A false freedom advocate is a person(s) who preach about giving
and preserving people's freedoms, while at the same time taking them away when
it suits their purposes. Let us discuss.
False Freedom Advocate: I have met and heard from a number
of people who claimed to be lovers of freedom. They have labeled
themselves as liberals, conservatives, democrats and republicans. All,
however were hypocrites. For example, I was discussing zoning laws with
two real estate sellers at the Manhattan Institute. They complained about a man
in Texas who built his house out of cans and bottles of beer, thus lowering the
property values in the area including the ones that these real estate people
wanted to sell. As such, they wanted to use eminent domain to have the
government seize the house and kick the man and his beer house off the
property. I disagreed for it was the man's property and thus his right to
live on that property as he chose. Their reaction was a look filled with
disgust, and walked away. Meanwhile, the event I was at was an event to
hear conservative ideas as the Manhattan Institute is a conservative think
tank. So how can you let two people in who go counter to conservative values
like that? My answer came later when a guest speaker from the Security
and Exchange commission was talking about his time working for the federal
government. He described how the commission punished a business who
decided to stop producing napalm (an incendiary weapon used in war) during the
Vietnam War. The company chose to stop making it for reasons I do not
know, and it was there choice, but the government did not like that. The
crowd with me listening to this were not aghast at the punishment, but to the fact
that a business could be unpatriotic to stop making a weapon of war that also
messed with the economy a little. That is when I knew that self-interest
and patriotic idealism ran that think tank. Thus why they are a false
freedom advocate.
Then there are those who claim to be
liberal. We heard it all before with them wanting to protect us and stop
poverty. They want to provide universal medicine. But do any of their
policies actually work? No. If they truly wanted to help the poor
they would have embraced true economic freedom via the elimination of trade
boundaries between States, and the lowering of taxes or making taxes fair by
not punishing those who make a little more. They would use economics to
spur businesses to grow which increases jobs rather than dependency.
Sure, not all of them are being a false freedom advocate as they really
believe in what they are saying, but if you do not embrace economic freedom,
then how do you expect me to have true social freedom? Ah, that's right,
it is not true social freedom they preach. If you violate their rules
such as smoking, or you are pro-life, you are shut down. Isolated by
idealists who value the collective over the individual. Both sides know
that poverty will always exist, and that progressive income taxes only
incentives the people to make less so that they are not taxed more. All
that is ignored for their version of the greater good. Their idealism.
Conclusion: The world is full of advocates who
think they know what is right. They can all claim that they want to help,
and that they only want to maximize your freedom. However, save the
obviously wrongful acts like Murder, assault, rape, and theft, should there be
any laws? Do we need all that government who can take our rights away when it
suits them? Do we need people in government that seek to help but only
make more laws that restrict our freedoms? The answer is no.
Government was never meant to be used as a tool to remove people from
their homes, to punish them for their successes. It was meant to be
applied to sponsor trade, and protect us from invasion. It protects us
from the obviously wrongful acts and acts as a neutral arbitrator in the form
of a court of law. It is meant to do so few jobs, yet people's selfishness
made it grandiose. We made it big and shoved freedom down the toilet.
Sorry, but if you think government should do something for you, then you
may be a hypocrite. A false freedom advocate.
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