This last cig tax increase was a killer. It made the spread to much and forced people, especially in tough economic times, to seek alternative ways to buy cigs. One of which was the state of New Hampshire.
Not only do you lose cig sales revenues, but when people go to New Hampshire they buy liquor and lottery too. Just read this in the Nashua Telegraph:
Cigarette sales brought in $20.1 million last month when only $18.3 had been expected.Likewise, liquor sales came in at $18.7 million; that was $3 million more than its forecast for December
Although there was an additional dollar per pack tax, the Commonwealth raised more money right? Wrong, from the Belmont Citizen Herald:
State finance documents project a decline in tax collections of about 3.6 percent for fiscal 2009, instead of the assumed 3.8 percent growth
Think about that, the Commonwealth added a dollar per pack tax to cigs to raise revenues to fund the new Commonwealth of Massachusetts health reform law and not only have they not raised more money, but actually collected less. At the same time New Hampshire collected 10% more then expected.
Jahn, what do you think really happened here.
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I believe the 4th district needs B.Frank out! He does not represent us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1WRQkLRsU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1b9ljbj1FY
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I have decided to attend a fundraiser for Earl Sholley. I'm disgusted with B.Frank so figured I should check out what his opponent is saying. Anyone else disgusted with B.Frank should consider attending also.
for Earl H. Sholley Candidate, 4th Congressional District Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:00 - 11:00 p.m. The Elks Lodge 4500 No. Main St. Fall River, MA _________________________________________________________ Donation $20.00 (advanced tickets only) &n
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here is my video footage of peter schiff at Harvard last Saturday he spoke for over 1 and a half hours
Categories: Ron Paul, Media, US Constitution, Just For Fun, Socialism, Video Tags: Peter Schiff, harvard, economics, ron paul, End the Fed, Tom Woods |
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Since Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill was introduced, you've reached millions of Americans through phone calls, mailings, radio and television interviews, letters to the editors, emails, social networking sites, door-to-door canvassing, booths at fairs, gun shows and music festivals, and a host of other local events and activities in communities around the country. Then we turned up the heat. You put the pedal to the metal, shifted gears and took aim at the Senate. You made your voices heard loud and clear by calling your Senators and attending Town Hall events, and collected petition signatures for the cause at every possible event. Then on September 15, you hand-delivered thousands upon thousands of petitions to Senators across the country, making S.604 Mass Action Day a resounding success! There are currently 30 co-sponsors in the Senate!! To make it interesting, Campaign for Liberty held a competition. The following individuals gathered the most signatures on petitions in their states. They not only win our respect, gratitude, and admiration, they've won a copy of Ron Paul's new book End the Fed and a pocket Constitution, both bearing Congressman Ron Paul's autograph! A big shout out to Debi Longarello in Florida, Rob Bulas in Ohio and Brent Roos in Illinois for collecting 1,000 or more petitions! Please join me in congratulating all of the following Patriots:
And now, for the state that collected the most signatures as a percentage of population: WASHINGTON STATE Members gathered a whopping 7,180 unique signatures! Congratulations to Washington State who wins a $1,500 gift certificate to the Campaign for Liberty store! Here's how the winner was calculated: Unique signatures gathered divided by total 2008 est. population. The winner is based on percent of total population, which is why Washington State edged out Florida for first place. (Although in some cases, twice as many petitions were actually delivered, unique signatures were used in the actual calculation.) The state of Minnesota came in second with 3,000 unique signatures! The state of Michigan came in third with 5,622 signatures! A special shout out to Florida who gathered the most unique signatures with 10,160! All of these states deserve a big round of applause for getting over 250 unique signatures on Mass Action Day:
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING S.604 MASS ACTION DAY A BIG SUCCESS!!
