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Unlike Collectivism and State Interventionism, Capitalism and Freedom works.For several weeks now, I've been one of the very lucky few receiving regularly selected articles and/or translations directly from Mr. François Guillaumat himself (I wish to take this opportunity - knowingly induced - to thank him cordially, as well as Hervé Duray who will know why I'm thanking him without the need to lay it out over these pages) and I can tell you that your devoted dissident frogman is nothing but a little bird, compared to the other chosen few on this list - No, I'm not going to give you names. Just be informed that I'm talking about prominent intellectuals, writers, thinkers and French politicians. (The first time I saw who was on the Cc field alongside the dissident frogman, my bottommost jaw hit the floor two storeys below. All I could say for the 30 minutes after that can be abridged with "Oh Dear!" and "Oh Jeez! Him/Her as well?!?" )
Besides, the thing that really finished me off was the fact that Mr. Guillaumat choose to send this post of mine to this eminent assembly which, I can confess now, scared the sh*t out of me.
I couldn't jot down a single word for several days after that, fearing I might not live up to these new expectations.
Rejection complex, I know, I know.
Anyway... It is definitely an honor to be on this list (not mentioning that it's also very informative). At least, that's how I see it.
Back to my introductory sentence: Mr. Guillaumat recently sent us this article by Michael Gove, published in The Sunday Times of January 8th and entitled "The hatred of America is the socialism of fools".
While investigating the irrational anti-Americanism in the "Old Europe", Mr. Gove report this delightful and so true observation from the US writer Charles Krauthammer:
(About America accused of being "a predator on the poorest nations of the Earth")(I can hardly resist the need to emphasize, once again, that in each case the opposite way "chosen" by the other part has been Real Socialism.
(...) America's influence for good in suffering states is directly measurable in three very different examples. After the Second World War three devastated nations were divided. In each case one part of a culturally unified nation fell under America's political influence. And in each case (South Korea versus North, West Germany as against East, Taiwan as opposed to Communist China) the territory which took the American path enjoyed greater freedom and prosperity.
For the lesser of the three evils - East Germany - the result was "only" an incredibly brutal and constant dictatorship and oppression and an open [or more precisely, institutionalized] support for worldwide terrorism.
In the worst cases - China and North Korea - the regime involved added to the "assets" of East Germany's Stasi, death camps, forced labor - reintroducing slavery de facto - "political rehabilitation" by the means of humiliation and violence, the doom and permanent misery of their people and country's economy.
State violence piled up tenths of millions of dead, without discrimination of opinions, social class, race, age, kind or religion - thus demonstrating, as this type of regime always do, that the Socialist conception of
equality summarizes in "Everybody is equal in front of the executioners" - the grim winner in this insane race being the idol of the French left nomenklatura, Mao Zedong.
All of which, of course, in the name of "equality" and "social justice".)
Charles Krauthammer's remark is the fruit of plain common sense.
This is not "Capitalist propaganda".
This is not ideological make up.
This is not a view of the mind nor is it the false promise of some utopian "new dawn".
This is pure and uncut observation of undeniable historical facts.
Funny that my fellow Frenchmen, the
What's the size of a blind-minded weasel's brain?
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