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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent April 29, 1976 The Paper That Dares To Take TOM ANDERSON Continued from page 2 loans. legislators have decided to voluntarily relinquish their seats in the national legislature. Many of those retiring will enjoy, liberalized pension benefits unmatched current by income or possible private practice. For many it will mean $25,000 to $35,000 per year. Gold and silver coins have offered the world's surest and profits protection of times inflation, during devaluation, and depression. They are easily transported, have hidden, readily world-wid- e acceptance, and are very liquid. Grecian Formula changes hair from grey to black unnoticeably, a little at Admiral Rear Says Harry Mahin of breast enlargements physician. Forty-nin- e time. Patient Just like gradualism. Communism. Taking the world by detente. Arizona Senator Paul Fannin says that the reason for the increase in first class postal rates from $.10 to $. 1 3 was to pay for storage a enroute... There are nearly 1 5 million persons getting U.S. Food stamps, 24 million students receiving subsidized lunches and two million persons living in Federally-subsidize- d housing. An estimated 72.5 million persons receive some sort of pay or benefits from tax dollars, including 5.1 million Federal civilian and military employees. And how many people are there working for enterprises in the private sector of the economy? Not quite 72 million. Did you know that you as a taxpayer paid for nearly 800 face-lift- s and breast enlargement operations last year? They were performed by military surgeons on the wives of military personnel. Those of you whod like to lift your own features would pay SI, 000 to a 000 to S3, private at performed Virginias Portsmouth Naval Hospital: They are needed to improve the morale of the wives of military men. Former Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. has charged that, when President Ford was a ranking Republican member in Congress, he moved heaven and earth to prevent an investigation of break-i- n the Watergate before the 1972 Presidential elections. After President Truman relieved him of command for to trying prevent Chinese Communists from crossing Yalu River during Korean General War, Mac said: Arthur Douglas We shall eventually see the fall of all Indochina to the Communists as a result of our failure in Korea. If we maintain a limited war posture against an enemy willing to fight all out at any time they deem our weakness to be such as to warrant such attack, our nation will eventually be 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 is not for each one to decide; it is a decision of THE ONE! There, indeed, is consensus and concerted action. The Constitution was not designed for an agrarian society. Rather, it was designed by those who lived in an agrarian society for the purpose of securing individual individual rights justice and promises of socialism. The United Constitution States was designed for an agrarian society. "The President is hobbled in his task of leading the American people to consensus and concerted action by the restriction sof power imposed on him by a constitutional system designed for an eighteenth century agrarian society far removed from the centers of world power.1 What is meant by concensus in this context? It means the a of common unified, shaping collective by Executive action in order that the nation can speak with one voice the voice of the This project, if President. successful, would put an end to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, for obviously there can be no nation-sid- e concensus when everyone is free to advance his own opinions. What is meant by concerted action in this context? It means, among other things that the U.S. A. shall act as a disciplined isolated.... The chickens, and the comrats, are coming home to roost. Illegal immigration in our country has now reached gigantic proportions, up 1,000 percent in ten years. There are an estimated seven million to thirteen million illegal aliens in the United States now, most of them from Mexico. American Way Features Readers comments and welcome. are questions Please write us at The American Way Features, P.O. Box I09N, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 3 7k 63. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson body under centralized direction. Economically, the President would determine where, in the markets of the world, our largess would be bestowed and withheld and under This would what conditions. substitute a single, arbitrary exchange mechanism for untold millions of exchanges. How can there be a concerted action of a whole nation when anyone is free to buy and sell whatever and wherever and to whomever he chooses? This would spell an end to what is left of the free market in this country. Further, it would sound the death knell to private property, for an individual must be in control of a good or a service before he can be said to own it. The call for concerted action is the call for all-ofederal control. The best instance of consensus and concerted action among the nations of the world today is Russia. There the Premier of the Supreme Soviet is not hobbled in his task of leading the ... people to consensus and concerted action by ! the restrictions of a constitutional system designed for an eighteenth century agrarian society. In Rus- ut The Sierra Breeze n- SOCIALISM that are the only effective displacement for the empty VIEWING THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM Veteran television newsman Bob Whitten warned today that law and order in California is being undermined by the reluctance of the states criminal justice system to punish felony offenders with Whitten stiff prison sentences. What we need today is citizen justice. Whitten, campaigning for election to the State Senate in the sprawling 13th District of east-cetral California said state correc- policies are adrift in a sea of liberal confusion because some political leaders and correctional authorities in Sacramento no longer believe that punishment deters crime. Compassionate courts and positive rehabilitation programs desirable Whitten said, but if we continue to abandon the concept of swift and certain CLICHES OF punishment for deliberate criminal acts, we are courting disaster, The trends toward leniency in plea bargaining, sentencing, probation, prison