Paul devoted to freedom of individual

To the editor:

My publicist friend, Marc, said my recent letter to The Ledger [?Sidhas should have focused on Paul,? Aug. 18] describing Ron Paul as a product of higher collective consciousness was arrogant and psychotic because I didn?t connect the dots. Here?s my attempt. Ron Paul devotes himself to freedom of the individual. The individual alone knows what?s best for himself and in a free society learns to serve others.

First, objectivity is based on subjectivity. (On what else is it based?) Moreover, we don?t know another person?s subjectivity. Therefore, we don?t know the potential or happiness of others based on our objective knowledge of them. To suppose such knowledge is inhuman.

Second, a free society means private property rights for all. That means those with capital must compete for the participation of the poor. As more capital is accumulated by all (including the poor) more enterprises expand opportunities for all.

Third, government has no specific feedback from or incentives to serve the individual. Its politicized objective reasons cuts off huge market potentials born of the free individual, who alone produces reality. Government preempts the subjective basis of wealth and, therefore, impoverishes.

Fourth, historically, no function of society seems to need government. The American Revolution defeated the world?s most powerful army by volunteerism. Likewise the Afghans killed 100,000 Russians and the Vietcong 50,000 Americans. The early California gold rush had private mining rights committees with peaceful results. In early America roads were private but failed only because government failed to enforce the private property rights of road owners. From 1870 till 1910 prices fell and real wages increased supporting millions of immigrants. We had laissez-faire government policy, no central bank, no minimum wage laws, almost no government supported labor unions, and no federal wage interference. Private charity abounded. At the end of this Gilded Age, Henry Ford?s assembly line workers made the equivalent of $120,000/year tax free!

Fifth, terrorist monopoly government grants special favors denying private property rights. During the Great Depression Hoover and Roosevelt raised taxes, increased spending, and interfered with industry and agriculture protracting the Great Depression for 15 years. The Ponzi schemes of Social Security and Medicare forebode recent housing bubbles, giant bank and corporate bailouts, unconstitutional foreign wars, huge foreign borrowing, and social spending. All these Ponzi schemes are fueled by special financial interests in China, Japan, etc., our reserve currency status, insane Keynesian economics, and the giant fiat currency theft program known as Central Banking. American Ponzi schemes are draining the wealth of the world too much for foreigners to sustain. They will soon let us go and the resultant depression will make the Great Depression look like a picnic.

All this calamity came from the notions that there is an objective reality apart from subjectivity and that the poor don?t have huge amount of power when everyone, including the rich, have private property rights. Ron Paul?s radical libertarianism appeared on the national scene only after the Invincible America Assembly which is the only intervention that changes collective consciousness. I?ve connected the dots.

? Jon Kelly Kirkpatrick, Fairfield