re: #108 Gus 802

Regarding John Patrick Bedell. Here’s some quotes of his I found over at TPM:

Communist and socialist governments that abolished or disregarded private property…created poverty, repression and murder on a truly enormous scale…Even in the United States, however, there has been a continual erosion of protection of private property justified by the belief that government is an efficient instrument for the positive direction of society.

Governments lack the profit and loss incentives that individuals and private organizations must use…

When governments are able to confiscate the resources of their citizens to fund schemes that need only be justified by lies and deception enormous disasters can result.

When the government can control how private property is used…and especially when the government controls the monetary system that is used to exchange private property, the government has the mechanisms and the motivation to control individuals to the smallest detail.

Government control of the schools that shape minds is pervasive in today’s world…The imperative to defend the freedom of conscience must lead us to eliminate the role of the government in education and leave parents and communities free to raise their children as they see fit.

Link here.

And that completely settles the question. Bedell was absolutely a radical right winger.