Kudos SteeleRedux

Dear Steele,

Thank You.

Robert F. Kennedy once said:

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous
about extremists is not that they are extreme,
but that they are intolerant. The evil is not
what they say about their cause, but what they
say about their opponents."

I can see that Steele Redux isn't a fan of the principles of democracy. Democracy as Churchill said has faults. Democracy and the dangerous crowd in the modern age as Freud said needs to be controlled- Dandrews has used Corona to do it- well done- but it highlights the point that democracy isn't necessarily of the people- rule of law- well- when it suits them. Power over their own lives is out of reach for many.

Democracy has become a smoke screen- an obfuscation- for those unprincipled that play power games- playing "keep away" with the power from those that own it- taking their power from your liberty.

Freedom is not free.

Ask yourself what are the principles of freedom?

Is it being free to sleep all day- at someone else's expense- or the freedom to live productively by principles that you and your ancestors chose.

For me The Republic by Plato is a good place to start.

Perhaps like The Republic we will need to start again "from green fields" building our society from nothing but thought and perspiration upon the bones of our ancestors like those of Flanders Field as Australia did in it's youth.

"At last I came to the conclusion that all existing states are badly governed and the condition of their laws practically incurable, without some miraculous remedy and the assistance of fortune; and I was forced to say, in praise of true philosophy, that from her height alone was it possible to discern what the nature of justice is, either in the state or in the individual, and that the ills of the human race would never end until either those who are sincerely and truly lovers of wisdom come into political power, or the rulers of our cities, by the grace of God (théia moira), learn true philosophy." Plato

War "polemos" is a natural state of affairs, rather than an aberration from accustomed tranquillity. Plato

http://brewminate.com/war-and-peace-in-platos-political-thought/

http://www.slp.org/pdf/marx/comm_man.pdf

http://poets.org/poem/flanders-fields

Interesting...

We are the army of the Chinese people and in all things we take the will of the Chinese people as our will. The policies of our army represent the urgent demands of the Chinese people and chief among them are the following:

(1) Unite workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals and businessmen, all oppressed classes, all people's organizations, democratic parties, minority nationalities, overseas Chinese and other patriots; form a national united front; overthrow the dictatorial Chiang Kai-shek government; and establish a democratic coalition government.

(2) Arrest, try and punish the civil war criminals headed by Chiang Kai-shek.

(3) Abolish the Chiang Kai-shek dictatorship, carry out the system of people's democracy and guarantee freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly and of association for the people.

(4) Abolish the rotten institutions of the Chiang Kai-shek regime, clear out all corrupt officials and establish clean government.

(5) Confiscate the property of the four big families[9] of Chiang Kai-shek, T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung and the Chen Li-fu brothers, and the property of the other chief war criminals; confiscate bureaucrat-capital, develop the industry and commerce of the national bourgeoisie, improve the livelihood of workers and employees, and give relief to victims of natural calamities and to poverty-stricken people.

(6) Abolish the system of feudal exploitation and put into effect the system of land to the tillers.

(7) Recognize the right to equality and autonomy of the minority nationalities within the borders of China.

(8) Repudiate the traitorous foreign policy of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial government, abrogate all the treasonable treaties and repudiate all the foreign debts contracted by Chiang Kai-shek during the civil war period. Demand that the U.S. government withdraw its troops stationed in China, which are a menace to China's independence, and oppose any foreign country's helping Chiang Kai-shek to carry on civil war or trying to revive the forces of Japanese aggression. Conclude treaties of trade and friendship with foreign countries on the basis of equality and reciprocity. Unite in a common struggle with all nations which treat us as equals.

The above are the basic policies of our army. They will be put into practice at once wherever our army goes. These policies conform with the demands of more than 90 per cent of the people in our country.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_22.htm

CM,

Is anyone reading those endless post of garbage you put up. No one seems to reply... I did. I note the word Pluto is in one bit of your nonsense. Being a foreigner, are you from the plant Pluto.