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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time

-- F.A. Hayak

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Conservatives Criticized For Organizing - Krauthammer's Take

This from Charles Krauthammer on Fox  News yesterday
There is a certain irony in an administration denouncing ordinary Americans who get together to express what they believe and to confront authority -- when that administration is led by a man who began his career as a community organizer, whose job, as I understand it, is to take ordinary Americans, put 'em on a bus to City Hall in order to express what they believe...
So, it's unbelievably hypocritical. And, of course, as we just heard, this only happens when you have a conservative protest. [When conservatives protest, orchestrated or otherwise] it's called a mob. If it's a liberal protest, it is called grassroots expressing themselves. Remember, just a year ago under the Bush administration, dissent was the highest form of patriotism. And today it is ... either organized anger, it's a facsimile of anger, it's unpatriotic, it's whatever.
Look, there is a genuine revolt against the idea of remaking a [health-care] system when over 80 percent of Americans have health insurance. Five of six of those are happy with their health care, and four of five are happy with their health insurance.
You have an administration arrogantly deciding it is going to tear it all up, start all over, and people are surprised that there are protests, and [claim them to be] manufactured? Of course it is spontaneous. [But If] people go together on a bus, that's also entirely legitimate, and it ought to be encouraged.
The underlined text is my emphasis.