Rush, Call Your Dermatologist

Rush Limbaugh loves to say he knows liberals "like every square inch of [his] glorious naked body." Well if that's true he should visit his skin doctor immediately! He's missing something very important and very scary.

Lord Obama--the Democratic nominee--is "troubled" about contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan:

I'm not arguing that there are never going to be uses for private contractors in some circumstances. What I am saying is if you start building a military premised on the use of private contractors, and you start making decisions about armed engaged based on the availability of private contractors to fill holes in gaps, that over time you are, I believe, eroding the core of our military's relationship to the nation and how accountability is structured. You are privatizing something that is what essentially sets a nation state apart, which is the monopoly on -- on violence, uh, and to set those kinds of precedents I think will lead us over the long term into, uh, some troubled waters.

Rush said "[Obama] doesn't know what he is talking about now. He is strictly wandering aimlessly in vain search of a cogent thought. He wasn't even coherent there."

But Rush missed Obama's point. As I've written before, socialists want to restrict all capabilities for violence to government employees. Guns in private hands empower the individual at the expense of the collective will. A 110 pound woman rejects the unitary will of the collective by arming herself. This empowered individual becomes a "rival entity" and thus an enemy of the collective, even if she never uses the weapon.

Lord Obama's point is very clear: a nation state must have an absolute monopoly on the capacity for violence. He believes contractors can provide supplies and transportation, but capacity for violence must always remain in government hands. His statement is coherent and consistent with socialist theory and practice.

Tens of millions of people died when socialists achieved their political goals in Russia, Germany, China and Cambodia. The collective, in the form of the nation state, infringed on individual rights to the capacity for self defense. Once the state held the monopoly on violence, dissenting or dehumanized people died. It's that simple.

For the record, I reject the unitary will of the collective. Legitimate government is instituted to protect individual rights, not to hold a monopoly on violence.

A seemingly minor blemish can turn out to be life threatening skin cancer. Lord Obama's beliefs must be examined and treated with similar care and concern.