Post Office (July 2005)

People fancy government because it does what others are too busy to do

Regarding "The People's Romance" (April), many thanks. I have not read Dr. Klein's paper, but by just glancing at it, I can see the basic hypothesis.

I have thought for a long time that people accept the government because it gives them a sense of order - a sense that somebody is doing something they care about, but are too busy to do something themselves. Examples include helping the poor, the aged and the farmers, cleaning up?the environment, and stopping other people from selling and using drugs.

Personal freedom is just too messy - or as my well-educated thoughtful brother says when I try to talk politics with him, "The government does what it does, and I do what I do."

He implies that whatever the government does, it needs to be done, and they are the best ones to do it. He just does not see (or care to see) that more than 40 percent of his income via taxes pays for the erosion of freedom.

Well, I see it and will continue to battle to lower taxes in the great state of Nevada with you, Bob Beers, Sharron Angle and the others who really do care and do something about it.

Thanks for your many thoughtful essays.

Dick Geyer


Ward's recent writing offers evidence of why the R-J fired him

Ken Ward's column "Whistling Dixie?" (May) shows why the R-J fired his narrow arse quicker than Ward can craft a meandering article lacking a point ? well, unless the ethnic slurs were intended rather than gratuitous.

Ward wrote that the Southrons (the ones he's talking bout are not the ancient enemies of Gondor from Lord of the Ring) must ?gather in Dixie to re-establish state?s rights and individual liberties.? It's as laughable for those terrorists who attacked federal troops to precipitate a war to protect the enslavement and exploitation of their fellow humans based upon birth and skin color to posit their unjustified aggression as a fight for individual liberties as it is for George Bush to argue that he's the environmental president while the former corporate oil attorney he appointed to the EPA edits out references to indisputable scientific facts about global warming from governmental reports.

Ward also recounts how some valiant Southerners suggest, privately of course, that all those blacks serve as a stumbling block, with a population transfer solution possible by buying the dark-skinned people one-way train tickets north. Ward curiously fails to mention that this train plan must be sedition spread by UN infiltrators' intent on robbing the American taxpayer through assisting the communistic AMTRAK. Further, Ward also misses what both Southerners and the '80s superstar band Europe, among others, already know ("Cherokee, marching on the trail of tears!"). The best way to rid the South of unwanted minorities is a forced march, as the few ancestors of the survivors of the Bataan death march could tell you.

While Ward publishes racist white musings, he misses real trends. As journalist DeWayne Wickman noted (USA Today, June 6), blacks are actually moving to the South. As ignorant whites sit around and lump all blacks together as lazy Democrats, wealthy blacks move South, making money in business, thereby finding themselves allied to traditionally Republican values of lesser business regulations and lower taxes for high incomes. But Ward was fired by the R-J because when an ignoramus like him is given free reign at a party organ such as the R-J, potential black Republicans will blanch faster than Alan Keyes when told he's been asked to speak at an Human Rights Campaign rally in support of his lesbian daughter.

Aaron M. Clemens
West Palm Beach, Fla.


Blogger grades libertarian outfits: The good, the bad and the ugly

The Good: Liberty Watch is a (mostly) libertarian lifestyle magazine for the Las Vegas area. The feature article is on Laissez Faire?s decision not to carry Vin Suprynowicz's novel, The Black Arrow. Grade: C?

The Bad: The Libertarian Communicator. Jesus Christ, Freedom as Amway. LP leftover Bill Winter, some unfortunate OPH booth operators and ooohhh ... the secrets of personality types. Michael Cloud, who has all the instincts of an $800-a-night Score?s girl, serves to remind us that we are in fact a cult. Redeeming qualities: The Miss Liberty Video Picks and "Ask Dr. Ruwart." Grade: D-

The Ugly: www.realworldlib.org/blog/.

Angela Keaton
Austin, Texas
liberatedspace.com