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Found here the words of simpleton and troll…but overall representative of the “Progressive” mindset, Ubu52.

The freedom you most commonly refer to is what’s known as “negative liberty” or freedom from outside restraint. I would prefer to have effective freedom or the ability to do whatever it is I want to do….I want the same freedoms the really wealthy have: The freedom to fly to Paris for dinner, for example. I want effective liberty, not negative liberty. I already have negative liberty as far as I am concerned. Now I want more.

My Response: bu, you CAN fly to Paris for dinner, and eat at the fanciest restaurant there.

Of course what you can’t do is do that on your own. You need a pilot, you need an aircraft, you need out-of-country transportation, you need a restaurant, you need a master chef, and all the ingredients and equipment to ply his trade, and you need waitstaff.

The insanely rich are no less free than you, but they do have a commodity that all of the above people would be willing to exchange their time, and resources on, and that’s money.

What you propose is the ability to board a plane in California, fly to Paris, hail a car in Paris and get the driver to take you to the restaurant of your choice. Ask the staff to show you to your table, and direct them which meal you’ll be served that evening. Afterwards you’re saying you’d like to hail another car to take you to the airport where you will return home.

All of this you feel you should be able to do without compensating the countless people who bore your little dream on their backs.

That is called “Slavery”.

You may go a step further and demand that I, and many others who either don’t know you, or from what they read here and in other blogs can conclude that you are nothing short of a lousy human being pay for your dreams out of our own pockets, without so much as you even knowing our names, let alone giving an ounce of gratitude for.

Is that better, or worse? At least with the first scenario you’d have the stones to look down your nose at the human you were commanding around, the 2nd Scenario you wouldn’t even be in the same Continent…

You should be ashamed of yourself.

And on MLK day of all things! BTW I had never heard much about “Negative” and “Positive” Liberty before.

It all sounds like a bunch of philosophical navel-gazing hooey. Either you have Liberty or you don’t, I guess the difference between my world view and Ubu’s is that I think people should be free unless they abuse the freedoms of others, meanwhile Ubu thinks that SHE should be free, and her “Liberty” should be at the expense of the liberty of others.

What’s scary is this is NOT a mentality unique to her. Just look at the Kill the Jews protesters. They’re unemployable and generally the worst of society, an they demand that they are given goods and services BECAUSE THEY WANT.

They should ALL be ashamed, but they aren’t.

Today is the day we Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, and reflect on the impression he left on the globe.

Today we have a President of African descent.

While Dr. King was receiving threats (and was later assassinated) he was denied a gun permit to defend himself. Today anybody without a criminal history in all but a few States (all of those in the “Enlightened” North, and California, which was the places the world looked to during the battle to end Segregation) cannot be denied a permit for the defense of themselves and their loved ones. Denials on race, creed, or political views (the reasons Dr. King was denied) are now a criminal act by the Police.

Of course the segregation is totally gone and the vast majority of Americans don’t really take skin color particularly seriously.

Meanwhile the inner cities, and particularly the Black and Hispanic Communities are awash with crime and gang culture. Celebrities who have risen above this underworld squalor glorify this culture.

Our President was a member of a Black Supremacist Church, and when the media found out about this racist past, nobody really paid it much mind.

While things have gotten so good in America that the big “Protest” in the nation is an unorganized and unmotivated rabble camping out in public parks. Sadly most of these groups quickly degenerate to antisemitism.

And On the Reverend’s Birthday yesterday President Obama promoted a lobbyist who’s claim to fame was a prominent position with a Hispanic activist group that’s name translates to “The Race”.

We’ve come so far, Dr. King, but for somebody who was never alive when you were, and who lives in a world where you have always been heralded as a hero, I’m disappointed at how little progress we have made since your tragic passing.

Still I’m working as hard as I can to bring your dream to life, and I’m not alone.