Tampa Tribune’s Hernando Today Edition

Saturday, May 23, 2009, Florida 

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“Too smart to fall for socialism”

I will continue to be amazed at how Brian Moore can continue to make the statement that socialism is more democratic than our form of government, which is a constitutional republic, but then I realized something - Moore wants to live under a “true democratic state.”

Now, I wonder if Moore is familiar with “Plato’s Republic.” In that classic work, Plato states that a democratic state is “mob rule,” the majority rules over the minority, and he placed it above a dictatorship as one of the worst forms of government.

Socialism is basically that, a form of mob rule. The majority rules, the minority has no say. You look at socialist states such as Cuba and Venezuela, is Moore implying that the people in these countries have more rights than we do?

Even as I write this letter, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is doing away with all opposition, taking control of all of what is left of private businesses. How is that for freedom? What you see in these countries is what Moore wants here, the state or community controls everything.

Our founding fathers were way smarter than the likes of Marx and Engel, and all the other so-called enlightened minds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and all the rest understood what freedom meant. Marx, Engel and the others had no clue what freedom is all about. They just wanted to replace the European monarchy system of the day with another form of oppressive government.

Moore can talk all he wants about how great socialism is, but we, the American people, are too smart to fall for that line.

Our country might not be perfect, but we will choose this form of government over others any time.

Peter Stathis

Spring Hill, Florida

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