Copyright by James Carlson
President Javier Milei addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday quoting the U.S. Declaration of Independence. He spoke of the rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the terms of Life, Freedom, and Property (he is correct). Setting aside nearly a century of liberal social and economic policies that have ruined his country, Milei has dedicated the country of Argentina to the principles of Freedom.
Milei said in his speech before the UN General Assembly that Argentina is going through a…
…profound process of change [and we have] decided to embrace the ideas of freedom. These are ideas that say that all citizens are born free and equal before the Lord. We have inalienable rights granted by our Creator to life, to freedom, and to property.
Milei understands that U.S. and Argentinian economic policies were the same in the 19th century and both countries prospered greatly due to the principles they followed. Freedom was the agenda then but after 100 years of liberal oppression, all that prosperity was lost. It was time for Argentina to rebound by recalling what brought them prosperity in the first place.
Citing an article by Reuters [Nicolás Misculin], Milei was at the World Economic Forum in Davos and said…
Thirty five years after (Argentina) adopted the model of freedom, back in 1860, we became a leading world power…And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years, we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished, and we dropped to spot number 140 globally.
This is a great triumph for Latin America. We have a witness apart from the Anglo economies of North America. Now, in South America under Latin influence, we see that ethnicity isn’t at play here, only the principles of freedom. Principles once shared by the United States with its neighbors. more than a century ago. Principles that are now being lost under the same liberal oppression that Argentina suffered from for 100 years.
Abraham Lincoln is quoted in the Gettysburg Address as saying…
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Let’s do the math. A ‘score’ is 20. 4 score is 4x20=80. 4 score and 7 is 80+7=87. The Gettysburg speech was delivered in 1863 so 1863–87=1776. Decoding Lincoln’s most famous address we read…
[In 1776,] our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
This is meaning of the Declaration of Independence, written in 1776. Lincoln went on to say…
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
As nations, the United States and Argentina were conceived in Liberty (Freedom). And we need to experience a New Birth of Freedom (Born Again) in order to preserve this Liberty for the People.
The Declaration of Independence spoke of the TRUTHS that are self evident…
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of [economic] Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
The Lockean principle of property was understood in Jefferson’s text but not by a modern hedonistic society that wants to pursue anything they damn well please (false liberty leads to oppression). We have the freedom to do what is right in the sight of God who gave us our rights to begin with. The freedoms that Milei spoke of yesterday brings forward the timeless TRUTHS of our nation’s founding.
This is not only a victory of Argentina, South and Central America, and the U.S. and Canada in North America, it is victory for the individual citizen. Each person has individual freedoms to behave responsibly, to act civilly, and to pursue the course of life that their conscience dictates to be most pleasing to God. We have a guide to our life, as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence…
…Laws of Nature and of Nature's God…
The Law of Nature is our Conscience, which tells us right from wrong and helps us in our decision making process. The Law of Nature’s God is the Bible that helps the conscience when it goes astray in accurately portraying the perfect Will of God. Transcendent moral TRUTHS are found in this passage of the Declaration of Independence (borrowed from Romans 2:11-15).
So the timeless TRUTHS that we see in the Declaration of Independence, in the Gettysburg Address, and in President Milei’s speech before the U.N. are the principles that not only make nations prosper but the People to prosper as well.
Individual liberty and responsibility leads to increased productivity and wealth. The freedom to do what is right in God's sight grants one the security of their property and the establishment of their pursuit of happiness as something good. These freedoms, falsely characterized by the hedonistic appetites of others, is what this nation and now Argentina, is based upon. It isn’t just a victory of the nation and people of Argentina, it is a victory for the entire world.
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