FREEDOM – EQUALITY – HATE
By T.W. Tibby Weston
© WESTON RESEARCH LLC 7/2004
We live in freedom and we believe that it is an ideal environment for the human spirit and that freedom is the ultimate expression of human desire. Living in freedom, however, is not an effortless life. It places the responsibility for success in life on the individual. Obviously some will succeed and some will not, depending on their talent. The successful will reap the reward of prosperity while those who consider themselves left behind, or “have-nots”, soon desire equality. Not equality of opportunity but equality of results, which spells doom for nations. The origin of Marxism is based on the demand for equality of results, or “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Once a large segment of population considers itself “have-nots”, they will first demand equality of results through entitlements, later by more drastic measures of punitive taxation, nationalization and confiscation that destroy the very concept of freedom for all. Often the “have-nots” do not realize how well they are doing because of the envy and class hatred stirred up by demagogues. This is the reason why democracies have never lasted more than two centuries. As Marx put it: “Democracy is the road to socialism.” As soon as voters in a democracy discover that they can strive for equity of results by voting for the politicians promising a larger distribution of the public treasury, the slide to socialism accelerates. Fortunately the United States of America was not created as a democracy but as a republic and thus was able to survive more than 200 years.
The word democracy first came to prominence during World War I which Woodrow Wilson coined “ the war to protect democracy”. By the time of World War II the “great democracies” fought a war against the totalitarian dictatorship of Germany and the Holy Empire of Japan. Nobody seemed to care that the “great democracies” were the Monarchy of Great Britain, the Republics of the USA, the USSR and France. None of them were a democracy. Little notice was given also to the fact that both Germany and the USSR were socialists; one a national socialist, the other an international socialist.
We can therefore easily conclude that names of political systems can be misleading and should be disregarded. We must look at how the people live within those systems. If people live in equality it is usually enforced at the point of a bayonet by a dictator or by totalitarian oppression. Equality is not natural. It is the Communist concept as stated by Marx: “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. “
As an inevitable consequence, people who live in equality eventually will desire freedom to break out of their hopeless lives and seek opportunities for individual achievement.
When we look at Iraq and what the future holds for them we must consider that they had lived in the equality of oppression and misery for more than 30 years. Hitler’s Nazi empire only lasted 12 years and it took decades before Germany would recover sufficiently to provide de-Nazified reliable leadership for its people. How could we expect a faster and more thorough change to occur in a country recovering from 30 years of oppression? The change from oppressed equality of life to freedom of choice is difficult and often devastating.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 broke the communist rule of equality and more than a 100,000 Hungarians escaped when the Revolution failed. Many came to live in Houston and I had the opportunity to observe first hand how people who have lived their lives in equality of misery react to freedom suddenly bestowed upon them.
The first years of these refugees was marred by multiple tragedies because we, who lived our lives in freedom, did not understand that some of these people could not handle freedom. Although surrounded by a free society and people of good will trying to help, these refugees needed leadership, direction, guidelines, and boundaries and constrains. What we gave them was freedom without a sense of responsibility. We told them they can use credit to buy things, but we failed to tell them the consequences of not being able to pay their bills and losing their credit. We told them how to find a job, but we did not tell them about employee loyalty and that they should not change jobs every few months just to make 25¢ an hour more. Soon they had ruined lives, divorces, suicides and some returned to the equality life of oppression in Hungary. Just as a newly freed parolee has difficulty in adjusting to free life and must be controlled by a parole officer, so some of these refugees drowned in the pool of freedom because we did not teach them how to swim.
An observer from an other planet would find it quite amusing to watch how the United States liberated the oppressed people of Iraq to give them freedom, which they do not understand, thus do not desire and can not handle. We are demanding results from the Iraqis generated by their “long awaited” freedom, while attempting to hold ourselves out as a desirable example to the Iraqis. Unaccustomed to freedom, the Iraqis are seeking the strong hand of leadership to keep them under control instead of imitating the confusing moral and political anarchy, called democracy, engulfing the USA.
We ask the Iraqis to combat and die fighting the hatred and venom of Islamist fanatics while they watch in astonishment the common hatred against the President of the United States that unites Islamist fanatics, American fanatics, French fanatics and enemies of the United States. They ask rightfully: Is this what freedom and democracy is about?
