BuzzFeed News is reporting that possible 2016 presidential candidate and Tea Party favorite, Dr. Ben Carson, was caught plagiarizing from a variety of sources in his book America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great.
One of the un-cited sources he lifted word for word came from a site, which no longer exists, called socialismsucks.net. Cached archives from the site can be found online at Archive.org.
Passages from socialismsucks.net:
“Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security, “free” health care, and “free” education and indoctrination of children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.”
Sure, there are several different brands of socialism — at least as many types as there are would-be people-planners who wish to impose their plans to control the moral and economic lives of other people. But are you willing to surrender your precious liberties to a Socialist State which promises “security” for everyone or government-enforced equality? Isn’t this what Hitler and other socialists promised the German people in his Nazi (national socialist) platform — a country in which government guarantees security and “equality” in exchange for giving up individual freedom? Will Americans continue to fall for the same scam?”
Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.
In Carson’s book:
Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security, “free” health care, and “free” education and indoctrination of children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.
Sure, there are several different brands of socialism — at least as many types as there are would-be people-planners who wish to impose their plans to control the moral and economic lives of other people. But are you willing to surrender your precious liberties to a socialist state which promises “security” for everyone and government-enforced equality? Isn’t this what Hitler and other socialists promised the German people in his Nazi (national socialist) platform — a country in which government guarantees security and “equality” in exchange for giving up individual freedom? Will Americans fall for the same scam?
Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.”
And that’s not all! Evidently, Carson’s book also contains lifted passages from a 2011 Liberty Institute press release, a CBS news article, as well as various other sources, Internet sites and authors.
Carson included these sources in his bibliography but did not reveal that he was also plagiarizing them.
According to BuzzFeed, in his book Carson wrote about he was caught plagiarizing in college and was given a second chance to rewrite his paper after it was discovered.
A spokesperson for Carson, Sealey Yates made the following statement:
“If it is determined that additional citations or attribution are required, the appropriate revisions will be made in subsequent printings. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.”
See more at BuzzFeedNews.
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