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Electing Obama to fix the economy with never a thought to foreign threats

Thursday, March 5, 2009   E-Mail this story   Free Headline Alerts

Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.

While only a minority of adults had the right to vote in 19th-centuty Britain, all adults in the U.S.A, with exceptions such as those who are psychiatrically sick, have the right to vote in presidential and congressional elections. Truly democratic! Unfortunately, the greater the mental ability (the greatest came to be called "genius" in the 14th-century Europe), the fewer people possess it, and it is not clear how a majority of voters can recognize and elect a man of genius, as Einstein was, for example.

In the past two centuries, the free West has been suffering from an economic disease. Private or free enterprise ("capitalism") experienced, ever since the late 18th century, what came to be called "crises," and "depressions" or "recessions" (milder terms). No science knows how to prevent or cure the disease, and it is ridiculous to assume that a majority of voters will identify a "doctor" who can prevent or cure this disease and will elect him as the U.S. president.

On 2/24/2009, President Obama made an about-an-hour-long speech to the Congress. The self-confident tone of his address and "dozens of rounds of applause," as Associated Press put it, suggest that a doctor to cure recessions has at last been found by a majority of voters led by the Democrats!

Since the late 18th century, the perception of private or free enterprise can be summarized as follows. Marx, "the most important figure in the history of socialist thinking," contended that "the capitalists" are criminals who acquire their millions or billions by robbing "the working class" and must be "expropriated" and "liquidated" by "the world revolution." Non-Marxists have been for a free contest in free enterprise: let the most capable entrepreneurs obtain the greatest wealth and let the least capable of them lose what they have.

Now the U.S. Democrats, led by President Obama, have turned out to be different from both Marxists and non-Marxists: let those who lost their money be indemnified for their losses (by the government at public expense).

In his address to the Congress, President Obama did not find a minute to speak on the external danger to the United States. However, while recessions are illnesses that come and go, an enemy superweapon may spell death. What if Hitler's Germany had not started a war with Russia, but used the money to develop the production of atom bombs sufficiently earlier than did the United States, to be able to atom-bomb it (and Russia as well)?

Hitler's advent to power in 1933 was accompanied by anti-Semitic brigandage, and hence Einstein decided not to return to Germany and stayed in the United States. In 1939 he warned President Roosevelt of the danger of Hitler's development of atom bombs. Surely, more than 99% of American voters had known nothing about atom bombs when they voted for the 50-year-old Roosevelt in 1932. Yes, the United States, which is, socially, by millennia ahead of the state slavery of Germany of 1933 to 1945, of Russia from 1918 onward (with the exception of the time of the presidency of Boris Yeltsin) and of "China today," may be annihilated by a society like "China today" Ñ socially at the level of state slavery of millennia ago, but technologically able to develop the key superweapon ahead of the United States.

To take advantage of its freedom of mass public communication, the United States should make its media accessible to intercommunications similar to that between Einstein and Roosevelt in 1939.

Not surprisingly, the defense of the United States and its allies against Hitler was proposed in 1939 to President Roosevelt by Einstein, who was not as yet an American citizen. Roosevelt lived up to his presidential duty by having accepted Einstein's proposal, and not by being a thinker of genius foreseeing nuclear weapons as Einstein was.

The odds against the survival of the United States and the free West in general are greater now than in 1939. Then Charlie Chaplin was working on his film The Great Dictator, a horrifying image of Hitler that became known all over the world. Today the dictators of China are represented to the population of the United States and the free West in general as benign officials in charge of progress of the once backward China to the modern level of today's advanced countries. The dictators of China are lending money to the United States to help President Obama to cope with the depression! What do the Chinese dictators expect in return? We could read it in the dissident Chinese "Wei Jing Sheng Foundation" news in Yahoo! on 2/26/2009: "Press Conference in the US Congress. Alarm Sets in Over Secretary Clinton's Abandonment of China Human Rights."

The dictators of China are also geostrategically wise. Hitler stupidly invaded Russia in 1941, before he could get the nuclear bomb. The Chinese dictators have been working secretly to produce post-nuclear superweapons (such as the nano superweapon) to attack when they have them, not before.

The discussions in the mass media of the United States and the free West in general could publicly expose the Chinese "strategic deception" if sufficiently strong-minded debaters had been invited by the media. Actually, no chance to appear in any mass media to present their arguments has been given either to Eric Drexler, whose book of 1986 introduced the very word "nanotechnology," nor to Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden (U.S. Army, Ret.), whose book of 2004 Oblivion: America at the Brink is about the U.S. lagging behind in the development of post-nuclear superweapons.

President Roosevelt did not ignore Einstein's page-and-a-half letter about the possibility of nuclear weapons. The result was a stupendous Manhattan Project. Drexler's book of 1986 was ridiculed publicly as an idiotic fantasy "to scare little children."

In China, Drexler's book of 1986 appeared on the Internet (Online) in English, with translations into Chinese of whatever a native Chinese reader might find difficult to understand.

The United States and the free West in general have freedom, an advantage in the world struggle of the free countries for survival and against a global aggressor. But they also have many self-imposed disadvantages as well, such as the inclination of a free Westerner to think only about his or her own safety, wealth, and happiness and forget about global unpleasantness like the annihilation of all free countries and themselves by a new military slave-state machine, with its superweapons, as decisive as the nuclear weapons were in 1945.

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