Hitler and Environmentalism

Nazism was another type of socialism practiced by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (aka the Nazi Party), led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Hitler’s Nazis held many key tenets in common with the philosophy articulated by Marx. They believed in a government-regulated, planned economy. More important, though Hitler was agreeable to the limited private ownership of property, he was against capitalism and those who sought undo personal profit. During his reign of terror, a popular government slogan was “Fixing of profits, not their suppression.”

Hitler also believed capitalism was created by the Jews and once told Italian Fascist dictator Mussolini, “Capitalism has run its course.”

So determined was Hitler to eliminate excessive profit that execution or imprisonment in a concentration camp was the punishment exacted for any business owner who pursued his own self-interest, instead of the interests of the state. This official decree was stamped into the rim of the silver reichsmark coins issued during the Nazi reign: “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz,” or “The common good before self-interest.”

Additionally, like Marx, Hitler saw nature, not humankind, as supreme. He also insisted that the environment be protected from commercial development, stating, “Man must not fall into the error of thinking that he was ever meant to become lord and master of Nature.”

Like his communist cousins, Hitler perceived pollution as the direct result of capitalism and, as a fellow materialist who spurned belief in the supernatural (despite occasional vague rhetoric about “Providence”), he was completely opposed to the harvesting or mining of natural resources, stating, “The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.”

Following Marx, Lenin, and Hitler, a new generation would go forth to further unfurl socialism’s green flag, and they would achieve great success with their devious agenda...even in America.

Source: Eco-Tyranny. How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America (2012) by Brian Sussman.

So, Hitler wasn’t a socialist huh? In his book Mr. Sussman also gives a 12-point plan on how to dismantle the eco-tyrannists plans. Like, for instance, abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, repeal the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, abolish the Department of Interior, repeal the Endangered Species Act (he says this can be handled by the states) etc. Those acts by themselves will give the environmental extremists a stroke for sure.

Feds: America Should Adopt ‘Plant-Based’ Diet

From Freebeacon.com (Feb. 20):

The federal committee responsible for nutrition guidelines is calling for the adoption of “plant-based” diets, taxes on dessert, trained obesity “interventionists” at worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television.

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released its far-reaching 571-page report of recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday, which detailed its plans to “transform the food system.”

The report is open for public comment for 45 days, and will be used as the basis by the government agencies to develop the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines are used as the basis for government food assistance programs, nutrition education efforts, and for making “decisions about national health objectives.”

DGAC proposed a variety of solutions to address obesity, and its promotion of what it calls the “culture of health.”

“The persistent high levels of overweight and obesity require urgent population- and individual-level strategies across multiple settings, including health care, communities, schools, worksites, and families,” they said.

In response, DGAC called for diet and weight management interventions by “trained interventionists” in healthcare settings, community locations, and worksites. [read more]

What will be next? Make mandatory aerobic exercise? When you let gov’t take over the healthcare system you let them take over your health—ie your body. And the Left is worried about gov’t banning abortion. This is far worse.

Well, at least the militant vegetarians are happy.

Congress Is About to Impose Another Unfunded Mandate on Doctors

From The Daily Signal.com (Feb. 19):

Doctors in their day-to-day practice already face a mound of federal regulations.

Now, starting Oct. 1, doctors will face a new unfunded mandate as they will be required to transition to a costly and complicated coding system for payment.

While the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system was originally designed specifically for disease classification, since the 1980s, public and private payers alike have required that health care providers use the ICD-9 system when they file reimbursement claims. If, for instance, you go to the doctor’s for treatment for the flu, the doctor’s office will use the ICD code for flu when billing your insurance.

But unless Congress acts, the current ICD code will be replaced Oct. 1 by the vastly more complex ICD-10.  [read more]

Another example of the gov’t making life more complicated than necessary.

Frederick Douglass

This being Black History Month I would like to talk about Frederick Douglass.

Here are the Frederick Douglass’ twelve principles to leadership and success:

1. The Proper Use of Power Is To Promote the Common Good.
2. Give Up Something You Want In Order To Help Someone Else.
3. Overcome Doubt and Fear.
4. Understand Why and How To Control the Human Ego.
5. Do What Is Right and Proper Even If No One Is Looking.
6. Use Knowledge and Understanding Wisely.
7. Overcome Indecisiveness.
8. Make Gratitude a Part of Every Thought And Action.
9. Practice the Skill of Listening Carefully Before Making Judgments.
10. Remain True To Your Word.
11. Hold a Vision For the Desired Future.
12. Recognize That Your Success Is As Much a Motivation To Others As To You.

Pretty good principles to live by. It sounds like he might be a conservative.

Here are some quotes of his:

People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.

