August 19, 2009 – Word of my recent article, So Now I Am A Communist As Well finally got around to the guy whose comment inspired me to write it. As I handed him a copy to read, I made the comment, it’s nothing personal, and it was never intended to be personal.

Although it has no basis in Scripture, there is an old saying that goes, “Hate the sin but love the sinner.” That is similar to how I feel. I do not hate anyone because they disagree with what I say, or believe. I often find their views extremely ignorant, but that does not mean I hate them for having them.

I love my son and would do anything I could to help him, yet he often infuriates me because of the things he says and does. The same principle applies to the people who disagree with my writings. I do not hate them for disagreeing with me, I just hate the fact that they refuse to even consider the facts.

Being ignorant because you have never had the opportunity to examine the facts is one thing. Willful ignorance because you are too stubborn, or too proud, to admit that you may have been wrong is another.

For many years I was a die hard Republican, sold on the belief that the Democrats were evil and that the only hope for our country lay with Republican candidates.

I can’t honestly say what it was that caused me to stop believing the rhetoric and propaganda, but once it happened I realized that both political parties have taken part in abusing their Constitutional authority. More importantly, I realized that both parties have been responsible for chipping away at my rights and my liberty.

Therefore, all I am attempting to do is to provide people with enough information that they too will be forced to admit that they have been deceived. In a letter to William Charles Jarvis, Thomas Jefferson stated, “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

As I recently wrote, all I want if for my government to leave me the hell alone. I want them out of my life, and out of my wallet. I grew up believing that I alone was responsible for my own actions, and the consequences of those actions.

I have made my share of mistakes over the course of my fifty-one years of existence. I never ever tried to place the blame for my mistakes upon anyone else. I screwed up my life when I was younger by not paying attention in school.

So now instead of working in a cushy office job making the big bucks, I work my ass off for half of what I could have been earning if I had paid attention in school. I am not seeking sympathy, or assistance from anyone.

By the same token, I expect everyone else to own up for their own mistakes. I don’t like it when I am shouldered with the responsibility of subsidizing others because they have not succeeded in life.

Thomas Jefferson must have felt the same, because he once said, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

I wonder how many are aware that there is an unofficial holiday called Tax Freedom Day. It falls in the last week of April, and it is when you have earned enough to pay all the taxes you will owe for that year. Four whole months of work just to pay the taxes that our government imposes upon us! Yet people still look to their government for more programs, more subsidies, and along with them, the inevitable increase in the amount of taxes they will pay.

However it is not merely the fact that I am being taxed into poverty that gets my dander up. The loss of my rights is what bothers me the most. When people, or the government, say that they are going to limit my rights because some idiot abused theirs, I get fighting mad.

It seems that, with increasing frequency, people are looking to the government to do everything for them, things that the government has not right, nor authority to do. And this is what makes me mad at people.

For the life of me I just don’t understand how people cannot see what is happening to this nation. So, when I write my articles, and I hear that someone has called me a communist, a radical, or even a terrorist, I have to attempt to set the record straight. But like I said, it is nothing personal.

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says “OH SHIT!!…. HE’S AWAKE!!”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?“

~ The Author ~
Neal Ross can be reached for comments at bonsai@syix.com. Visit Neal’s Blog at http://www.zombie-slayer.com/neal