is any incident which is perceived to be homophobic or transphobic by the victim or by any other person.”
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15 - “Islamophobic Hate Crime” – Ditto above,
except substitute Islamophobic from Homophobic and Transphobic – whatever
Transphobic may mean.
Quote 16 - “Right to Choose” – A ‘right to choose’ whether to indulge in primitive carnal pleasure – not a ‘right’ to kill the innocent human being that may result from the exercise of that ‘right’.
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17 - “Delusional Man” – “Herd Man” with a brand taking “civil
liberties” with your freedom by “banging
on the table” about ‘tolerance’ and ‘equality’, and trumpeting the “Way of
the Gay” as the epitome of human ‘enlightenment’. They invoke Mob-Rule to claim
authority to subvert our freedom to a Tyranny of Rights – a Tyranny that
revokes the ‘right to life’ of the most vulnerable and innocent of the species,
while ‘awarding’ rights to every misfit, criminal, terrorist, and vile killer
on the planet. For “Delusional Man” there is no night and day, no light and
dark, no right and wrong, no good and bad, just shades of gray. There are the
understood, and there are the misunderstood. There are, for “Delusional Man,”
two sides to every story – just don’t tell the victims of Hitler, or Stalin, or
Pol Pot. “Delusional Man’s” delusion leads inexorably to appeasement. And those who oppose appeasement are branded with
insults – they are intolerant, bigoted, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic,
Neanderthal, extremist, even fascist. And, of course, they oppose ‘justice’!
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18 - “Family Man” – The only real men, and
women, amongst this hodgepodge of limp-wristed professional wimps. “Family Man”
recognizes that the only discernable
purpose of human life is the perpetuation of human life itself, and the only
way to perpetuate human life is through the union of a man and woman to create
new human life. And “Family Man” recognizes that in fulfilling the only
discernable purpose of life, obligations attach to him by virtue of the fact that
he creates a new, unique and exclusive human being – obligations towards that
new life, and obligations towards the other person to the union which creates
that new life, and by extension, to the rest of humanity and life. Whatever
other ‘purpose’ someone finds “to be
exercise therewith” [Eccl 1:13] while he has life, he first needs life.
When we cease to perpetuate human life on earth, human life itself ceases to
have any purpose – because something which does not exist can not have any
purpose. It matters not whether one believes in a Creator or not, because even
before we ‘believe’, or cease to ‘believe’, we need life to make that choice.
Yet the Scriptures endorse the perpetuation of human life through the union of
a man and a woman to create new life as the only discernable purpose of life on
earth.
‘And God said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness…. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He
him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it.” That
is Genesis 1:26 to 28. The important words are those which God spoke directly
to the male and female He had just created – “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” There we have
the first part of the only discernable purpose of life - the perpetuation of
human life on earth. We then come to Genesis Chapter 2:24. It says this: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” And
there is the second part of the only discernable purpose of life on earth; the
way we perpetuate human life on earth – the union of a man and a woman to
create new life. And in respect of the obligations that attach to human beings
when they create new human life, we should note this: everything God created in
the first five days of creation, He created unilaterally: “And God said, …” But when He comes to create man, we find the
plural – “Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness.” That immediately implies a joint enterprise, and any
joint enterprise always attaches obligations. And the Scriptures record, over
and over again, through the prophets, the establishment of
But don’t be fooled by those who trumpet “the family”, while advocating those very ‘rights’ which are used to attack the family, and thus frustrate the fulfillment of the only discernable purpose of human life on earth.
These attacks on the family should be the only “hate
crimes”. In order to determine what constitutes a “hate crime” against the
family, perhaps we could use the measure and standard sought by homosexuals and
Muslims – “Any incident which is perceived
by any parent to be an attack on the family shall be a crime by virtue of that
very fact – the fact that it is perceived by any parent to be such a crime.”
Any Presidential Contender who adopts such a policy to defend the family will get my support – and none other!
NOTE: I use the Scriptural “man” in these extracts – “male and female”. I have better things to do with my life than pander to silly Liberal Fundamentalist semantics about ‘gender’.
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