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		<title>By: glpage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to believe that it should be open season on anyone who attempts to abridge another&#039;s freedom.  But, I&#039;m pretty sure that attitude is socially unacceptable and definitely un-PC.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tend to believe that it should be open season on anyone who attempts to abridge another&#8217;s freedom.  But, I&#8217;m pretty sure that attitude is socially unacceptable and definitely un-PC.</p>
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		<title>By: Yulia Demkin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yulia Demkin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should be added to the Federalists Papers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This should be added to the Federalists Papers.</p>
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		<title>By: John P.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John P.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to compare  these comments with the commenters on the liberal sites; FPMag commenters are usually much more logical and intellectual in their arguments. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is interesting to compare  these comments with the commenters on the liberal sites; FPMag commenters are usually much more logical and intellectual in their arguments. </p>
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		<title>By: Bellerophons_Revenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author has a good idea but misses some  very important points. 

Rights are inherent in the nature of human beings. They are the requirements for human beings to live on earth. Rights are not created by governments. They are either acknowledged by governments or violated by governments. 

Civil rights have a long and mixed history. It is seldom acknowledged that the civil rights movement was infested with communists who had no interest in actual individual rights. Their entire purpose in the civil rights movement was to make the federal government the final arbiter of all dealings between individuals. It was they who insisted on the &quot;public accommodations&quot; section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was that section that five decades later has led to the absurdity of telling wedding photographers who they must photograph. 

Once the federal government had the power to compel people to deal with each other against the will of at least one of the participants, the stage was set to control all economic dealings between people. Control of the economy was the purpose of the left wing elements of the civil rights movement. 

Barry Goldwater was excoriated for refusing to vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act because he understood the danger of such a vast increase in the federal government&#039;s power. He saw then what few people can see even today.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author has a good idea but misses some  very important points. </p>
<p>Rights are inherent in the nature of human beings. They are the requirements for human beings to live on earth. Rights are not created by governments. They are either acknowledged by governments or violated by governments. </p>
<p>Civil rights have a long and mixed history. It is seldom acknowledged that the civil rights movement was infested with communists who had no interest in actual individual rights. Their entire purpose in the civil rights movement was to make the federal government the final arbiter of all dealings between individuals. It was they who insisted on the &#8220;public accommodations&#8221; section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was that section that five decades later has led to the absurdity of telling wedding photographers who they must photograph. </p>
<p>Once the federal government had the power to compel people to deal with each other against the will of at least one of the participants, the stage was set to control all economic dealings between people. Control of the economy was the purpose of the left wing elements of the civil rights movement. </p>
<p>Barry Goldwater was excoriated for refusing to vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act because he understood the danger of such a vast increase in the federal government&#8217;s power. He saw then what few people can see even today.</p>
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		<title>By: truebearing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[truebearing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that on this planet, no matter how badly an enemy is discredited and defeated, there will always be those who manage to escape the destruction of their cult and keep the evil alive. Look at how the Nazis spread their evil among the Muslims during and after WWII. Nazism still lives.
Where I think humanity goes wrong is with the generations who follow those who defeated the evil. They get complacent and ignore the signs of growing evil, while indulging themselves in the prosperity that was made possible by those who fought. It seems we can defeat evil temporarily, but can&#039;t maintain vigilance. How else could someone like Obama get elected, twice?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems that on this planet, no matter how badly an enemy is discredited and defeated, there will always be those who manage to escape the destruction of their cult and keep the evil alive. Look at how the Nazis spread their evil among the Muslims during and after WWII. Nazism still lives.<br />
Where I think humanity goes wrong is with the generations who follow those who defeated the evil. They get complacent and ignore the signs of growing evil, while indulging themselves in the prosperity that was made possible by those who fought. It seems we can defeat evil temporarily, but can&#8217;t maintain vigilance. How else could someone like Obama get elected, twice?</p>
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		<title>By: DogmaelJones1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayn Rand put it another way: &quot;Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political
freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ayn Rand put it another way: &#8220;Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political<br />
freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Every group is sooner or later faced with choosing whether it wants to 
win a final conclusive victory over its enemies or whether it wants to 
be free.&quot; But what about enemies that demonstrably want to take away the freedoms of others and act upon those goals?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Every group is sooner or later faced with choosing whether it wants to<br />
win a final conclusive victory over its enemies or whether it wants to<br />
be free.&#8221; But what about enemies that demonstrably want to take away the freedoms of others and act upon those goals?</p>
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		<title>By: timpottorff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel, you hit the ball out of the park on this one. Absolutely brilliant! This should be required reading in schools....yeah like that will happen.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daniel, you hit the ball out of the park on this one. Absolutely brilliant! This should be required reading in schools&#8230;.yeah like that will happen.</p>
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		<title>By: timpottorff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[timpottorff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your summary is excellent. I agree with your observations exactly.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your summary is excellent. I agree with your observations exactly.</p>
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		<title>By: truebearing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[truebearing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, brilliant analysis Daniel. The problem cannot be understood or effectively fought without understanding the extent of the Left&#039;s intended &quot;fundamental transformation.&quot; You layed it out beautifully.


