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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 4 The Utah Independent June 24, 1976 deposits off the Falklands. That will help keep us dependent on the very expensive Middle East oil . . . and on Soviet goodwill, to let us ship it through sea lanes crawling with Soviet submarines. Making this country dependent on the Soviet Union is the cornerstone of the current "detente policy. The Ford administration wont admit this, of course, but it is the policy. And it helps e ex-th- iiiui v uu uaiivi iii buiel, than wasproduced by our own oil fields. And, m a related development, the U.S. government has turned down South Africa's offer to let us use the big Simons-tow- n Naval base, near Cape Town, which the British uviiu . Navy has relinquished. more or less con- trols the passage between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, which our big tank- ers must use to bring oil from the Middle East, and which is infested with Soviet submarines. It is all very puzzling and very suspect, but it seems to be part of mites 20 Simonstown, south of Cape Town, was picked by the British Navy because it offers good shelter against the waves from the Northwest. With its powerful radar and other modern strategy. We told on this program about the sensational word from the oil industry of an oil glut in the offing., .with cheaper gasoline, heavy oil and natural gas on the way. We said the reason for this welcome outlook was the vast new oil "provinces in Southern Mexico, in the Beaufort Sea and off the Falkland Islands, east of the Southern tip of Argentina. And we told how the Ford Administration is bending its efforts to stave off that oil glut directly, by urging Canada to forbid exploration for oil and gas in the eastern part of the Beaufort sea, and the indirectly, through Argentine junta acting as proxy. Perhaps we should say "through surrogates, since Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has now introduced this term as a convenient euphemism for "puppets. The hindrance by the regime m Buenos Aires will, of course, delay the tapping of the oil CIA-sponsor- reluctance the offer from the South African government to let us use their big Simons-tow- n naval base. deliberate Kissingers U.S. Pa" ed equipment, it dominates the passage between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic much as Gibraltar does the pass- age between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Perhaps nobody realizes this better than the British, who now regret their hasty withdrawal. In fact, a dispatch to "Svenska Dag- bladet, a leading Stockholm closes that the dai1)'' British are now working secretly with the government of South Africa to monitor the Soviet naval presence in the waters south of South Africa and want the U.S. to join the common effort. But that does not fit at all into the strategy of the enigmatip Dr. Kissinger, who wants, on the contrary, to liquidate white rule in Africa and put it up for grabs, as was done in Portuguese Africa. The gory fiasco in Angola, where the Soviets easily efforts defeated to stem their advance; the advent of the equally ferocious Marxist regime in Mozambique all those are minor details for Kissinger. And so his policy "your policy under Mr. Ford is still to aid Soviet penetration of Southern Africa . . . whether you like it or not. last-minu- te Reader's com meats are welcome. Please pasa along any points of view to Liberty Lobby. Dept. 5i4. 300 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003. COMMUNIST POWER IN GOVERNMENT Secretary of State Henry Kissingers warning against communist power in European governments reminded me of nothing so much as a Woman Libber warned against female chauvinism. Red Lib has long been government policy, perhaps never more so than under Kissingers control of the State Department, Security and Defense agencies arid the White House. (.all it Detente or Red Lib, the record shows everything has been done to favor 'the Reds and to hamper the It is the Reds who have been given privileges, opportunities, immunities, cover and cover-upress favoritism and protection against Vietnam and and at Angola, Helsinki, all the people of the Captive Nations. Red Libbers ended the internal security committees of even as Anti-Communis- p, Congress, Red Libbers have cut off the CIA from effective intelligence against Communist enemies. Red Lib encouraged Communist power in our government. Th DDTrAn Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each T ues-da- y at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City CLICHES OF SOCIALISM ' When a devotee of private property, free market limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the Cliches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism'. We never had it so good. ng cliche. , Is it any wonder that most and people, observing statism ' prosperity advancing 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly coin- cidentally over a long period, conclude that the growth of statism is the cause of the increased prosperity? Furthermore, it is doubtful if the comeback, We never had it so good, can be proved to be wrong; not statistically, anyway. A man leaping from an airplane at high altitude will, for a time in his fall, have the feeling of lying on a cloud. For a moment he could truthfully exclaim, I have never had it so good! If the man were unaware of the law of gravitation, no one could prove to him by physical principles that disaster lay ahead. Yet, some of us would believe, by reason of certain knowledge, that the man was not long for this world. Some of us believe that the chant, We never had it so good," is founded on an illusion, that realities we cannot measure warrant this belief. It is our conviction: 1. That the practice of dishonesty is evil and that retribution follows the doing of evil. Every evil act commits us to its retribution. The time lag between the committing of an evil act and our awareness that retribution is being visited upon us has nothing to do with the certainty of retribution. It has to do only with our own limited perception. 2. That there is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others. This is mans ego gone mad, the coercive assertion of his own supremacy as he defies and betrays Gods other human creations. 