For the record, I do recall the brother’s keeper reference. It’s in Genesis Four, which recounts the first murder based on human jealously. In fact, it’s right after Genesis Three, which accurately portrays human nature and explains why utopia can’t work. If two people can’t follow one rule in order to sustain paradise, then we’re not likely to have success, for example, applying a 2700 page health care “law” to 300 million people.

After winning a huge legislative victory against the UNC system (see my last column), I am now preparing for another legislative battle that should prove to be an uphill climb. My next proposed bill would force socialist professors who retire from the UNC system to actually move to socialist countries after they retire – that is, if they wish to draw upon their pensions. I know it sounds radical, but I got the idea from another radical – Marxist Professor Gary Faulkner.

Recently, Comrade Faulkner had this to say in the local Wilmington McTimes:

“Alas, it has finally come time to decide where to retire. My plan is to locate to a country that best exemplifies Christian values. Makes a lot of sense to me. So, I did an analysis, and guess what?”

Before I proceed with the full reprint of Gary’s letter to the editor of the McTimes, a bit of clarification is in order. Gary Faulkner actually retired from the UNC system several years ago. Since he started off his letter to the editor with one lie, there’s little chance of finding truth in the rest of it. But it does shed light on the Marxist worldview. So let us proceed anyway.

“Surprisingly, given all the ‘we are a Christian nation’ talk, the U.S. landed far down the list. I narrowed it down to most any of the ‘socialist’ European countries, particularly a northern one. Some characteristics: They provide health care for all their people. Quality nursing care is available to all elderly citizens, no matter their stations in life. They guarantee child care and family leave to all working families. They have low rates of poverty, homelessness, divorce and teenage pregnancy. The disparity between rich and poor is much smaller than the U.S., and lethal weapons are hard to come by. They’re not going to war at the drop of a hat and, in my view, in no way would they approve of what’s going on in the N.C. General Assembly today.”

Gary isn’t finished but I need to stop to address his seemingly misplaced reference to lethal weapons. When Gary taught in the UNC system – for nearly four decades – he advocated radical gun control measures including the government confiscation of all ammunition. His gun control views were predicated on the assumption that other nations had a) fewer guns and b) less crime.

These cross cultural differences are implied again in Comrade Faulkner’s letter to the McTimes. But they are unreliable because the crime statistics of other nations are not comparable to ours. They measure different crimes and they do so differently – usually much less reliably. Put simply, we don’t know how much crime there is in other nations.

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