G20 Considers Global Currency
G20 Considers Global Currency
Chinese criticism of the Federal Reserve for flooding the world with money may get little traction among Group of 20 finance chiefs meeting in China as Europe’s debt crisis and Japan’s disaster take precedence. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will gather in Nanjing for a one-day seminar on the international monetary system tomorrow. A Chinese state economist called for an end to the dollar’s dominance in a paper posted on a website yesterday, blaming the U.S. for fueling inflation. – Bloomberg
Dominant Social Theme: Things are bad all over. With so much going on in the world, it’s time for everybody to pull together and come up with a global solution. The world is inter-dependent after all. It is because we say it is.
Free-Market Analysis: The outlines of the drive toward a global currency are becoming clearer in our view. We’re continually surprised by how fast events are moving and how orchestrated they seem if you follow them closely. We’ve already reported on the International Monetary Funds’ efforts at placing SDRs front-and-center as a workable global currency. Then recently we covered George Soros‘ drive to set up a new Bretton Woods-style international conference to agitate for one-world money. And now the G20 is making positive noises, as we can see from this article excerpted above. You can see two previous articles on this topic here:
IMF Predicts New World Order
Is Soros One World Currency a Leftist Plot?
The Nanjing conference is just an appetizer, apparently, with additional monetary work to be done at yet another upcoming meeting. Here’s how Bloomberg puts it: “German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen said the event isn’t intended to deliver short-term fixes and is part of preparing for a G-20 meeting in Cannes in November that should yield more substantive results.”
These folks sure get around. Several alternative news sites have suggested that the G20 is more or less a floating world government in everything-but-name. Maybe so. We figure the meetings are so common because none of the participants wish to put anything on paper or send each other emails. Any negotiations on such sensitive issues are discussed face-to-face in a clean room without listening devices or recordings. That seems to be the way it works. They get together a lot.
It’s a little funny watching this to remember the gravity of the G7. Those long ago conferences took place infrequently and always garnered headlines. It was somewhat astonishing to see world leaders in the same place at the same time. Each meeting was commemorated with a grainy black and white photo that appeared in the newspapers of all the world leaders posing stiffly together so you could compare heights and smiles.
But today – heck it’s old hat. World leaders – presidents, even – seem to get together more often than business-people planning the launch of a new product (and perhaps that’s what they’re doing). It’s not just the G20 either. European leaders are always meeting together in Brussels. There are telephones and computers but that doesn’t seem to matter. Only face-to-face meetings will do. The paranoia seems obvious.
The UN, by no means an unimportant entity, seems to be serving a different function; it’s doing the non-economic (world-shaping, military stuff) while G20 leaders keep “discussing” money matters. The division of labor is clear-cut. One has to speculate of course because nothing is explained; communiques are issued; goals are established but the behind-the-scenes discussions are the important ones. You only hear about those after the fact when leaders announce yet another “understanding.” (And apparently they better “understand” or they won’t be leaders for long.)
It really is amazing. People think this is simply the way of the world. But we bet between the EU, the UN and the G20, Nikolas Sarkozy alone has been on the road more than he’s been in France. He may be President of a big EU country, but he’s surely not a sitting one. He never seems to sit. He’s got more appointments than a vacuum cleaner salesman.
But maybe such strenuous efforts are paying off. The G20, which has seemed fairly hostile to Western leadership when it comes to monetary matters seems suddenly less so. Actually, the Bloomberg article contains one of the more incredible statements we’ve read for a while: “Criticism of U.S. monetary policy is ‘so yesterday,’ said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ in New York. ‘World leaders and monetary officials have a lot more important things on their plate.’”
This puts us in mind mostly of Bill Clinton who, when his sex scandal with Monika Lewinsky was at its height, kept holding news conferences in which he or his allies would suggest that the scandal was old news and that it was time “to move on.” (No, it wasn’t.) Political events mesh with economic ones. Now we can see. As we have suggested with such deliberate elite promotions, one merely needs to wait and eventually the pieces fall into place. Between the wars in the Middle East, the European chaos and the Japanese earthquake and ongoing European crises, there is simply no more time or appetite for confrontation – or so we now learn.
Of course it’s not exactly clear how a world currency would have alleviated an earthquake, but that’s not really the point. Urgency is in the air. And out of such an urgent, chaotic environment one can expect the G20 to make progress in creating a “new order.” Questions could be asked, but there is no one, really, to ask. News is communicated via communiques. Thus we learn that this one-day seminar will focus in part on forward-looking monetary issues. Officials such as French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde will discuss, “shortcomings in the international monetary system and volatile capital flows.”
We figure that’s news-speak for “one world currency.” Sure enough, Bloomberg tell us in virtually the next paragraph that Goldman-Sach’s Jim O’Neill expects “possible changes to the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights to be discussed.” Why is that important? Bloomberg again: “In 2009, Zhou suggested in a policy paper that SDRs may be the basis for a new global currency.”
The article natters on momentarily about sales of French railroads, trains and planes but then suddenly returns to the currency issue: “[The] event also reflects the French leader’s desire to organize a new ‘Bretton Woods’ during his presidency of the G-20 to address what he has called imbalances in the global monetary system. He first raised the possibility of such a meeting in August and pressed the Chinese to act as hosts.”
That’s interesting. We thought George Soros was organizing a new Bretton Woods. Now it appears that Sarkozy is trying to do one on his own. It must be something in the water. Actually, it’s an elite global promotion. That’s how these things seem to work. The Anglo-American power elite, a handful of wealthy, intergenerational banking families operating out of the “City of London” has long since (maybe several generations ago) decided that the world needs a single currency. What’s going on now is almost surely the aftermath.
Most recent developments? First the IMF produces a White Paper on how its SDRs could be turned into a global currency over the next decade or two. Then international financier George Soros suddenly organizes his own Bretton Woods conference to discuss a new global money – one that just so happens to include the IMF’s SDRs. Now the G20 is beginning to discuss the same thing and lo and behold Nikolas Sarkozy wants his own Bretton Woods conference. Great minds think alike.
It’s difficult to explain this to your friends and neighbors isn’t it? Try letting them know that a silent, brutal money power has developed a script from which the most powerful men in the world are reading assigned lines. Explain, if you will, that the outcome has been determined decades in advance, that the scripts have been frozen into place years ago and that the entire world-currency “discussion” is nothing more than an elaborate Shadow Play. Go ahead. Good luck!
Still … we’re fortunate to have the Internet because the patterns are increasingly obvious. One can see the coverage evolving in a way that was impossible when only print and TV coverage was available. Just the ability to read several articles at once from different time periods (something you would have had to spend a huge amount of time in a library to accomplish even a few decades ago) clarifies the manipulation and makes the orchestration obvious – to us anyway.
Conclusion: These are likely power-elite dominant social themes, not coincidences. Money power creates chaos and provides One-World solutions. The over-riding question for the 21st century then is whether people, as they notice such evident truths (and we believe they are), will continue to put up with having their lives so managed. We don’t know. Do you?
Tenthers and Oath Keepers: Partners in Liberty
Tenthers and Oath Keepers: Partners in Liberty
EDITOR’S NOTE: There are very few organizations that are seriously dedicated to our cause – the Constitution – every issue, every time, no exceptions, no excuses. So, when we connected with Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers (OK) to participate as both speaker and sponsor on our Nullify Now! tour, it was a natural fit.
Like the Tenth Amendment Center, Oath Keepers has been getting plenty of attention in the media – and probably even more. The mainstream doesn’t like an organization that calls upon its members to refuse compliance with unconstitutional acts. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) considers Stewart himself to be a dangerous patriot. Rachel Maddow considers us to be racist, neo-confederates.
Obviously, the mainstream doesn’t like what what we’re doing. But we’re going to keep doing it anyway. And while the pressure keeps rising from the mainstream media, it becomes essential for us to find ways to work together and support each other as much as possible. In that spirit, I strongly encourage you to read the following personal message from Stewart Rhodes….and I hope that you’ll do what you can to support his important new projects. Together, we can push back against the establishment and work for more liberty in your lifetime.
–Michael Boldin
OPERATION SLEEPING GIANT
by Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers
Tenthers, it is an honor to be part of the Tenth Amendment Center’s Nullify Now! Tour. The mission of Oath Keepers (www.oathkeepers.org) fits hand in glove with your mission. We urge active duty military and police to remember that their oath is to the Constitution, not to whoever happens to be “the decider” in the White House (of whatever party). And that oath to defend the Constitution requires that they defend the separation of powers between the federal government and the states, and defend the powers reserved to the states and to the people, as the Tenth Amendment makes clear. It is no accident that within our Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey (http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/) we vow to refuse orders to enter into a state with force, for any reason, unless, and until, invited in by that state’s legislature, or by the governor if the legislature cannot be convened, as required by Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution (known as the “Republican Government” clause). Nor will we obey orders to subjugate a state that asserts its sovereignty and nullifies unconstitutional federal laws, or orders to impose “martial law” on the American people (a power nowhere granted, or even mentioned, in our Constitution). We are proud to call ourselves Jeffersonians, and we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in defense of the timeless principles of liberty enshrined in our Unanimous Declaration of Independence. We are honored to work with all of you in any way we can in the fight for liberty.
However corrupt and power hungry the oath breakers in Mordor on the Potomac become, they are truly powerless if the military and police simply stand down. Is that possible? Yes, it certainly is! That’s exactly what happened in East Germany in 1989, where the commanding General of the Army refused the Communist Party’s orders to crush peaceful mass protests. Without the support of the Army, the hated Stasi secret police were overwhelmed by the people and the Communist Party was DONE. Two days later, the Berlin Wall fell. You can watch an interview with a former East German Colonel (who is now a Texas Oath Keeper) who was there when the wall fell, here.
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/02/19/oath-keeping-at-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-video/
Likewise, in Romania in 1989, the military refused orders to fire on their own people and ten days after the uprising began, the brutal communist dictator Ceaușescu was dead. And we just saw a similar stand-down in Tunisia, with that dictator, Ben Ali, also forced to flee after the Tunisian military refused his murderous orders. I spoke of that example at the recent Phoenix ‘Nullify Now!” event. You can watch that speech here:
http://www.nullifynow.com/2011/04/on-our-watch-the-republic-will-not-be-destroyed/
If the armed forces of communist and third world dictatorships can finally wake up and do the right thing, then so can our military, so long as we don’t forsake them. The corrupt domestic enemies of our Constitution want you to believe that the military and police all belong to them. Don’t accept that. Deny them their “muscle” by helping us reach each and every man and woman in uniform with the message of liberty. Let’s send the elites the message that “all your bases are belong to us!” We already know, from our interview with Sgt. Joshua May of the Utah National Guard, that some troops did refuse to participate in gun confiscation during Hurricane Katrina:
We just need to create more Sgt. Mays. By and large, the military has the honor and courage, they just need the knowledge of what is the right path.
