Historic America or "Communism lite"

By Jan Michael Jacobson
for eco-logic/powerhouse

September 1, 2005

America is the greatest success story of any known society. Yet, nearly one man in two recently voted to destroy America. Some 47 percent of voters, and well over 90 percent of all educators, and virtually all bureaucrats, want to replace the historically proven success of America with the catastrophic failures of Socialism. Think about your neighbor – the "environmentalist" next door. Think about the multiplying swarms of agency employees, which you labor over five months of every year to support, with your taxes. They are working every day, using your money, to replace historic America with "Communism Lite."

They call Communism Lite many things, except what it really is. They call it "Green Space," the "Wildlands Project," and "Wildlife Corridors." They talk of "state-wide land-use planning," and they deceptively prattle about "sustainable development."

The state of Florida is, perhaps, the best example of where such anti-American ideas lead. In just one decade, over 1,243,000 acres of land changed from historic, private ownership, to socailized, government ownership.

If we assume a large lot of half-an-acre per home, about 100' X 200', in one year, 2,486,000 families were denied land on which they could have built a home. That is some 10,000,000 people. That is slightly more people than the total population of Michigan. Such are the results of the socialization of America.

As there isn't space enough to cover socialism's deleterious impacts on America's industrial base, mining, food production, manufacturing, and energy production in one article, I shall deal with them in other articles.

But a special "thanks" is due to Dr. Reed Noss, who schemed up the "Wild Lands Project." For his role in the destruction of private ownership of land, and private management of those private lands, in America, he has earned the dubious honor of having given us a new word – "Noss-ea." For the results of his work are truly "Nossiating."

Putatively, the socialization of America is justified on the grounds of helping the "endangered critter de jure." But Noss, and the "Nossiating" swarms of bureaucrats, bureau-scientists, educrats, and NGO fellow travelers, failed to tell the citizens about a crucial aspect of extinction.

They conveniently failed to tell the citizens that extinction is a natural process, and that perhaps 99 percent of all species that have ever been, are now extinct. Attempting to outlaw extinction is like outlawing the incoming tide, the setting of the sun, or the onset of winter.

And, you can safely bet your life, that neither Noss, nor his minions, ever even mentioned the fact that habitats are exceeding tough, durable, and resilient. They evolve over immense stretches of time.

It is civilizations that are fragile; not habitats, not species. The American civilization is but a few hundred years old, and it is under attack from without, and being eroded from within, by Noss's minions, bureaucrats, educrats, and NGO opportunists conspiring to replace individualism with socialism.

The Nossiating fact is that agency-persons and educrats have flourished, as America has been socialized. Since the 1960s, government has grown 70 percent in size. And, it is our descendants who will have to pay for the folly of socializing America. They will be burdened with a lifetime of harsh taxes, and a severe loss of freedom.

It is our children who will have fewer homes, who will have to live in "urban enclaves," stacked up in vast apartment complexes, or shoe-horned into zero-lot line houses, jammed alongside each other, with roof gutters only a few feet apart. All that is mandated by urban planners, thanks to the "Wildlands Project," and the other rationalizations for socializing America.

It will be our children, and our children's children, who will suffer the vastly higher crime rate of urban areas, the higher abortion and divorce rates found in urban areas, and the general social and family degradation all-too-prominent in urban areas.

Science has shown, beyond reasonable doubt, that man is a territorial being. The hard data, and the scientific evidence of this have become clear and unambiguous, within the last thirty years. Far earlier, some 6,000 years earlier, Judeo-Christianity said "Man is happiest sitting in the shade of his own vineyard," or his own "orchard," depending on the translation from the original scrolls.

"His," as in "his own" - not some Kings's, not some state agency's, not some federal agency's – "his." That three letter word, "his," is the underlying reason why America has been the greatest success in the entire history of mankind's 2.5 million-year-long hike upward from the Olduvai Gorge.

America harnessed man's territorial nature when it gave property rights central importance, and great legal protection.

Man takes better care of that which is his. Should anyone doubt that, ask yourself which is better cared for: a rental car, or a private car. Better still, ask any rental car agency. But, be prepared for a long list of horror stories about what happens to a rental car.

Science and religion have the same message. But 47 percent of voters and over 90 percent of educrats, and nearly all bureaucrats didn't understand the message. Or, they are denying it.

Government ownership of land, and even government control of land management, is a proven path to failure of that government, and eventually to famine. Ask any Russian, North Korean, or Cuban.

People work longest, hardest, and most productively for what is theirs, for their wife/husband, their children, for their home, their car or truck, for their children's education, for their retirement, and so on. Likewise, for the daily things of life like food, the power bill, fuel, insurance, etc.

The unique claim of America has been that the individual is sovereign, and has Unalienable Rights endowed to him by his Creator. Chief among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These Unalienable Rights are given to each individual by God.

For those who do not believe in God, the scientific evidence of man's behavioral predispositions, and the history of the American experiment, has a clear and unambiguous message; man's nature as a territorial organism is best harnessed in the original American system of small, limited government, strictly limited by the Constitution.

We allowed the government out of its chains, so carefully-forged by the Founders when they wrote the Constitution. Now, our children and grandchildren will pay the price for this foolish and egregiously un-Constitutional socialization of America.

Central to America's success has been the historic emphasis on family values and private ownership. In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles, for certain principles are essential to liberty. Private ownership is a principle essential to liberty

Conversion of private land to government land is one such principle that is antithetical to America. Because of this fact, the Reed Noss types, the educrats, the bureaucrats, and the environmentalists are all profoundly anti-American.

And, certain principles are antithetical to liberty. Social ownership (Communism Lite) is a principle which is antithetical to liberty.

To attempt to change America from a land of private-ownership of land, to a socialized nation of government-owned land is an attempt to destroy the Constitution and America. To attempt to sneak such a change under public awareness, without calling for a Constitutional Convention, is arguably, treason.