Recently, I received a letter from Christina Groth, chair of the Libertarian Party of Lea County, New Mexico. The following was attached —
Is Communism dead?
Judge for yourself!
The ten planks of the Communist Manifesto:
- Abolition of private property: The EPA, the United Nations Biodiversity Treaty, the Wildlands Project, Endangered Species Act, environmental fraud, eminent domain.
- A heavy progessive or graduated income tax: self-explanatory — just ask the IRS.
- Abolition of all right of inheritance: inheritance / estate tax — just ask the IRS.
- Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels: Asset forfeiture laws, IRS liens and levies — just ask the California farmer who ran over a rat while plowing his field.
- Centralization of credit and money: The Federal Reserve System
- Government control of communcations and transport: The FCC, Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration holding states hostage by threatening to withhold highway funds.
- Government ownership of factories and agriculture: Just try to get out of farm programs. NAFTA, GATT, and the World Trade Organization have allowed the wholesale gutting of America’s manufacturing base. A group of seven companies control the bulk of the food distribution from field to stomach.
- Government control of labor: 48 to 51 percent of the population now depend on or work for a government entity.
- Regional planning and corporate farms: Interstate compacts, dissolving of political boundaries, unelected Councils of governments.
- Government control of education: Goals 2000, Outcome Based Education, failed public schools, lowering of test scores so things don’t look so bad.
The Weekly Sedition 