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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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The Dark, Arcane Side of American Politics
Charles Burris on assassination, corruption, and other conspiracies. |
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Does the Internet Have a Libertarian Future?
Yes, no matter the State’s dastardly plans, Paul Rosenberg tells Lew Rockwell. |
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The State Is Looking for a Few Good Men
To kill for it. Article by Laurence Vance. |
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Unsung Heroes of Freedom
Marc Victor on criminal defense attorneys. *****
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Ron Paul: Police manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect scarier than attack
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Ron Paul: Police manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect scarier than attack
The Washington Times ^ | April 29, 2013 | Cheryl K. ChumleyPosted on Monday, April 29, 2013 8:09:10 PM by 2ndDivisionVetFormer
Rep. Ron Paul said the law enforcement that swarmed around Boston in the days following the marathon bombings was scarier than the actual terrorist attack.
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” he said on the Lew Rockwell website, Politico reported.
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“This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.
”The terror attacks on April 15 in Boston killed three and injured 264.Mr. Paul, a former libertarian political candidate who served in Congress as a member of the Republican Party, said the door-to-door searches police conducted in Watertown for the bombing suspects were particularly alarming.
Down With the Presidency by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Down With the Presidency
The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president.
This is like saying anyone can go to Hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat. The presidency – by which I mean the executive State – is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts.
The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while it steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power unto itself, and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, business, charity, and the community. I’ll go further. The US presidency is the world’s leading evil. It is the chief mischief-maker in every part of the globe, the leading wrecker of nations, the usurer behind Third-World debt, the bailer-out of corrupt governments, the hand in many dictatorial gloves, the sponsor and sustainer of the New World Order, of wars, interstate and civil, of famine and disease.
To see the evils caused by the presidency, look no further than Iraq or Serbia, where the lives of innocents were snuffed out in pointless wars, where bombing was designed to destroy civilian infrastructure and cause disease, and where women, children, and the aged have been denied essential food and medicine because of a cruel embargo. Look at the human toll taken by the presidency, from Dresden and Hiroshima to Waco and Ruby Ridge, and you see a prime practitioner of murder by government.
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Gunny G: …THE GOD THAT FAILED, ETC…
Gunny G: …THE GOD THAT FAILED, ETC…
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May 15, 2004 … War, the God That Failed. by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Thinking back to the scandals of the Clinton years, when …
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Nov 12, 2001 … At the request of LRC, Professor Hoppe discusses his extremely important new book, Democracy: The God That Failed (Transaction Publishers …
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Jun 14, 2011 … “It is morally tragic whenever a citizen’s only choice is between two wrongdoers— that is, between two trimmers. ~Leonard E. Read …
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Sep 26, 2009 … By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, …
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On August 8, 2008, In Podcast, By editor. Lew Rockwell interviews Hans- Hermann Hoppe. 15. Democracy: The God That Failed [ 11:32 ] Play Now | Play in …
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Posted by Lew Rockwell on December 30, 2012 03:16 PM. 1. … Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and …
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Sep 1, 2009 … Recently by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: Obama and the Post Office … say that no one can read works like Democracy — The God that Failed, …
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Joe Sobran on evil. President Ron Paul? Joe Sobran on The Man. What Do We Owe the State? Joe Sobran on Hans Hoppe’s Democracy, the God That Failed.
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Turn to Mr. Libertarian for the answer, says Lew Rockwell. …. Lew Rockwell on the failure of propaganda and the return of reality. ….. War, the God That Failed …
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The Rothbardian Way by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ~ What Is A Real Libertarian?
Here is the introduction to the new edition of For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto.
There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity, its primary muse and conscience, its strategic and moral core, and the focal point of debate even when its name is not acknowledged.
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The reason is that Murray Rothbard was the creator of modern libertarianism, a political-ideological system that proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the trappings of left and right and their central plans for how state power should be used. Libertarianism is the radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral.
