The real war

Dr. Zero at Hot Air nails it:

"Collectivist politics of any stripe requires enemies, because they rely upon coercion. Socialist utopias don’t come into existence spontaneously. There would be no need for confiscatory tax rates on the wealthy, if the wealthy voluntarily used their money to buy cars and houses for everyone in the lower income brackets, without requiring them to work in return. Nobody would be talking about nationalizing health care if doctors and hospital staff were happy to work eighty hour weeks for minimum wage, and pharmaceutical companies were run as giant charities that cheerfully sank billions into developing drugs they resell at cost. Few people would leave a sizable chunk of their estates to the government, if the government didn’t seize the money through death taxes. No large group of people on Earth has every freely chosen to peacefully organize themselves into a socialist collective – they either slip into it through small losses of freedom that seem relatively painless as they happen, or they are forced into it at gunpoint. If Franklin Delano Roosevelt had proposed Obama’s current budget and regulatory plans at the outset of the New Deal, he would have been laughed out of office, and if he had attempted to impose Obama’s policies by force, he would have needed infantry platoons and tanks."

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/02/the-necessary-enemy/

The war on capitalism is the central front in this culture war. Without economic freedom, there is no freedom anywhere. John Locke understood this which is why property was enumerated along with life and liberty as inalienable human rights. It is ironic that this group so keen to protect the "human rights" of terrorists who have conspired to rob others of their lives are also at the front of this effort to blur and even erase private property rights.