{"id":10398,"date":"2011-09-01T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/gibson-guitars-and-the-totalitarian-left\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T10:33:41","slug":"gibson-guitars-and-the-totalitarian-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/gibson-guitars-and-the-totalitarian-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Guitars and the Totalitarian Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ES-335<\/a> 
My title is not meant to suggest that there is a totalitarian Left and a non-totalitarian Left; the Left as Left is totalitarian.  There are innumerable examples.  I was once a proud owner of a Gibson ES-335 TD (pictured above). I foolishly sold it during a period of youthful poverty.  Dumbest thing I ever did.  So this attack of our leftist government on Gibson<\/a> caught my eye. Excerpt from the article by Bob Barr:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2000, Charlton Heston, then serving as president of the National Rifle Association, and fighting gun control proposals, held a flintlock rifle over his head and declared famously, \u201cfrom my cold dead hands.\u201d Gibson\u2019s CEO needs to rally freedom-loving Americans similarly; raising a Les Paul Gibson guitar over his head. All Americans who believe in freedom and limited government should come to Gibson\u2019s defense; not just those who are guitar players.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another recent example of governmental overreach is the 'lunch-line bully' legislation<\/a> which makes of bullying at a school a police matter.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Here again we see demonstrated the complete lack of common sense on the Left, and a fundamental difference between Right and Left.  Conservatives solve problems at the  individual level, or at the local level of the family, the church, the school, the neighborhood.  They bring government in only as a last resort, and then local government before state government before federal government.  The approach is bottom-up.  The leftist approach is top-down.  A fundamental difference.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 My title is not meant to suggest that there is a totalitarian Left and a non-totalitarian Left; the Left as Left is totalitarian.  There are innumerable examples.  I was once a proud owner of a Gibson ES-335 TD (pictured above). I foolishly sold it during a period of youthful poverty.  Dumbest thing I ever did.  So … Continue reading “Gibson Guitars and the Totalitarian Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}