Neo-Confederate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neo-Confederate views and the Republican Party
Historian Nancy MacLean writes that “since the 1960s the party of Lincoln has become the haven of neo-Confederacy. Having long priding itself on saving the Union, the Republican Party has become home to those who lionize the slaveholding South and romanticize the Jim CrowSouth.”
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This embrace of neo-Confederate views is not exclusively about race, but is related to a pragmatic political realization that the “retrospective romanticization of the Old South” and secession presented many possible themes that could be used as conservatives attempted to reverse the national changes initiated by the New Deal.[33]
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After the defeat of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election and the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, national conservative leaders distanced themselves from racial issues, but continued to support a “color blind” version of neo-Confederatism. MacLean writes that “even into the twenty-first century mainstream conservative Republican politicians continued to associate themselves with issues, symbols, and organizations inspired by the neo-Confederate Right.”[34]
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Prison Planet.com » Hillary Cackles Demonically At Thought Of Mass Murder
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October 3, 2012
How much fun, the thought of “taking out” Iran, the shattered bodies and homes, the crushed factories and farms, the sobbing of the bereft. As for James Baker, he continues to be the Establishment goon he’s always been. What lizards they are. (Thanks to Travis Holte)
The Real History of Third Parties A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 245 with Charles A. Burris
The Real History of Third Parties
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 245 with Charles A. Burris
Previously by Charles A. Burris: The English Civil War as Current Events
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 245 with Charles Burris.
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ROCKWELL: Well, good morning. This is the Lew Rockwell Show. And how great to have as our guest this morning Mr. Charles Burris. Charles is a teacher of American history in a high school in Oklahoma. And I must say he’s the kind of history teacher that all of us wish we had. Very few of us get to have a teacher like this who, if the kids aren’t aware of real American history before they enter his classes, they certainly are afterwards.
And I would imagine, Charles, you’ve changed a lot of lives. Just your blogs on LRC are just electric and they’re so interesting and so documented. I’m just, of course, thrilled to have you as part of the site.
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Image of Lew Rockwell (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Romney’s Neocons
Eric Margolis talks to Lew Rockwell about Mitt and the Middle East. |
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Stung by a Scorpion, Then by a Hospital
This could happen to you, says Gary North. |
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Lies, Damn Lies
The Republican party platform. Article by Laurence Vance. |
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Massive Government Cover-Up
Lawrence Hunter on the local police state. |
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They Cut Off Our Drinks
Becky Akers on our overlords’ stranglehold. |
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Keep America From Becoming a Democracy
Ron Paul on why it’s a republic. |
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They Silence Dissent
By putting their critics in the loony bin. Article by John Whitehead. |
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Covering Up Stalin’s Crimes
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Soldiers, There’s No Honor in Aggressive War
Nor in butchering people on orders from some general, says Fred Reed. |
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Obama and Michelle Lost Their Law Licenses
Gary North on the coverup, and what it’s meant. |
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Render Unto Caesar?
Nope, says David Hathaway. |
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Cholesterol Is Good; Statins Are Bad
Filmmaker-comedian Tom Naughton talks to Lew Rockwell about the importance of ignoring government advice. *****
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Meaningless Words in Politics by Ron Paul (“When You Hear a Politician Think of George Orwell.”)
Listen to Ron Paul
As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their
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many candidates for office. It’s important for us to remember, however, that words can be made meaningless by misuse or overuse. And when we as citizens allow politicians to obscure the truth by distorting words, we diminish ourselves and our nation.?
303. Psycho-State Targeted Brandon Raub
Raub’s attorney, John Whitehead, talks to Lew Rockwell about Soviet America.
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Judge orders release of US Marine detained for Facebook posts
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On the basis that there was zero reason to detain a retired Marine and commit him to a medical facility for psychiatric evaluation, a Virginia judge has demanded that Brandon Raub be released from custody immediately.
Raub, 26, had his home visited one week earlier by FBI, Secret Service and local law enforcement agents who expressed concern over a series of Facebook posts he had made on his public social networking profile. They detained him without charge and admitted him to a local hospital for evaluation.
