ECO RADICALS SHAMED IN DALLAS (After Freep Report)

Thanks for posting this. Someone e-mailed this to me this morning and kattracks gave it a separate thread earlier.
A lesson in Dallas

We not only made a decent showing for the "other side of the story", we outnumbered the leftists 48-8 at their own Mock Trial and 125-43 at the shareholder meeting demonstration.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram isn't the only news source in the area. The counter-protest made the TV news beginning on Friday when CBS did a background/research story on the leftists and their camp and showed clips of the Seattle riots. They interviewed Peggy Venable of Citizens for a Sound Economy who did a very nice job of telling the true motivations and goals of the left regarding their Exxon/Mobil protest. The report was fair and balanced, imo.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, all local major networks, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Warner Brothers, aired the events at 5,6,9 and 10. They interviewed one protestor who mumbled so no one could tell what he said and several counter-protestors (we were the counter-protestors). Freeper conservative and his wife both got good airtime as did conservative's beautiful full-sized American flag. The stories were very balanced and showed a fairly accurate picture of the demonstrations, imo.

The groups involved in the counter-protest were: Citizens for a Sound Economy, American Land Rights Association, Congress on Racial Equality, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Free Republic Network, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Paragon Foundation, Leadership Institute, Free Republic NTX Chapter, Free Republic Houston Area Texas Chapter, Free Republic Heart of Texas Chapter.

They want the same thing as the communists, but where Marx and Engels looked at the state as being neither bad nor good but rather as something which could be used, they see the state as always bad.

Regardless, each has the potential, one that is always quickly realized, to concentrate power in a few at the top. There are no checks and balances that are adhered to. If they have them at all it is just window dressing. And we know the results of power concentrated in the few. Human nature takes hold.

That is why it is necessary for a republic to be founded on Judeo-Christian values. Then all power and praise is established at the real top, far above man's ability and material interests. Those values reenforce humility, not arrogance, and giving, not taking. Fortunately, free enterprise is the perfect handmaiden for such a system. The market is a perfect mechanism for turning natural human self-interest into good for all, and it is self-correcting.

The subtle nuances of a constitutional republic paired with free enterprise is such a beautiful and natural, self-perpetuating and self-correcting system, that I can't for the life of me see why "intellectuals" aren't enthralled with it rather than with that pseudo philosophy called socialism.

I just realized I am responding to a year-old post. Blame it on the good work of MAF in linking to this. :-)

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