Rights? Whose rights? Preserving Free Choice

 

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Rights? Whose rights? Preserving Free Choice

Progressives and the anti-liberty crowd have decided that if one opens a business he checks his own rights at the door. As such, the business owner is compelled by the state to serve anyone and everyone that the state has determined have special rights — but can exclude currently out of favor segments like Christians, Holocaust deniers, 9/11 truthers, vaccine skeptics, Donald Trump supporters and so forth.

Anyone who feels "offended" or has a "personal truth" they demand others recognize and bow to can "cancel" almost any business or get anyone fired.

To most Americans, whether one has rights depends upon whose ox is being gored. But liberty, freedom of choice and freedom of association are all concepts of natural law. The state cannot require one protected class be granted "rights" without taking rights from someone else.

Progressives would have you believe that allowing business owners to operate in a discriminatory fashion would lead to wholesale discrimination against certain classes. To prevent such wholesale discrimination, progressives created laws — not the least of which is the 14th Amendment — to force businesses to operate in a manner contrary to their owner's beliefs or conscience, a clear violation of the 1st Amendment's "free exercise" and "freedom of assembly" clauses and state religious liberty laws.

Jim Crow is the cudgel progressives love pull out to beat about the head and shoulders of liberty lovers and supporters of laissez-faire capitalism. But Jim Crow laws were not societal or free market constructs. Instead, they were rooted in statism and efforts by racist progressives to restrict the free market from the period beginning in the early 1890s into the 1920s.

In his review of David W. Southern's The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, Reason's Damon Root wrote:

[T]he Progressive Era was also a time of vicious, state-sponsored racism. In fact, from the standpoint of African-American history, the Progressive Era qualifies as arguably the single worst period since Emancipation. The wholesale disfranchisement of Southern black voters occurred during these years, as did the rise and triumph of Jim Crow. Furthermore, as the Westminster College historian David W. Southern notes in his recent book, The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, the very worst of it — disfranchisement, segregation, race baiting, lynching — ‘went hand-in-hand with the most advanced forms of southern progressivism.' Racism was the norm, not the exception, among the very crusaders romanticized by today's activist left...

Take the Supreme Court's notorious decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), a case that has rightly come to symbolize the South's Jim Crow regime. In Plessy, the Court considered a Louisiana statute forbidding railroads from selling first-class tickets to blacks, a clear violation of economic liberty. In its 7-1 ruling, the Court upheld segregation in public accommodations so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided for each race, setting off an orgy of legislation throughout the old Confederacy. South Carolina, for example, segregated trains two years after Plessy. Streetcars followed in 1905, train depots and restaurants in 1906, textile plants in 1915-16, circuses in 1917, pool halls in 1924, and beaches in 1934.

No doubt many of those businesses would have excluded or mistreated black customers whatever the law. But in a market free from Jim Crow regulations, other businesses would have welcomed blacks, or at least black dollars, forcing racist enterprises to bear the full cost of excluding or mistreating all those potential paying customers. (This was one of the chief reasons the segregationists pushed for those laws in the first place.) The state, in the eloquent words of the historian C. Vann Woodward, granted "free rein and the majesty of the law to

Life in a free country is about being free to make choices, choices based on your own criteria rather than one mandated by the state. There are plenty of remedies

Don't like fried chicken? Stay out of KFC.

Don't like pizza? Avoid Pizza Hut.

Don't care for seafood? Red Lobster isn't the only restaurant in town.

Denny's gave you lousy service? Stay away... and tell your friends.

Don't like how Walmart compensates its workers? Buy your cheap Chinese junk from Target or the local mom-and-pop store — and your groceries from Publix or Kroger.

Don't like it that Chick-fil-A's president supports traditional marriage? Buy your chicken sandwich from Burger King. They've gone all in on "gay pride."

Don't like how Starbucks treats black customers or gun owners? Get your coffee from Joe Muggs.

Don't like Muslims? Stay out of the Middle East, mosques, Louis Farrakhan rallies and U.S. prisons — and Deerbornistan, Michigan. Don't like Jews? Stay out of Israel, New York, Massachusetts, California, synagogues anywhere and jewelry stores.

Don't like kids? Avoid daycares, schools and playgrounds... or get a job at Planned Parenthood.

Don't like blacks? Move to Montana, Vermont or Idaho. There aren't many there.

Don't like whites? Move to Detroit; Jackson, Mississippi; Miami Gardens, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore; or Memphis, Tennessee. You will see some, but they'll be the minority.

That's discrimination. It's also called liberty, freedom of choice and, in the concept of natural law, freedom of association as guaranteed in the 1st Amendment.

What is not freedom is when the state compels you to serve, associate with or accommodate those you don't want to, regardless of the reason. That's called slavery and tyranny. Enslaved people have no rights.

The problem is that people are trying to see and understand the American system as free enterprise. In fact, it has been socialist for a hundred years, operating under the umbrella of an increasingly totalitarian and coercive system that brooks no dissent from its doctrine of promoting ever more degenerate behavior.

This is a most sensational testimony of the power of naming government systems something that they are not and imposing it on the public mind and psyche by a long process of "public education" and highly sophisticated and organized propaganda on a worldwide basis.

Socialism in America today is seen as desirable, especially by these younger people, because people blame "capitalism" for their problems, never realizing that the former capitalist free-market economy of the United States has been operating under national socialism for a century now. Oh no, it's never described as such. There are only code words used to deceive. Things may not be nice just because they have a pretty face.

The only escape from tyranny is mental freedom — a transition from the unconscious to the conscious mind. Mental freedom precedes physical freedom. Mental freedom is not a figment of idealism or philosophy. It delivers peace of mind and unlimited prosperity to the individual right under the nose of oppressive government.

To escape oppressive government is to escape the thought system into which we are born.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston

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   Look around-everything in America is backward or upside down:  the postal system no longer works, our schools don’t teach, doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy the rule of law, politicians are destroying freedom, major media is not longer truthful & our money system is becoming worthless…

The Biden administration is planning to use the full force of the federal government in pursuit of a new war. Its target? American citizens…which is a LOT OF BULL CRAP!

This countering “domestic violent extremism” effort, declared in the wake of the latest Capitol riot, represents the real-world counterpart to the corporate media rhetoric about the need to “deprogram,” “de-ba’athify,” and drone the Deplorables.

If this is a dangerous political witch hunt masquerading as a national security imperative, it should disturb every American. Half of the country could potentially be ensnared as would-be if not actual terrorists.

In a little-discussed Jan. 22 press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted “[the] assault on the Capitol … underscored what we have long known: The rise of domestic violent extremism is a serious and growing national security threat.” Consequently, the administration plans a three-part response:

- Developing a comprehensive threat assessment, coordinated with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on domestic violent extremism.

- Building “National Security Council capability to focus on countering domestic violent extremism,” including conducting “a policy review effort to determine how the government can share information better about this threat, support efforts to prevent radicalization, disrupt violent extremist networks, and more.”

- Coordinating “relevant parts of the federal government to enhance and accelerate efforts to address DVE … an NSC-convened process will focus on addressing evolving threats, radicalization, the role of social media, opportunities to improve information sharing, operational responses, and more.”

In short, the Biden administration plans to turn the institutions and tools used to pursue foreign adversaries on “wrong-thinking” Americans.

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