3. That statism is but socialized It is dishonesty. feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others on the grand scale. There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and from each according to ability, to each according to need, as practiced by the State, which is to say, there is no moral distinction between the et act of a and the income progressive tax, TVA, federal aid to education, subsidies to farmers, or whatever. There is only a legal distinction. Legalizing evil does not affect its moral content; it does no more than to absolve the moral offender from the nipotent State, without our great economy flying to pieces, we find it difficult to do more than express our misgijngs or alarm. Why, precisely why, does the present course presage disaster? In what manner will a growing dishonesty tear an economy asunder? Perhaps the following explanation may be worth pondering. At the outset, imagine an impossible situation: a society composed of individuals, each comno exchange pletely of any kind between them. Moral qualities, such as honesty and the practice of the Golden Rule, would have no bearing whatever on the social situation. Each could be congenitally dishonest and unjust; but with no chance to practice the evils, what difference would it t, make socially? We Depend on Trade Now, assume the development of specialization and exchange. The greater and more rapid the development, the more dependent would be each member of the society on all the others. Carried far enough, each would be com- removed ' from utterly dependent on the free, uninhibited exchanges of their numerous specializations. Total failure in this respect would cause everyone to perish. pletely y, Whenever we market man in peaceful pursuits signaled its necessity. Had we followed the signals of the market, atomic energy would present itself as a boon, not as a bomb. How, we must ask, does It is simple statism operate? enough: The state forcibly takes vast sums fruits of the peoples labor and places these sums at the disposal of those who are ready or can be readied to specialize in atomic energy, for instance. Thus, there is brought prematurely into existence a vast hbrder of unnatural specialists, unnatural in the sense that their specializations exist at the insistence of irresponsible politicians who cannot make good on their claim to omThis is not an niscience. exaggeration, for no individual has any competency whatever to control the lives of others, to arrogate unto himself the freedom of choice that is morally implicit in the right to life of each human being. Try to comprehend the by the inflicted A Growing Threat While many of us profoundly believe that we cannot maintain the present degree of statism, let alone drift further toward the om- self-sufficien- The claim that a growing statism (state control of the means of production nis welfarism) must lead eventually disaster frequently evokes the rejoinder, We never had it so good. So far as statistical measurements of current material well-beiare concerned, much of the surface evidence supports this pick-pock- nd change of addresa forma and correapondence to type of penalties policemen. become economically dependent on each other a necessary consequence of the highly specialized production and exchange economy we also become morally dependent on each other. No free or willing exchange economy can exist among thieves, which is to say, no such economy can long endure without honesty. Specialization in the USA today is in an enormously advanced but highly artificial state. enormity of . unnatural specialization in our country today. It cannot be done! $12 to $13 billion was spent by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to carry a crew of three men on a moon orbit, for moon exploration vehicles, and so on. To what extent did this generate unnatural specialization? To whatever extent people would not voluntarily invest the fruits of their own labor for these purposes! Would this vast outlay, twelve to fifteen times the entire federal budget of only some fifty years ago, be .voluntarily invested for such purposes at this stage in civilization? Hardly! The State as Master The Welfare State destroys the market mechanisms lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statisms premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the peoples welfare: their employment, their We are now unnecessarily old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his dependent on each other, more dependent than we have ever been wholeness; he is dispossessed of before, more than any other people responsibility for self, the very have ever been. An advancing essence of his manhood. The more exchange economy makes possible dependent he becomes, the less a rising standard of dependable! Thus the State inflicts itself as living provided the advance is natural, integrated, that is free a dangerous centrifuge on society: market. It is possible, then, to but- man violently spun from the center tress the technical advances by a which is his wholeness, his his integrity, and thrown growing moral insight and pracin tice. But' our present pattern of fragments onto an periphery of unnatural specialization is artificially induced by state interventionism, and an specializations; man disoriented in unnatural system of dependencies unnatural surroundings, lost in has been created. This would need detail and trivia; man from whom to be sustained by a level of mass integrity has taken flight;' man honesty we could hardly hope to minus responsibility for self, the achieve under the best of State his guardian and master. The only cohesive stuff that circumstances. can withstand this centrifugal force But honesty is nor on the in- is the singular product of the whole crease ! Statism, which forces all of man; the man who engages the us within its orbit, is nothing but a universe at every level of his political system of organized being physical, mental, moral, plunder, managed by every and spiritual. Among the fruits of conceivable type of pressure group. such an engagement are honesty, Plunder is dishonesty, and statism, observance of the Golden Rule, its organizer, grows apace! and justice. These hold society natural free or market Every together. But, as we have noted, advance in specialization and statism progressively dilutes the exchange increases the standard-of-livin- g cohesive stuff even as it increases potential. This kind of the centrifugal force by unnatural progress is consonant with the specialization. These tendencies whole man, being a cultural adare implicit in its nature. Statism, vance of persons. to change the metaphor, builds its The two advances in insight and tower of Babel with a mortar of technology are integrated. constantly decreasing strength. Atomic energy, for example, The tower, therefore, will be at its would put in its appearance when Continued on page 8 self-relian- ever-wideni- le ce, ng |