tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682056367419528844.post2722364149138378107..comments2024-01-26T11:15:51.116-05:00Comments on Virgil Speaks: Filling in the GapsSuzi Gablikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607780714282391671noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682056367419528844.post-15106803731563270432010-04-28T12:12:26.513-05:002010-04-28T12:12:26.513-05:00Even so, I am still having to catch up with so man...<b><i>Even so, I am still having to catch up with so many past years of ignorance.</i></b><br /><br />Indeed, your new found interest in political thought must be informed. From where did the policies come that brought to power politicians who instituted a system that resulted in the Holocaust? History has proof of the origins, but you will not find it in the jingoism of commentaries from MSNBC or Huffington Post.<br /><br />However, you will find such proofs in the origins of our Constitution. <br /><br />I agree completely that Hayek’s seminal work on Freedom must be incorporated if you hope to avoid the evils of modern civilizations and understand the historically remarkable uniqueness that is <i>American Exceptionalism</i>. <br /><br />Equally determinative of your ability to comprehend the effects of policy on domestic and international consequences, you must read and study the Federalist Papers. Madison, Hamilton and Jay, thoroughly familiar with classical liberal thought on freedom and despotism, must be understood if you hope to personally defeat emotionalism with reason concerning self-government in America today. Why does our Constitution say what it says? What difference does it make what our Constitution says? What did the authors intend for readers to understand from the words of the Constitution? <br /><br />While it may put at risk otherwise comfortable cultural surroundings, perhaps you would be willing to challenge yourself and even your Salon to inquire about the value and significance (and the definition) of such dramatically new concepts in our Constitution as “The Rule of Law.” You might investigate the assertion that “<i>Any policy aiming directly at a substantive ideal of distributive justice must necessarily lead to the destruction of the Rule of Law. To produce the same result for different people, it is necessary to treat them differently</i>.” <br /><br />Consider this: Did the willingness of Pre-WWII German intelligentsia to seek distributive justice through the National Socialist government, effectively lead to the wide spread acceptance of and desensitization to disparate treatment of individuals by the Law and ultimately to the Holocaust? <br /><br />Is the Obama Administration and the Democrat-Controlled Congress seeking distributive justice by treating different people differently? Who gets to decide which people get treated differently today? Who will get to make those decisions in the future? Should the Constitution be ignored in order to achieve a more equal level of outcomes? What other outcomes are important enough to ignore Constitutional limitations on the actions of Government? <br /><br />These are questions that are too important to be answered while intoxicated with anger, ignorance or political self indulgence.<br /><br />God Bless You, Suzi.<br /><br />PS – Get the 50th Anniversary Edition of The Road to Serfdom. <br />ISBN: 0-226-32059-6 (cloth) 0-226-32061-8 (paper)Will Robertsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682056367419528844.post-72851302070384269102010-04-21T12:12:51.560-05:002010-04-21T12:12:51.560-05:00Dear Dear Suzi,
You forgive yourself far too easi...Dear Dear Suzi,<br /><br />You forgive yourself far too easily. You have learned little about how to avoid remaking the mistakes of the past. You seriously believe, or should I say swallow, the hackneyed baiting that would mold your mind to opine that those who seek freedom from government control – read Republicans and Tea Partiers – are bigots.<br /><br />I pray that your eyes will be opened as your heart drains itself of the hatred borne of ignorance and self imposed isolation from those with whom you have been taught to disagree. Expand your intellectual universe to include those who see Freedom as a civil right worth fighting for. Rosa Parks demonstrated the heroism of a Patrick Henry – she chose to risk all for Freedom. You think her battle was against the white man. She fought against being controlled and shackled by those in power. You can’t see that because you have chosen to remain blind to what American Exceptionalism is. <br /><br />President Obama is not a Black man to those of us who disagree with his policies and brutal Chicago Way. Have you bothered to read Obama’s multiple biographies? He is the enemy of Freedom. He is not unique in that role. F.A. Hayek wrote all about him in 1939. President Obabma is as ignorant as you of the continual process and price of being Free. <br /><br />I dare you to read Hayek’s <i>The Road to Serfdom</i>. You do not have the courage to face real history!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com