Posted on 10/27/2008 7:38:41 AM PDT by pissant
Robin Hood is a legitimate hero, not because he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, but rather because he returned to the poor what lawfully belonged to them.
This distinction is what separates the just goals of Robin and his band of “Merry Men” from the dehumanizing economic theory of “redistribution of wealth”—a hallmark of socialism—as explained and supported by Senator Barack Obama in his 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio, just recently rediscovered by the media.
While the famed green archer risked his life in defense of the natural right to retain private property (from thieves like the cruel sheriff of Nottingham and King John who stripped peasants of their land and livelihood), in this interview Senator Obama questions to what extent this right even exists.
But don’t take my word for it. Listen to it. Did you hear what I heard?
There can be no longer any doubt. Senator Obama’s enduring political philosophy is socialist at the core. And his leanings, in this regard, are radical; he would like to see all three branches of the federal government play a role in restructuring our society according to “redistributive” economic principles.
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Way to go, Barry.
But he is a robbing hood.
LOL...nice
I hate it when ppl attempt to describe socialists as robin hood. Robin steal from the government who over tax the citizen
I like this...hopefully we will hit him with this all week. It’s bound to hurt him. We know Zero’s numbers will increase after his propaganda infomercial.
Whats more is the media has yet to report on Obama belonging to the Socialist party in 1996, as well as him campaigning for Raila Odinga, whose main economic policy was also “redistrubuting the wealth”.
funny thing how I read robin hood voer the summer. seems he was frequently stealing fron teh rich (He didn’t focus only upon the government types) but it seems that he kept it to himself, and gave little, if anything to the poor.
but he paid himself and his merry men well.
I think the designation of a robbing hood is quite fitting.
He hates the burbs...thinks whitey in the burbs doesn’t want to pay taxes to help the ghetto!
The ghetto that the raging left loons created in the first place to keep them down and unable to climb out to prosperity.
The raging left is filled with such a level of hypocrisy it defies to be described.
If Obama is elected this country will drop into a state of violence we have never seen. People will wake up very quickly to who they elected and realize that the kool-aid was laced.
Obama is a socialist who is paving the way for a Communist America.
Joe Biden says that people who earn more than $250,000 need to man up and pay more for their fellow man.
Biden made $425,000 and gave less than $1,000 to charity.
When he was making $300,000+ for several years, he was giving under $400 a year to charity.
He is an obnoxious hypocrite who wants to spend YOUR money to ease his guilt.
Private Property Rights
Tired of having the fruits of their labors confiscated by an overpowering British government, America's Founders declared themselves free and independent.
Most American schoolchildren can recite their claim that ". all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ... to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Less familiar, however, are these lines from their Declaration of Independence:
"He ( King George III ) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance .... He has combined with others to subject us, ... imposing taxes on us without our consent."
What, then, did the Founders consider to be the real cornerstone of man's liberty and happiness? On what basic premise did they devise their Constitution? Let them speak for themselves:
| John Adams |
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST"
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| James Madison |
"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort .... This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,... nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has ... is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." |
Their guiding principle was that people come together to form governments in order to SECURE their rights to property - not to create an entity which wilt, itself, "take from the mouths of labor the bread it has earned." What was wrong for individual citizens to do to one another, they believed, was equally wrong for government to do to them.
The right to own property and to keep the rewards of individual labor opened the floodgates of progress for the benefit of the entire human race. Millions have fled other countries to participate in the Miracle of America.
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And more so than in any other election that I can recall the American people are going to vote a referendum on whether or not they still hold to the principles you outline in your post (and on many others as well). There has been a lot of hyperbole in last couple of presidential elections about “this is the most important vote in history”. Well, this time it might very well be true. Hussien and his acolytes and colleagues are offering a very clear choice - they say without equivocation that fundemental change will take place if they are elected and redistribution of wealth is only one of these. It is up to the American people to determine if the vision of the Founders of this nation will continue (even in the watered down form that exists today) or whether the vision favored by the far left will be put up in its stead.
This makes me think of the “Far Side” cartoon of Robin Hood, before he got his mission in life clarified, when he was robbing from the rich and giving to the porcupines.
Or he is a robber from the Hood.
*snort*
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