“The petition is so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy,” reads a signed statement by Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett, which was provided to the Richmond Times-Dispatch Thursday afternoon.
Judge Sharrett adds that he was shocked to find that a magistrate did not include any grounds at all for holding Raub, who was placed in custody for a full week without any charges being pressed.
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(Col Sellin) Hitler’s Generals and American Politicians – English pravda.ru (See Related Articles, The Joint Chiefs of staff Should be Worried, Etc…)
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By Lawrence Sellin
At the end of World War Two, German Army generals denied any knowledge of the Holocaust and the massive atrocities committed on the Eastern front.
They were lying.
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Between 1942 and 1945, British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) recorded no fewer than 64,427 private conversations between captured German generals and other senior officers while held in the comfortable accommodations of Trent Park house in the north London suburb of Cockfosters.
Religion and Libertarianism by Walter Block
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To many atheists, the claim for the existence of God is roughly on a par with the existence of the Easter Bunny, or witches, ghouls, werewolves, leprechauns, Santa Claus, whatever.
The 30-Day Reading List That Will Lead You to Becoming a Knowledgeable Libertarian by Robert Wenzel
The list below will not make anyone a scholar in libertarianism or an expert in Austrian Economics, it is designed to introduce to the busy individual the essence of libertarianism. There are 30 articles listed below.
If one reads one article, slowly and carefully, per day, by the end of 30 days one should have a very strong grasp of libertarian principles and a basic understanding of Austrian economics. The list contains articles on a variety of topics, but does not cover all possible libertarian topics. More than anything it provides an overview of libertarianism and how libertarians think about issues of the day.
(“Is Rand Paul plotting to insert himself as a double agent? “) Prison Planet.com » Linguistic analysis of Rand Paul’s endorsement of Romney contradicts his words: Rand Paul is disgusted with him!
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…..Other explanations behind all this include the possibility that the Paul family was threatened with assassination, and the endorsement was the only way to avoid being killed it happened to Ross Perot, remember?.
Either way, it nevertheless remains astonishing that the son of Ron Paul would, with his own lips, utter an endorsement for such a status quo globalist like Romney, especially given that Romney practically wrote Obamacare, which has remained one of the most offensive pieces of legislation ever witnessed by those who value liberty.
Is Rand Paul plotting to insert himself as a double agent?The word on the street is that Rand Paul has just destroyed his political career. But I say don’t count him out yet. There remains a possibility he’s acting as a double agent, working to get inside the system and attempt to affect change from within. This well-intentioned plan almost never works out, however, as even those with the most ardent belief in liberty sooner or later get sucked into the system, compromised, and turned to the dark side.It is the system itself that is broken, corrupt and defunct.
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This is the very point of Lew Rockwell, who explained in a recent interview with RT that the government itself is always the problem, and that no government can rescue the People from the problems of government:http://www.prisonplanet.com/lew-rockwell-ron-paul-and-rand-paul-are-d…
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Ray Bradbury’s Virtual Reality Universe by Gary North
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Ray Bradbury died on Tuesday, June 6.This was published on November 9, 2000 on Lew Rockwell’s site. It was already eight years old.Maybe you’ve heard about virtual reality. It’s the hot new thing in video game technology. The player is handed an electronic weapons system, enters an image room, and finds himself in a computerized universe of robots and spaceships and fantasy.In 1951, I entered such a room.
In my mind. Ray Bradbury took me there.I can date my own literary transition from childhood to adulthood with that visit. I was nine years old. Someone 16 months before, in my fourth-grade class, had told me of a new radio program called Dimension X.
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When I Say ‘We’re ALL Potential Terrorists Now’…
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…I know of what I speak.
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Yes, that’s world-famous movie star “terrorist” George Clooney being screened by the concentration camp guards. (No, this is not a scene being shot for a movie.)
One might ask, “Why doesn’t mega-millionaire Clooney just fly on a private jet?” Because, like the rest of the sheeple in this country, clueless Clooney believes that there really, really is a “terrorist threat” to the United States—at least when there’s a Democrat in the White House who says there is; he believes that it’s okay to give up “some” freedom for security.
