Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

A politically incorrect question

What happens when you take farmland that is producing crops that are brought to market to feed your nation's people away from the farmers that own it by force, murdering those farmers if they don't comply with your desire to seize their land? Do crops grow without the seed being sown? Do crops thrive without fertilization? Do crops produce food when they are choked with weeds or burned to the ground? When you seize farmland from working farmers and give the land to men and women who know nothing of farming and who refuse to do the work required to nurture the crops what will the land produce for you to bring to market?

When a nation that once produced an abundance of food, a literal cornucopia that helped to feed a hungry continent stops farming, what sort of result do you expect? When a country's population is starving but the military government that is responsible for the collapse of that country's farming economy orders international aid organizations like Care International to suspend their operations in that country because of political paranoia what do you expect the political leaders of that nation to do?

I'm sure you can guess.

Come on... guess.

That's right — blame the racist west.

"The United Kingdom has mobilized her friends and allies in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand to impose illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe." — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

According to the Associated Press, Robert Mugabe was "staying at a posh hotel near the top of Rome's Via Veneto, an elegant street lined with chic cafes." when he accused the West of maneuvering to bring about "regime change" in Zimbabwe.

Maybe that's why Father Pfleger thinks that America is the greatest sin against God. After all, we don't believe in Zimbabwean style redistribution of wealth here — unless we're liberal politicians anyway.

America is not the greatest sin

Recent remarks by a Catholic priest visiting that den of anti-American and anti-Caucasian bigotry known at Trinity United included the comment that America is the greatest sin against God. This from a Caucasian man who is presumably an American citizen. Hmph!

I'll admit that the United States today is not perfect. Our churches spread racist bigotry while at the same time calling racism a horrible sin against God who is Love. Advertisements on television proudly proclaim that the characters promoting the products (Valtrex) have incurable sexually transmitted diseases. Over fifty years have passed since the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, and yet today the politics of the Democratic party is still marred by charges of racism and sexism.

Still, I wouldn't trade this country for any other country on Earth. Here, despite the best efforts of socialists and bigots, I'm free to choose where I want to live and how. I'm free to choose how I earn a living, and what I do with my money. I'm still free to own my own home and do with my property what I want.

I'm proud of my country and its history. I'm grateful that I live here and not in a place like Zimbabwe, where because of the color of my skin I might have my home stolen from me by the nation's military. I'm grateful that I live here, and not in Darfur, where my wife and children might be raped and murdered while I watch, because of the color of my skin and my choice of religion.

I'm particularly grateful that I live here, because I am free to speak my mind, and because idiots like Father Pfleger are as well. Because our nation recognizes that one of the rights given to man by our Creator is the right to speak freely, and because our Constitution prohibits Congress from enacting any laws that restrict that right (despite what the Supreme Court of the Unites States and Presidential aspirant John McCain might say), we are free to criticize our government, and we are free to speak our minds before the world.

Let the "good father" speak out his venom and hatred for the world to hear. Let it be exposed before the light of day, where his ideas will shrivel in the sun like the moldy rot that they are.

Because we are a nation of free men, given the opportunity to know the truth, foul propaganda like this cannot stand the light of day. Because America is a land of freedom and prosperity for all there is still hope that our people will see that men like this are an anachronism, and doomed — like so many other evils — to be dropped into the dustbin of history.