“Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility; what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.” --Diary of Anne Frank, 22 May 1944.
Throughout the history of civilization, politicians and special interests have often deceived the targeted public into supporting an agenda using manipulation of fear, propaganda, false or misinterpreted junk science, statistics and studies, and stereotypes of grouped people. Jews have been most notably targets of anti-Semitism throughout most of the 2nd millennium, which lasted possibly since the crucification of Jesus Christ in 33 A.D. and some people claimed that Jews were responsible for Christ’s death and used fear-mongering tactics to rally people into supporting anti-semitism. The Nazi’s used junk science and fear to rally Germans into hatred of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, the Disabled and other “undesirables”. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s second in command as I call him, rallied the German people to boycott Jewish businesses and Nazi Germany enacted laws up to the late 1930’s making Jews second class citizens with no rights and completely at the mercy of the Nazi government, and the German people of “master” race agreed with Hitler, though mostly through fear and state terrorism. The Nazis forcibly relocated Jews into overcrowded, disgusting, and barricaded ghettos on grounds that they along with others considers by Nazis to be “undesirables”. Nazi propaganda claimed Jews were disease carrying parasites who needed to be walled up in order to protect the public from the alleged deadly diseases. The “final solution” came in 1942 when Nazis planned to deport Jews from ghettos to extermination camps where the Jews along with targeted groups were to be exterminated. Over 6 million Jews (2/3 of Jewish population in Europe.) as well as some other “undesirables” were killed by numerous methods of genocide by 1945, the end of World War II.
Governments have always been the no. 1 killers of all time because they have power and armies stronger than all the gangs and organized crime families combined, and usually the victims of genocide were disarmed through being tricked into giving up their right to keep and bear arms under condition that police will protect them. Usually non-compliant gun owners would be disarmed through force, forcing dependence in terms of safety and unable to protect themselves from outside harm. Most notably this happened in Rwanda in the mid 1990’s under the Hutu regime where their first step was to disarm the people and deceive them into thinking they don’t need to own firearms because the police would be able to protect them. You can’t rely police to protect you from criminals in an emergency situation. In Washington DC, USA, each police officer would have to protect 17,000 people if police had the duty to protect individuals in a similar fashion as bodyguards. Is the government always right in deciding who needs what? Individuals and caregivers of disabled persons are best at deciding their needs. Government deciding what people’s needs are is a nanny state. Big Brother babysits the subjects of the government and is in control like a parent and dictator. An example of paternalistic societies comes from George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 in which Big Brother rules with an iron fist as an absolute dictator and guardian and is accountable to nobody but himself, therefore giving him the “authority” to do whatever he desires, including genocide of undesired persons and erosion of freedom. Winston Smith is a character who has his freedom stripped and is forced to accept that 2+2=5. This constitutes a dictatorship where government serves itself and people must obey the government without question or face bloody consequences. Under United States of America principles that our founding fathers laid out, government always serves the people. The US constitution’s first three words say “we the people”. It does not mean the majority but means the people, minority and majority alike. Majority rule leads to a disastrous result as there has never been in the history of civilization a democracy that has not committed suicide. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for lunch. The sheep is defeated and eaten by the two wolves by two votes out of three. The majority could easily be used as a weapon for political and special interest agendas. When tragic events occur, emotion can run powerfully and to the extent that human freedom is injured. Most notably in American history, this happened after Pearl Harbor bombing of December 7, 1941 during World War II. Americans across the nation supported US military involvement in World War II at the drop of a hat. The US declared war on Japan within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In February of 1942, three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordering Americans of Japanese descent in pacific states in the western united states to be relocated to US internment camps. A young man named Fred Korematsu defied that unconstitutional order and was arrested for refusing to be interned. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to five years of exile from pacific states. In Korematsu v. United States, the US Supreme Court ruled that the internment order was constitutional by a 6-3 vote. Truthfully, it was unconstitutional on these grounds:
· Congress has the power to suspend Habeas Corpus and the president simply can’t do this on his own. Abraham suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War just like a dictator would. Even in times of crisis, military dictatorship is never justifiable because it states congress has the power to suspend habeas corpus in times of extreme crisis. In no way is military dictatorship in America justifiable. By that I mean in terms of presidential powers.
