One to upset communists

Drum-roll please......communism is a form of capitalsim! How can this be you ask? Well, lets look at capitalism in it's rawest form; capital is simply something one can trade, capitalism is where that capital is traded in return for something wanted by the person trading the capital. In communism the capital is a person's willingness to comply, which is traded for the things the government provides them. If someone were to not comply, the trade is cancelled and the person doesn't get what they want out of the trade. So, in a raw sense, communism is a form of capitalism. It may not matter, because communism is a horrid form of government no matter. But I just wanted to point this out so communists can be irritated with rationality and reality.

Healthcare Is Not A Right

Rights are those things that are naturally born to an individual (property rights), or in some cases to protect those natural rights from being usurped unjustly (right to a fair trial). All natural rigths extend from the right of property, the ability to own one's own body and by extention those things created by or earned in trade from the use of that body. Without the right to own one's body, there is no right to free speech or free thought, because those are things derived from the body. The right to gun ownership extends from the right to collect more property through trade of either effort or property and to protect that property. And so on.

Other things which are not natural to the human condition, may be essential, but are not rights. This includes such things as food, healthcare, and even guns, yes you have the right to trade for these things, but not have them provided. The government cannot create rights, only protect those which are natural to the human condition.

Addendum: Some "rights" in the Bill of Rights extend from the fact that we the governed created the government and impose restrictions on it to secure our natural rights, this is the case with jury trials and the right to a lawyer. Healthcare does not fall into this either.

What to say?

I simply don't know what to say anymore. This past year has been like a political nightmare. Now the President vows to make me an outlaw by the end of the month, with the signing of this health care thing, not reform, not fix, just a thing.

You see, I am one of the thousands of uninsured in the country, because I want to be. If I have medical difficulties I pay for them myself. But, this government is going to make me an outlaw if I don't buy what they want me to.

This is just getting to be too much, very overwhelming. I am not usually a man of so few words on this page, but I guess I have too much to say without knowing how to say it, so for now I will bite my tongue for the most part, but when this writers block ends, there will a tongue lashing I will most certainly deliver.

The underlying assumption

For every political argument there must be an underlying assumption. Currently both parties claim that assumption is freedom. But if we take that assumption to it's logical end, neither parties policies make any sense.

If one's underlying assumption is freedom, then ponder this: freedom comes from the right of each to do with their property as they wish. That property starts at their own body and extends to anything earned under contractural labour by them.

If one has a right to their own body, how can anyone deny them the abuse of that right; prostitution, drug use or anything else.

If one owns those things which are property by extension; what right does anyone have to confiscate that property? Most would say none, but are taxes not a confiscation of this property.

By the US constitution, the legitimate use of government power is the protection of rights. So, no matter how much things are needed by others, it is not under the constitutional right of the government to take from one and give to another.

Yes, people need health care; but if the government undermines property rights to give health care, what stops them from undermining property rights for any other reason?

We need a new healthcare system, but allowing the government to steal from people is not the answer; granting the government unconstitutional power never is the answer.

Dominique Dorsey III

After being unable to make the Redskins' roster this season, Dominique Dorsey has returned to Toronto, and it seems they are very happy to see his return.

Can They Hear Us Now?

Yesterday; on September 12th 2009, Washington DC was flooded with people protesting against government expansion. Some were anti-Obama, some were anti-big government, some were pro-Bush, some were Republicans, some were Democrats, some were Libertarians, some were Independants. Some were protesting recent government expansion, some were protesting a long string of abuses. Some were young, some were old. But they were all fed up with Washington. I've seen some saying this was just this or that group, or this or that group shouldn't support it because this or that group was supporting it. This seems to be missing the point, whether or not all of any of one group's ideas are "correct" doesn't matter. What matters is that they are all fed up with big government. They may not agree on how small a government should be, or what that government should do, but they all think it should be smaller than it is.

This is where the focus should be, once we have shrunk the size of government, then we can have these discussions of what it should be doing, but for now, lets focus on the first step, shrinking the scope of power that Washington yeilds.

Estimates of the crowd size varies from 30,000-2 million. Capitol Hill Police are said to have estimated 1.2 million. I don't know which numbers are correct, but it was a lot of people; and they were joined by many more at Tea Parties across the country. Maybe some one in the monstrosity which calls itself a government took notice.

Dominique Dorsey II

Well, many of you seem to have read my report on my freshman year roommate Dominique Dorsey getting a try in the NFL with the Washington Redskins. Unfortunately it seems he did not impress the Redskins coaching staff enough, he did not make it past the Sept. 5th cut down to a 53 man roster. Niether was he signed to the practice squad on the 6th, although rumor seemed that he would. If no other NFL team shows interest, his old team in the CFL, the Toronto Argonaugts, are chomping at the bit to get him back. I don't know what's going to happen now, but I wish him the best.