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Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign: http://www.stopspewingcarbon.com The objective of the campaign is to acquire the appropriate number of certified signatures to get a referendum onto the ballot for the Massachusetts 2010 election. Our goal is 80,000 signatures. This ballot question proposes a change to the law so as to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that biomass plants can emit in order to qualify as "renewable energy" under Massachusetts law. CO2 is the most prevalent greenhouse gas and causes global warming. CO2 from biomass burning would be limited to 250 pounds per megawatt hour under this petition. Biomass burning releases as much as 3,300 pounds of CO2 per megawatt-hour, more than any other combustible fuel. Compare this to 2,100 pounds for coal, 1,900 pounds for petroleum, and 1,300 pounds for natural gas. Biomass emits approximately 1.5 times as much CO2 as the typical coal plant. Not to mention all the other harmful impacts like dioxin emissions. http://www.maforests.org/, http://www.massenvironmentalenergy.org/ Your tax dollars and your electric rates go to building biomass burners. Put a stop to it! http://www.nobiomassburning.org/ Five proposed biomass burners in Massachusetts (Fitchburg, Greenfield, Pittsfield, Russell, and Springfield) would increase the state's power plant CO2 emissions by 10% but provide only 1% of the state's electricity. There are also plans to convert the coal plants in Salem and Somerset to burn biomass. A 50 megawatt biomass power plant burns 650,000 tons of wood a year. If all five biomass plants were built, forests throughout Central and Western Massachusetts would be logged in only 9 to 16 years. It's not too late to JUST SAY NO! http://www.maforests.org/Impacts.htm Under current state law, biomass power plants can burn forests, tires, trash, and construction debris, but qualify as "clean and green" renewable energy under the state's renewable energy laws. http://www.springfieldincinerator.info/ We have just a short time to collect tens of thousands of signatures. Information on this petition effort is available at: http://www.stopspewingcarbon.com . If you see someone collecting signatures in your community, take the time to sign. Your signature could be the one that gets us to our goal. You can also call 1-800-729-1363 to join the Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign and to assist with this effort to place this referendum on the Massachusetts 2010 ballot. Categories: State Legislation Tags: Stop Biomass Burning |
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Candidates This is not Chicago style politics - so please vote only once. I would appreciate it if people could point out the Liberty and Non-Liberty positions of each of the candidates in comments. Also - Should you find a candidate you like, I encourage members to become active in obtaining signatures to get on the ballot.
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Please help the Patriot Movement by studying the very real and well documented issues contained in this material which the mainstream media barely acknowledges.
Films: America: Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo. Please note: "Real ID" has been delayed and replaced with S1261 "Pass ID" which is even worse and as of June 15, 2009 is in the Senate. Watch this documentary for free through www.freedomtofascism.com.
Money As Debt by Paul Grignon. Watch this 5 part educational film for free at www.youtube.com by entering "Money as Debt (1 of 5)."
The Money Masters-How International Bankers Gained Control of America. Watch this documentary for free at Google videos. (Google it and you will find it). Though the history in this documentary is accurate based on my research, be careful of the solutions they present. Greenbacks were NOT constitutional because Congress is NOT authorized to "emit bills of credit". Mr. Griffin's solution in "The Creature from Jekyll Island" IS an appropriate constitutional solution.
Overview of America 1 of 4, presented by the John Birch Society. An excellent film illustrating what our Government should be and where it's heading. (About 30 min.)
The Capitalist Conspiracy pt 1 of 5 by G. Edward Griffin. Watch this documentary for free at www.youtube.com.
The Obama Deception HQ Full Length Version by Alex Jones. This film is nonpartisan. Watch it for free on www.youtube.com.
www.youtube.com. Enter "Alex Jones and Aaron Russo." This one shows you the photo of Aaron Russo with Nicholas Rockefeller. Also, for detailed documentaries filled with evidence in support of Aaron's claim, visit www.wearechange.org and click on the education section.
www.youtube.com. Enter "Aaron Russo (1 of 7)." This is the entire interview in 7 parts.
Literature:
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin. 4th Ed. Buy it at www.realityzone.com.
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Congressman Dr. Ron Paul. Buy it at www.campaignforliberty.com.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World In Our Time by Dr. Carroll Quigley, professor of history at Georgetown University. Buy an exact replica of the original suppressed book at www.realityzone.com and learn history from the perspective of an insider with a front row view of a hidden power structure.
The Law That Never Was 2 vols. by Bill Benson. Congressional Research Assoc. Publishing. Buy it at www.thelawthatneverwas.com.
Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move by Dr. Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. By it at www.spychips.com.
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. www.deliberatedumbingdown.com.
A few other websites:
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com by Dr. Daneen G. Peterson.
www.onemillionameros.com. Please note: Although Ameros have been minted, they have not been circulated and I think they are planning to skip it and move directly toward a world currency. Click on "video page" for several news sources and more.
freedom.tv. Check out the Reality Reports from Restore the Republic.
Short youtube videos (www.youtube.com). Enter: (Only what is in "quotes".)
