A Journal for Western Man-- Issue III
Part III
G. Stolyarov II
But the United Nations and its altruist, primitivist designs cannot exist without the sanction of the victims. Dr. Chris Matthew Sciabarra, author of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, explains: "[Rand] defined evil negatively, as rooted in a revolt against rationality. Evil has no power without the sanction of good. In cannot exist on its own, and depends upon the default of the good for its sustenance. Evil can only destroy, it cannot create. It requires that others create before it can expropriate their values. Good does not require the presence of evil, but evil is a parasite on the moral host." (p. 263) Thus, to separate themselves from evil, the United States, Britain, Israel, and any other European ally still conscientious of the liberties which distinguish it from the backward tyrannies of the third world, must withdraw from the United Nations! Here in America the work of Representative Ron Paul of Texas on this initiative should be appreciated and considered once more by Congress. Dr. Paul had correctly mentioned in congressional debate on his bill, H.R. 1146, the “American Sovereignty Restoration Act”, which, if passed, would withdraw the United States from the U.N., that “Our Constitution does not give us the authority to sell our sovereignty to an international body.... [E]ven under the treaty provisions of the Constitution, it is not permissible.” Indeed, the unelected bureaucrats who sit at U.N. meetings, presumably on the behalf of the U.S., are so thoroughly indoctrinated into altruism, socialism, and rigid top-down planning that they relinquish the limitations of the very document which had served as a model for the remainder of the free world, which was the culmination of Enlightenment philosophy into a practical, functional, American system that had proved itself to be the most prosperous and progressive this planet had yet seen. Sniveling little dictators have been winning the battle for our ignorance of our Constitution too long now, and only because of the sanction of the victim. It is essential that the United States pass Dr. Paul’s bill as soon as possible and that its allies introduce similar legislation within their lawmaking bodies.
What will then occur to the totalitarian alliance which has been dominating the United Nations? Having none to prey upon, as civilized nations will do no business with them and at last, not possessing vital interests at stake from membership in the same gargantuan organization, can impose crippling sanctions against anti-rational and anti-capitalist regimes in order to give the parasites, in the words of Ayn Rand, “the only death they had a right to seek, their own.” The dictators, without victims, will possess two choices: to mend their ways or starve. In either scenario the burden will be much alleviated. Those nations which choose to genuinely adopt a free-market, individual-rights society, will speedily attain the level of prosperity they had always yearned for, from their own produce and the quality of their labor. Perhaps someday, when dictatorships become annihilated altogether, men can consider an international organization once more, this time fully under the United States banner and serving only the negative functions of an army, police force, and courts, the only proper faculties of government.
What can be advised to the oppressed farmers of Zimbabwe and to the British government? Keep resisting. As John Galt from Atlas Shrugged tells us: “If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is the more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind. That is the moral absolute one does not leave open to debate. I do not grant the terms of reason to men who propose to deprive me of reason. I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer’s wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.” If the British government can grant military aid or economic support to its citizens and descendants thereof in Zimbabwe, it should seek such paths, but the most significant blow will emerge from European withdrawal from the U.N., which will effectively isolate Mugabe commercially and plunge his nation to a level of poverty the producers will not stand and be far more eager to amend.
As for the protesters from the slums, their outcry is a signal to the world that it must not heed their demands, which are to render it impossible to work and force all to mooch, but perform the contrary, that is, to render is impossible to mooch and hence force all to seek work! Every country possesses wage regulations and, henceforth, institutional unemployment of some sort. It is time that each one, individually, repeals these abominable shackles on the willing mind and puts an end to socially planned parasitism. The place to begin is here, in the United States, where minimum wages have soared to the draconian level of $5.15 per hour. By genuinely liberalizing the job market and at last eliminating true poverty at home, this nation, the world’s superpower, will establish a potent example abroad.
We must not permit a totalitarian axis to enforce the will of Mugabe in America to overshadow the light of reason. President Bush was wise not to attend the Johannesburg Summit, but will he gather the courage to demonstrate commitment to the logical next step?
References:
BBC News. “Mugabe wins ‘rigged’ Zimbabwe poll”. March 13, 2002. Available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1870864.stm.
Goering, Laurie, Chicago Tribune Foreign Correspondent. “Summit protesters march to highlight needs of poor.” Chicago Tribune, September 1, 2002, p. 8.
Reuters. “Mugabe Tells Whites to Leave or Risk Jail over Land.” September 4, 2002. Available at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020904/wl_nm/zimbabwe_mugabe_land_dc_1.
Young, Eric. “Africa: Mugabe, Robert.” Available at http://www.africana.com/Utilities/Content.html?&../cgi-bin/banner.pl?banner=Blackworld&../Articles/tt_351.htm.
