What Will
Be in 2006?
by
Jørn K. Baltzersen
by Jørn K. Baltzersen
We stand now
before a new year, and what will happen? Here are some very good
tips:
- Charles
de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu will continue to spin in
his grave over the reduction of his theory on limited power to
the mere formal separation of powers between entities that derive
their powers from the same source, especially a universal suffrage–based
electorate.
- Russell
Kirk will continue to spin in his grave over what passes as conservatism
nowadays.
- The centenary
of the passing of the great Dr.
Henrik Johan Ibsen will pass without many converting from
"what the majority wills is right" to Ibsen’s An
Enemy of the People concept "the minority is always
in the right."
- LRC will
reach ever higher levels of readers.
- LRC will
reach ever higher levels of donations.
- The United
Nations Development will for the 6th consecutive time
announce Norway on the top of its Human Development Index.
- Norwegian
and other media will once again tell us that the UN
has named Norway as the best country in which to live. Once
again the media will be wrong, as Farmann
reported for
the year 2005.
- American
midterm elections will not bring back limited government to those
United States.
- Copenhagen
Institute will organize yet another successful seminar with
Ludwig von Mises Institute fellows.
- The fight
against further integration in the European Union will continue.
Perhaps it even will increase. The Eurocrats will continue to
find ways to avoid the resistance.
- The fight
for a reversal of European integration will continue. Perhaps
it even will increase. Again, the Eurocrats will continue to find
ways to avoid the resistance.
- The size
of government will continue to grow, and we will continue to long
for the days when the government was not referred to as "us."
- Germany
will not see much change in spite of the free market–oriented
Mrs. Angela Merkel, as the
Communists these days rule all of Germany.
- There will
be yet another successful Russian
Summer Ball in London.
- The world’s
biggest government will continue to be the federal government
of that nation that goes by the name The Land of the Free.
- The principalities
of Liechtenstein and Monaco will continue to be thorns in the
eyes of democrats.
- Austria
will continue to be a "republic," while visiting tourists
will continue not having that impression.
- The concept
of low fare airlines will continue to grow in Europe, making it
even easier to get around Europe cheaply.
- The new
"red-green" government in Norway will give a bit more
taxation, as the former "non-socialist" government gave
a bit less taxation.
- Politicians
will continue to be irritated over the fact that the public looks
up to something else, for instance royals, and not to the politicians.
- The smearing
of honorable scholars of American history, such as Professors
Thomas DiLorenzo and Thomas Woods, will continue.
- Western
civilization will reach ever lower levels, as the process of degeneration
and decline continues.
- We will
see even more of things like "people" shamelessly showing
their underwear to the rest of the world in even more disgusting
ways.
- Illiteracy
will rise in the West, but in this egalitarian age it will continue
not to be called illiteracy.
- Bhutan will
move yet another year through its transition from monarchy to
democracy, repeating the mistake made in Europe and other places
in this world, whilst the King of Bhutan will be receiving a number
of warnings and encouragements saying it’s not too late to stop
or reverse the transition. Such warnings and encouragements will
be accompanied by copies of literature making the case the "transition"
was not such a good idea, such as Hoppe’s Democracy:
The God that Failed.
- The U.S.
Congress will renew the USA Patriot Act. This will not happen
without resistance. Some provisions may be altered, even taken
out, but basically it will be renewed intact, with negative implications
for liberty in those United States and the world.
- The U.S.
Government will become even more indebted, and we will thus move
one year closer to the end of the dollar era.
- The price
of gold will rise.
- The governments
of India, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and
others will continue to be actively non-supportive of the King
of Nepal, proving with their indirect support of the Maoists that
they believe in democratism, not liberty.
- Norway will
be experiencing a nice and hot summer, and the media will be claiming
that this is due to man-made global warming.
 Have
a happy new year.
Jørn
K. Baltzersen [send him mail]
is a senior consultant of information technology in Oslo, Norway.
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