I invite you to join us, and take part in our efforts. Even if you are not prior service, you can join as an associate member. We have many dedicated citizens within Oath Keepers who have never served in the military, police, or emergency services but are very active in reaching out the current serving with our vital message.
NEW OUTREACH TO VETERANS: OPERATION SLEEPING GIANT
The second part of our mission is to remind veterans that their oath does not expire until they do, and to keep it they must vote only for oath keeping statesmen, such as Congressman Ron Paul or his counterparts in the state legislatures. To vote for an oath breaker, is to become an oath breaker. We also urge them to defend the powers reserved to the states and to the people by supporting state sovereignty resolutions and nullification of unconstitutional laws.
Veterans must take the lead in revitalizing the core institutions of a free people in sovereign states. That is now all the more urgent because the Federal Reserve created fiat money system is destined to collapse, and when it does, the power elites intend to force upon us a world-wide version of the “Fed” along with ‘world governance.” We need strong communities in strong states that can weather the coming storm and reject the “final solution” of the global elites, and instead choose independence and liberty.
That is why we have started Operation Sleeping Giant (www.operationsleepinggiant.com) to wake the veterans up! That effort urges them to focus on:
1. Food and fuel independence and security (as individuals, within local veterans organization chapters, mutual aid societies, co-ops, farmers markets, and at the town, county and state levels).
2. Physical security and Independence, again as individuals, neighborhoods, towns, counties and states, to include forming neighborhood watches, a volunteer sheriff’s posse, and county militias established by county ordinances but staffed by self-supplied and self-funded volunteers (like in a volunteer fire department), and ultimately, a true state militia capable of “repelling invasions.”
3. Economic security and independence, as individuals and communities, including barter networks, use of silver and gold as real money, and sound money bills at the county and state levels. We must have an alternative to the fiat money system in place when it collapses.
4. State sovereignty and nullification of unconstitutional federal laws and actions. We encourage peaceful withdrawal of consent and support, and the application of the doctrine of interposition by states, in defense of the rights of their citizens.
Please go to www.operationsleepinggiant.com to learn more.
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Please join our organization if you can, make a donation if you are able, or at least help us spread the message of liberty to the current serving and veterans by forwarding this message to any and all you know and feel free to repost our banner. I am encouraging all Oath Keepers to join the Tenth Amendment Center and to help you in your vital mission. Together, we can do it!
For Liberty and the Constitution,
Stewart Rhodes
Founder of Oath Keepers
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Terry Lakin Homecoming Event: May 14, 10:30 am
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin
Terry Lakin Homecoming Event: May 14, 10:30 am
Many of You Asked To Welcome Terry Home so Let’s Welcome Him Home with a Big Crowd!
Terry will be returning to Baltimore on May 14, 2011, at around 10:30am. We would like to have a couple of hundred people on hand to greet him and welcome him home.
Here are details:
- DO THIS FIRST: We request that you pre-register your attendance. Why? We need approximate counts for the BWI security teams and we need to be able to communicate with you via email and/or text if there are any changes. (Note that will only provide counts, not names). CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:
- We will meet in the Southwest Airlines Baggage Claim area at about 10:15 am on Saturday, May 14. The precise final location will be posted about 48 hours prior. NOTE: It is important that you DO NOT go up to where the arriving passengers enter the terminal. They want that area clear.
- Baltimore Washington Airport has ample, affordable parking. Follow this link for general parking information: http://www.bwiairport.com/en/parking/information-rates. We suggest you just use the Hourly Garage because of its proximity to the airport terminal.
- There are no less than about 20 hotels within a mile or so of the aiport. Follow this link for a list of the hotels: http://www.visitannapolis.org/groups/facilities/bwi-hotel-district/index.aspx
What to Prepare:
All we ask you to do is bring a home-made poster that says, “Welcome Home Terry.” or “Thank You Terry” or any appropriate messages about the issue. Bring a small US flag if you have one.
What will Happen:
You will all gather in the baggage claim area around 10am on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Representatives will be there to answer questions and guide you to the correct location. We will text the coordinators when we deplane so you can all get ready to greet Terry as he descends on the escalator to baggage claim. We need a big hurray and lots of applause (of course). He may say a few words. Then we’ll get him to his luggage, to his car, and home.
We can tell you he was quite encouraged that so many wanted to welcome him home so now is the time to step up and register.
This Brave Soldier is in Prison. Do you know why?
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| Terry Lakin is a brave soldier. He needs your help. |
| Can Terry and Pili count on your generous support today with a single gift or monthly commitment? CLICK HERE NOW TO SUPPORT TERRY AND PILI AND THANK HIM FOR HIS SACRIFICE OF LIBERTY AND LOSS OF POSITION, PENSION, AND AND AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE. |
This Decorated Lieutenant Colonel simply asked for confirmation that his commander in chief is eligible to be president. Instead he received a court martial with no defense allowed and six months in prison.
Why Terry’s Case is Important
Terry’s case brought and has kept the presidential eligibility issues in the front of the public and press. From his first video that started his story, and his second video describing the unusual circumstances of being denied all discovery and access to witnesses, his case has become part of every discussion of this issue. He was derided on CNN, covered by every major paper and media outlet, and even brought the issue to late night TV comedy.
Terry has been criticized by some for his actions. They state plainly that he disobeyed orders and should simply accept the results. They believe that his pursuit of confirmation of eligibility should have been unrelated to his service. The facts of his case are plain. He did disobey and was fully cognizant of the potential results. However, after exhausting all possible means of resolving this through existing army procedures, he felt he had no choice but to bring this case to public.
Please read his letters from prison to hear it in his own words.
His resolve has not changed. He still believes the issue is critical to the strength and authority of our Constitution. Terry contributed greatly to the visibility of this issue and will continue to do so. He has sacrificed everything he’s worked for. He has given up his liberty, his income, and his retirement. His future is uncertain. He did this because he believes that the truth and Constitution matter. His stand has motivated others to launch numerous efforts and is bringing the issue to state after state as actions are taken to ensure that eligibility for any office will never be an issue in the future.
It is now official. Neither Pili nor Terry will receive any income from his position in the Army. This means that beginning in February Pili is dependent on the Trust for her expenses, medical expenses, and legal fees.
What will the family need? We are estimating the will need $500,000 to cover lost income, medical insurance, and acrue funds for civilian legal fees for a potential appeal (that may last more than three years). In addition it includes money to help Terry get back on track after his scheduled release in June. His future employment status is uncertain at this time.
Can Terry and Pili count on your generous support today with a single gift or monthly commitment?
Then call your state and federal officials and ask them to pass laws that require confirmation of eligibility for any elected office.
Listen to the entire interview:
Contacting Terry
Through May 4, 2011 please continue to send mail directly to the prison.
It takes 5-6 days for a letter to move through the system at the prison. So do not mail any letters to the prison after May 4, 2001. Use the PO Box listed below for May 5 and beyond.
If you want to contact Terry via mail please follow these guidelines carefully:
- Do not use rank or title. Only first name, last name, and registration number (see below).
- We can send him letters, greeting cards and post office money orders but nothing else.
- Do not mail personal checks.
- Do not send stamps or cash. It will not be delivered to him.
- Do NOT send any packages, food, magazines, etc. of your own.
- You can have books sent directly from a publisher or distributor.
Send your mail to:
Terrence Lakin #89996
830 Sabalu Road
Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
May 5, 2011 and beyond please send mail to the PO box listed below.
Letters, packages, etc. will forwarded to Terry as they arrive.
LTC and Mrs. Terry Lakin
Terry Lakin Action Fund
PO Box 1116
Bel Air, MD 21014
Terry’s Case: Is Affirmed
Terry’s clemency was officially denied April 18. The many letters and efforts of support are greatly appreciated. Please register for our newsletter to keep up on future case events.
How private property in America is being abolished
How private property in America is being abolished
by Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D
RED Core Reserves and Corridors – Little to no human use.
YELLOW Buffer Zones – Highly Regulated Use.
TURQUOSE Normal Use Zones of Cooperation.
ORANGE Border 21/La Paz Sidebar Agreement of NAFTA. 124 mile wide International Zone of Cooperation.
PINK Indian Reservations.
GRAY Military Reservations.
BLACK DOTS Cities over 10,000 people.
Some major highways and Interstate rivers are also shown.
Urbanization map of the United States derived from city lights data. Urban areas are colored red, while peri-urban areas are colored yellow. (Image courtesy Mark Imhoff, NASA GSFC, and Flashback Imaging Corporation, Ontario, Canada)
Area classified as urban by U.S. Bureau of census map
77% of all American citizens are crammed into 3% of the land called urban areas. Nearly 94% of the U.S. is still classified as undeveloped rural area.
WILDLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
See maps
WILDLANDS PROJECT: Incredible, Outrageous and a Very Real Danger
Most Americans are completely unaware of the true nature of the threat from radical environmentalists.
Wildlands of the contiguous 48 states have four principle agencies: US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of land Management
The REWILDING Project
“The Rewilding Project is brought to us from the United Nations. A relevant tentacle of Agenda 21, the Rewilding Project is designed to restore a major portion of the planet to its ‘original’ state before man came along and messed it all up.”
“Step by step, piece by piece, the Wildlands Project is coming to fruition. The Project, foundational to the U.N.Biodiversity Treaty which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, calls for approximately 50 percent of the United States to be set aside as “wildlands”, where no human can enter.”
Official Website of The Wildlands Project
Here is yet another Eminent Domain / Land Grab program:
Alabama’s Forever Wild Program |
Forever Wild Program Land Tracts |
Forever Wild almost lost Funding
Gov. Bentley says times are tough and budget cuts will hurt in Alabama. One painful remedy on the budget table is zeroing out funding for Forever Wild, Alabama’s land preservation program. Since 1992 Forever Wild has secured about 220,000 acres of land for public use, funded by a small portion of the investment income from Alabama’s oil and gas trust fund.
