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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 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. Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., . Irvington-on-Hudso- n, New York Human rights are more important than property rights. Tricky phrases with favorable meanings and emotional appeal are being used today to imply a distinction between property rights and human rights. By implication, there are two sets of rights one belonging to human beings and the other to property. Since human beings are more important, it is natural for the unwary to react in favor of human rights. Actually, there is no such distinction between property rights The term and human rights. property has no signigicance except as it applies to something owned by someone. Property itself has neither rights nor value, save only as human interests are involved. There are no rights but human rights, and what are spoken of as property rights are only the human rights of individuals to property. Expressed more accurately, the issue is not one of property rights versus human rights, but of the human rights of one person in the community versus the human rights of another. What are the property rights thus disparaged by being set apart from human rights? They are among the most ancient and basic of human rights, and among the most eseential to freedom and progress. They are the privileges of private ownership which give meaning to the right to the product of ones labor privileges which men have always regarded instinctively as belonging to them almost as intimately and inseparably as their own bodies. Unless people can feel secure in their ability to retain the fruits of their labor, there is little incentive to save and to expand the fund of capital the tools and equipment for production and for better living. The United Bill of Rights in the States Constitution recognizes no distinction between property rights and other human The ban against unreasonable search and seizure covers persons, houses, paper, without diseffects and No person may, crimination. without due process of law, be deprived of life, liberty, or property; all are equally rights. is to pretend constitutionally that there are no differences between men and women, after all the sex education being given to the kids in school to make sure they know all about the differences between men and ERA women. J. Kesner Kahn February 5, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 5 violable. The right of trial by jury is assured in criminal and civil cases alike. Excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments are grouped in a single prohibition. The Founding Fathers realized, what some present-da- y politicians seem to have forgotten: A man without property rights without the right to the product of his own labor is not a free man. These constitutional rights all have two characteristics in comon. First, they apply equally to all persons. Second, they are, without exception' guarantees of freedom or immunity from governmental interference. They are not assertions of claims against others, individually or collectively. They merely say, in effect, that there are certain human liberties, including some pertaining to property, which are essential to free men and upon which the state shall not infringe. Now what about the human rights that are represented as superior to property rights? What about the right to a job, the right" to a standard of living, the right to a minimum wage or a maximum workweek, the right" to a fair price, the right to bargain collectively, the right to security against the adversities and hazards of life, such as old age and disability? so-call- ed The framers of the Constitution would have been astonished to hear these things spoken of as rights. They are not immunities from governmental compulsion; on the contrary, they are demands for new forms of governmental compulsion. They are not claims to the product of ones own labor; they are, in some if not in most cases, claims to the products of other peoples labor. These human rights .are indeed different from property rights, for they rest on a denial of the basic concept of property rights. They are not freedoms or immunities assured to all persons alike. They are special privileges conferred upon some persons at the expense of others. The real distinction is not between property rights and human rights, but between equality of protection from governmental compulsion on the one hand and demands for the exercise of such compulsion for the benefit of favored groups on the other. Paul L. Poirot A New Beginning New programs are needed urgently if the rapid communist advance towards world conquest is to be halted. All the programs of all the organizations, combined with the programs of anti-commun- ist New War in the Sahara By Robert M. Bartell governments and freedom-oriente- d groups have not prevented alarming communist progress. The year 1975 was a triumph for Communism and a disaster for freedom. Many countries fell to the communist assault and more are threatened. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are ruled -- communist by dictatorships while communist-le- d insurgencies threaten Thailand, Burma, and Malaysia Philippines. Communists are the the The picking up d is inte grating Portuguese empire piece by piece. Mozambique and Guinea-Bissa- u are ruled by pre-arrang- ed and a civil war rages in Angola. There Marxist-Leninist- s, the Marxist with equipped MPLA, modern Soviet weapons and supported by Cuban soldiers, is in control of the capitol, Luanda, and has proclaimed itself the sole legitimate government of all Angola. This claim has been recognized by most of the communist countries and several major black African states. The triumph of the MPLA in Angola would provide the Soviet Union with a major base on the West Coast of South Africa. Russia already has a base in Somalia on the East Coast of Africa which places it in a strategic position to control the eastern entrance to the Mediterranean. Soviet military might increases exponentially. In countries where the Communists have not yet conquered, major erosions of freedom are taking place. Democratic forms government are of being replaced by dictatorships. The