· Frank Murphy’s dissent: I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life. It is unattractive in any setting, but it is utterly revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States. All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land. Yet they are primarily and necessarily a part of the new and distinct civilization of the United States. They must, accordingly, be treated at all times as the heirs of the American experiment, and as entitled to all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
· Robert Jackson’s dissent: A military order, however unconstitutional, is not apt to last longer than the military emergency. Even during that period, a succeeding commander may revoke it all. But once a judicial opinion rationalizes such an order to show that it conforms to the Constitution, or rather rationalizes the Constitution to show that the Constitution sanctions such an order, the Court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination in criminal procedure and of transplanting American citizens. The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need. Every repetition imbeds that principle more deeply in our law and thinking and expands it to new purposes. Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity and a citizen of California by residence. No claim is made that he is not loyal to this country. There is no suggestion that apart from the matter involved here he is not law abiding and well disposed. Korematsu, however, has been convicted of an act not commonly a crime. It consists merely of being present in the state whereof he is a citizen, near the place where he was born, and where all his life he has lived. [...] [H]is crime would result, not from anything he did, said, or thought, different than they, but only in that he was born of different racial stock. Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable. Even if all of one's antecedents had been convicted of treason, the Constitution forbids its penalties to be visited upon him. But here is an attempt to make an otherwise innocent act a crime merely because this prisoner is the son of parents as to whom he had no choice, and belongs to a race from which there is no way to resign. If Congress in peace-time legislation should enact such a criminal law, I should suppose this Court would refuse to enforce it.
The government could not prove Korematsu was unloyal to America. The US Supreme Court ruled the very same day unanimously in Ex Parte Endo that anyone loyal to America could not be interned. He was being punished along with more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans for something the Empire of Japan did at Pearl Harbor, which as Robert Jackson pointed out is unconstitutional to group punish people belonging to the group of a person who committed a crime and happened to be of a certain group. People cannot be punished because someone in their family committed a crime or treason.
I’d like to point out the most oppressed group of citizens in America. America’s youth. Incarcerated felons have twice more rights than youth do. People can’t help being young and can’t be deterred from it as well. The role of parents in raising their children and instilling values in them has been slowly shifting towards centralized government control in the past more than a century, since as early as the late 19th century to early 20th century. Our founding fathers intended for children to be raised by parents, free from state interference except in cases where children are actually being abused in certain ways. Our founding fathers recognized children as human beings who needed guidance in life to become independent and function, contributing members of society. Children are not property of anybody but parents are simply mentors who do a better job at guiding children to the path of success and contribution to society. Children are society’s most vulnerable and should be treated with love, compassion and respect and this creates healthier and happier families. Limiting the freedoms of young Americans instead of education on responsibility and real world life skills damages their ability to be responsible for themselves and forces dependence on someone else, something the founding fathers feared would happen and feared that government would make the people dependent on them for support. Judging individuals by skills and abilities they have makes better employees and produce more responsible individuals financially and socially. Government can only create an ineffective one size fits all approach when it comes to trying to create a healthy society through centralized planning, something our founding fathers feared would happen. History has proven government has failed all attempts to create economic and social prosperity through spending and centralized planning. Government cannot effectively legislate good health because it uses one-size-fits all approaches to all of its issues. Even if government could try to legislate the health of the people individually, bureaucrats would be in charge of what care certain people should receive and puts the government in total control of what healthcare people should receive and makes government the master, contrary to what our founding fathers believed. Obamacare supports bureaucratic red tape healthcare and centralized planning that puts the government first. The patient comes first because they are being served. Socialized medicine is funded through borrowed and taxed money, often in high amounts. Healthcare is best left to individuals and free markets where competition and incentives for great quality prevail. Free enterprise is what made the United States the Freest country on Earth. FDR’s New Deal imposed burdensome regulations, wasteful spending and high taxes like in Marxist Communist countries like the former Soviet Union, North Korea and Cuba.
Obama is a big spending corporatist, communist traitor to American values and principles this country was founded on in the late 18th century. He is using the fear of higher interest rates if default on the debt were to prevail. The progressive-liberal media is promoting the socialist approach to debt issues and will use fear to get people to support their agendas. Extreme and dramatic spending cuts alone are the only way to solve the debt problem. Solving debt with debt makes no sense logically. Obama might invoke the 14th amendment and abuse executive power. The debt ceiling was recently raised and no serious spending cuts will be made under this sad compromise.
I also like to say that correlation is not the same as causation. Correlation can only suggest and speculate causation but cannot point out actual causation. Example would be ice cream sales and shark attacks being correlated. But, this is illogical and are associated with warm weather. Our founding fathers favored logic over correlation and stated that government’s only legitimate purpose is to protect the life, liberty and property of the people, popular or not. We don’t need to use science to justify making murder a capital crime. Murder is the deliberate taking of someone else’s life against the will of the victim being murdered. The only legitimate crimes are crimes of violence, against property and disturbing the peace and posing an imminent threat to the public. In order to protect the principles our founding fathers fought for, we must reject all attempts to justify science and statistics for making government laws and use logical reasons instead that protect liberty & justice for all.
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