I have been labeled "anti-American" by "Doc" Steech.
I have been labeled "socialist" by "Doc" Steech.
I have been labeled "communist" by "Doc" Steech.
In other words, I have been labeled by this labeler (hereinafter referred to as "Mr." "labeler") as opposed to things American.
In other words, I have been labeled by "Mr." "labeler" as someone who advocates state ownership of industry.
In other words, I have been labeled by "Mr." "labeler" as someone who promotes a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership. I have been labeled by "Mr." "labeler" as someone who, according to my trusty Oxford University Press dictionary/thesaurus, "advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." Stated another way, by my trusty Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus, I am a person who espouses "theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members of society or the community sharing in the work and the products."
I wanted to make sure I understood as completely as possible the reasons for my new labeling.
First of all, I dare anyone on this earth, including "Mr." "labeler," to call me anti-American. I have written essays by the dozen about the freedom to create, the like of which is evident nowhere in this world more than the United States of America. The United States of America is known around the world for creativity's freedom in all the arts and sciences. I have written essays I deemed would please any President of the United States to present in speeches at any time now or in the future.
As a matter of fact, "Mr." "labeler," I embrace those American ideals and rules and Amendments and Bill of Rights and Constitution that make it possible for me – or even you, "Mr." "labeler" – to own property. I own property both tangible and intangible. I own copyrights to literary compositions. I own real property and other tangible property. I would defy anyone to attempt to take them away from me. Loosely describing the rights accorded me by the Second Amendment, I have a right to protect my property and my person or anyone in my household from assaults and sieges of any description. I would take full advantage of that right.
And now, "Mr." "labeler," I wish to point out one thing, knowing full well that the subject may in your opinion (differing from mine, doubtlessly) be far from exhausted.
The point I wish to make, "Mr." "labeler" is that neither the government nor the taxpayers of the United States of America have assisted me in creating anything I have written. Neither the government nor the taxpayers of the United States of America have assisted me in any of my purchases of tangible property.
There are, however, industries operating in the United States of America that have had my assistance as well as the assistance of untold numbers of United States taxpayers, from back in history until the present, with absolutely no end in sight.
If those industries cannot create or operate without the help of taxpayers of the United States of America, they can label themselves at the very least greedy blood-suckers (like leeches), and anti-American to boot. (By the way, I found it amusing to look up the definition of "leech.")
Also by the way, I hope China does not kill us by micrograms before we finally develop a useful brain cell for purposes of dealing with that country in its extraordinary degree of assistance to those American industries that depend so unappreciatively upon American taxpayers' undying generosity.
I want truth in labeling, too, "Mr." The following is a pledge I make proudly. Hardly a day goes by that I do not think of that pledge and the country to which it refers.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Speaking of "labeler," change one letter of that word and see what you find.