"Five Bolshevik Supreme Court Justices handed freedom another knockout blow."

I suggest that everyone read the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. In it, he outlines the 10 tenets of Marxism. Marx’s first rule of the communist utopia, and perhaps the most frightening, has nearly come to fruition in the United States vis-à-vis a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Tenet 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

Why more Americans are not upset about this is easy to understand. In fact, the reason why so few Americans care, or understand the implications of this decision is Marx’s 10th tenet.

Tenet 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

It is quite easy for the state to influence the political thinking and philosophy of a society when the state controls what is taught to the Mensch.

The Supreme Court decision, Kelo v. City of New London, exemplifies the fate which America faces. We are becoming a Marxist society. Five Bolshevik Supreme Court Justices handed freedom another knockout blow. The case concerned the ‘takings’ clause of the 5th Amendment. Until now, as the Founding Fathers had prescribed, eminent domain could be used by a government body to take land from any private party in exchange for the ‘fair value market price’ for the public good. This translates into the government taking land for such purposes as building highways, military bases, and other projects that are used by the general public. Imagine a commute from New York City to Miami without the benefit of public roads built using eminent domain. Certainly, eminent domain in this sense benefits the public good. Justices Souter, Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, and Ginsburg apparently felt that America has been waiting too long to embrace communism. Indeed, these 5 Supreme Reapers declared property rights extinct.

Property is now a mere privilege in the United States. The Bolshevik court used it’s unconstitutional authority to crap on the 5th Amendment. Today, because of the Court, local governments can use eminent domain to take property from one private party and give to another private party if the ownership change will benefit the community. By no means does this ruling hurt the middle class and poor. This ruling can also damage the rich. For instance, if the District of Columbia decides that it would be to the benefit of the community to take prime property in Georgetown from the lawyers, businessmen, and doctors who live there, it most certainly may bulldoze those luxury homes and develop low-income housing subsidized by the government in order to house the poor and homeless of the District. Fortunately for the doctors and lawyers in Georgetown, their homes are safe because many government bureaucrats are their neighbors. The bureaucrats will never subject themselves to what the rest of us must endure.

If you think that my tin foil hat is on too tightly, here are all 10 of Marx’s tenets. Enjoy.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (Kelo v. City of New London)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (April 15th each year)

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (Death Tax)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (This one goes way back to Hamilton winning his precious centralized bank. In this sense, Marx was beat to the punch.)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. (Massive federal government regulations. Check your phone bills for the taxes levied in order to maintain the bureaucracy.)

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (Enter extreme environmentalism.)

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (Fortunately, we are free of this tenet so far.)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (Thank God, no!)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (Today, it is nearly impossible to get a decent job without at least a high school education. Instead of the 3 ‘R’s, public schools now teach the 3 ‘C’s. Collectivism, Communism, and Castration of manhood.)

Josh H.
07/02/05