and parole policies are edging us toward s, anarchy, and turning law forcement into a futile exercise, We must put some limits on the plea bargaining process. We must junk the senseless probation subsidy program as it now exists, And we must scrap the wishy-tionwashiy concept of interterminate sentencing in favor of firmly fixed, consistent prison terms for specific en-say- al crimes. must know the People precise consequences of criminal behavior, and society must be prepared to impose those conse-ar- e quences without agonizing over the plight of the criminal, Today we see felonies sia still agrarian2 substantially both the consensus and the action are whatever PremierBrezhnev dictates. Freedom of choice as to how one employs himself, what he does with the fruits of his own labor, and what and with whom he exchanges of regardless technological changes. The Constitution more severely limited the scope and powers of government than had ever before been the case, and this curbing largely of coercive measures explains why our agrarian eighteenth centurey economy developed into todays industrial economy.3 limiting inhibition the to political power and the penalizing of fraud, violence, misrepresentation, and predation in short, to the of a common justice lfeft no organized force standing against the release of creative energy. As a result, creative human energy was released here on an unprecedented scale and, thus, our in- ng dustrial economy. Asking for arbitrary political power here at home as a means of combating arbitrary political power elsewhere is not commended by the historical record. In industrial or market competition it is the free nation which excels. No nation ever came close to approaching our position in international competition. Only recently, as arbitrary controls increase, are we finding it more difficult to compete. the record is Militarily, similar. History books, for the most part, are accounts of one authoritarianism, authoritarian authoritarian. freest .battling another Then came the nation of all time authoritarianism held in check by the Constitution. A free people became an economically strong people. An economically strong and thus a versatile people have had a record from Bunker Hill onward of making the authoritarians hand over their swords. The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by com- pulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians which is why they want to get rid of it. Blessings on the agrarians who designed it. Let us hope we have sense enough, not only to keep what we have left of it, Leonard E. REad From a speech by Senator Fulbright to the Cubberly on Education, Stan- University, July 28J 1961. 2See The Hard Core of the Farm Problem" by Dr. Karl Brandt. The Freeman, April 1961, p. 31. There are 46 specific restraints against governmental action in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. pre-record- ed 41,1,!, bargained away, and people pleading guilty to lesser crimes they didn't commit. We see fair trials stymied by irrelevant defenses, and just punishment withheld by misguided judges. We see convicted felons released to the streets, and counties subsidized for not sending convicts to state prison? law-breaki- ng law-abidi- ng Stand TRUTH IN LENDING ACT AMENDMENT Washington Senator Jake introduced legislation Garn (R-Uto relieve the Federal judicial system of the evergrowing burden being placed on it by the T) of small multiplicity claim nuisance suits brought under the The Truth In Lending Act." Senator said that, during recent oversight hearings on the Truth in Lending Act, shocking evidence was brought forward showing that litigation based on the punitive damage provisions of the Act is seriously encumbering the work of the Federal courts in certain sections of the country. He said one judge stated that, the flood of private cases in the United States District Courts is substantially over burdening the Federal judiciary system which is already being taxed beyond its capacities. In one Federal district, Garn said, of the cases filed involved small claims under the Truth in Lending Act. "The Federal court system was not established to handle this type of litigation; it has far more important work, Senator Garn told the Senate. This litigation serves no useful purpose unless one considers the extraction of attorneys fees from the public a useful endeavor. The litigation has done nothing to clarify the law, it has not brought, nor will it bring, consumers, more meaningful disclosures and compliance with or respect for the law is not being encouraged. The problem ar.ses because the Truth in Lending Act and its regulations are so ambiguous that lawyers, judges and the Federal Reserve Board are not able to agree on the appropriate disclosure forms. This leads creditors into technical violations and the ' punitive damage section of the law, as it is presently written, leaves judges no choice but to make an award where they find there has been a violation. The Garn bill would correct this by eliminating the minimum punitive damage provision and restoring to judges their discretion to exercise com- mon 561156 n the disposition of ese cases- - The bill increases the civil P61131 maximum from 51 ,000 to $10,000 to give the courts t0 assess substantial Power Penalties where there have been violations of the law affec- Publlc interest, in8 This is merely a first step in reorm of the Truth in Lending The Act, Senator Garn said. long-ru- n simsolution lies in the substantive provisions plifying of the Act to bring consumers more meaningful disclosures and relieve crcditors of uncertainties in the interpretation of the Act. I intend t0 mteoducea series of bills to one-four- th comPllsh d are dLSciPline not four-lett- er are essential to the words-t- hey Protection of innocent people and t0 3 secure society under law", Whitten declared. 1S timc for liberal and politicians appointed bureaucrats And we see our prison populations rapidly diminishing while crime rates and recidivism continue their steady climb. "When we refuse to punish the minority, we invite continuing punishment of the majority who are calling for citizen justice. Punishment and A dangerous search to stop their experimentations in of alternatives to punishment and prisons, he concluded, because they are leading us toward a state of total lawlessness. Trifles' mate perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Michaelungclo |