Icymudpuppy
04-22-2009, 11:22 AM
I have discovered that every policy of socialism is supported not by those who are confident in their own abilities, but by those who fear some calamity might befall them if they are not protected by a higher entity, whether the Church or Government. Post any government policy you can think of, and I will tell you what the people who came up with it are afraid of, whether it is poverty, crime, death, terrorism, accident, disease, etc...
I fear none of these because I am confident in my own abilities, and proud of what I have accomplished in life. If I died tonight, I will die knowing that I have accomplished a lot, and that those I leave behind have the resources I gave them to continue without me.
I think that liberty minded people in general have faced most of their fears, and so don't feel the need to have a governmental parental unit watch out for them. Some have substituted God for their parental protector, but remain fearful, simply substituting the church for the government, so they are okay with governmental liberty.
Obviously, I'm not the first to make this connection.
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler
"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for laws if their personal security is threatened".
-- Josef Stalin
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
"Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, Speech on May 15, 1951
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or calamity, in order that the people may require a leader."
-- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-- Plato
"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear."
-- Cheri Huber
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death"
-- James F. Bymes
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I fear none of these because I am confident in my own abilities, and proud of what I have accomplished in life. If I died tonight, I will die knowing that I have accomplished a lot, and that those I leave behind have the resources I gave them to continue without me.
I think that liberty minded people in general have faced most of their fears, and so don't feel the need to have a governmental parental unit watch out for them. Some have substituted God for their parental protector, but remain fearful, simply substituting the church for the government, so they are okay with governmental liberty.
Obviously, I'm not the first to make this connection.
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler
"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for laws if their personal security is threatened".
-- Josef Stalin
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
"Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, Speech on May 15, 1951
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or calamity, in order that the people may require a leader."
-- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-- Plato
"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear."
-- Cheri Huber
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death"
-- James F. Bymes
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson