Pacifism provides delusion of utopia

The trouble with Dunn Meadow peace campers is, as you may have noticed, the peace campers themselves. They just can't seem to shake the image of being "crazy hippies." Grubby long beards, disheveled clothes, and an odd odor don't help in converting people. Besides, they rotate who stays there at night. That's sort of like having a hunger strike, but rotating who fasts and who doesn't.\nNevertheless, it would be foolish to write off their pacifist cause just because a handful of washed up hippies gave it a bad name. The pacifists in Dunn Meadow stand for a much larger and more dangerous cause beyond mere pacifism: utopia under a one-world government. Ironically, this will inevitably lead to greater globalism, an idea that doesn't sit well with most die-hard liberals. \nStill, they fervently believe in mankind's ability to achieve utopia through a central state authority. Movement toward a single inter-thinking government has already begun in the form of the United Nations. While the U.N. isn't even close to wielding that kind of power now, it's slowly but surely moving in that direction. If it's not growing U.N. power, it's rapidly expanding state power in all forms.\nThe Left begins by expanding regulation on common-sense grounds of protecting consumer health, workplace safety, the environment, and racial or gender "equity." Who can object to such desirable aims, or even subject them to cool analysis of costs and benefits? Not the average Republican congressman. Although these interventions are not always advanced on economic grounds, they have big economic consequences.\nBut the economic regulations are less significant than the second area of policy -- the social issues -- where the Left exercises the moral regulation of society by government. We have regulations on what to tolerate, what to eat and drink, when life begins and when not to pray. The regulations and changes start small, and snowball over time.\nConservatives, on the other hand, hold no illusions of a utopian state ushered in by the efforts of mankind. Man is sinful and could never erect a corruption-free government that could grant material and social happiness to all. In fact, a powerful government is more dangerous than it is beneficial.\nThat partly explains why conservatives hold the Bill of Rights so dear. If you take the time to read it, you'll notice that everything is written in the negative. Congress shall make no law abridging X, Y, or Z. The reason for this is simple. Your rights come from God -- or if you are the sort who tries God's patience by not believing in Him -- they come from being a human being or a citizen. They do not come from an unaccountable, bureaucratic congressman or U.N. secretary. Anything a government gives you it can take away.\n"Home Fire," "Steps to Freedom," and the other peace campers should think twice about appealing to the United Nations or some other international government as they have on several occasions. It may serve their interests now, but its position can shift like the wind. The state or the individual can never provide an absolute, unchanging source for human rights. Just as your rights come from God -- not man -- a perfect peaceful utopia can never be achieved through man either. For only He offers a true heaven.