The Myth of the Morally Superior Yankee by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Being born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am a northerner but not a Yankee. The same is true of my friend Lew Rockwell, a native of Massachusetts who would qualify for membership in Sons of Union Veterans. The word “Yankee” gained popularity in the early to mid nineteenth century to describe a particular brand of New Englander: arrogant, hypocritical, unfriendly, condescending, intolerant, extremely self-righteous, and believing that he and his were God’s chosen people.
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Yankees have never shied away from using the coercive powers of the state to compel others to be remade in their image. That’s why compulsory government schooling originated in New England, as did prohibitionism. It’s also why Stalinism took hold in the North (especially in New York City) in the twentieth century, as did its offshoot, neoconservativism, in more recent times. Indeed, many of the more notorious neoconservatives openly admit that they were Stalinists in their youth and have never fully abandoned those beliefs.
GUNNY G: And So, The Question as to Just When Communism/Socialism Arose In America?
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Gunny G: And So, The Question Arises As To Just When Communism/Socialism Came To America?
I have seen many stories and claims as to when and where Communism, or Socialism, first reared its head here in the good old USA, but lately, I have noticed, there seems to be increasing information on this topic that may tend to confuse the issue somewhat. Much of this information has been around for a long time, but gone unnoticed by myself and apparently most others as well.
About the first time most Americans heard of communism, myself included, was during The Senator Joe McCarthy thing back in the late ’40s. Of course, information on Socialism was available long before that, but I suspect few paid much attention to it.
Not that long ago an article appeared by Alan Stang titled Republican Party Red From The Start… The article emphasized that the Republican Party had been influenced by Marxists beginning shortly after many of them from the 1848 revolution in Europe had immigrated to America. This was by the early 1850s just prior to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
By the Civil War, many of these had found their way into government positions, including the new Union Army; and most of them were sympathetic to Northern politics, and unfriendly to the Southern cause.
Anyway, Stang’s book sparked my interest and I soon found other books on this topic, i.e., the “forty-eighters,” Lincoln, socialism, big government, etc.
In addition to Stang, there are books /and online articles by such authors as Dr Thomas DiLorenzo, Al Benson and Kennedy, Clyde Wilson, etc.–real eye-openers!
LewRockwell.com has a listing of numerous authors who write regularly on these, and related topics, with online archives for each writer.
Karl Marx, surprisingly, had become acquainted with Horace Greeley, and in 1851 he became a writer for Greeley’s New York Tribune, and this continued for about ten years. And so the ideas of Marx himself had its foot in the USA doorway at that time.
And so, I was surprised by this information not only that such things had occurred, but that so little, apparently, was known of this. I had read before where writers had made reference to some form of socialism being practiced by both the Puritans and Pilgrims way back in the colonial days of our country, and the Indiana Connection, but, again, little attention was paid as being at all relevant to modern times Communism.
Communism, by the way, can be loosely known by many names, including Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Marxism, Leninism, etc. And many more names too, but for purposes of my little spiel here the above will do.
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Prison Planet.com » The Media And GOP Are Suppressing The Reality That Ron Paul Has Reached Critical Mass
What lies ahead for America, the West, and humanity in the immediate future is pain, disease, suffering, and destruction. A looming hyper-inflationary financial crisis, a world war, a global economic collapse, and a transnational fascist police state are threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of Western civilization.
This is the greatest political crisis that the West has ever faced. Government leaders are walking on pins and needles, hoping to avoid a transnational political revolution against the international banks that defrauded American taxpayers and the taxpayers of other nations.
Financial and political analysts such as Gerald Celente, Paul Craig Roberts, Lew Rockwell, Max Keiser, Alex Jones, and many others predict that there will be vast political and social changes in the near future. Such sweeping changes will be the natural consequence of the 21st century intellectual revolution which has deconstructed totalitarian myths and narratives.