Here’s a budget remedy that would cause pain to a different set of folks: How about raising property taxes on the 1.4 million acres of timberland held by absentee, foreign owners. They currently pay less than $2 an acre in taxes — far lower than rates in neighboring states like Georgia or even Mississippi Heck, just raise the tax on timberland for everyone to a competitive level. In these hard times, no one should get off without feeling some pain, let alone get such a sweetheart deal from the State of Alabama.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Forever Wild’s problem is actually bigger than just budget. Conservative doctrine despises public lands. Last year the ultra-conservative Utah legislature actually passed a law allowing the state to sieze federal land (like National Parks) via eminent domain.
Alabama House OK’s extension of Forever Wild
Published: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Alabama voters in 1992 rewrote the state constitution to create the program, which gets about $12 million a year. The program gets 10 percent of the earnings from the Alabama Trust Fund, which collects most of the royalties paid the state by companies that pump natural gas offshore.
The land-buying program, which will expire next year if it’s not renewed, has bought or secured for long-term public use more than 220,000 acres statewide. Most of the land is open to public hunting or other recreation.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signs BLM “Wild Lands” designation order
The Secretarial Order (signed 2010) will spur the Bureau of Land Management to review up to 220 million acres of federal land not currently designated as Wilderness, and possibly apply the new “Wild Lands” designation which has similar use restrictions.Secretarial Order 3310 gives the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) immediate authority to “designate appropriate areas with wilderness characteristics under its jurisdiction as ‘Wild Lands’ and to manage them to protect their wilderness values.”
‘The order has also met with controversy among some who feel it provides activists a way to bypass Congress and cover millions of acres of federal lands in western states with the same restrictions as Congressionally-designated Wilderness areas. Environmental groups, however, applauded what amounts to a reversal of the policy adopted under former Interior Secretary Gale Norton in 2003. That policy stated that new areas on BLM lands could not be recommended for Congressional Wilderness designation.
Who Manages the Forests?
Washington State has 22.1 million acres of forestland, more than half of the entire state. Forests are managed for a variety of values, including protection of fish and wildlife habitat, protection of water quality, recreation, aesthetic beauty and lumber products, which provide jobs for rural economies. The different land managers include large and small private forest landowners, the State Department of Natural Resources, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service and Forest Service, Native American tribes, local counties, and municipalities.
AGENDA 21 AND THE WILDLANDS PROJECT
In a nutshell Agenda 21 is a program run by the United Nations related to sustainable development. This global blueprint dictates the requisite action to be taken in governing all aspects of human impact on the environment. The full text was divulged at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro on June 14, 1992. The program was adopted by 149 governments.
The text itself is 900 pages in length and is segregated under the following four sections:
- Section I: Social and Economic Dimensions
- Section II: Conservation and Management of Resources for Development
- Section III: Strengthening the Role of Major Groups
- Section IV: Means of Implementation
Why should I be concerned with Agenda 21?
Agenda 21 elevates nature above man and is based in its entirety on socialist control mechanisms. The global to local action plan concerns itself with global government. These eludes an end to our Constitution and national sovereignty, the abolition of private property, the restructure of the family unit and the increased restriction of mobility and individual opportunity.
Central Role Of UN In Global Governance
Friday, 1 April 2011, 12:29 pm
Press Release: United Nations General Assembly President Stresses Central Role Of UN In Global Governance
New York, Mar 31 2011 7:10PM
The United Nations and its General Assembly have a central role to play in shaping a global governance structure that is efficient, open and representative, the President of the 192-member Assembly said today.
“The United Nations enjoys unique legitimacy,” Joseph Deiss said in a lecture delivered in Geneva. “The UN is a Charter-based organization, with purposes and principles, membership and organs, and a budget that are clearly defined.”
The official Agenda 21 text:
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/docume…genda21toc.htm
2011 Joseph Deiss Interview (President of the UN General Assembly & President of the G8) -
talks about “global governance” and the Agenda 21 Millennium Goals (MDG’s). The governments have agreed to [them] and it is now just a matter of how it will be delivered.
From Freedom and Liberty
To these controlled habitats
Support Legislation To Release Millions of Acres Back to Multiple Use
Welcome to Save the Trails
We are currently facing the largest proposed closures of trails, roads, camping and public access in the history of the United States. Most people are unaware that today many National Forests are proposing to close up to 80% of the existing roads and trails. The public needs to submit comments in favor of keeping them open. Many of these trails will be closed by dropping trees on them and digging tank traps, so these trails will be closed to horse riding, hiking and all non mechanized activities as well. There are also proposals to eliminate historical mountain bike, trail bike, 4×4 & other mechanized recreation access on tens of millions of acres via inappropriate Wilderness Designation.
The public need to submit letters opposing these inappropriate closures.
We have created this educational program to enable you to create your own comment letter in just a few minutes by clicking on the below links. We hope this will help you combine your voice with others to create a strong message to keep our trails open and support our rural communities.
Thanks-Your friends at Save The Trails
Congressman McCarthy’s Wilderness Release Act has gone to the floor and is official!
It will be known as House Resolution (HR) 1581 and the potential to recover miles and miles of lost roads
and multiple use recreation lands is huge.
To send a letter of support to Congress and McCarthy, click on the link below then click on the
Release unsuitable lands link in the Active Campaigns. Follow the instructions to quickly generate your letter.
Remember to reply to the e mail to finalize the mailing. Simple, quick and VERY effective.
Consider supporting “Save the Trails” and bookmark it while at their site.
Thanks for taking action!!!!
*Reserve and Corridor System U.S. / UN
http://www.rangemagazine.com/specialreports/05-fall-taking-liberty.pdf
American Land Rights Can Help You Fight Back
The following threats are coming at you now:
The expanding deficit;
Obama National Monuments;
Obama Wild Lands land grab;
Protecting private property rights;
Obama Treasured Landscapes Initiative;
Obama America’s Great Outdoors Campaign;
Eminent domain and Condemnation;
Omnibus Federal land and water Bills in Congress;
Proposed new Wild and Scenic Rivers;
Federal land acquisition;
Borrowing money from China;
Competing with the Green Groups in Congress;
Local and National Federal EIS Comment Periods;
Spreading new Obama Federal land use controls;
New Obama Wilderness Study Areas;
Corps Of Engineers and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction Expansion;
New Federal areas;
New land lock-ups like National Parks, NRA’s and much more;
Lost access to National Forest and BLM Areas;
Alaska lands issues;
RS 2477 roads issue;
The Wildlands Project;
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR);
Protecting grazing on Federal lands;
FDIC Bank Closures and foreclosures
Protecting access to minerals and forestry areas; and the
Economic impact on your community of new or expanded
Federal land use controls? All these threats and issues are coming at you now!
American Land Rights Association, National Inholders Association,
League of Private Property Voters, Chuck Cushman, Charles Cushman and
Charles S. Cushman. You’ll get more information than you ever wanted
to know.
You can see lots of documents, films and helpful material at the
website of American Land Rights —www.landrights.org
< http://www.landrights.org/>
ALRA at (360) 687-3087 or writing ALRA at alra@pacifier.com
Vast Expansion of Corps of Engineers and EPA Regulatory Power!
We call this bill the Corps of Engineers and EPA Wetlands Land Grab Bill
Here are the BEFORE and AFTER regulatory control maps if HR5088/S787 pass:
Oath Keepers Anniversary Message: Remember the Spirit of April 19, 1775
Oath Keepers Anniversary Message: Remember the Spirit of April 19, 1775.
By
Stewart Rhodes
April 19, 2011
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
– Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today we honor the memory of the “embattled farmers” who stood in defiance at Lexington and Concord and then beat the hell out of the British Regulars all the way back to Boston on April 19, 1775. Two years ago, today, we Oath Keepers were privileged to be invited by the Committees of Safety to join them in their rally at Lexington Green, and, following in the footsteps of our forefathers, we stood right there on the hallowed battle ground at Lexington, roughly on the same line where the American militia stood so long ago, and defied a British officer’s orders to throw down their arms.
And on that ground, on that day in 2009, we renewed our oaths to defend the Constitution, just as Americans had done back in 1798, during an earlier time of crisis and turmoil, when they felt compelled to renew their commitment to their common bond – their oath. It is difficult to put into words what that felt like. It was a truly humbling and soul stirring experience. We were very fortunate to have some amazing speakers join us there on very short notice, including Sheriff Richard Mack, LCDR Guy Cunningham (the author of the 1994 Combat Arms Survey at the 29 Palms Marine Corps base), and my good friend, David R. Gillie. And we were privileged to meet some great patriots, such as “The Patriot Pastor” Garrett Lear (who would later become our official chaplain), and Montana State Representative, Joel Boniek (author of the Made in Montana gun law), among others. Along with other wonderful speakers, we heard a stellar address by Dr. Edwin Vieira, read by Tom Moor. You may view some of those speeches here.
Today, on Patriots Day, is a good day for us all to reflect on where we came from, what others have sacrificed so that we may be free, and to reflect on our own solemn responsibilities to see to it that their sacrifices were not in vain, and that the light of liberty is not snuffed out on our watch. We have big shoes to fill. I will tell you of just two men who, on that fateful day so long ago, set an example for the rest of us veterans to follow, when it comes to keeping our oaths with full commitment. Let their example burn in your hearts.
Isaac Davis: Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Perhaps you know the name of Isaac Davis, the militia captain and gunsmith who fell in the first volley at Concord Bridge, leaving behind a wife and four ill children. But did you know that Davis was convinced that he would die if it came to a fight because a few days before the battle a large owl, a symbol of death, had flown into his home and perched on his favorite gun? And yet, as his wife recalled, “the alarm was given early in the morning, and my husband lost no time in making ready to go to Concord with his company … My husband said but little that morning. He seemed serious and thoughtful, but never seemed to hesitate. He only said ‘take good care of the children,’ and was soon out of sight.” Those were his last words to his wife. However, despite his premonition of death, when Davis was asked if he was afraid to march down into Concord to defend the town, he replied “No, I am not and I haven’t a man that is!”
