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"Redistributive Change" and that Pesky Constitution

Forget all of the guilty associations. This audio of Obama shows his full colors flying for total government control over all human economic realities.



Centralized state-controlled wealth/property redistribution = no real private property = effective enslavement and subjugation.

I find his view that the Constitution is insufficient, just a document of "negative" rights, profoundly disturbing. The Constitution's essence is not merely as a document of prohibitions on what government can do to us, while anything else is up for grabs.

The Constitution is an eternal mandate that government exists to secure our innate rights as free people. It does not give us freedom, it exists to protect it against collective encroachments, by government above all. It does not "vest us" with rights, as Obama characterized the high court's decisions ordering government to equally protect the rights of African-Americans.

The Constitution has been our one and only bulwark against government that would vest itself as the "determiner" rather than defender of our liberties. Would-be social engineers and statists have long been vexed by what they view as its rigidity and failure to produce their desired outcomes. Obviously they are oblivious that the thwarting of such ad hoc collectivism is the whole point of the Constitution.

It is self-evident that the power to "vest" is also the power to "divest". Those who need to justify
property confiscation and re-distribution, in the name of engineered "economic justice", require such an arrangement of purported "self-governance".

I don't care that Obama is a neighbor or buddy of someone like Bill Ayers. I am far more frightened that Obama, not 7 years ago, sounded like Ayers' sophisticated pupil, complete with leftie crypto-megalomania.

Redistributive change? Repackaged socialism is more like it....


Comments

Anonymous said…
Tyler, if you haven't been watching it, PBS' Masterpiece Theatre has been running a miniseries called The Last Enemy, which I'm fairly certain you'd enjoy. The central theme is (Britain's) government surveillance over and ultimately control of their citizens - all for their own good, of course - and also the guy who played Begbie in Trainspotting is in it.
Tyler Nixon said…
Thanks for the heads-up, G. Sounds interesting. Britain's have let their country really go to hell as far as Big Brother. Orwell saw it coming.
Anonymous said…
Wow...anyone who considers the Warren Court as "not being radical enough" for redistributive change is truly hard-core socialist. As slick as Obama is at conveying his views, I could see him pushing all sorts of redistribution schemes through. There are so many people(including many in Congress) totally ignorant of the Constitution's purpose that they will fall for Obama's smooth talk.

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