Most people realize that the global war on terror and global warming myths have been created for the purposes of mass manipulation and political control of the world. The shameless power-seekers in government and the corporate world can only maintain the credibility of these civilizational myths by enforcing widespread political censorship, which is impossible in the Age of the Internet.
So far, very few political leaders have emerged to speak for the global political awakening and spearhead the global political and monetary revolution. The man who has been carrying the torch for the longest time and has the greatest amount of political energy behind him is Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is no longer a lone voice in the political wilderness. He is not a lion without a pride in these dark days. He is not fighting the good fight alone in an empty room anymore. Ron Paul is now a shepherd who is leading millions of politically aware individuals in America and around the world out of the dark woods of economic ignorance and political tyranny.
The rise of Ron Paul is a great American success story. Throughout his political and medical career, Dr. Paul has lived the philosophy of the dark horse. Steady in stride, and determined in mission, the dark horse is the political world’s most noble creature. The Spirit of Endurance sets apart the dark horse from the rest of the field.
Ron Paul is clearly leaving the competition behind in the 2012 Republican presidential race. Dr. Paul has won the hearts and minds of the nation and of the world by the sheer force of his independent will and the integrity of his arguments. Dr. Paul’s plan to reconstruct America’s foreign policy and financial infrastructure based on constitutional principles has caught on like wildfire with the American people.
But the established system of fraud and war is resisting Ron Paul’s rise with: fraud and war.
The frightened GOP establishment and state-run mass media are using fraudulent means to contain the fire of freedom that Ron Paul has started, while picking an unnecessary fight with Iran to boost Obama’s weak leadership credentials during an election year.
On Wednesday, February 22, Infowars.com published one of the most important articles in this election season entitled, “Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out of the Republican Nomination.” Paul Joseph Watson wrote:
“Despite his runaway success in terms of straw poll victories, campaign contributions and grass roots energy, a plethora of evidence strongly indicates that Ron Paul is being cheated out of winning any of the Republican caucuses, with the GOP establishment desperate to prevent the Texan Congressman from building any kind of momentum that the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been afforded.”
The Establishment’s conspiracy against Ron Paul is a conspiracy against the American voter and the American taxpayer. Only Ron Paul represents the interests of the American people and the American nation. Every other political leader in the 2012 presidential race, including Barack Obama, represents the interests of the cannibalistic American ruling class and international banking cartel.
Prison Planet.com » Fox Business News Axes Freedom Watch
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The Fox Business Channel has cancelled one of the only shows on the entire Fox News network that was in any way informative or watchable – Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
In a press release distributed late Thursday, the channel announced that its entire prime-time programming lineup had been changed, with re-runs of already existing programs replacing Freedom Watch.
Napolitano’s show had been airing for a year, in which time he had consistently covered major issues that other news programs would only gloss over, if they devoted any coverage to them at all.
Napolitano’s coverage of the freedom stripping National Defense Authorization Act for one was second to none as far as mainstream news output was concerned. His legal and constitutional expertise on such matters is also unrivalled.
Constitutional Neoconmen by Thomas DiLorenzo
…..The above statement was made by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1866 in the context of its ruling that the Lincoln administration’s suspension of Habeas Corpus was unconstitutional. As long as the civil courts were operating (which they were), the Court ruled, it is unconstitutional for either the president or the Congress to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus.
What this statement says is that it is precisely in times of national emergencies, such as war, that civil liberties must be most jealously protected. If not, then governments will be encouraged to generate crises, or perceptions of crises, in order to grab more power for themselves by diminishing individual liberty.
This profound truth gives the lie to the notion that one can be an advocate and supporter of the American state’s unconstitutional and aggressive wars on the one hand, and a “constitutionalist” on the other. War is the enemy of constitutional liberty. The current poster boy for this contradictory outlook is the radio talking head Marc Levin (“The Grate One,” as Lew Rockwell calls him) who bloviates endlessly about how devoted he supposedly is to the Constitution while aggressively supporting the neocon agenda of endless war in the Middle East and elsewhere – and all of the accompanying assaults on civil liberties at home. So as not to appear to be sexist, I should also point out that Congresswoman Michele Bachman is the current poster girl for this position, claiming that of all the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination she is the most devoted to the Constitution, while rabidly supporting the never-ending expansion of the warfare state.