Samuel Whittemore: A Dangerous Old Man Goes to War One Last Time
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness. – Robert A. Heinlein
When eighty-year old farmer Samuel Whittemore, a veteran of the French Indian War, saw the approaching Regulars on April 19, 1775, he left his plow and, to the astonishment of his family, strapped on his prized dueling pistols and a captured French sword, grabbed his musket, and stepped out to make war one last time. Whittemore ambushed the column at close range, firing first with his musket, and then drawing his dueling pistols. He fired a total of five shots, killing three regulars and wounding another before being overrun. He then drew his sword and attacked. He was shot in the face at close range and bayoneted thirteen times and left for dead. When his grieving family came to collect his body, they were amazed to find him still alive and attempting to reload his musket for a parting shot at the now distant column.
Whittemore said he fought because he wanted his children to live without being subject to a distant King. Some have questioned his tactics, but never his resolve. Perhaps he felt he was just too old to “run and gun” with the others and chose to make his shots count, at close range. Or, perhaps, at the ripe old age of eighty, he had decided “today is a good day to die.” Despite his grievous wounds, he survived and lived another eighteen years, dying of natural causes at the age of ninety-eight.
At Bunker (Breed’s) Hill, another “dangerous old man” was overheard saying a prayer before the Regulars made their first charge. Was the old man asking God to keep him safe in the coming battle? No. He was down on his knees thanking God for preserving him long enough so that he could fight that day. That is the spirit of a free man who understands the big picture – that none of us gets out of here alive, and what counts most is whether we leave our children free.
Do We Still Have it In Us?
Some say we modern Americans have lost our hardness, our fire, and are not the men our forefathers were. They say we are no longer willing to pay the price of freedom Heinlein spoke of and will go out with a whimper rather than a bang in the face of tyranny. Such critics are making the same mistake our enemies have made throughout our history – confusing the American love of peace, prosperity, and our respect for the rule of law, with weakness.
Parliament and the British Officer Corps made that mistake back in 1775, convinced that the colonists were “cowardly and would never fight the Crown.” Major General Alured Clarke famously declared “that with a thousand British grenadiers he would undertake to go from one end of American to the other and geld all the males, partly by force and partly with a little coaxing.”
General Hugh Percy shared that opinion – until he experienced the wrath of the Americans swarming around him on his retreat from Concord. Afterward, he wrote wrote to General Harvey, in England:
“… during the whole affair the Rebels attacked us in a very scattered, irregular manner, but with perseverance and resolution, nor did they ever dare to form into any regular body. Indeed, they knew too well what was proper, to do so.
Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself much mistaken. They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about, having been employed as Rangers against the Indians and Canadians and this country being much covered with wood, and hilly, is very advantageous for their method of fighting. . . . “
Likewise, the Imperial Japanese Army and the Nazis thought the 1940’s generation of Americans was soft and weak, only to find themselves very much mistaken when young Americans by the droves stepped up, within days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and said “I’m your huckleberry!” (you can read one such story here). Simply because we love life and the blessings of prosperity does not mean we will not fight, and fight hard.
Yes, We Can!
Some think we no longer have it in us because we have put up with so much that presumably the Founding Generation would not have tolerated. But remember, for two full decades before Lexington and Concord the colonists tried to peaceably reconcile their disagreements with Parliament, protesting, petitioning, and filing court cases. As our Declaration says, “mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” The Founding Generation exhausted all peaceful means of redress – they tried to work within the system. But “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.” And that is precisely what they did, when Parliament finally attempted to disarm them.
Today, we too are striving to preserve our rights by peaceful means, despite a “long train of abuses.” But that should not be mistaken for weakness or a lack of resolve. Just as the Founding Generation contained combat veterans who had learned much in the way of irregular warfare from their Indian foes, we too have among us tens of thousands of combat vets who have learned similar lessons and “who know very well what they are about.” Though many are aging, they are still most assuredly dangerous old men who should not be taken lightly.
This April 19, remember your heritage, and remember your own worth and measure. And remind yourself of what really matters most – that your children inherit a free country. And while we must work for peaceful remedy as long as we can, as Thomas Paine said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” And Liberty!
Stewart Rhodes
Founder of Oath Keepers
Nullification: Smacking Down Those Who Smack Down The Constitution
Smacking Down Those Who Smackdown The Constitution.
By Publius Huldah.
In response to a recent article in the National Review by Allen C. Guelzo, a nullification denier and history professor at Gettysburg College, and two responding letters to the Editor,1 one “Celticreeler” posted an astute rebuttal you can read here.
The issue in the National Review article and letters is this: Guelzo denies that States have any right to nullify unconstitutional laws made by Congress. He looks at Art. VI, clause 2, U.S. Constitution (the “supremacy clause”) which reads,
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land… [emphasis added]
and concludes that any law made by Congress is the “supreme” law of the land; and everyone must obey, unless & until five (5) judges on the supreme Court say they don’t have to. He claims that only judges have authority to nullify unconstitutional acts of Congress.
In her rebuttal, Celticreeler correctly points out that the phrase, “in Pursuance thereof”, “limit[s] the federal government’s supremacy to laws that were made pursuant to the Constitution…”
She also reprints Guelzo’s reply to her letter to the Editor. And what he says in his reply is so at odds with the words of our Framers, that I am compelled to respond.
We will look at four Founding Principles which Guelzo rejects and reverses.
1. What does “In Pursuance thereof” Really Mean?
Guelzo says in his reply,
“In pursuance thereof ” was intended only to recognize that, at the time of the Constitution’s adoption, no body of legislation had yet been made under the Constitution…
What? He presents no proof – though he does throw in the factoid that “The supremacy clause was written by an anti-Federalist, Luther Martin, whom we might presume to have entertained a few anxieties about an overmighty federal government”.
Actually, Luther Martin said the clause he proposed was “very materially different from the [supremacy clause] clause adopted by the Constitution” 2; but I will not quibble.
In any event, it is The Federalist Papers which are authoritative as to the genuine meaning of the Constitution 3 – not speeches of delegates to the Federal Convention (thou they can shed light). And this is what The Federalist Papers say about Art. VI, clause 2, and “in Pursuance thereof”:
In Federalist No. 33 (6th para), Alexander Hamilton says:
…But it will not follow …that acts of the large society [the federal government] which are NOT PURSUANT to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies [the States], will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such… [T]he clause which declares the supremacy of the laws of the Union … EXPRESSLY confines this supremacy to laws made PURSUANT TO THE CONSTITUTION … [capitals are Hamilton's]
In the next para, Hamilton says that a law made by Congress which is not authorized by the Constitution,
…would not be the supreme law of the land, but a usurpation of power not granted by the Constitution…. [boldface mine]
In Federalist No. 33 (6th para) Hamilton says:
…the laws of the Confederacy [the federal government], as to the ENUMERATED and LEGITIMATE objects of its jurisdiction, will become the SUPREME LAW of the land; to the observance of which all officers, legislative, executive, and judicial, in each State, will be bound by the sanctity of an oath. Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members [the States], will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS… [capitals are Hamilton's; other emphasis mine]
And in Federalist No. 78 (10th para), Hamilton says:
…every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. [emphasis mine]
Do you see? Federalist No. 33, 27, & 78 are clear: Acts of Congress which are not authorized by the Constitution are “void” – they are “mere usurpations and deserve to be treated as such”. They are not made “in Pursuance” of the Constitution and have “supremacy” over nothing. 4
2. Who is Supposed to Look to the U.S. Constitution for Permission: The Federal Government, the Member States, or the People?
Guelzo says (in his reply):
If the Founders had wanted to grant nullifying power-to the states or any other body-they would have had more than sufficient opportunity to include it in the Constitution. [boldface added]
Guelzo thus asserts that the States [i.e., the Members of the Federation] don’t have any powers unless “the Founders” said they could have them and wrote it into The Constitution! He demands that the States look to the Constitution to see what they are permitted to do! According to Guelzo, if the Constitution doesn’t give States permission, they can’t do it.
Guelzo has it backwards – our Founding Documents refute his words. The second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence says that Rights come from God and to secure these rights, 5
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -
So, governments have only those powers “the governed” permit them to have! In our Constitution, WE THE PEOPLE, acting through our Representative States, decided what powers WE would delegate to the federal government.
Accordingly, WE THE PEOPLE created the federal government when WE, acting through our States, ordained & established the Constitution for the United States of America. In the Constitution, WE itemized the powers WE granted to each branch of the federal government. No Branch of the federal government may lawfully do ANYTHING unless WE authorized it in the Constitution. WE are the Creators; those in the federal government, are merely our “creatures”. In Federalist No. 33 (5th para), Hamilton calls the federal government our “creature”; and points out that it is up to THE PEOPLE to smackdown the federal government when it “overpass[es] the just bounds of its authority and make[s] a tyrannical use of its powers”. 6
In Federalist No. 32 (2nd para), Hamilton says,
…the State governments …clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not… EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States. This exclusive delegation …of State sovereignty would only exist in three cases… [caps are Hamilton's, boldface mine]
The Tenth Amendment says:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. [emphasis added]
Do you see? Guelzo reverses & perverts the whole point of Our Declaration of Independence, Our Revolution, & Our Constitution.
It is each of the three branches of the federal government (Legislative, Executive, & Judicial) who must look to the Constitution to see what powers WE THE PEOPLE, acting through our States, allowed them to have. All other powers are reserved to The States or The People.
3. Who Has Authority to Nullify Unconstitutional Laws Made by Congress?
Guelzo says, respecting the power to nullify a law made by Congress,
…That determination lies in the hands of the courts, under the principle of judicial review laid down in McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819…
McCulloch v. Maryland? In McCulloch v. Maryland, the supreme Court decided [wrongly] that Congress has power under various of the enumerated powers listed at Art. I, Sec. 8, clauses 1-16, and the “necessary & proper clause” (Art. I, Sec. 8, last clause) to incorporate a national bank. That case is not about “judicial review”.
Perhaps he meant Marbury v. Madison (1803). Even so, Hamilton had already “laid down” the principle of judicial review in Federalist No. 78 (8th -15th paras) some 15 years earlier.
And in the Constitution, WE did not delegate EXCLUSIVE authority to federal judges to nullify unconstitutional laws! Furthermore, the Oaths of Office at Art. VI, cl. 3 & Art. II, Sec. 1, last clause, impose on all who take them an obligation to uphold the Constitution against usurpations by the federal government. Thus, nullification is both a Power retained by the States & The People as well as an Obligation imposed by Oath.
