Against the Big Black Boot

I have watched with some degree of disdain (but not surprise) that the Liberals are attempting to assassinate Dr. Rand Paul, the runaway winner of the Kentucky Republican Senate Primary. He has been dragged through the Liberal media’s mud for his strong and consistent libertarian views. Specifically, they are attempting to corner him on his statements that Federal Law should not be used to bind private associations, private contracts, and private property–or else we give up our concept of private property altogether. They are attempting to get him to say that he supports repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Laws.

To his defense, because I understand what he is saying, I offer some simple symbolism, which is usually more effective than cold hard reasoning. Most people don’t want to spend the time and effort to reason clearly and consistently. This applies squarely to Democrats AND Republicans.

I take my point from the current Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, in his public flogging of BP over the present oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “We will keep the boot (of the Federal Government) on the throat of BP.” (see video below)  Now THAT’S a symbol. That’s a clear mental picture. So, I propose we go with this mental picture all the way to the whole point of those of us who call ourselves libertarians.

We fear and want to end the whole concept of the boot of government to guide any and all behavior.

So, Dr. Paul, I plead will you to hit them back with this same analogy to clearly illustrate our point. Bring a big black boot to any interview with ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNC, etc… Pop that boot right out in front of the camera and use it to explain the fundament issue–that regulation of behavior should be the job of the People (as stipulated by the Ninth Amendment) and NOT the job of the Federal government (see Article I, Section 8 and the Tenth Amendment).

Explain to the “Liberals”/Democrats that they don’t want the all powerful boot of government either: they don’t want it to restrict rights of gay citizens, they don’t want it to restrict rights of privacy (which they use to defend abortion), they don’t want it to enable the Federal government to spy on the People or to limit freedom of speech and expression, which Bush’s Patriot Act enables. Explain to the “Conservatives”/Republicans that they don’t wan’t the boot to permit redistributive taxes and force participation in the welfare state; they don’t want it to limit volunteer prayer in schools or before a high school football game or to limit the right of citizens to display the Ten Commandments; they don’t want it to restrain free trade of stocks and bonds in the name of “protection;” they don’t want it to limit their right of gun ownership. The trick that they all need to understand is that what the boot giveth, the booth also taketh away. The relative direction of the boot can swing with elections.

Proper reasoning requires attention to fundamentals and clear logical extension of thought from those principles. Neither Democrats nor Republicans can claim this. Libertarians reason from the fundamental principle of private property and the principle of non-aggression and that the ONLY appropriate use of the big black boot of government is for self-defense–to enforce the legal and ethical protection of private property.

So, the campaign should be about the boot. We the People should oppose the boot. We the People should fight the boot.