Freedom without context is meaningless. Freedom needs a qualifier to have meaning. There is freedom-to and freedom-from.


Our founding fathers built into the constitution the freedom from oppression from a tyrannical government, or freedom to make our own choices. They guaranteed our freedom to worship or to speak as we choose. It is all about the right to choose.


The Left wants to offer us freedom from a host of things that are all based in envy or fear. They intentionally magnify all of the things they need us to fear or envy first to make it seem like it was our choice to give up our right to choose.  They are essentially only offering freedom-from, but the only way to get freedom-from is to give up the freedom-to. They want us to hand over our freedom to choose, including what we think or believe. Of course, they really aren&#039;t asking us to voluntarily give up our right to choose, they are just taking it, but they want us to think we had a choice. It&#039;s like being bribed with silver or lead, but the silver is tin.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once again, brilliant analysis Daniel. The problem cannot be understood or effectively fought without understanding the extent of the Left&#8217;s intended &#8220;fundamental transformation.&#8221; You layed it out beautifully.</p>
<p>Freedom without context is meaningless. Freedom needs a qualifier to have meaning. There is freedom-to and freedom-from.</p>
<p>Our founding fathers built into the constitution the freedom from oppression from a tyrannical government, or freedom to make our own choices. They guaranteed our freedom to worship or to speak as we choose. It is all about the right to choose.</p>
<p>The Left wants to offer us freedom from a host of things that are all based in envy or fear. They intentionally magnify all of the things they need us to fear or envy first to make it seem like it was our choice to give up our right to choose.  They are essentially only offering freedom-from, but the only way to get freedom-from is to give up the freedom-to. They want us to hand over our freedom to choose, including what we think or believe. Of course, they really aren&#8217;t asking us to voluntarily give up our right to choose, they are just taking it, but they want us to think we had a choice. It&#8217;s like being bribed with silver or lead, but the silver is tin.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But worse than dependencies of the moment, we have people bred on Orwellian liberty, which is collectivism using the language of liberty.


Collectivism is evil. Which is ultimately the point of the article.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But worse than dependencies of the moment, we have people bred on Orwellian liberty, which is collectivism using the language of liberty.</p>
<p>Collectivism is evil. Which is ultimately the point of the article.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The Declaration of Dependencies&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Declaration of Dependencies&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: popseal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[popseal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America may already be passed the point of no return as there are nearly 50% of the population on some kind of government dependency (not Social Security).   The French aristocrat of the nineteenth century said, &quot;The American democracy will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public&#039;s money&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America may already be passed the point of no return as there are nearly 50% of the population on some kind of government dependency (not Social Security).   The French aristocrat of the nineteenth century said, &#8220;The American democracy will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public&#8217;s money&#8221;.</p>
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