And REMEMBER! Our Rights pre-date & pre-exist The Constitution. Thus, nullification of usurped powers is a natural right – it is the remedy against insupportable oppression by the federal government. 7
4. In Our American System, WE Do Not Take Oaths To Obey Persons, Institutions, Or Judges.
I have proved elsewhere that nullification of unconstitutional laws, executive orders, supreme Court opinions and treaties is required by the Constitutional Oaths of office. That Oath requires that all who take it swear or affirm that they will support the Constitution. In our American system, we do not take Oaths to obey persons, institutions, or courts. Here are two papers explaining the legal & moral imperatives of nullification: Why States Must Nullify Unconstitutional Acts of Congress: Instructions from Hamilton, Madison, & Jefferson and The Oath Of Office: The Check On Usurpations By Congress, The Executive Branch, & Federal Judges 8
Guelzo’s Statist Vision.
Guelzo’s vision is this: Every law made by Congress [the Legislative Branch of the federal government] is “supreme”; and the Member States & WE THE PEOPLE must obey, unless & until five (5) judges on the supreme Court [the Judicial Branch of the federal government] say the law is unconstitutional. In other words, Guelzo holds that only the federal government may question the federal government.
His words are poison. Under his vision, the federal government created by the Constitution is the exclusive and final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it; and the opinion of five judges, not the Constitution, is the sole measure of its powers. It is an evil ideology. And, as I have proved herein, it is antithetical to our Founding Documents and Principles. 9 PH
Endnotes:
1 Celticreeler states that Guelzo’s original article appeared in the February 21, 2011 issue of National Review. In response, she submitted a letter to the Editor, and Guelzo replied. Celticreeler reprints Guelzo’s reply in her linked rebuttal. Guelzo’s original article is available to subscribers only.
2 You can read Martin’s actual comments (March 19, 1788) here: Luther Martin’s Reply to the Landholder.1
3 The Federalist Papers were written during 1787-88 to explain the proposed Constitution to The People and to induce them (through their States) to ratify it. For this reason, The Federalist Papers are authoritative on the genuine meaning of the Constitution. And at a meeting attended by Thomas Jefferson & James Madison of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia on March 4, 1825, the following resolution selecting texts for the Law school was passed:
…on the distinctive principles of the government of our own state, and of that of the US. the best guides are to be found in 1. the Declaration of Independance, as the fundamental act of union of these states. 2. the book known by the title of `The Federalist’, being an authority to which appeal is habitually made by all, and rarely declined or denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the US. on questions as to it’s genuine meaning…. (page 83) [emphasis added]
Someone! Show Professor Guelzo the on-line edition of The Federalist Papers so he can learn the genuine meaning of the Constitution! Salvage the minds of the young people who the administration of Gettysburg College places in Guelzo’s care.
4 Using The Federalist Papers as Proof, I explain the “Supremacy Clause” here: The Arizona Illegal Alien Law & The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution: Exclusive & Concurrent Jurisdiction Explained. Guelzo mentions “preemption” [it does sounds "grand, doesn't it?]; but in this paper I explain the interplay between constitutional federal & Reserved State powers.
5 It is impossible to understand The Constitution without acknowledging the Principle set forth in Our Declaration of Independence that that our Rights are granted to us by The Creator God; they thus pre-exist & pre-date The Constitution, and are unalienable by man. WE do not look to The Constitution for our Rights! I explain our Rights here.
6 Here are Hamilton’s actual words:
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. (Federalist No. 33, 5th para) [emphasis added]
7 In his writings on Nullification, our beloved Thomas Jefferson distinguishes between [mere] “abuses of delegated powers” and the assumption of powers “which have not been delegated”:
…in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General [federal] Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis,) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them:.. [boldface added]
I.e., if Congress merely abuses a delegated power [e.g., makes silly bankruptcy laws (Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 4)], then the proper remedy is to vote the Representatives out of office and replace them with sensible ones who will repeal the silly bankruptcy laws.
But if Congress assumes a power which has not been delegated to it – e.g., control of the Peoples’ medical care – then each State has a natural right to nullify it within their own borders. It is outside the compact the States made with each other – the States and the People never gave their “creature” (the federal government) power over their medical care! Without Nullification, the States and the People would be under the absolute & unlimited control of the federal government.
8 Remember! We expect the lowest-ranking soldier to refuse to obey an unlawful order even when given by a commissioned officer. See “A Duty to Disobey: The Forgotten Lessons of My Lai“, by military lawyer Robert S. Rivkin. And do not forget the Nuremberg trials – defendants claimed they were “just following orders”. The Court properly rejected that defense.
Do we ask less of ourselves and our State & federal officials than we do of 18 year-old soldiers when we are confronted with unconstitutional acts of the federal government? The three branches of the federal government have connived against us – THE PEOPLE. So smack them down! Can we live up to our Framers’ expectations as set forth throughout The Federalist Papers? See also, What Should States Do When the Federal Government Usurps Power? for advice from James Madison.
9 Does Professor Guelzo understands the poisonous import of his words? Or did he uncritically accept, and does he unthinkingly recite, what he has been told? What he says is the prevailing dogma of our time – most lawyers believe it because it is what they were told in law school. Theirs’ are minds which have never been trained to think, and they are ignorant of the concept of “objective meaning”. I address the problem of inability to think and our moral & intellectual corruption here: How Progressive Education & Bad Philosophy Corrupted The People & Undermined The U.S. Constitution PH.
April 17, 2011
PUBLIUS HULDAH
Oath Keepers Operation Sleeping Giant: Awakening Veterans to Get off the U.S.S. Economic Titanic and Back Onboard the U.S.S. Constitution
Oath Keepers Operation Sleeping Giant:
By Stewart Rhodes
April 17th 2011
U.S.S. Economic Titanic has already hit the economic ice-berg and is sinking. Arguing over who should be the next captain is not going to save us. Even if we replaced the entire leadership staff, by firing all of Congress, that also won’t save us. Those who have served in the infantry know the old saying “embrace the suck,” which means to accept reality and deal with it. Well, we need to dispense with false hope, accept that an economic collapse is coming, embrace the suck, and deal with it. As Patrick Henry said, it is better to know the worst, and provide for it, than to delude ourselves with false hope.
Frankly, we should be glad it is coming on our watch, so that we can clean up the mess we have allowed to happen, rather than leaving it to our children and grand-children to fix. As Thomas Paine said, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” Exactly. This is our watch, so let’s get it done so our children and grand-children may have peace and freedom.
So, knowing that the ship is sinking, what do we do? Do we sit on our butts and wail and cry about what’s coming, while waiting to hit the icy water? Do we jump into life-boats and wallow around, waiting to be rescued? That’s what the globalist power elites want us to do. When the Federal Reserve created fiat money system collapses, when the ship sinks, they will then “rescue us” by sweeping us all onboard the U.N.N. Global Leviathan – their “final solution” of a world-wide version of the “Fed” (out of the IMF) along with ‘world governance.” That has been their plan all along – con us into sailing an un-seaworthy fiat hulk, sail it into an iceberg, and then “rescue” us onto their massive prison ship. You think getting rid of the Federal Reserve is tough? Just wait till you are under a world “federal reserve.”
So what do we do? Well, the U.S.S. Constitution is still sitting right there, off the stern! She’s still sea-worthy, able to weather any storm. We need to jump off of this weak, fiat imitation of a system we have been conned into sailing for nearly a hundred years, and get back onboard with our Constitution. We have neglected her. The supposed leaders have forsaken her. But we, the crew – us oath-sworn veterans, and We the People – who are the real owners – can still sail her if we but realize she is still there, just waiting for us.
Let’s patch the sails, plug any leaks, man our battle stations and get Old-Ironsides ready to give the U.N.N. Global Leviathan a royal ass kicking. And then let’s sail back into liberty waters onboard the Constitutional Republic built by the blood and sweat of our forefathers. That is the answer to the globalist’s plans. And that is exactly why Oath Keepers has launched Operation Sleeping Giant (www.operationsleepinggiant.org).
Certainly we are all in this together, whether or not we are veterans, but the veterans of this nation have a critical role to play. Each of us who served are still bound by our oaths to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and we must acknowledge that it has been because of our neglect of our duties, because of our negligence, that our nation has come to this. So, we veterans have a duty to right this wrong. We have the training and leadership experience it will take to help lead our people in resisting the dark plans of the global elites and in getting back to liberty. Together, we can defeat them and restore our Republic.
OPERATION SLEEPING GIANT
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after attacking Pearl Harbor.*
America’s veterans truly are like a sleeping giant. It is time to awaken them and fill them with a terrible resolve to defeat the domestic enemies of our Constitution and their globalist fellow travelers. If we wake the veterans up, this Republic will be saved. If we don’t, then I fear that this Republic will fall. If we can’t get the veterans to step up and do what must be done to save our Republic, then how can we expect to get the rest of our people to do what must be done?
So, let’s WAKE THEM UP so they can help us wake up the whole country and so they can take the lead in restoring this Republic and resisting the plans of the enemy.
If we reach the veterans fast and “reactivate” them, with their leadership we can get our neighborhoods, towns, counties and states squared away so we won’t be weak and desperate when the fiat money system crashes. The stronger ‘We the People’ are within our states, the less pretext there will be for “martial law” during a crisis and the less likely the current serving military and police will be to go along with it.
The more wide awake and prepared the veterans are, the more they can lead their neighbors in weathering the storm without sacrificing liberty on the alter of temporary security. Veterans can lead the people in standing up and defending the powers reserved to the states or to the people (see the 10th Amendment), resisting the liberty crushing plans of the political and financial elites who intend to use chaos as an excuse to scrap our Constitution and national sovereignty once and for all.
Time is short, and we must get the veterans to focus on:
- Food and fuel independence and security (as individuals, within local veterans organization chapters, neighborhood mutual aid societies, churches, co-ops, farmers markets, and at the town, county and state levels). As a start, follow the advice on http://www.providentliving.org/ (you don’t need to be LDS to learn from their experience in food storage and preparedness).
- Physical security and Independence, again as individuals, neighborhoods, towns, counties and states, to include forming neighborhood watches, mutual aid associations, a volunteer sheriff’s posse (staffed by volunteers under direct command of the sheriff), and county militias established by county ordinances but staffed by self-supplied and self-funded volunteers (as is done in volunteer fire departments all over this nation), and ultimately, a true state militia capable of “repelling invasions” (using the research and model bills of Dr. Edwin Vieira).
