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Show 1976 Page 4 The Utah Independent July 8, The Paper That Dares To Take READERS CLICHES OF OUTLOOK SOCIALISE We can have both What Environmentalists Want By Eugene Guccion, Editor ' MINING ENGINEERING (Mining Engineering is published in Salt Lake Gty) In the April (1976) issue of 1 MINING ENGINEERING, interviewed Paul Bilzi and Dick Bjomseth, two remarkable young men who have just formed a new organization called the Association for Rational Environmental Alternatives (AREA). The title for the interview was The New Breed of Environmentalists," which I selected to distinguish between the new environmentalists and the old ones. This morning I will spell out the essential differences between these two groups. You ought to know that after I finished writing the interview, I was asked to join AREA as an advisor. Although I am not a joiner, I made an exception in this case because I fully agree with AREAS goals which are (a) to oppose the growing number of regulations and restrictions on property rights, (b) to put a stop on the increasing government involvement into everybodys business, (c) to develop private solutions to environmental problems. Now, why does AREA explicitly uphold and defend private ownership, individual et solutions? rights, and Because we recognize that, whatever the source and wherever it is present, pollution will either harm a persons health or foul up his property, or both. We recognize that polluters violate an individuals right to his own life and property. We also recognize that the word pollution" is increasingly used today for its emotional connotations, not for its factual denotation. For instance, if we see empty beer cans, newspapers, cigarette butts and other trash on a free-mark- . dont your property, and the law makes provisions for restitution. The same principle holds if somebody fouls up the air you breathe and the water you drink. Now, it is very we somebody's rights to land, air and water, and to define what kind of pollution is truly a health hazard. These are very difficult legal and medical questions. However, if these questions had been raised within the context of individual rights since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we wouldnt be in the kind of regulatory mess were in today, where technology lags far behind the type of environmental protection required and moral development of children as well as their development in bureaucrats. So, the question before us is why werent these legal and medical questions ever phrased within the context of individual rights, and how did we wind up in this Orwellian thinking. The school as the major socializing agency in the community must assume The Root of the Problem: Collectivism The answer is extremely important because the real reason has nothing to do with medicine, jurisprudence, science, technology or engineering. It has to do with than collectivized experiments in And those rearing the children - the psychiatrists, child-reprin- g. social workers se tual individuals. In fact, under collectivism, which is the basis of Socialism, the individual is nothing, and the State is eveiything. Under Socialism, individual rights are not recognized as inalienable but as revokable gifts flesh-and-blo- od of the State of an ful omniscient State that is totally biased against private ownership of the means of production, as well as of land, air and water. The current regulatory chaos of anti-polluti- on measures is in collectivism has fostered a denigration of individual rights and responsibilities by placing in artificial limbo the media of pollution. The result has been an indifference on the part of polluters to the consequence of pollution and an inability on the part of the victims to redress damage to health and property caused by pollution. In the United States, the collectivist concept of national goals' has also been responsible for pollution by private concerns." (1) In the late 19th century, for instance, when the effects of air pollution were far worse than today, the courts invariably held in favor of polluters and denied the suits of victims of pollution on the grounds that the need of society for factories was more important than the individuals right to property....Water pollution was similarly ignored because no one owned the rivers except the community whose interest the State took to be factories, and not the protection of the individual rights of those who owned riverfront properties or who drank the water." (2) There is at least one more reason why the Judiciary in this country was always reluctant to uphold the constitutional rights of a citizen to life and property. And the reason is that, except for Continued on page 9 and bureaucrats will not be in hindered any way by traditional social, moral and religious values. -.- ideology. the common good" or the public interest," and never the rights of ac- direct attitudes and values of child development. centers Federal day-car- e are intended as nothing less nightmare? the Specifically, The ideology of collectivism. catch-phraof all collectivists is a responsibility for the regulatory symbol of Western decadence or a emphasis on communal or public failure of the free market; we call it ownership of land, air and water, values and that when present beyond a threshhold limit in the air, water, or land, becomes harmful to human life and property. What this means is that if the polluting waste can be converted into values, the problem ends there: it becomes a routine technical job. If, however, the polluting waste cannot be converted into values, then the only moral and rational thing we can do is to assert and uphold the basic rights of the individual to land, air, and water and then get the law to think of pollution as a violation of individual rights. And to do that does not require any new law, or EPA, or Councils on Environmental Quality, or ten thousand bureaucrats, or one hundred thousand federal and state regulations. It merely requires of the Judiciary Branch the proper application of the tort laws of trespass, nuisance and negligence. Let me give you an example. To reiterate what Paul Bilzi said, if somebody dumps jgarbage on your front lawn, there is no question of who is responsible for fouling up emotional by call sloppiness. T o us, pollution is the result of waste energy and waste matter (solid, liquid, and gaseous) which at the existing level of. knowledge cannot be converted into intent on the development of the mind us a primary mission. The body and spirit were the responsibility of the home and the church. As the home and the church decline in influence, the