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Escape From Desiderata

7.24.08 @ 12:01AM

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Mr. Ferrara has it just right. It's too bad that the vast majority of Americans will not see this essay.

Mr. Ferrara recognizes the point that fuel shortages are an outcome of too much demand and too little supply. The liberals know this as well. They are not stupid.

Liberals know that an increase in domestic production could be accomplished in a relatively short time if the ridiculous maze of environmental rules could be suspended for a period.

But liberals don't want the problem fixed!

Wake up America! This is another radical-liberal power grab. The left is continuing its attempt to establish a society here modeled on that established by their hero in Cuba. They know my Dad's old adage is absolutely true: "Those you would control completely, first make completely dependent."

So the leftist radicals are making a grab to control who you can see and what treatment you can have medically. They already pretty much control the print and TV media -- look at the NY Times refusing McCain's editorial until it looks more like Mr. Obama's, which they printed without change.

So they now have education sewed up, two of our most ubiquitous media outlets are in their grasp and control; they will get our medical care; and are striving mightily to take over the energy sector -- yes Margaret, there has been talk of nationalizing oil refineries --and then...

Well, then, the radicals will have control over what news content you are allowed to know, your ability to obtain medical care, your ability to travel and what you are taught as truth.

The final step will be the reopening of huge mental hospitals that were closed in the 70's. Why? Because as in the former Soviet Union, anyone who doesn't think collectivism is utopia must be crazy. Crazy people oughtn't to be allowed to poison the society so we must have a place to put them, n'est-ce pas?
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

Liberals and leftists have gotten away with this decades-long, destabilizing, anti-capitalist, bondage-inducing hogwash because the rest of us have been unwilling and too unorganized to put them in their place.

Perhaps when focused anti-environmental-wacko organizations arise and communicate simple, powerful messages about the disbenefits and damages of the some so-called-environmentalists' agenda, their voice will diminish.

Or perhaps when congressional switchboards are continuously overloaded, e-mailboxes remain constantly full, surface-mailboxes remain stuffed -- all with the public's complaints and demands for action, the liberals in Congress will do something differently.

Or perhaps when we stop electing and re-electing them to Congress, they will stop.

Or perhaps when the conservatives and Republicans in Congress actually do something meaningful and lasting, especially when the spotlights aren't on and the news cameras aren't operating, they will change.

Until any or all of these or similar things occur, liberals have no motivation to do or say anything other than the execrable things they're doing.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

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