- Economic security and independence, as individuals and communities, including barter networks, use of silver and gold as real money, and sound money bills at the county and state levels (as Utah just passed). We must have an alternative to the fiat money system in place when it collapses. See www.alt-market.com for details.
- State sovereignty and nullification of unconstitutional federal laws and actions. Veterans must support only sheriffs, state legislators and governors who have the guts and integrity to keep their oaths. To vote for an oath breaker, is to become an oath breaker. We must defend the powers reserved to the states and to the people by supporting state sovereignty resolutions and nullification of unconstitutional laws. See http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/. And eventually we must kick the bums out, as GOOOH recommends. See http://goooh.com/
Go to www.operationsleepinggiant.org to learn more about what we have planned and to read upcoming articles that will provide details on each of the above.
What we do now, in whatever time we have left, will be critical. We must focus on solutions, not just diagnoses of the problems. And the solution is to restore our Republic from the bottom up, strengthening our communities at the neighborhood, town, county and state levels as we go. None of us has a crystal ball. We don’t know at what point the collapse will come. But when it comes we will certainly be in a stronger position than we are now, if we start from the bottom up, rather than putting all of our focus on Washington DC, as people tend to do. Maybe we will only have time to get our neighborhoods ready. Maybe we will be fortunate enough to be squared away at the county level when the collapse comes. Or maybe we will be fortunate enough to have time to get it done all the way up to the state level. Certainly, we can work on all levels at the same time, but it is best to focus most of our energy on ourselves and our local communities, and work our way up from there. And we can do it in both the private and public sphere. We shouldn’t put all our eggs in any one basket. Let’s build up public institutions, but also while doing so, let’s take private action as individuals, family, friends, and neighbors.
Once again, we should be doing all of the above anyway, because that’s what it means to be a free people in free, sovereign states, in a constitutional republic, but it is especially crucial as we face the prospects of a coming economic collapse. Time is short, so please help us spread the message to all veterans and all Americans, and turn the tide.
Throughout our history, all of our enemies have misjudged the strength and resolve of the American people. The British Officer Corps were convinced that Americans were cowards who would not dare to fire on the Kings troops, only to have their asses handed to them by a swarm of ticked off American veterans while retreating back to Boston from Lexington and Concord. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan also misjudged our resolve, confusing our love of prosperity and peace with weakness, only to awaken a sleeping giant that kicked them in the teeth. Our enemies have always misjudged us as being too soft, too decadent, too disorganized and weak to put up much of a fight. And we have proved them wrong every time. The same holds true now, in the fight against the globalist, power-mad “elites’ who think they have us pegged, think they have it all figured out, and think we are too weak to resist their plans. It’s time to give them a lesson in American ingenuity and resolve.
Stewart Rhodes,
Founder of Oath Keepers
* The quote from Admiral Yamamoto is in dispute, with some contending that it is apocryphal. Regardless of whether he actually said it, that statement is certainly consistent with his view of Americans and of the military capacity of the United States once awakened, after his time living and studying in America.
More about the author: Stewart is the founder and Director of Oath Keepers. He served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump. He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff. Stewart previously wrote the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, and was a Yale Research Scholar.
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65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You
65 Ways
By Michael Snyder – BLN Contributing Writer
Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you. It is being done purposely and it is being done by design. Many Americans like to think of themselves as “well off”, but as will be demonstrated below, we don’t “own” nearly as much as we think that we do. The truth is that most of us have to frantically run around accumulating wealth as rapidly as we can so that we can somehow stay ahead of the rate that wealth is being taken away from us. The entire system is designed to take what you have away from you. There are many ways that this is accomplished – taxation, inflation, debt, interest, fines, fees, tickets, government seizures and good old-fashioned corporate greed. If you tried to just sit back and do nothing but hold on to the wealth that you already have you would find out that it would disappear rather quickly. When you take the time to really analyze our system the conclusion is undeniable – everything that you think that you own is being systematically taken away from you.
There is a reason why the wealthiest one percent of all Americans control 40 percent of all the wealth in the United States. The system is designed to funnel all of the wealth to them and to the government. Average Americans are experiencing a declining standard of living and it is not by accident.
Just check out some of the ways that our wealth is being taken from us….
#1 Do you think that you own your house? You might want to think again. Most Americans that “own a home” are paying a mortgage. If you stop paying that mortgage you will lose that home. Over a million American families were kicked out of their homes last year. This year a million more American families will get the boot.
But when those families get booted out onto the street they don’t get their down payments back. They don’t get all the mortgage payments that they have made back. The banks get to keep all of the money and all of the houses.
Perhaps you don’t have a mortgage. Does that mean that you “own your home”?
No, not really. Just refuse to pay your property taxes and watch what happens. At best you can say that you have the right to rent your home from the government.
In any event, the reality is that the banks now own more of “our homes” than we do. During the most recent recession, the total amount of U.S. home equity owned by the banks surpassed the total amount of U.S. home equity owned by the rest of us for the first time ever.
Things used to be far different in this country. Once upon a time American families owned most of the houses and most of the land in this nation.
But now the banks own most of it. Sadly, most American families that believe that they “own homes” are actually enslaved to 20 or 30 year debt contracts.
#2 Do you think that you own your car? You don’t own it if you are still making payments on it. If you stop making payments you will rapidly lose that car.
But even if your car is paid off, you can only operate that car if you do the following….
*You must pay the license fee
*You must pay the car registration fee
*You must pay the emissions inspection fee
*You must pay the property taxes on that car (if that applies in your area)
*You must pay the tire taxes
*You must pay the gas taxes
If you have paid all of those taxes, then you are permitted to drive only where the government allows you to drive and only under the rules that the government sets for you.
But at least you “own” your car, right?
#3 What about your possessions? Do you own them?
Well, yes, you probably own some possessions.
But that doesn’t mean that they are not enslaving you.
After all, did you use a credit card to pay for any of them?
If so, you could end up paying much more for your possessions than you originally thought that they cost.
For example, if you only make the minimum payment on your credit card each month, a $6,000 credit card bill could end up costing you over $30,000 (depending on the interest rate).
#4 Do you own your education? Well, it is undeniable that nobody can ever take it away from you. But if you took out student loans that debt may end up enslaving you for decades.
The borrower is the servant of the lender and student loan debt is more of a financial drain on Americans than ever before. Americans now owe more on student loans than they do on credit cards. As hard as that is to believe, that is actually true. Americans now owe more than $903 billion on student loans, which is a new all-time record.
#5 Will you protect your wealth if you put your money in the bank?
No, in fact your wealth will be systematically destroyed in the bank.
Inflation is a hidden tax on every single dollar that you own. It destroys the value of all dollars in existence. There are some Americans that have been saving money for decades, but those savings are being taxed into oblivion by inflation. Many experts are now projecting that the average price of a gallon of gasoline will hit $5 by the end of the year. So the next time you go to the gas pump just take a moment to think about how your wealth is being drained away by inflation.
#6 Insurance costs continue to soar. After insuring everything in our lives many of us barely have any money left over to actually live our lives with. In particular, health insurance premiums have become completely and totally ridiculous. According to the Los Angeles Times, Blue Shield of California plans to raise rates an average of 30% to 35%, and some individual policy holders could see their health insurance premiums rise by a whopping 59 percent this year alone. So how are American families supposed to survive if they keep on handing over bigger and bigger chunks of their income to thehealth care industry?
#7 State and local governments all over the nation have turned to ticket writing as a primary revenue source. In fact, in some areas of the country traffic citations are soaring at a crazy rate. For example, 110,000 more traffic citations were written in Los Angeles County last fiscal year than were written in the fiscal year immediately prior to the last recession.
The truth is that the police even realize what is going on. Just consider the following quote from from Police Chief Michael Reaves of Utica, Michigan….
“When I first started in this job 30 years ago, police work was never about revenue enhancement, but if you’re a chief now, you have to look at whether your department produces revenues.”
#8 Some states have decided to simply confiscate wealth even if nothing has been done wrong. For example, the state of California is aggressively seizing “unclaimed” safe deposit boxes. If you have a safe deposit box that you have not checked on in a while you might want to make sure that it is still there.
#9 You might end up losing your valuables when you cross the border. It is being reported that U.S. border agents are now regularly seizing laptops and other electronic devices as people cross the border. In many cases those items are never returned.
#10 If you don’t pay your property taxes, you will lose your house and it will likely be a big Wall Street bank that will be taking it from you. As I have written about previously, the big Wall Street banks are buying up thousands upon thousands of tax liens and are making a killing by socking distressed homeowners with predatory interest, outrageous penalties and almost unbelievable legal fees.
#11 Of course the biggest way that our wealth is being drained is through federal income taxes. The reason that the Federal Reserve and the IRS were established back in 1913 was to redistribute wealth. Wealth is transferred from the American people to the U.S. government and then ultimately to the elite and to the causes that the elite favor.
But federal taxes are only one of the taxes that we pay. The truth is that the average American pays dozens of different taxes each year. Just check out a few examples of the different taxes that drain our wealth….
#12 Accounts Receivable Taxes
#13 Building Permit Taxes
#14 Capital Gains Taxes
#15 CDL License Taxes
#16 Cigarette Taxes
#17 Corporate Income Taxes
#18 Court Fines (indirect taxes)
#19 Dog License Taxes
#20 Federal Unemployment Taxes (FUTA)
#21 Fishing License Taxes
#22 Food License Taxes
#23 Gasoline Taxes
#24 Gift Taxes
#25 Hunting License Taxes
#26 Inheritance Taxes
#27 Inventory Taxes
#28 IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
#29 IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
#30 Liquor Taxes
#31 Local Income Taxes
#32 Luxury Taxes
#33 Marriage License Taxes
#34 Medicare Taxes
#35 Payroll Taxes
#36 Property Taxes
#37 Real Estate Taxes
#38 Recreational Vehicle Taxes
#39 Road Toll Booth Taxes
#40 Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
#41 Sales Taxes
#42 Self-Employment Taxes
#43 School Taxes
#44 Septic Permit Taxes
#45 Service Charge Taxes
#46 Social Security Taxes
#47 State Income Taxes
#48 State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA)
#49 Telephone federal excise taxes
#50 Telephone federal universal service fee taxes
#51 Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
#52 Telephone minimum usage surcharge taxes
#53 Telephone recurring and non-recurring taxes
#54 Telephone state and local taxes
#55 Telephone usage charge taxes
#56 Toll Bridge Taxes
#57 Toll Tunnel Taxes
#58 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
#59 Trailer Registration Taxes
#60 Utility Taxes
#61 Vehicle License Registration Taxes
#62 Vehicle Sales Taxes
#63 Watercraft Registration Taxes
#64 Well Permit Taxes
#65 Workers Compensation Taxes
Even the future is being taken away from us. The future is literally being stolen from our children and our grandchildren. They will be inheriting the 14 trillion dollar (and still rising) national debt that we have accumulated. What we have done to future generations is unthinkable, and yet we continue to endlessly borrow more money. The Congressional Research Service estimates that the U.S. government will need to borrow $738 billion between April 1st and September 30th. Faith in U.S. Treasuries is falling so rapidly that now the biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is actually shorting U.S. Treasuries.
