The USA is one of the few countries in the world where Freedom of Speech is a part of the very structure of the country and is enshrined in its founding documents.

But as many have pointed out, the First Amendment is a stricture laid upon the GOVERNMENT. The government may not prohibit speech that it does not like, thinks is inimical , is abusive of the government. Government agents may not prevent any citizen from speaking or uttering in any fashion.

But that does not extend to private companies or individuals from doing so. For example a private company can forbid an employee from commenting on anything to do with the company to anyone inside or outside of the company itself – this does not deny or transgress the First Amendment. In someone’s home they can tell a visitor that they may not use foul language and to show them the door if they do not obey. Again the home owner is not bound by the First Amendment.

The Government cannot, also, compel our speech. I do not have to express an agreement with the government against my will.

So where do free and compelled speech by Government entities impinge the most?

State funded Colleges. Colleges like University of Colorado and Colorado State may not restrict free speech and may not compel speech. Yet around the USA there are colleges, funded by the State that attempt to enforce speech codes, attempt to strongarm people into using someone’s preferred “pronoun”. It is not the purview of the government to be regulating and enforcing speech.

Yet it still does.

A recent article in that bastion of intellectual analysis, The Sun newspaper in the UK published a lovely piece of drivel about how the Government MUST create “thousands of  plumbers” who will be need to install heat pumps to “fight rising energy bills”.

That headline manages to enclose acres of horse puckey – in 15 words the Sun manages to miss every important point about a) heat pumps b) fighting rising energy bills c) thousands of plumbers.

The link to the article is t the end of this post.

a) Heat pumps – are not actually effective in heating houses. They are loud and then run constantly. And they are very expensive to install and your hot water heating will need supplementation. They are NOT cheap to run.

b) there is no evidence, at all, that heat Pumps reduce the cost of heating. They use a lot of electricity and heat to low levels that require – in most cases -spot heating (also electricity driven) to warm sedentary locations to an acceptable level of comfort. It is the electricity price in the UK that is spiking right now – and which will not be going down – and it is electricity that powers heat pumps.

c) If “thousands of plumbers” are to be recruited what happens when the conversion slows down? what will these surplus of plumbers do then?

The article contains this stupid quote from some “researcher” named Amy Norman “we need government to call up a generation of climate heroes” . If that sounds familiar (and it should) the Heroic Worker is a PR construct of the USSR and Soviet Propaganda. Hero Projects were the standard of industrializing the Soviet Union. As a classic example – Chernobyl was a “Hero Project” when the Soviet Union built it, it became another “Hero Project” when it blew up.

That some “researcher” (as an aside what on earth does Amy Norman ‘research’? Old Soviet documents?) opines that the Uk should adopt Soviet tactics to push through a project that is going to crucify the working class with crippling expenses.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/17567094/plumbers-heat-pump-energy-bills-recruitment/

Plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, New York billionaire. funds gun control efforts across the USA. Ever wonder why?

It’s not because he is interested in socialism because – as the quote below shows – Karl Marx is not in favor of taking guns away from the working class.

“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition… Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.” Karl Marx

Bloomberg is protected by armed security and yet he sends millions of dollars to candidates he deems will support gun control measures.

The mistake here is to think that “gun control” is a progressive virtue. It is not. It is a repressive action designed to hold the working class in check. Gun control is the means by which the Plutocracy hope to impose an armed police force upon an unarmed working class.

“Yet now of all times, at the present revolutionary moment, it is most urgent and essential that there be a universal arming of the people. To assert that, while we have a revolutionary army, there is no need to arm the proletariat, or that there would “not be enough” arms to go round, is mere deception and trickery. The thing is to begin organizing a universal militia straight away, so that everyone should learn the use of arms even if there is “not enough” to go round, for it is not at all necessary that the people have enough weapons to arm everybody. The people must learn, one and all, how to use arms, they must belong, one and all, to the militia which is to replace the police and the standing army.” VI Lenin

Both Marx and Lenin viewed the formation of armed police and a standing army separate from the people as being a repressive step to impose control over them.

And yet, here we are, watching the new socialist “left” attempting to impose precisely that situation upon the working class. Paid for by billionaires.

Does anyone seriously think that white privileged “intellectuals” banding together to disarm black and white members of the proletariat alike and, at the same time defending the right of Plutocrats and their affluent white toadies to armed protection from the forces that they control are actually “socialists”?

Seriously?

The Labor/Marxist theory of value only holds up in one on one bartering – where I ask you to make something for me and you price it out to include your labor. It still only holds up if – you are the sole supplier of the item or service I wish to buy – and I have the means to pay for it. As soon as there is more supply or choice then value becomes determined by “the market” (The Wealth of Nations).

The L/MTV is based upon the feudal idea of an intrinsic fair price which is what Guilds pushed to avoid the creation of a market that would reduce prices. Which is only feasible in a closed system with no external inputs or supply. If you live in a village in a forest and everything is “two weeks distant” and there is one person who is skilled enough to make good shoes or boots – then you could determine a theoretical “intrinsic fair price”. Guilds EXCLUDED practitioners and used the power of the local law to deny people outside the Guild the right to do the work. But the minute someone else starts making shoes and boots and does it cheaper and with quality enough to attract business at that price – suddenly LTV wanders away.