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Expressions of Liberty

A commentary on the governmental respect for natural human rights as expressed by the founders of the United States and how it effects us today. I also show how the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution and other related documents are not dead documents in America today, but merely ignored and misused.

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Location: Champaign, Illinois, United States

I am a classical liberal which is considered a type of conservative in these modern days. I am pro-right to life, pro-right to liberty, pro-parental rights, pro-right to property and a number of other natural human rights.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

The Governments Attack On Motherhood And Childhood

I use APPENDIX A WOMEN’S HEALTH EVENTS OF THE 20th CENTURY for the below information.

The Caucasian birth rate was lower than the sustenance race before Roe v. Wade. If memory serves me it was 1.7 children for every woman. In 1960 The FDA approved birth control pills and in 1965 Griswold vs. Connecticut made birth control legal for married couples. In 1965- Family Planning Funds are made available to combat the war on poverty. 1970- Title X Family Planning Funding and Our Bodies, Ourselves Published.

I obtained the below cite from an article on Generation Y.

“From 1946 to 1964, the U.S. total fertility rate averaged 3.3 — high enough to double the population every two generations. Since 1980, it has averaged 1.9, which is below the so-called replacement rate. Families continued to get smaller than in previous decades, usually with only one or two children.”

As you can see the assault on motherhood and childhood was effective. If is also obvious that the federal government was cahoots with the birth control movement.

Roe v. Wade appears to be targeted at blacks and other minorities though it also effected Caucasians. The last I heard 3 times as many blacks as white are deliberately and arbitrarily killed through abortion and 2.2 times as many minorities. I suspicion that the vast majority of the doctors doing the killing are white. So you can see that white people are still execution innocent black children.

The Hyde Amendment was a gift to blacks with an increase in their fertility following it’s passage. In 1994 while Clinton was President it was loosened up to allow for rape and incest. I am curious how many women falsely claim to be raped in order to have their abortion covered.

Monday, February 20, 2006

When The Freedom Of Press And Speech Suppresses The Right To Learn

A Habit of Lies

Academic Freedom
The right of a worker in academic institutions to research and teach their beliefs without their livelihood being placed in jeopardy by those who disagree.


Tolerant" Left Tries To Censor Conservative Book

“Every individual, whether conservative or liberal, has a perspective and therefore a bias. Professors have every right to interpret the subjects they teach according to their individual points of view. This is the essence of academic freedom.”


Inside CU Academic Freedom 101

““[A]cademic freedom” is defined as the freedom to inquire, discover, publish and teach truth as the faculty member sees it, subject to no control or authority save the control and authority of the rational methods by which truth is established. . . . Within the bounds of this definition, academic freedom requires that members of the faculty must have complete freedom to study, to learn, to do research, and to communicate the results of these pursuits to others.” (Laws of the Regents, article 5.D.1(B), (C))


These are scary definitions as far as I am concerned. They are also opposed to the ideal of accumulating or imparting objective knowledge. According these definition teachers and professors may teach their students a lie and claim it is they have the right to teach their opinion. Any student that dares to disagree will receive a lower grade for failing to learn the opinion the instructor is teaching them.

The Nature of Science

Objective Experimentation and Observation.

Science depends heavily on the repeatability of experiments, and on their giving consistent (e.g. almost identical) results. This repeatability hinges on objective comparison of observations of different researchers studying the phenomenon. Objectivity indicates the desire to observe things as they are, without manipulating the observational results to accord with some preconceived world view. All observation is potentially contaminated, whether by our theories or our worldview or our past experiences.

Scientists, like anyone else, may be swayed by some preconceptions to look for certain experimental results rather than others. Scientists are people and suffer the flaws of humanity too, and it cannot truthfully be said that every scientific theory has arisen from a perfectly executed process of 'scientific method'. Scientists have desires, opinions, and biases that may sometimes influence them in the selection of their data and hypotheses - even, very occasionally, to the point of fraudulence. We trust that this is very rare, and that science is a self-correcting process with checks and balances - such as empirical replication, and peer reviews of published work. The scientific community as a whole, however, judges the work of its members by the objectivity and rigor with which that work has been conducted.


In their search for knowledge scientist see a need for peer review and so should instructors in their imparting knowledge to their students. What do you do when one political ideology dominates a particular field of study? All I can say is that efforts should be made in order that instructors and researchers turn out a product that is unbiased as possible. That is not going to happen if the current definition of Academic Freedom is held to.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

The Government Need To Decrease Bureaucracy To Ensure The Common Defense

Lawmakers are debating on how to fix FEMA after its failure to react quickly enough to the disaster in the southern states following Katrina devastation of the region. For some reason I doubt they will remove the bureaucracy that is well known to slow government agencies down. The breakdown of communications prior to 9/11 can be blamed on that same bureaucracy, as can other events that require fast and efficient response but did not get them.

All the federal and state governments have to do if they truly wish to prevent an event like Katrina is to look at the bureaucracy that they have installed and find ways to trim it down so that when emergencies occur they can be meant quickly and efficiently. I do not believe the proposed overhaul of FEMA will accomplish that goal.