situation in India is typical of a worldwide phenomenon. There, Mrs. Ghandi has assumed It is not the right of property dictatorial power with the which is protected, but the right to wholehearted support of the property. Property, per se, has no Indian Communist Party rights; but the individual the which is affiliated with the man has three great rights, Soviet Union. The transition equally sacred from arbitrary from a interference: the right to his life, the dictatorship to a communist right to his liberty, the right to his dictatorship is much easier property.... The three rights are so than the transition from bound together as to be essentially democracy to Communism. one right. To give a man his life but Therefore, any erosion of deny him his liberty, is to take from freedom constitutes a him all that makes his life worth victory for Communism. living. To give him his liberty but -- Christian take from him the property which Crusade is the fruit and badge of his liberty, Theres always too much is to still leave him a slave. telling people what to do instead of U.S. Supreme Court Justice concentrating on getting things GEORGE SUTHERLAND . non-commun- ist Anti-Communi- st WASHINGTON, D.C (Liberty Lobby News Service)-We- ll, as we warned you before, the war has started in the Spanish Sahara. Spanish troops have pulled out and rival factions, backed by the CIA on one hand, and the Soviet KGB on the other, are now locked in combat. The national media has finally gotten around to recognizing the situation, but even now the real reasons for the conflict are being ignored. This program informed the American people of the Rockefeller interest and investment in the Spanish Sahara. That is, it used to be Spanish Sahara. . .what it will be called in the future depends on who wins the war. The Spanish pulled out their troops well in advance of the Feb. 28 land and the grab deadline, began immediately. The CIA has backed Hassans Kingdom of Morocco for years, just as the Soviet Unions KGB has backed the forces of Algeria. Algeria has on its side the local forces of the Polisario, a guerrilla force which they have been supplying for some time. The stakes in this n contest are the rich, very rich, phosphate deposits in the Sahara, currently valued at $200 billion. Phosphates are a vital chemical used in fertilizer, and are valuable because they cannot be duplicated by synthetic chemical manufacture. Although the Americans are helping the Soviets build the largest chemical fertilizer plant in the world, in Russia, the Soviets would still like to get their hands on the phosphates because of their rarity. Control would give them a hammer on European agriculture and would assist their ailing farm production within Soviet-America- . Soviets to use Al- and the Moroccans have turned to the U.S. for help. Because of the vested interest in the phosphate mines, which are closed at the moment, it would appear our foreign policy would be to accommodate King Hassan. Meanwhile, protecting his precious detente, Secretary Kissinger will go to the Soviet Union in order to work out some sort of satisfactory, profitable deal with the Reds on the valuable phosphates. If the Soviet backed faction wins in the Sahara, control over the phosphates will rest largely with the Reds. If Morocco wins, she could possibly dominate the phosphate market in the next three to five years. The possibilities of sabotage and disaster are enormous, of course. For example, a long conveyor belt runs from the mines to the sea coast: Although the Spaniards didnt feel the Sahara was worth a war, you can be sure the money hungry international bankers would have no such compunction. After all, they. wouldn't have to fight. Readers comments are welcome. Please pass along any 60-mi- le points of view to: Liberty Lobby, 300 Independence Dept. A ve., S.E., Washington, DC 20003. 3, anti-Commusi- sm 363-869- Americanism problem, solution. isnt Americanism our is our At Stud, Arabian 3 gen. Skowronek. Chestnut reduces Fearing that liberty would white. Fee $150.00 Arab., $60.00 prevail throughout the land, King grade. Harold Rowell 355-31or George started and supported the Nancy Adams 2. first gun ban lobby against Americans, but who now supports the gun ban lobby against Americans and why? 06 266-791- those who publicize terrorism are guilty of compounding the crimes against us, only those who expose the terrorists and reveal who is served by their terrorism are on our side. While Betty Ford has as much right to speak out as does Gerald Ford, for after all he wasn't elected President either. their already state aphighly developed police paratus. the Soviets are preparing to bust us. Expanding As our federal government moves rapidly to regulate, run, rule Communists or being comeverything, we can expect things in munistic? the USA to become as they are in And, if Americanism wasn't the USSR where government rules, so good, why would people who runs, and regulates everything and really aren't, be so insistent in everybody. to be Americans? J. Kesner Kahn claiming J. Kesner Kahn ing the gerian air fields in order to transship supplies to Angola THOUGHTS FROM J. KESNER 2 Motorcycles for sale. Yamaha KAHN... 360 Enduro 1972 MX dirt bike, Macco 250 street legal bike. Wherever $275.00 each $550 for both. Call fails, there Communists succeed. 2 Mike after 4:00 PM. done. If Commusism wasnt so bad, then why would people who are, go so far to hide the fact and deny being the Soviet Union. The Rockefellers are also very interested in the phosphates; they already own great phosphate deposits in Florida. This is the largest known such deposit in the world, and is being rapidly depleted because of the expanding needs of American agriculture. Of course, if the Rockefellers can control the Sahara phosphate deposits, theyll have a virtual world-wid- e monopoly. The deed is far distant from the thought, however. Algerian armies are already massed against the armies of Morocco. The conflict is certain to widen now that Spain has reluctantly turned over the area to Morocco following the unarmed march of 350,000 Moroccans into the area. Algeria is allow- American government, increasingly too much government and too little Americanism, has rapidly lost support at home and lost friends abroad. |