INCITES
Nathan, George
D O W N WITH OCHLOCRACY Continued from Page 10 to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, under Adams' sway, accomplished what no similar body before or since has mastered: they stopped that...
...He and the new class would uplift people's taste (whether they liked it or not...
...Or, he can buy a black V W beetle...
...It can be as banal as the wedding-cake architecture of Stalin's Russia from which no deviation was allowed — Stalin obviously possessed no knowledge of architecture, but his barbaric tastes nonetheless were inflicted on the people who paid for such monstrosities as the University of Moscow...
...Government must coerce people to work at certain jobs or the plan fails, thereby restricting the freedom of the individual to work where and how he wishes...
...In the latter case he starves...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, a member of the new class, argues that people should not be allowed to waste money on insolent chariots...
...Briefly, economic planning requires coercion...
...Conservatives have opposed the recent aggrandizement of power granted to the Federal government through the civil rights acts precisely because they fully comprehend that human rights cannot be preserved through the power of government but through its absence...
...Though for utter absurdity I am unable to match such fustian as the 1823 "Society for Distressed and Decayed Harbor Pilots," "The National Council of Churches," and "The Black Panther Party," genuflecting before almost two hundred years of imbecility I submit the following: SURFERS CLUB OF GREATER BOISE COMMITTEE FOR A SAVAGE NUCLEAR POLICY (SANE) EDSEL RACING DIVISION WOMEN CONCERNED WITH TURNING-ON UBANGIS (WCTU) ADDLEBRAINS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION (ADA) BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD FEATHERBEDDERS FRATERNAL ORDER OF ARTICHOKE HEARTS BROTHERHOOD OF WINE TESTERS, SEED SPITTERS AND GRAPE PICKERS OF DELANO, CALIFORNIA Continued from Page 5 FREEDOM which the direction of economic activity requires...
...or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...
...He can, if he chooses, select a mauve-colored, insolent chariot, decked with fins, fake air scoop and acres of chrome...
...General Eisenhower, understood this fact and confined his actions to the role of a "whig" president...
...It is time to hold the line, less the Republic go imder...
...Perhaps Galbraith has superior tastes, but the elite can have tastes as gross as they are pervasive...
...When Negroes have been denied their rights it is because government has failed in its duty to treat people equally — providing some the protection of the law while refusing it to others...
...Claiming to create freedom for Negroes through Federal intervention, liberals are enslaving blacks and whites alike in an omnipotent state...
...In America there is room for the gingerbread homes of the 1890's and the structures of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Capitalism is anathema to liberals because they cannot compel the individual to accept their ideas of what he should buy...
...of the right of people peacefully to assemble (militant demonstrators might note the word "peacefully") and to petition the govem— Continued on Page 12 Page 11...
...For nearly 150 years in a most remarkable feat, the United States froze the swing of that awful pendulum at its nadir...
...D O W N WITH OCHLOCRACY Continued from Page 10 to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, under Adams' sway, accomplished what no similar body before or since has mastered: they stopped that historical cycle from "tyranny back to tyranny" at midpoint — between oligarchy and mobocracy...
...The country will be the beneficiary if Nixon learned something from his association with the General...
...Since the state controls production, the individual must produce for the state or not produce at all...
...The last Republican president...
...If government can compel one to work, it also can deprive that individual of a job if he does not please the state...
...I N C I T E S BY George Nathan Recently I offered possible names for those future asinine organizations Americans are so wont to concoct, and the response was thunderous...
...It was not by accident but design that the founding fathers, in drafting the Bill of Rights, stated in Article I that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
...While exclaiming profusely a concern for the individual's rights, liberals are generating governmental power which is slowly strangling every man's freedom...
...Capitalism, on the other hand, can cater to a variety of tastes...
...Since the 1930's it has begun to move dangerously close to mobocracy, the welfare state, with all its attendant evils...
Vol. 2 • December 1968 • No. 3
