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The Leave Us Alone Condition

9.27.07 @ 12:01AM

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The most important passage in the article is as follows: "Chavez has learned the importance of pursing his plans incrementally. In February 1992, he tried seizing power in the traditional manner. After planning his coup for 10 years, it all came crashing down in 10 hours, thanks to his military ineptitude."

I have a feeling most readers who frequent this website will instantly recognize the powerful parallels between the current Chavez plan and his earlier experience vs. the current HillaryCare Ver2.0 plan and her earlier experience. Only the date (1994) and reason for failure (political ineptitude) needs to be changed.

Those who are students of socialism understand the concept in incrementalism. Drip by drip, bit by bit, and piece by piece, what is happening in Venezuela has, and can, to some degree, happen in the United States. Fair warning, voters.
-- Owen H. Carneal
Yorktown, Virginia

I see this process at work in this country, albeit to a lesser degree. For years Democrats have worked to advance an agenda which continuously expands the economic and social arenas in which the government is the final arbiter.

Obviously the same path to power is used by Democrats here as is used by Hugo Chavez: give the ignorant the keys to the treasury. Give them money, perquisites such as "free" this and that and they will keep you in office and loudly agree with constraining the rights of those who produce in any manner that they are told benefits them.

Democrats pit so called classes of people against each other. "Tax breaks only for the rich" is their clarion cry to the non-productive millions. Those millions were created by Democrats and their welfare plans. Blacks and the elderly vote overwhelmingly for Democrats and would support them putting "rich" people in jail for earning money.

The economic enslavement of Blacks has worked so well Democrats are now rolling out all manner of giveaways that benefit Mr. & Mrs. Joe Six-pack. They will buy into the giveaways and soon be come captives, too. Then the dismantling of our constitution will begin in earnest.
-- Jay Molyneaux

THOMAS GOOD, HIGH COURT FLAWED
Re: Quin Hillyer's There's No Doubting Thomas:

Excellent briefer. The MSM has always had it wrong concerning the "chicken and the egg" situation regarding Justices Thomas and Scalia.

Visibility needs to be given to one major point, however. What Constitutional provision, exactly, did Lawrence v. Texas impact? There was no issue concerning interstate commerce. There was no reason for it to become a federal issue -- oh, I forgot; it only takes a couple of left-leaning Justices to agree to hear a case. That's what I get for believing in States' Rights.

Is the 10th Amendment no longer applicable in today's world?
-- Owen H. Carneal

Kudos to Quin Hillyer for his excellent piece on one of America's truly great heroes -- Justice Clarence Thomas.

While I certainly agree with Hillyer's estimation of Thomas's intellect and judicial acumen, what has always impressed me most about him, since I was first introduced to him during his confirmation hearings, is his tremendous class and dignity. I would offer that there is not a more dignified gentleman walking the planet today than Clarence Thomas. He has more class in his little finger than all the race-baiting, hate mongering "reverends" in this country have in their whole being.

What a shame that the vast majority of African-Americans in this country have allowed political preconceptions to cut them off from what could be a tremendous asset to their community.

I look forward with eager anticipation to his book.
-- Keith Kunzler
Arnold, Missouri

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