Seeds of Oppression  MAY 01, 1973 by ROBERT E. HOOD  The
Honorable Robert E. Hood of Laconia is a member of the New
Hampshire House of Representatives.  Instead of my reaching
directly into your pocket for some worthy cause of my choice,
suppose I first muster a majority to gain legal sanction for my
ambitions. Thus are clearly criminal acts draped in a mantle of
benevolence.  Such is essentially the process involved whenever
government is allowed to concern itself with redistribution of
wealth programs such as welfare, subsidized housing, job
training, ad infinitum. The will of some must be subjugated to
the will of the majority and their property expropriated to
satisfy the whims of that majority.  This, by some rather
irrational semantically juggling, has come to be known as
Progressive legislation. If our goal is to be a totalitarian
socialist state then it is indeed progressive in the literal
sense of the word, but to the best of my knowledge we are still
at least paying lip service to freedom in this co