The goal of my writing
Every so often, disgruntled readers send me attack e-mail–vicious, nasty diatribes leveled against me personally. They cannot confine their remarks exclusively to the issues at hand. Instead, they feel an overwhelming, irresistible compulsion to claim serious flaws in my personal moral character.
Here’s a recent example: “Are you so partisan,” asked one reader, “that you care not for a politician’s integrity so long as they adhere to your neo-fascist party line?”
So now I am supposed to be some kind of a “neofascist”? A fascist? A new fascist? Or at least someone who actively promotes or advocates a new fascism?
Here we not only have a blatant insult, we also have an outright distortion of my political views. In all my writings, never have I called for any policies even remotely resembling fascism.
Fascism calls for “a governmental system characterized by nationalism, regimentation, rigid censorship, and suppression of opposition.” That definition came straight from Webster’s college dictionary.
Since when have I called for rigid censorship? Since when have I called for Big Brother or Big Government to intrude into our private lives?
All along, in writing these columns, I have made it my number one goal to project the insanity and tyranny of Big Government–of the collective powers-that-be (both local and federal) against the poor, unsuspecting, lone individual. Above all, I have tried to stand up for individual rights, free trade, and private property rights.
Now since when did a system of fascism promote such noble ideals? Since when has fascism been intimately associated with free market capitalism?
On the contrary, fascism urgently demands a ruthlessly centralized, all-powerful state, which is everything I wholeheartedly oppose on both moral and practical grounds. I believe in maximum human freedom. I believe the CNMI should make every effort–should make every attempt–to be the freest American territory on earth.
“It’s plain to me,” writes a reader, “that your only intent is to get attention by acting like a conservative buffoon.”
No, sir. I genuinely believe, with every fiber of my being, that man has every right to live for his own sake, and that others do not have a legitimate moral claim upon his life–and that, in a truly just society, one man, rich or poor, must never be sacrificed for another.
Roosevelt’s Social Security program, Lyndon Johnson’s Medicare and Medicaid–all of these welfare state programs rob one man for the benefit of another. Such programs exist to violate the natural rights of man. And if anything, the liberal welfare state is much closer to fascism than any Libertarian utopia imaginable.