schools are required to assume more responsibility for the education of the whole child. Schools must begin to provide adequately for the to define difficult that itself a consequence and an inpollution," nor do we call it a dictment of collectivism. With its beach, Schools originally were . Opposing the bill. child-developme- nt Senator Jim Allen declared: The idea that the taxpayers of this nation should be made tc- bear the cost of conditioning our children to respond' like - robots to programmed behavior patterns is intolerable to think about. In its present form the Child and Family Services bill is supposed to be voluntary. But, if passed by Congress, how long before steps are taken by the federal government to begin to exert coercion by way of tax credits, or super-stringe- nt federal regulation of present private day-car- e centers? For God and Country Phoebe Courtney Littleton, Colorado ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION Dear Editor: Our federal government, according to the Constitution, was supposed to be responsible for the common defense and not for our medical care; responsible for maintaining our domestic tranquility and not for our schools and their busing and educating; responsible for promoting but not for supplying our general welfare; responsible for preserving the blessings of liberty and not for imposing controls of requirement nor restriction on our private affairs and our businesses; responsible for forming a more perfect union of our several states and not for unioniziing" the states into one federal union monopoly; but because it has become so involved and so busy doing what it isnt supposed to be doing, it isn't doing what is is supposed to do. Restore the Constitution to restore an American government to the United States, or soon there will neither be an America nor Americans. jobs and guaranteed freedom of choice. both guaranteed jobs and freedom of choice. Those people are aware that in a dictatorship it doesnt work out that way. But millions of sincere Americans honestly believe that it can be different in a democracy. Well, it cant as was illustrated beyond any shadow of a doubt in Great Britain when the leaders of the labor unions were running the government there from 1945 to 1950. In peacetime, in the oldest democracy in the world, once-fre- e men were driven underground to mine coal when they did not wish to do so. They were fined and ed their own elected leaders because they imagined their government could guarantee them jobs without compelling them to work at specific jobs. Here is a factual report of a small segment of that sorry experiment under a democratic government: In February 1946, Sir. Stafford Cripps Chancellor of the democratically Exchequer in Britains government said: No country in the world, as far as I know, has yet succeeded in carrying through a planted economy without the direction of labor. Our objective is to carry through a planned economy without the direction of Need Work For many years prison Frank s R. Hop kin Morris, Member of Parliament, from his booklet Dare or Despair, published by International Liberal Exchange, 1 Eyman maintained sound discipline at the Arizona State Prison. Recalling those days while attending recent memorial services in Phoenix for law officers who were killed in the line of duty last year, Eyman noted that as warden he ran the prison, it didnt run him. If I didnt do anything else as warden for eighteen years, I taught a man to do an honest, eight-hodays work...with sweat.. .so he was capable of going out and earning a livelihood. Prisoners should ur he have recreation, restricted continued, visitors, and such, but most of all they have to know how to work. If most of them had they wouldnt have been here in the. first place. who as a policeman helped to catch the Dillinger gang, said that Eyman, no one works in prisons They (guards anymore. and prisoners) dont earn their livelihood. With your plea bargaining, an officer goes out and sacrifices his life. Then a convict' can go out and plea bargain, do eighteen months in prison, and get out. - -- The labor..." On the 10th of March 1949 the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labor announced that between October 1947 and December 1948 374 directions were issued to men who were in the mining industry compelling them to remain in that industry, and 132 directions were issued to men in them in agriculture keeping In fairness to the agriculture... government it should be said that no member of it is in favor of the direction of labor. Despite their good intentions they have failed, not because they will tyranny, far from it, but because, ignoring the experience of every other country, they are wedded to the theory of the Planned State.... Today Sir Stafford can repeat his first speech: No country in the world, as far as I know, has yet succeeded in carrying through a planned economy without the direction of labor.1 Fortunately, the British people were able to turn back the clock toward freedom before total disaster engulfed them. But the union leaders and the other welfare staters never give up. They will return with their planned economy when those of a new generation again accept the belief that their government is obligated to provide a job for every man who is unemployed through no specific fault of his own. Stand Prisoners warden A favorite cliche of those who have faith in the welfare state is this: In a democracy, we can have by . A Review Of The News the During War for Pacific the Independence, Northwest was being explored for the first time by trappers and fur traders. Their crude maps and knowledge of the country would aid greatly the later work of Lewis and Gark in 1804-6. Francisco Coronado, fifty years after the discovery of the New World, led an expedition in search of seven legendary golden cities. Although he failed to find gold, his exploration opened up a vast territory whose richness would surpass his most ambitious hopes. Inspiration of one of the most popular poems in American literature was the midnight ride of a silversmith, Paul 1775 to warn Revere, April patriot leaders of the movement of a detachment of British soldiers against them. forty-year-o- ld 18-1- 9, Daniel Boone, most famous pioneer of colonial times, explored the unknown forests and fertile valleys of Kentucky and blazed trails to lead settlers there. The Wilderness Road, his route through the Allegheny Mountains, served westward-movin- g families for many years. London, 1949. Dean Russell When work your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.. - Robert Louis Stevenson Keep love together, masterpiece. and skill expect a |