Freedom Thoughts

>Spike Lee said our expectations of Obama were of being a 'black Jesus'. The website I Will Not Vote For Obama in 2012 said, "Like us if you didn't expect him to be anything other than a Marxist dictator." [!!] What I can say is that no way did I think America would let him get away with being such an openly progressive president who is also openly anti-exceptionalism. (I also say Spike Lee insults the American sensibility of desiring only a President who values individualism and of upholding-- or raising--the integrity of the office.)
>"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." – Robert A. Heinlein One example of that division is this next item:

"Are social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter 'information monopolies' that should be regulated as public utilities? ....utility-like regulation may be necessary not so much to satisfy economic or equity rationales, but to achieve various social policy objectives..." source

When a man or a group of them creates something, what is the reason for calling the achievement a monopoly, and wanting to regulate economically, if it isn't for the purpose of control--and of control only? The free market will un-monopolize natural monopolies. Google, for example, is in jeopardy of losing its status as the #1 search engine because 30% of Google searches are for something now found on Amazon, which who's own on-site product search engine is gaining momentum. The desire to label one, leads to the next. When will someone see Amazon as the 'information monopoly' for goods sold?

>"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis

>"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus

>"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson 

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