[Swiftwater Gazette] a reply to Elle...

[Ed Kroposki]

Elle, 

I got home yesterday evening/night.  Arrived in Newark and spent night in Philadelphia, then drove 12 hours yesterday.  I made it.

Now I will wade thru emails and web posts.  I noted your comments.  I do not pretend to be brilliant nor eloquent.  I have made a conscious decision to walk what I consider the right road.

While I was in Ukraine, some of my unanswered emails were answered and relevant to your comments.

I met a second cousin.  I had obtained his email address, tried to email him but never received a reply.  Simply, he only speaks and writes Ukrainian.  

He took my family history under his corner of my family back to the 1850's.  His corner of the family has survived feudalism, wars, communism (aka Marxism) and things that are hard to relate to.  He lost an aunt to a soviet concentration camp, uncles to wars, etc.

We all know people who are in Osama's corner.  They say he is a smart man, just give him time.

I say, and have said, it is important to know where the leader is going.

Marxism has not helped ordinary people, but rather leads to subjugation and dictatorship.  The results of Marxism also known as socialism, progressivism, liberalism, Rockefeller Republicanism, are to be understood just by looking and reading history.  Just take a trip to behind the old 'Iron Curtain' and meet with ordinary people, your contemporaries, and you begin to grasp the situation.  

There are many good analysis of what capitalism is.  What freedom means.  I recently found this old description as illustrating the difference between freedom and where Obama is going:

Derivation of rights of men 

 

Consider the curious fact that never has there been such a proliferation, all over the world of . alleged new rights. Jobs, food, clothing, recreation (!), homes, medical care, education, etc., do not grow in nature. These are man made values goods and services produced by men. Who is to provide them? 

 

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means, that those, others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

 

Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. 

 

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as 'the right to enslave'.

 

A right does not include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.     

 

Observe, in this context, the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the right to the, pursuit of happiness: not of the right to happiness. It means that a man as the right to take the actions he deems necessary to achieve his happiness; it does not mean that others must make him happy.        

 

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him; it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

 

The right to property means that a man has the right to take the economic actions necessary to earn property; to use it and to dispose of it; it does not mean that others must provide him with property. 

 

The right of free speech means that a man has the right to express his ideas without danger of suppression, interference or punitive action by the government.  It does not mean that others must provide him with a lecture hall, a radio station or a printing press through which to express his ideas.

 

Excerpt from the Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand*



In summary, my great, great, grandfather walked from eastern Ukraine to western Ukraine.  He got his progeny out from under the yoke of feudalism.  For a brief moment around 1900 a window to freedom opened and two of his grandsons emigrated to USA.  But for their courage and understanding of freedom, I doubt that I would have survived under communism.



Even among his heirs, I am a minority.  Only some of us got the gene for wanting freedom.  



Recall the flak I took on the Rhodes list for pointing out that Obama beliefs were true socialism, communistic, Marxist.  I was told that there was no relation between Obama and Nazism.  I was told that Obama was a brilliant man, much smarter than Bush.  We were told that being an eloquent public speaker was important.



I have made no secret of my other ancestry.  Just before my fathers oldest sister died, she sent me a couple of documents in Russian.  It seems that on the other side of my heritage I am related to a very famous Communists.  In fact the Russian's still celebrate a holiday dedicated to that lady.  She was a pure communist.  



My paternal grandfather changed his name when he emigrated around 1910.  There is no one alive that I can/could find that could tell the true story.  But knowing he was an entrepreneur and finding out who his relatives were, it is easy to see why he changed his name and his country.



Is there anyone who would not also say that Lenin was brilliant?  And where did his brilliance lead? Just take a trip to eastern Europe and see for yourself.



It is easier to be a sheep than believe in freedom.  Most people go the easier road.  However, the greatest improvements for humans were accomplished by freedom and not slavery.



Respectfully,



Ed K
















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