When you base an entire economy on debt, eventually you end up withmoney problems that never seem to end. As a nation we are now enslaved to a vicious spiral of debt that is going to destroy everything that our forefathers worked so hard to build.
As the debt loads of our federal, state and local governments become even more burdensome, they are going to want even more money from us. For decades we gave in to new tax after new tax thinking that it would finally satisfy them. But it never seems to be enough. They always want more.
It is the same thing with the banksters. They are never satisfied either. They always want more assets and they always want more Americans to be enslaved to debt.
Unfortunately, most Americans are so caught up in the “rat race” that they never take much time to think about who designed the race or why they are running it.
Hopefully more Americans will wake up and will realize that our entire economy and our entire financial system need to be reformed. Our current system is inherently flawed and it will eventually impoverish the vast majority of us if we allow it to.
Acquiring wealth is like a game of monopoly… it all goes back in the box.
We are born with a Masters Birth Certificate as a U.S. Corporate slave.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT USES LAW AND DECEPTION TO ENSLAVE PEOPLE
Most people believe that when they purchase something that they truly own the item. However, when you understand the truth about maritime law, you will clearly see how this is nothing more than a system of control set up to enslave the people through fraud, subterfuge, and outright lies.
This is a broad subject that can be difficult to explain. I’ve tried to include as much as necessary to give you a basic clear picture of the scope and depth of these deceptions.
Historically, when people used gold or silver as actual currency, ownership of the object purchased transferred from the seller to the buyer. If a chair was purchased for $10 and the buyer paid in $10 worth of gold or silver, it was an even exchange and thus the buyer completely owned the chair. Today this is no longer true.
In 1913, the 16th amendment was ratified with authorized the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank (The FED). The FED then created the “Federal Reserve Note” which is not true currency at all.
In 1933 the United States was taken completely off the gold standard. Unknown to most, each U.S. dollar has a “lien of ownership” that follows it wherever it goes. This lien transfer’s ownership of anything purchased back to the institution that created it, the Federal Reserve Bank.
Ever since the “ratification” of the 16th amendment and the creation of the so called “Federal Reserve note” nothing that you purchase is truly yours. Ownership of all items purchased ultimately reverts back to the “Federal Reserve Bank” or (FED). due to the “lien of ownership” that is attached to every dollar created by the fed.
The implications of this knowledge are truly staggering, because it means that you actually own nothing at all, and that you merely rent or lease everything that you purchase with this “toxic” currency.
U.S. CEASES TO EXIST IN 1933
“It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent, H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congressional session June 5, 1933 Joint Resolution to suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.”
The U.S. Government declared bankruptcy in 1933 in Roosevelt’s executive orders 6073, 6102, 6111, AND 6260 confirmed in v. US (1935) The fictional UNITED STATES Corporation still exists on paper as a commercial enterprise with immense debt to foreign bankers. As a matter of fact corporation floundering in and out of bankruptcy since 1871when Congress went bankrupt from the civil war. The United States was incorporated to borrow money from English bankers who proposed the offer to control American lawmakers.
How does U.S. Inc secure the loans?
The UNITED STATES corporation now uses your birth certificate, filed as a registered security with the United States Department of Commerce as collateral to secure credit from the world bank; England’s private bank, thus making you liable for the national debt. Each ‘strawman’ birth certificate is considered to be a fictitious person, a second-class citizen, a corporation “Vessel of the United States” that was voluntarily applied for by the parents and created by the Birth Registrar of the State, another corporation “Vessel of the United States”, For the purpose of securing the national debt.
The CRUX of the Matter!
The UNITED STATES Corporation is a bankrupt corporation that is deep in debt to the WORLD BANK (England) and every U.S. citizen (vessel) including each State, county and city is governed by their contracts created under the UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. And, the good old U.S. of A considers its vessel-citizens liable for its debt, therefore it loans huge sums of bank draft to States, counties and cities so that they can in turn collect fines and taxes from all of their subjects (Usually via illegal traffic tickets, fines, etc). Your birth certificate is essentially a business license in the form of a warehouse receipt for the registration of your original birth record. Where the original is being stored on your behalf by the UNITED STATES Corporation, it is bonded and used as collateral for a loan of $1,000,000 that is kept in your Social Security Treasury Direct Account. TITLE 18 of the UNITED STATES CODE calls it a “Vessel of the UNITED STATES”.
If you CLAIM to be the all CAPS name on the Birth Certificate and/or Driver’s License contract, or if you claim to be a citizen of the UNITED STATES you are understood to be chattel of the commercial state, ultimately a slave to the Crown of England. -Sound familiar?
It still works the same way. Our founding fathers made a way for intelligent men to be sovereign kings of their private domains. You are presumed, by tacit (silent) admission to be a subject of corporation government if you have not declared sovereignty.
Redeeming the Strawman (Corporate Man or Vessel) Dr. Kent Hovind
Cry for Me, Argentina
Cry for Me, Argentina
By One Man’s Thoughts
In the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. While Great Britain ’s maritime power and its far-flung empire had propelled it to a dominant position among the world’s industrialized nations, only the United States challenged Argentina for the position of the world’s second-most powerful economy.
It was blessed with abundant agriculture, vast swaths of rich farmland laced with navigable rivers and an accessible port system. Its level of industrialization was higher than many European countries: railroads, automobiles and telephones were commonplace.
In 1916, a new president was elected. H ipólito Irigoyen had formed a party called The Radicals under the banner of “fundamental change” with an appeal to the middle class.
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Put simply, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts.
With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States ‘ Social Security and Medicare programs.
The death knell for the Argentine economy, however, came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich.
This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
Under Perón, the size of government bureaucracies exploded through massive programs of social spending and by encouraging the growth of labor unions.
High taxes and economic mismanagement took their inevitable toll even after Perón had been driven from office. But his populist rhetoric and “contempt for economic realities” lived on. Argentina’s federal government continued to spend far beyond its means.
Hyperinflation exploded in 1989, the final stage of a process characterized by “industrial protectionism, redistribution of income based on increased wages, and growing state intervention in the economy…”
The Argentinean government’s practice of printing money to pay off its public debts had crushed the economy. Inflation hit 3000%, reminiscent of the Weimar Republic . Food riots were rampant; stores were looted; the country descended into chaos.
And by 1994, Argentina ’s public pensions — the equivalent of Social Security — had imploded. The payroll tax had increased from 5% to 26%, but it wasn’t enough. In addition, Argentina had implemented a value-added tax (VAT), new income taxes, a personal tax on wealth, and additional revenues based upon the sale of public enterprises. These crushed the private sector, further damaging the economy.
A government-controlled “privatization” effort to rescue seniors’ pensions was attempted. But, by 2001, those funds had also been raided by the government, the monies replaced by Argentina ’s defaulted government bonds.
By 2002, “…government fiscal irresponsibility… induced a national economic crisis as severe as America ’s Great Depression.”
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In 1902 Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries. Little more than a hundred years later, it is poverty-stricken, struggling to meet its debt obligations amidst a drought.
We’ve seen this movie before. The Democrats’ populist plans can’t possibly work, because government bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and unfunded entitlement programs will be utter, complete disasters.
Today’s Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes. They will be as cold and dead as Juan Perón when the piper must ultimately be paid.
A Day In The Life Of A “Homegrown Terrorist”
April 8th, 2011
A Day In The Life Of A “Homegrown Terrorist”
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/04/08/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-%E2%80%9Chomegrown-terrorist%E2%80%9D/
Oath Keepers, what with all the bad news we are constantly bombarded with, I figured you could use a good laugh, especially at Mark Potok’s expense (he is one of our favorite people, even if he does have a dead marmot on his head in place of where most people have hair. Every time he goes on air to demonize us, we get a spike in Oath Keepers membership).
Humor is often the very best weapon, especially in the theater of the absurd we now see playing around us. As the below article lays out, there is no shorter path to being labeled a “domestic terrorist” or “extremist” than telling the truth, consistently standing for freedom, or asserting that people should simply act like free men and women. And God forbid you should advocate that we actually follow the Constitution. If you do that enough, you will end up on Mark Potok’s official hit list:
Hey, you gotta have goals! I expect “Giordano Bruno” (Brandon Smith) to join me on that list this summer. As he notes in his article, Mark Potok is already cranking up the smear campaign against anyone who dares talk about sound money or alternative currency (using real money, like gold or silver, rather than the fiat “dollars”), so he is going to positively lose it when he catches wind of the Alternative Market Project at www.alt-market.com. If Mark Potok doesn’t like it, you know that is exactly what you should do – so go out and buy some silver or gold and check out www.alt-market.com. In fact, when I get up each morning, I think to myself, “what does Mark Potok NOT want me to do today”? Then, after visualizing Mark scowling with disapproval, complete with his signature marmot fur head-helmet and permanent sour-puss expression, I chalk up a list of verboten items and go and do just that. Enjoy.
Stewart Rhodes
By Giordano Bruno
Neithercorp Press – 4/8/2011
There was a time when having one’s name listed in the despised ranks of those villains that governments often categorize as “terrorists” involved quite a bit of leg work, as well as an ominous running resume of death, destruction, and general mean spiritedness. Of course, if one examines the history of every modern country which eventually disintegrated into despotism, the definition of who the “enemy” is tends to become rather broad rather quickly. That is to say, the more criminal the leadership of a country becomes, the easier it is for the average person to find himself labeled a criminal by that same leadership.