Iraqis need an explanation. They understand Islamist hate and venom since they had to live with it all their lives. This hate only recently turned specifically against the President of the United States, because of his forceful efforts to stop the fanatics. Fundamental Islamist hate is more general against the decadent West, led by the Great Satan.
The hatred of Americans against the President has to be explained to them. This hatred has not been an accidental development. It is a deliberate effort to return the opposition political party into power by mobilizing several segments of the population against the Republicans now controlling Congress and the White House. Who are the haters and what is their motivation and what is the MO of hate movements?
UNITED WE HATE
When politicians promote equality the most common and most accessible unifying force is hate. You do not need any positive motivation as long as you have a target for your hate. During the last century Germans, Russians, Chinese and Arabs were united by hate promoted by totalitarian and fanatical leaderships. Political leaders employ similar tactics to gain power.
It is a strange human phenomenon that more unreasonable the hatred, the more hating it generates. When people realize that their hate is not justified, it causes them to recruit others to their movement. Hate has such unifying effect because by expanding and involving others it suppresses the feeling of the guilty conscience of the hater as he seeks to transform his unreasonable hate to reasonable. Unjustified hatred fuels itself by the realization that it is unjustified.
Bush is hated because of his good qualities. If he would be a man of bad moral character, or corrupt, he would be despised. You seldom hate a person you despise. This is perhaps the reason why President Clinton was not hated and it explains the hatred against President Bush.
The current propaganda efforts are primarily directed to those who already believe in it and who need to justify their believes and thus feel less guilty. The more people feel guilty, the more the propaganda must increase. The more people feel that they have been deprived of free choice and independent judgment, the more they need propaganda to remain a loyal hater.
Propaganda is created by people who create words and images. Priests, writers, artists, professors, journalists, filmmakers, TV anchors and intellectuals in general. In order to establish equality their goals are to undermine the present order and institutions; destroy authority and prevailing morals; disillusion the people and create a void and hunger for a new world order under a Utopian scheme. George Soros expresses it best when he proposes a new world order with all nations submit to the same rules and laws. ”We could then rely on international public opinion to determine and protect the common interest to a greater extent than today.”
I have quoted Karl Marx, the father of the Communist ideology, several times because I believe that the United States is attacked by a neo-communist movement that considers the failure of Communism in the Soviet Union a local blunder caused by improper leadership. Institutions of higher learning make no attempt to hide their communist indoctrination and their attempt to create a new generation of neo-communist followers. Politicians are running for office mouthing Communist slogans, advocating class hatred and the destruction of authority in the hope that a new world order will arise ultimately creating equality among nations by bursting “The Bubble of American Supremacy” (George Soros ©2004). Little do they understand that their allies in hatred, the Islamist fundamentalists, are not just attempting to reduce the economic and military power of the United States, but to destroy Western civilization and to restore the Ottoman Empire.
My book,” The Dual Palindrome” published in 2002 stated:
“It is also predicted that the continued confrontation between
the Muslim World and the West may escalate into a major war
starting in 2002 with consequences dominating the next millennium.
An attempt will be made, by declaring a “Jihad”, to recreate the
Ottoman Empire and to unite Muslims against the infidel. The
conflict between “modernization” and “westernization” of Islam
will be eventually resolved by reformation of the Muslim religion,
similar to the Reformation of Christianity. The age of the Muslim
religion and it’s intolerance of other religions reflects the
conditions of the Christian religion of the Dark Ages. This is the
Dark Age period of the Muslim religion. Reformation will eventually
lead to liberation of women and peace between the religions.”
It will be ironic to watch Islam gradually reform due to the projection of American power and the expansion of the information age, while the United States self-destructs for the same reasons. Looking at the results of the last presidential election I see some interesting numbers:
Population of counties won by:
Gore 127 million
Bush 143 million
Square miles of land won by:
Gore 580,000
Bush 2,427,000
States won by:
Gore 19
Bush 29
I can reach but one conclusion: Unless the majority shown by the numbers above wakes up from their apathy, the United States will self-destruct while the Ottoman Empire will be restored.