Neocons like Levin, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh who now fancy themselves as constitutionalists since there is a Democrat in the White House are hypocrites of the first order. All during the eight years of the Bush regime their standard response to anyone who would object to the PATRIOT Act and myriad other attacks on constitutional liberty was to proclaim that “9/11 changed everything.” Translation: the hell with the constitution; we’re engaged in a never-ending “war on terra,” as George W. Bush called it.
(“The Rand Paul Detainment”) ~ The Paul Detainment and Metastasizing Executive Power: Another Progressive Triumph by William L. Anderson
One only had to wonder how long it would take before there would be open confrontation between a member of Congress and the TSA, and it finally happened with the detainment (and that is what it was) of Rand Paul in Nashville on Monday. That was bad enough, but when one takes into account the larger picture of separation of powers, it is even worse.
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Many years ago, I asked then-Tennessee U.S. Senator Jim Sasser in a public forum why Congress did not have to obey the laws it imposes on the rest of us. Sasser, unfortunately, answered by saying that the Senate was full of the greatest people he ever had known, which was not a real answer, but neither was Sasser exactly a bright bulb of knowledge. To him, the whole thing was a power play, and he had power, and I didn’t.
Except that Sasser unknowingly had a very important principle on his side, the separation of powers as listed in the U.S. Constitution. (I have to thank Lew Rockwell for pointing out this issue to me, and I admit it opened my eyes to a lot of things regarding the law and the growth of executive power.)
The founders of the United States had laid out three branches of the central government, and also had constructed legal walls between the central government and the states, all known as “separation of powers.” There were to be limits upon the powers of people in those entities, and in the case of Congress and the executive branch, one of the provisions was the prohibition upon detaining members of Congress on their way to legislative sessions. As Mac Slavo has written, this provision existed to keep political rivals, be they in legislative, state or the executive branches, from using arrests as political tools to prevent legislators from voting.
The Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard
What the State Is Not
The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it as an amiable, though often inefficient, organization for achieving social ends; but almost all regard it as a necessary means for achieving the goals of mankind, a means to be ranged against the “private sector” and often winning in this competition of resources.
With the rise of democracy, the identification of the State with society has been redoubled, until it is common to hear sentiments expressed which violate virtually every tenet of reason and common sense such as, “we are the government.”
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The useful collective term “we” has enabled an ideological camouflage to be thrown over the reality of political life. If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the part of the individual concerned.
If the government has incurred a huge public debt which must be paid by taxing one group for the benefit of another, this reality of burden is obscured by saying that “we owe it to ourselves”; if the government conscripts a man, or throws him into jail for dissident opinion, then he is “doing it to himself” and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred. Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have “committed suicide,” since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part. One would not think it necessary to belabor this point, and yet the overwhelming bulk of the people hold this fallacy to a greater or lesser degree.
We must, therefore, emphasize that “we” are not the government; the government is not “us.” The government does not in any accurate sense “represent” the majority of the people.[1] But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.[2] No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that “we are all part of one another,” must be permitted to obscure this basic fact…..
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via The Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard.
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- My Politico Commentary on Ron Paul and his Racist Newsletters (volokh.com)
Why Be Libertarian? by Murray N. Rothbard
Why be libertarian, anyway? By this we mean, what’s the point of the whole thing? Why engage in a deep and lifelong commitment to the principle and the goal of individual liberty? For such a commitment, in our largely unfree world, means inevitably a radical disagreement with, and alienation from, the status quo, an alienation which equally inevitably imposes many sacrifices in money and prestige. When life is short and the moment of victory far in the future, why go through all this?
