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A few thoughts

By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

1.  There ought to be another law?  -- A recent news story involved a teenage girl who flew out of the U.S. to meet up with a cyber-boyfriend without telling her parents.  Her mother said the daughter was a straight A student, never had given her a moment’s trouble, and shouldn’t the government have prevented her from leaving the country like that?  It seems to me that the mother should have been very grateful to the government authorities who intercepted the daughter and prevented her from going through with her plan after being notified by the parents.  Beyond that, the mother should be careful what she is wishing for.  If she really wants a government that prevents people from leaving the country without permission, then she is asking for even more of a police state than we already have.  A better solution would be for the mother to have a good chat with her daughter.

2.  Liberty for me but not for thee --   Why is it that the people who claim to love liberty when they oppose government spying on its citizens are the same people who are also pleading for the government to regulate nearly every other aspect of our lives?  They want the government to prevent us from building on our own property.  They want the government to tell us whom we can hire, whom we can fire, what customers we must serve, and how much we must pay our employees. They want to prevent us from pooling our money to buy advertising to promote our views.  They want to control what our children are taught, what health care we can receive, and how much of our money we can keep for ourselves.  It seems they are all in favor of curtailing our liberty and only become outraged when it is their own liberty that is being affected.   Don’t they realize how hypocritical they are?  

3.  Why do immigrants want to come here? – The United States has a history of being enriched by its immigrants, people who came here to be a part of the American dream.  The basic tenets of the American dream have been a rule of law that treats everyone equally, respect for private property rights, and respect for individual liberty.  Unfortunately, our recent wave of illegal immigration is threatening to destroy the foundations of the system that has made this country attractive to immigrants in the past.  People who enter the country illegally are making a mockery of the rule of law, and those who want to reward them for breaking the law are simply adding insult to injury.  People who come here expecting “free” education, “free” health care, “free” housing and the like are not the kinds of self-reliant people who have made this country great and should not be welcomed into this country.  They also are not respecting the private property rights and individual liberty of the American citizens who are forced to provide these “free” benefits.  It is not racist to expect people to respect the rule of law, especially when those people want to have the benefits of American citizenship. 

4.  Ann Coulter is right about the liberal religion. – The politically incorrect and abrasive Coulter has it right -- liberalism is a religion, with its own tenets taken on faith, and with its church being the public schools, where children are indoctrinated into the faith.  So why isn’t the ACLU suing to prevent the government from forcing us to support and promote the public schools (a.k.a. the temples of liberalism)?   (See also Henry Lamb’s article about Al Gore’s global warming religion in this week’s issue of Jefferson Review.)

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