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More than 20 years ago Arizona did not have an MLK day.  This is simple to explain as I was here at the time the issue was debated.  Arizona state employees like many other state employees have more days off than they work.  ( slight hyperbole …. but not much! ).    It was suggested at the time that they state employees give up another holiday in trade for the MLK day.  Of course being that they are unionized thugs they would not accept this and they used the excuse that MLK was worthy of his own day.   However that was not disputed.  They just greedily wanted yet another day off and would not comprimise.

In the end the issue was resolved illegally by then governor Babbitt who by established the holiday by fiat.  Nevermind that subverting rule of law and democracy is even more important than MLK could ever be as it is the only substrate that MLK could have worked in.  China would merely have sent him to a work camp.

Likely you have heard this old adage about security and liberty.  The security they talk about is economic.  Things are likely to get tougher in the near future.   We are shipping too much money out of the country for oil.   We are too dainty to allow it to be drilled on our coasts and in ANWR.   Thus things will deteriorate more until the pain threshold is found. 

Many people will want to vote for the politician that says it will be ok if we only regulate this or tax that.  These are the unDemocrats who will say anything to get elected.  Say anything to get the power.  I would like to think you as an electorate will have the sense not to listen.  But I’m doubtful about this.  You listened in the past and you likely will in the future.   The problem is this sort of thing never helps economically and in fact damages something much more precious than your temporary economic circumstances and that would be your liberty.  I know this is true.  My favorite home away from home country is Brazil.   As currently constituted Brazil has a fully implemented form of government that the unDemocrats want to have here.  The people know their government and changing it is hopeless.  Nothing will ever change in that area and the Brazilians know it.   With liberty you can improve your economic circumstances.   With economic wellbeing you can not necessarily do diddly squat about your liberty.  I know its tough to be a good soldier.  You have to be brave.  And clearly about 50% of the population lacks any impulse toward liberty. Quite the opposite.  They lick their chops at the thought of another round of incremental carving up of liberty for the sake of financial gain. 

Remember losing a job is temporary.  Living in a land of curtailed liberty is pretty much for your entire lifetime.    So don’t be dour Gus Halls who secretly long for a beer, a recliner and a black and white television.   For an inspired life you have to dream of liberty.

I remember watching Gus Hall on one of the UHF channels near Youngstown Ohio when I was a child.  Gus lived in the Youngstown area for quite a long time.  His show would come on and he would groan on in a way most boring to a child.  In contrast I remember how Reagan caught and kept my attention when he narrated "Death Valley Days" prior to being elected governor.  Even then I could tell on some visceral physical level the difference between a socialist and a capitalist.  Socialist don’t seem to have much of a sense of humor.  I wonder if there is a tendency towards basic chemical depression in socialists. 

                                                           Does not appear creative, witty or comical

I am currently searching for video of him to prove my point that Howard Dean and he share some subtle demeanor.  After all they are both communists.   I found a page here with video that might have a sliver of him on it.

Note the title of his book:  Ecology: Can We Survive Under Capitalism?

Its all about how we capitalist class are killing the world.  Never mind that we are all a member of the capitalist class whether we like it or not and only leave it upon death.  But then these environMENTAL cases do an advocate environmental death lottery.

If you want to see a load of doo doo Google the title of Gus’s book.    Notice all the stuff about radical ecology where YOU are the criminal.  With ecology as their basis the radicals can do anything they want !   All that much better than picking on people because they are Jewish. You might run out of Jews.  But with radical environmentalism you never run out of people to demonize.  See someone you don’t like?  They must be eco-criminals!