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The Myth of the Morally Superior Yankee by Thomas J. DiLorenzo ~ “Hillary Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee — self-righteous, ruthless, self-aggrandizing”
“Hillary Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee — self-righteous, ruthless, self-aggrandizing”
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Being born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am a northerner but not a Yankee. The same is true of my friend Lew Rockwell, a native of Massachusetts who would qualify for membership in Sons of Union Veterans. The word “Yankee” gained popularity in the early to mid nineteenth century to describe a particular brand of New Englander: arrogant, hypocritical, unfriendly, condescending, intolerant, extremely self-righteous, and believing that he and his were God’s chosen people.
Yankees have never shied away from using the coercive powers of the state to compel others to be remade in their image. That’s why compulsory government schooling originated in New England, as did prohibitionism.
Steve Jobs Hated Big Brother Here’s how he kept a CA “we own you” license-plate off his car, says Eric Peters. ~ LewRockwell.com
Steve Jobs Hated Big Brother
Here’s how he kept a CA “we own you” license-plate off his car, says Eric Peters.
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Kelleigh Nelson — Occupy Wall Street and the Constitutional Convention
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787
“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” –John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814
The group often credited with sparking Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is Adbusters, the Canadian anti-capitalist magazine founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. This July, Lasn and Schmalz issued a call to flood lower Manhattan with 90,000 protesters. Lasn has been accused of anti-Semitism regarding some of the articles in Adbusters. [Link]
Kalle Lasn previously called for a protest at the upcoming G20 while demanding a one-percent tax on financial transactions. You can read The Daily Call article on this here: “Occupy Wall Street Demands Global UN Tax and Worldwide G20 Protest.”
They don’t even try to hide their affinity to the UN, they’re taking the UN’s call for the tax to the streets and screaming for its implementation. As one of the founders of Occupy Wall Street, Lasn is also in bed with the power elite Soros crowd, which helps fund his magazine, as reported by Lew Rockwell…..
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via Kelleigh Nelson — Occupy Wall Street and the Constitutional Convention.
Break Up the US: It’s Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace
Break Up the US: It’s Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace
 News Link • Mexican United States RelationsBreak Up the US: It’s Far too Big To Be Anything but a Global and Domesic Menace10-17-2011 • Lew Rockwell “….it makes for easier economic integration with Mexico, the article glowingly points out. But even if secession is for the elite-serving purpose of more efficiently-managed economic units rather than restoring self-government and liberty Read Comments • Make a Comment • Email this News Link • Send Letter to Editor ********** Hey, See the Reader Responses on each article, they are gems in themselves! **********  ********** Gunny G: BLOGGER 1984 + http://gunnyg.blogspot.com and… http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/ **********  ********** |
Surrogate Smack-Down by Brian Wilson ~ “Rush Limbaugh Sets His Attack Dogs on Ron Paul” l Brian Wilson on El Limbo’s “guest hosts.”
Surrogate Smack-Down by Brian Wilson ~ “Rush Limbaugh Sets His Attack Dogs on Ron Paul” l Brian Wilson on El Limbo’s “guest hosts.”
Surrogate Smack-Down by Brian Wilson:
You just want me to say something bad about Ron Paul, don’t you? Well alright – well, let me just say:
Ron Paul…he can’t win…he can’t get elected…he’ll never get the nomination. Ron Paul means 4 more years of Obama. Ron Paul is the wacky uncle who shows up at the family picnic and everyone tries to ignore. I mean, I love the guy’s passion for the Constitution but his wacky foreign policy ideas, wanting Iran to have nukes! Well, that’s just insane.
Tell ya what – he should just drop out of the race and when whichever true GOP candidate wins the White House appoint Ron Paul to head the Fed! Then he can audit the Fed all he wants! That’s it! Or make him Secretary of the Treasury!
Yeah. That’s the ticket!
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Ron Paul Not Seeking House Reelection; Focusing on GOP Presidential Bid
After serving a total of 12 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) has announced that he will not be seeking another term in the House so that he can concentrate fully on his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
USA Today reports: “Paul, 75, told a local paper in his congressional district that he didn’t want to be distracted by running two campaigns at once. The libertarian-thinking candidate, who has a devoted following among supporters of his small government views, is running in his third White House campaign.”
