A need is not a right. That’s the lie they keep selling—repackage envy as justice, slap a human rights label on it, and call it compassion. But a right, a real right, doesn’t come from your hunger. It doesn’t come from your poverty, or your emptiness, or your suffering. A right ends where another man’s will begins. And the moment you say that food is a right, you are saying that someone else must provide it. Not voluntarily. Not through trade. Not through grace. But must. That’s the rot. That’s the theft dressed as virtue.
They want to sanctify dependency. They want to canonise the void. And they do it with clean fonts and pastel maps, smiling like they’ve solved hunger while putting chains on the men who grow, build, transport, and sell. You think you're helping the poor? You're enslaving the capable. You think you’re uplifting the weak? You’re sacrificing the strong. You don’t create wealth by voting for it. You don’t create food by demanding it. You create it by effort—individual, brutal, relentless effort. And they want to break that. Strip it. Shame it. Because a man who feeds himself can’t be ruled.
This isn’t compassion. It’s authoritarianism in a new dress. It’s the priesthood of bureaucracy telling you that your stomach justifies another man’s prison. That because you need, he no longer owns his labour, his crop, his time, his life. That’s not justice. That’s not equality. That’s a morality built by thieves for beggars, enforced by cowards with pens and committee stamps.
And nobody voted for them. Nobody chose these high priests of moral theft. They sit in their marble towers, writing new commandments on stone tablets, declaring that the fruits of your work now belong to the world. But they won’t lift a hand to till the soil. They won't carry a sack of grain. They only take. Always take. And call it progress.
You can’t build a free world on the backs of unwilling men. And you can’t sanctify theft by calling it rights. A need is not a right. It’s a burden. Yours to solve—not someone else’s to carry.
@BeardlessBro Well said. What a blessing to have had such a mentor and father - and even better to know you will meet again. You and your family are in so many prayers.
@nolanolegal@JSODonoghue I’d be happy to Cait. While I’m still concerned about screening in general, I’m most concerned with mammography itself, and particularly 3D which has 100x the radiation, when MRI, Ultrasound, Thermography, and other non-invasive screening options exist.
@JSODonoghue If the last four years teaches us anything, it’s that we should do some research of our own. Don’t make judgments in a vacuum. I was suggesting that there is not complete agreement on the “more screening is better” argument. Here’s one of the sources I was referencing:
@doelouisiana@raymondcrewsla@cadebrumley Thanks to the fine teachers and staff of PCA for hosting us. All-around great institution.
I took the opportunity to also congratulate Dr. Brumley in regards to the recent report on Louisiana educational outcomes. Way to go Louisiana!