It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

….The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us….I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played mischief with us. Do nothing with us….And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ….[Y]our interference is doing him positive injury.

Yea, this guy was definitely a conservative. A better role model for blacks than Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton will ever be.

CIA Bought Hundreds of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction in ‘Operation Avarice’

From The Blaze.com (Feb. 16):

A mysterious seller.

Internationally condemned chemical weapons.

Until recently, the whole thing was a secret — and even now the Pentagon is cagey about its involvement.

Working with the U.S. military, the CIA purchased some 400 Borak rockets from an Iraqi seller between 2005 and 2006, uncovering and destroying reserves of sarin nerve agent, the New York Times reported.

The name of the program: Operation Avarice.

According to the Times’ report, Operation Avarice revolved around a single Iraqi who sold the weapons to the Americans in batches.

Run by the CIA office in Baghdad and the Army’s 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion, the program destroyed most of the rockets it recovered — along with thousands of other chemical weapons recovered throughout the American occupation of Iraq — though some rockets were tested in rudimentary ways that may have exposed soldiers to dangerous chemicals.

One source said operatives would place warheads in “an old cast-iron bathtub” and drill through the metal exteriors to extract the liquid sarin nerve agent within.

Manufactured by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, the Borak rockets were found to contain surprisingly pure sarin despite their age, the Times reported.

Sarin gas is a lethal chemical used by Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s — with occasional CIA guidance — and more recently in fighting in Syria.  [read more]

The Modern Little Red Hen

A modern fairy tale by Ronald Reagan told Nov. 16, 1976:

Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called here neighbors and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.
"Not I," said the duck.
"Not I," said the pig.
"Not I," said the goose.

"Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did. The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain. "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

"Not I," said the duck.
"Out of my classification," said the pig.
"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.
"Then I will," said the little red hen, and she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.
"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.
"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.

"Then I will," said the little red hen. She baked five loaves and held them up for her neighbors to see.

They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, "No, I can eat the five loaves."

"Excess profits!" cried the cow.
"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck.

"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose.
And the pig just grunted. And they painted "unfair" picket signs and marched round and round the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not be greedy."

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.

"Exactly,” said the agent, "that is the wonderful free enterprise system. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide their product with the idle."

And the lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful. I am grateful."

But her neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand.

Free Enterprise

Another speech by Ronald Reagan about free enterprise April 16, 1979:

Our free market system is usually termed capitalism and by that definition capitalism has hardly been around long enough to deserve all the evil for which it is being held responsible.

Most of us aren’t really conscious of how recently the capitalist system came into being. Possibly we look back and think of the extravagant luxury of kings and emperors and see that as capitalism. We have a modern counterpart today in the rulers of Marxist nations.  Maybe our trouble is caused by the term capitalist itself. Actually all systems are capitalist. It’s just a matter of who owns and controls the capital--ancient king, dictator or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

We have a very visible example of the contrast between the free market and government ownership in a household necessity we take for granted. The invention of Alexander Graham Bell--the telephone offers us irrefutable proof of the superiority of the free market.

As recently as 1880 there were only 34,000 miles of telephone wires on the whole North American Continent. There were dozens and dozens of small telephone companies using several different kinds of equipment and there was no inter-connection between these different companies. The same situation prevailed in all the other so called advanced nations.

If someone had openly advanced a plan to put a phone in every home, on every farm, in every hamlet and city and hook them all together I’m sure someone would have said, “only government has the resources to do that.” Now strangely enough in most other countries government did take over the telephone system and to this very day the telephones in a great many countries are part of the postal system. In America the government wasn’t bulldozing it’s way into the free market place as it is today. For that we can be grateful. The scattered, competing phone companies were left to the magic of the market place. And that magic worked as it always does.

We take the phone so much for granted it’s hard to realize things weren’t always this way. We can dial directly to any point in the country and to a great many outside the country.

With no intention of insulting anyone I have to say it only takes a few days trip in many of those other countries to where the telephone is a government service to realize there is a difference. A long distance call there can be quite an adventure--so can getting a phone installed.

But here we have them in our cars if we like, in private or corporation owned executive planes and on boats. We bounce long distance calls off privately owned satellites and use telephone lines for network radio and remote broadcasts of sporting and special events.

And all of this came about because private individuals wanting to make a profit for themselves kept thinking of better services to offer, confident that we’d want that better service.

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand.

The Hope of Mankind

Here is another speech Ronald Reagan did Sept. 21, 1976:

Every once in a while all of us native born Americans should make it a
point to have a conversation with one who is an American by choice. They
can do a lot to firm up our resolve to be free for another 200 years.

