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This article links to a feature entitled, Bargaining with Thieves, by Bojidar Marinov.
Every September 11
I certainly haven’t forgotten them or that surreal day.
But I will not reiterate here what so many others are able to do in more personal terms or in more gripping commentary. Instead, I’d like to focus on what has become of us since then—and more particularly—what has become of us recently. In doing this, I am going to refer to something my good friend Larry Farr once sent me. It is the text of an article feature entitled Bargaining with Thieves by Bojidar Marinov.
In this excellent article Marinov recalls being in Eastern Europe in 1989: It seems that when the morally justified citizens rose up against the communist political party for taking their lives, liberty and property, the communists called the protestors “extremists” that “refuse to come to an agreement,” didn’t want “constructive dialog,” wore “swastikas and brown shirts” and were “nothing less than fascists.”
Wow! That’s pretty brazen for communists.
But Marinov’s main point was that he saw the same thing happen here in the United States. This truly insightful article got me to thinking. The problem, when you get down to brass tacks, is one of fundamental beliefs.
Regardless of whether you have been conditioned by circumstance of poverty (needs), wealth (guilt), political office (power), ignorance (you don’t know history) or stupidity (you think you are better than history), you will have one of two mindsets: You either believe someone else should help and/or owe you OR you think that you are the only person responsible to help and/or owe you. If it’s the former, then you promote government that takes other people’s money and freedom on your behalf. If it’s the latter, you’re scared to death of people promoting the former.
With that as a yard stick by which to measure let’s now look at what Marinov wrote in 2009 and which is applicable as recently as 2019. It is how communists, socialists, and so-called “democrat socialists” attempt to control a narrative by commandeering language: Click Here For Bargaining With Thieves by Bojidar Marinov.