In an interview with local Texas newspaper The Facts, Paul clarified, “I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election. It’s about that time when I should change tactics.”
Paul, who currently serves as chairman on the panel that oversees the Federal Reserve Board, in addition to his announcement with The Facts, also announced in a post on Facebook. “I have decided not to seek re-election for my House seat in 2012 and will focus all of my energy on winning the presidency.”
According to Paul, by making his announcement to retire from the House early, he is providing enough time for qualified candidates to consider succeeding him in the 14th District. “I didn’t want to hold off until December. I thought it shouldn’t be any later than now,” he explained.
However, those considering succeeding the long-time Texas Representative will have some big shoes to fill, as he has been the most consistent candidate for the White House with a record of voting strictly according to the Constitution.
Paul’s son Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said of his father’s record,
History will record the legislative record of Ron Paul as an extraordinary one — perhaps unparalleled. There probably has never been a more consistent believer in limited government in Congress.
Congressman Paul was first elected to Congress in 1976, serving four terms. He then made an unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat in 1984. After taking a break from politics to focus on his medical practice, Paul then sought a libertarian nomination for President in 1988. In 1996, he defeated incumbent Greg Laughlin for a GOP nomination for the House and, as noted by USA Today, “has been easily re-elected to the House ever since.”
In the 2010 midterm elections, Paul easily fought off three Republican challengers in the primary before defeating Democrat Robert Pruett in the general election.
Grateful for his constituents in the 14th District, Paul observed, “The people in the area have supported me for many years.”
Paul’s announcement to concentrate solely on the presidential bid reflects his optimism. He told The Facts that he feels his chances for a 2012 presidential bid are significantly better than they were in 2008, even though he set an Internet-driven record that year for fundraising.
“We have a lot more support right now,” said Paul. “Things are doing well for us.”
Paul’s message of limited government, reduced spending, personal liberties, and a non-interventionist foreign policy has garnered a great deal of support in recent years. But some fear that if he does not serve in Congress, that message will no longer be heard.
Paul attempts to assuage those concerns: “I have been talking about this for years. I will always be doing that. But not in the U.S. Congress.”
Libertarian political commentator Lew Rockwell voiced similar sentiments in his blog regarding Paul’s announcement:
There are sad aspects to this, of course. He has been the greatest congressman in American history, by many leagues. But I predict that he will have even-more and even-more-lasting influence as he uses his moral authority for teaching freedom, peace, and Austrian economics outside of politics.
As Paul continues to pursue the GOP 2012 presidential nomination, there appears to be reason for his optimism. The most recent Iowa caucus poll shows that he has made significant gains among likely voters. Commenting on the recent poll, Paul posted on his Facebook page, “The hard work in Iowa is paying off. We were at 3 percent in this poll last time and now we are at 14 percent.”
via Ron Paul Not Seeking House Reelection; Focusing on GOP Presidential Bid.
I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.:
“Indeed, the entire Cold War ideology was invented by Harry Truman and his advisers in 1948 as:
1.) a political trick to keep from losing more congressional backing,
2.) a way to circumvent political pressure for postwar disarmament, and
3.) a method to maintain U.S. industrial dependence on government spending, particularly with regard to American corporations operating overseas.
It was an unprecedented form of peacetime socialism, designed to appeal to big business, and Eisenhower became its spokesman.
Savvy libertarians knew exactly what was going on and supported Cold War opponent Robert Taft for the Republican nomination in 1952.
But the nomination was effectively stolen by Eisenhower, with massive establishment backing. He repaid his backers with his support and expansion of Truman’s program.”
Posted by Gunny G at Tuesday, June 07, 2011
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The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State? � LewRockwell.com Blog
The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State? � LewRockwell.com Blog
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The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State?
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The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State? � LewRockwell.com Blog
The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State? LewRockwell.com Blog:
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May 23, 2011
The Judge: Peaceful Republic or Police State?
Posted by Lew Rockwell on May 23, 2011 06:05 PM
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