In a dinner at Mt. Vernon back in revolutionary times, Lafayette  turned to his host and said “General Washington you Americans even in war and desperate times have a superb spirit. You are happy and you are confident. Why is it?” Washington answered “There is freedom, there is space for a man to be alone and think and there are friends who owe each other nothing but affection.” So simple an answer and so true.

Now 200 years later our self respect as a nation has undergone a strain. At times it has seemed as if the symbol of American power has become our departing ambassador, flag under his arm boarding a rescue helicopter.

But there is an awful lot of that other America still around. Like beauty it may be in the eye of the beholder. A few years back a woman who had fled from Poland wrote a letter and said, “Among some of our American born friends it is not fashionable to be enthusiastic about America. There is V.N. drugs, urban and racial conflict, poverty and pollution. Undoubtedly this country faces urgent and serious problems. But we newcomers see not only the problems but also solutions being sought and applied.

I love America because people accept me for what I am. They don’t question my ancestry, my faith, my political beliefs. When I want to move from one place to another I don’t have to ask permission. When I need a needle I go to the nearest store and get one. I don’t have to stand in line for hours to buy a piece of tough, fat meat. Even with inflation I don’t have to pay a days earnings for a small chicken.

I love America because America trusts me. I don’t have to show an identity card to buy a pair of shoes. My mail isn’t censored and my conversation with friends isn’t reported to the secret police.”

More recently On July 5” the “London Daily Mail” filled it’s editorial page with an article by Ferdinand Mount in which he sharply criticized his fellow Britons and other Europeans who delight in lambasting the U.S. He said: “What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the 1st nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it. For all it’s terrible faults, in one sense America still is the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness which most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.  We  criticize,” he said, “copy, patronize, idolize, insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. For it is the only nation founded solely on a moral dream. A part of our own future is tied up in it and the greatest of all the gifts the Americans have given us is hope.”

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand.

Sadly, Obama and people like him don’t think America is the “best hope of mankind.” And because of that belief they want to remake America in their own twisted image.

More Excerpts from Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

America’s Strength. Dec. 22, 1976:

Our productivity is phenomenal. We raise 37% more wheat per acre than the national average. We are 6% of the worlds population on only 7% of the worlds lands but we produce almost half the worlds corn, 2/3 of the soy beans, 1/3 or more of the world’s paper, electrical power, college graduates and almost 1/3 of the farm machinery. Just to round it off we make more than 2/3 of the computers and 80% of all the passenger aircraft.

We lead the world in advanced technology; in telecommunications, drilling and mining equipment, medical science and agri-science.

All of this is because our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high and as far as his own talent and energy would take him. We allocate resources not by government decisions but by the millions of decisions customers make when they go into the market place to buy. If something seems too high priced we buy something else. Thus resources are steered toward those things the people want most at the price they are willing to pay. It may not be a perfect system but it’s better than any other that’s ever been tried.

No Pay, No Vote.  April 3, 1978

It goes without saying that the US has proven again and again it’s generosity. Other nations owe us tens of billions of dollars but they aren’t asked to pay up. We are first on the scene to bring aid when natural disaster strikes and our Marshal plan and subsequent foreign aid program are unique in all the history of mans relation to man. We helped allies and erstwhile enemies alike with need the only criteria. All of which qualifies us now to make a long overdue move in the United Nations.

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand.

It’s too bad Obama can’t say these things and mean it. I am not saying he should completely emulate President Reagan. No one can do that. A president should be himself. All I am saying is that it’s too bad he can’t love his country faults in all. Even Woodrow Wilson and FDR loved their country in their own big gov’t progressive way.

Ronald Reagan on Peace

This is from a speech he did in April 1975:

It has been revealed that for twelve years, a behavioral scientist at the University of Hawaii has headed up a team of distinguished colleagues in a Federally-Funded, computerized study of International behavior. Summed up in one sentence they have learned that “to abdicate power is to abdicate the right to maintain peace.”

The study focused mainly upon Red China, Russia and the US. Every bit of data from trade to tourism—from threats to treaties—was fed into the computers. The findings prove conclusively that what Laurence Beilenson wrote in his book “The Treaty Trap” is true. “Nations that place their faith in treaties and fail to keep their hardware up don’t stick around long enough to write many pages in history.”

According to the report “It is not equality in power,” “that reduces hostility and conflict. Rather it is power dominance or submission.”---Peace is purchased by making yourself stronger than your adversary—or by dismantling power and submitting to one’s enemies.”

Power is not only sufficient military strength but a sound economy, a reliable energy supply and credibility—the belief by any potential enemy that you will not choose surrender as the way to maintain peace. Thomas Jefferson said “The American people won’t make a mistake if they are given all the facts.”

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand. The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America (2001) by Ronald Reagan.

So true now as it was back then. Sadly, Obama and the Left will never get this fact—that evil exists in the world.