Today, one does not need to blow up buildings, take hostages in political motivation, send anthrax through the mail, or even wave a gun around in a public place to be considered a terrorist threat. In fact, a man could never leave his house and still find himself under suspicion as an enemy of the state. The Department of Homeland Security has released numerous standardized guidelines to law enforcement offices across the country which are meant to make it “easier” for police and others to identify a possible terrorist. If you were to take at face value such documents as the now famous MIAC Report, the Virginia Fusion Center Report, the DHS’ “see something, say something” campaign, the Enemy Belligerents Act, the post trial statements of the Department Of Justice in the Liberty Dollar case, or the wild spewing rhetoric of establishment mouthpiece organizations like the SPLC, then you would discover that a likely terrorist is:
Anyone who talks frequently about the Constitution, or ill of the government
Anyone who supports the idea of a Constitutional Militia
Anyone who fights against anti-gun legislation, or owns many guns (man do we LOVE guns)
Anyone who supports state sovereignty and 10th Amendment issues
Anyone who supports Ron Paul (the ultimate sin according to the SPLC)
Anyone who believes the private Federal Reserve is destroying our economy
Anyone who talks about the “New World Order”, or global government (does this include men like George Soros, Joseph Biden, Gordon Brown, Henry Kissinger, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Strobe Talbot, George McGovern, Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Nixon, etc.?)
Anyone who discusses economic collapse as a reality in the U.S.
Anyone who speaks out against the IRS
Anyone who participates in “Hacktivism” (including those who leak documents embarrassing to government)
Anyone who participates in any form of activist group
Anyone who argues that the Left/Right political paradigm is a scam
Anyone who promotes Anarchist views
Anyone who distrusts FEMA (as if Katrina did not give us ample reasons)
Anyone who believes a truly independent investigation of 9/11 is rational and called for
Anyone who home schools their children
Anyone who flies a Gadsden Flag
Anyone who stores survival goods and food
Anyone who uses shortwave radios or HAMs
Anyone who watches movies like ‘Freedom to Fascism’, with anti-Fed messages
Anyone who operates private barter and trade networks
Anyone who stores gold and silver or uses them as an alternative to the dollar
Basically, ANYONE who dissents through independent political organization or protests through non-participation in the corrupt system might as well be Al Qaeda…
http://www.constitution.org/abus/le/miac-strategic-report.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1156877184684.shtm
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1278023105905.shtm
http://www.cdt.org/blogs/harley-geiger/us-intelligence-reports-continue-confuse-political-dissent-terrorism
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_liberty_dollars_raid
I could go on for pages with this stuff, but I think you get the picture. In a world where refusing a naked body scan at the airport earns you intimidation and a demeaningly thorough pat down, it is clear that now wherever we go we are all considered “suspects”. Why would I turn down a naked body scan, one might ask? Well obviously because I have something to hide; namely my genitalia from the prying eyes of the TSA. To be frank, my privacy and the privacy of all Americans is more important than your safety. Get over it.
America is moving closer to financial derailment, and with that kind of destabilization often follows the escalation of what we call the “police state”; a governmental framework that is designed specifically to protect the longevity of the core system that created the disaster in the first place, remove civil liberties one bite at a time while demonizing any person who dares to question the necessity of the system, and institute new social dynamics meant to acclimate the public to the loss of the freedom and prosperity they once enjoyed. That is, to condition them to accept the loss as “inevitable” and for the “greater good”.
Most unsettling but absolutely predictable has been the recent tapping of the SPLC and ever present establishment front man Mark Potok as the on camera media hit squad against organizations like Liberty Dollar, and anyone else attempting to promote alternative methods of currency and commerce outside of the corporately controlled economy. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins’ post trial statement in the case against von NotHaus that “Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism” was just the beginning. Potok has now come forward stating:
“He (von NotHaus) is playing on a core idea of the radical right, that evil bankers in the Federal Reserve are ripping you off by controlling the money supply,” said Mark Potok, spokesman for the group. “He very much exists in the world of the anti-government patriot movement, whatever he may say. That’s who his customers are.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_liberty_dollars_raid
Here’s what I love about Mark Potok; his ability to vomit unsupported accusations and make absurdly false associations all while making the absolute truth sound “insane” to the useful idiots out there in TV land. First off, how does Potok define the “radical right”? It sounds scary, but what does it mean? Who gets to decide what the radical right is? The SPLC? Is a right wing radical or extremist anyone who just happens to disagree with Mark Potok’s world view, or the global elitist vision of the future? Potok routinely haunts the transmissions of MSM networks to squat on our television screens and unleash a putrid torrent of Ad hominem attacks without ever having to actually qualify what he says. It truly is awe inspiring.
His style of propaganda comes from a long tradition of Alinsky-esque dishonesty in debate. When the SPLC argues a point, their goal is not to get to the truth of a matter, or to explore the complexity of an issue, it is to oversimplify the issues, to ridicule the opposition and taint their image in the minds of audiences before the audience ever gets a chance to hear the other side of the story. How often does Potok utter phrases like “radical”, “extremist”, “terrorist”, “white supremacist”, or hot button names like “Timothy McVeigh” while discussing legitimate activist groups like the Ron Paul campaign, Oath Keepers, the Tea Party Movement, anti-Federal Reserve groups, etc? The purpose behind this is to condition average Americans to automatically interpret the terminology as being mutually related. To hear Oath Keeper, for instance, and think “Timothy McVeigh”.
This tactic of false association invariably leads to more generalized definitions of criminality, or terrorism, and then to more intrusive legal actions and legislation.
The Liberty Dollar case is now being used by the DOJ in an effort to set a precedent, which would make it easier for the government to prosecute any barter network utilizing gold and silver as competing currencies to the dollar. The message is clear; you are not allowed to change the system. You are not allowed to buck the system or criticize the system. You are not even allowed to walk away from the system. You will sit down, you will shut up, and you WILL participate, whether you like it or not.
This philosophy is typical of autocratic nations around the globe. The citizenry is denied the ability to actively have a say in their own government because the parties involved refuse to represent them, or even stoop to abusing them, then, they are denied the option to protest this lack of representation, and then, they are also denied the choice of opting out and walking away. A slightly more extreme example of this would be the Chinese propensity for hating the Tibetan people and wishing they would disappear, while also shooting Tibetan natives who take the hint and attempt to leave the country by hiking over the border. Thus, the people are not just an enemy to be silenced or run off, they are also property which must be fenced in and subjugated.
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”I am a Freedom Fighter and Oath Keeper that advocates for and fights to Defend the Constitution, Restore the Republic, Preserve our Liberties, Freedoms and our Nation’s Sovereignty.”
Hokaheh, Hoka hey, Hoka hay
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague” -Tullius Cicero
“Lighting the fires of Liberty, one heart at a time!” ~Michael Badnarik
“Those who give up their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and lose both”
~Benjamin Franklin
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
~ Ayn Rand
The preamble to the United States Constitution
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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Oath Keepers Testimonials- Behold A Pale Horse _ Charlie Daniels on the New World OrderWow! Hot new documentary movie, with Tenth Amendment teeth. Charlie Daniels leads the charge against the New World Order. View the trailer here.
- President Ronald Reagan’s D-Day Speech 1984"The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers -- the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machineguns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would […]
- Karen Kwiatkowski’s Memorial Day MessageThis weekend, and I hope every day, let us remember the ideals of a free and noble America, and know that these ideals are worth fighting for. Let us say a silent prayer for our fellow veterans, our brothers and sisters in arms. Let us make time to aid and assist the widows and widowers, the children who have lost a parent, and the parents who have lost thei […]
- Stewart Rhodes will Speak on NDAA at Educational session for North Carolina LegislatureOath Keepers, we are proud to announce that NC. state Representative Glen Bradley, a Founding Member of Oath Keepers, has introduced a resolution against the NDAA before the N.C. Legislature (based on the model legislation co-authored by Stewart Rhodes, Richard Frye, and Jeff Lewis). Stewart Rhodes will address the North Carolina Legislature, May 30, 2012.
- Breaking! North Carolina NDAA/PATRIOT ACT Press ReleaseMore on this shortly, but first, here is the video!
- Behold A Pale Horse _ Charlie Daniels on the New World Order
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- Alex Jones Banned From Bilderberg Hotel, Calls For Press MobPaul Joseph Watson | Media not welcome at site of power brokers' confab.
- Mass Illegal Immigration Voter Fraud in Florida… and the Feds Don’t Care.Minuteman PAC | As many as 180,000 illegals are estimated to have already registered to vote in Florida alone.
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- Drones Shot Down Over TexasPaul Joseph Watson | Surveillance drones blasted out of the sky in protest against 4th amendment intrusion.
- Ancient Roots of Bilderberg Reveal Prusso-Teutonic Agenda for World DominationJurriaan Maessen | Just a few days from now, the world’s economic, political and scientific elites will gather near Chantilly, Virginia.
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- livecounters: Dems want free birth control, Sandra Fluke presented as victim w/ $192K degree. Dems would never use male student demanding free condoms. March 23, 2012livecounters: Dems want free birth control, Sandra Fluke presented as victim w/ $192K degree. Dems would never use male student demanding free condoms.
- livecounters: When will state governments ever learn, that catering to illegal immigrants or any illegal group invites fraud. http://t.co/73ne5Wg0 January 31, 2012livecounters: When will state governments ever learn, that catering to illegal immigrants or any illegal group invites fraud. http://t.co/73ne5Wg0
- livecounters: "Real" change is coming to America, not just words in an acceptance speech. This time it will be real. http://t.co/PwftG9D5 January 6, 2012livecounters: "Real" change is coming to America, not just words in an acceptance speech. This time it will be real. http://t.co/PwftG9D5
- livecounters: The Obama/DOJ immigration lawsuits say the states can't use a "patchwork" across the country. Really? What's this? http://t.co/RuktHIsH January 4, 2012livecounters: The Obama/DOJ immigration lawsuits say the states can't use a "patchwork" across the country. Really? What's this? http://t.co/RuktHIsH
- livecounters: Dems want free birth control, Sandra Fluke presented as victim w/ $192K degree. Dems would never use male student demanding free condoms. March 23, 2012
