Socialismshoveit

TAKE YOUR SOCIALISM AND SHOVE IT.
AmericanDaily.com July, 2004
Copyright Steve Pomper, 2004

I'm not a socialist. It's hard for me to conceive of any American finding it necessary to make this declaration,
but here I am making it. My declaration is in response to the question: Why don't I support helmet and
seatbelt laws, smoking bans in private businesses and other similar laws and public policies? Again, it's
because I'm not a socialist.
While I don't have any statistics to prove it, having been a street cop for twelve years I can tell you that it's no
secret that your average law enforcement officer tends to be of a conservative twist when it comes to political
thought.
This brings about an interesting question: How do cops think and feel about enforcing, or in general
supporting, socialist laws? I'm afraid that too many cops don't think enough about it; I know I didn't when I
first entered police work. We are initially trained by our various jurisdictions to be first and foremost,
rules-enforcers. We see a rule broken, we don't think much about the rule all we know is that someone
violated it and we must act.
When we stop to consider from where certain laws come philosophically, then we begin to understand how
much socialism has infiltrated our free society and how much damage it is doing to the spirit of liberty in
America. Remember when you were a kid and you'd do something that someone didn't agree with, but you
were putting no one at risk, or at least no one other than you and someone would conclude, "Well, it's a free
country?" We have to continually ask ourselves, is it a free country?
The answer thankfully is still yes, but a qualified yes; we need to work our way toward an unqualified, yes
indeed. On many national issues we are freer now then in the past. With regard to racial equality America has
corrected it's institutionalized inequities. Ironically those who picked up the torch from those who fought so
long and hard for civil rights, have taken the freedom they've earned and most surely deserved, and have
largely worked toward a socialist system, which will once again rob them of the very freedom for which they
fought so hard.
When the police protect people from, or arrest people for, murder, rape, theft, robbery, assault or fraud they
act as legitimate enforcers of laws appropriate and necessary to a free society. When the police "protect"
people from their choices regarding their own health and safety, they act in the service of socialist law.
Our Founders announced to the world that a Creator had endowed us with Liberty. Those who have the
audacity to support and advocate for laws that infringe on individual liberty, act in defiance of the Creator's gift
to mankind. America's "little" socialist edicts may not compare with the atrocities of Marxist Communism,
but as Lenin said, "Socialism is a stage through which society must pass on its way to Communism."
Remarkably there are Americans who feel, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that socialism is still a
viable governmental system if it's done "right." Socialism can't be done right. It's like saying robbery, or
burglary can be done right; there is no right when it comes to committing crime and socialism is a crime against
the human spirit.
I became a police officer to protect people's individual liberty, not to infringe upon it for some socialist Mayor
and City Council who see the police more as tax collectors and social workers than as protectors of life, liberty
and property.
No, I don't like helmet laws, seatbelt laws, or bans on smoking in private businesses. Why? Because I am not
a socialist.

STEVE POMPER

AUTHOR

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