"North American Union" Lou Dobbs video from CNN. "CNN/Dobbs: W Fulfills His Dad's dream of a New World Order" "Lou Dobbs: North American Union Orwellian Brave New World" "The Amero Conspiracy" Hal Turner proves the Amero is real. "The Amero-North American Currency" "Question 5" This is a video in which Dr. Paul talks about the NAU. "CNN-Lou Dobbs-Obama Backing North American Union Agenda" "Is There A Secret Government In The United States?" "The Complete Idiot's Guide To The New World Order" "New World Order Monetary System" "Probably Won't Hear About This On MSM" "FEMA Domestic Terrorism and Genocide" "Denver International Airport Conspiracy" "Money-A Brief History of the American Dollar-Part 1 of 2" "FIN Special Report Senator Moore Approves Swine Flu Vaccinations" PLEASE, help get Senator Moore OUT OF OFFICE. Also see "Urgent Message Make This Viral". "North American Union and RFID Chip TRUTH! Must SEE"
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This was taken from an email from Small Government News -http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/ Here is the first unedited, complete email that the Massachusetts Teachers Union is sending to their activists:
"Subject: HELP NEEDED - To Protect State Revenues A Threat to Our Communities "A small group of individuals are threatening to jeopardize Massachusetts working families by seeking to qualify a number of initiative petitions. "One these would reduce the sales tax which would cut state revenues by approximately $2.5 billion. "This would result in cuts in our communities to education, health care, public safety and other programs that we all depend on every day. If you see or have seen any petitioners carrying this or other petitions in your community, please call "We need your help in being able to track what's really being circulated and where these petitions are being circulating. Basically, we need your help in being our eyes and ears on the ground in your community. "Petitioners usually go to grocery stores, libraries, events, and other places that YOU usually frequent. All we're asking you to do is call the PETITION HOTLINE, if you see a petitioner anywhere in public. Again, that number is: "If you receive a voicemail please leave a detailed message including the time, date, and location of where you encountered a petitioner. "Thank you for your support and remember to think before you ink! "KEEP the Hotline number with you - 508-556-0796.
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-- I don't know about you guys, but when some shysters plot and scheme to sabotage petition drives that take money away from the state and their unconstitutional government indoctrination centers they call "public schools" I am even more motivated to get out there with a petition and get some signatures! Also, a call to the charlatan hotline -508-556-0796 - might be fun. Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Education, Civil Liberties, Grassroots News, Action Item, US Constitution, State Legislation Tags: teachers unions, Sales Tax, center for small government |
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Folks - This is also a privacy issue - I don't like the government tracking my movements. Please help CLOSE THE TOLLS !
Welcome to Citizens Against Road Tolls (CART). We are a non-partisan coalition of regular people with only one goal: to close the tolls! Categories: Civil Liberties, Action Item, State Legislation Tags: |
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Oligopolies, markets where there are few competitors and monopolies, markets where there are no competitors, are the best opportunities for firms to earn profits above all costs including the salary of the owner. These are economic profits and they are highly desirable for any business. In contrast to oligopolies and monopolies, markets that are in pure competition produce zero economic profits. Markets that exhibit behaviors such as those in pure competition include the food industry, in which the production of the same product is produced by many organizations to satisfy a huge demand. Such companies produce no economic profits because they do not control enough of total production to affect the price. They must charge the market price every time they sell product. This is not opinion, but a fact of economics. Although true pricing is always what the market will bear, the further away from a purely competitive market a firm exists the larger economic profits it will acquire. This means oligopolies and monopolies are desirable to all firms. The fewer the competitors, the easier it is to differentiate products and services to secure an economic profit. Such differentiations could be to the benefit of consumers, yet there is no question that the closer a business exists to pure competition, the lower the prices and therefore the eventual price to the consumer; a desirable result for those purchasing most products. Oligopolies, in order to maximize economic profits, desire a monopolistic market for its products. When this transition happens economic profit will increase most times; unhindered by the threat of a market loss due to a competitor moving to market with a lower price, or in other words, lower economic profit. ". . . [E]conomic profits will increase most times . . .", because monopolies that exist naturally in a market are always under the threat of a competitor. In this type of monopoly, economic profits likely exist, but remain below what is excessive because a threat of a competitor is always looming. The other, and far more dangerous form of monopoly, is the government-sanctioned monopoly. A monopolistic oligopolistic firm of this genre is not only the sole producer in its market, but also exists with the power of the government to protect its interest. Governments are the only legitimate entity in a civil society that can legally initiate the use of force upon people, and therefore can neutralize any threat to a firm's prices and production practices. The firm desires the protection of the government and the government desires the money a protected monopoly or oligopoly can generate; a perfect combination for all participants with, of course, the exception of the public. This makes permanent the producers hold on market prices and production, as well as infuses the government into the power of the company's purse. We see this happening today in the health care industry. "Single payer" means "single producer" or "few producers", monopolies and oligopolies respectively. All of whom desire the protection from competition that only the government can provide. By combining the money making power of the health care industry, an astounding 16.5% of America's GDP (Plunkett Research, Ltd., 2008), plus the ability of government to initiate force upon people without reproach, the result is a tremendous amount of power concentrated in the government. Such a situation is the foundation of a system in which economic profits are maximized to the sole benefit of the producer and the government, not the consumer. Both entities get richer and more powerful, neither earn it.
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Massachusetts is the being beta-tested on a bill which, if passed, would abolish all our rights based on an expected and media hyped pandemic. The hysteria began in April when the WHO (World Health Organization) declared the "Swine Flu" a level 5 pandemic, and then raised it to level 6 when it spread across several national borders. The Massachusetts State Senate reacted by unanimously passing the Pandemic Preparedness Act, or S-2028, on April 28th 2009. S-2028 allows the Governor of Massachusetts to declare a state of emergency in response to anything which he or she considers dangerous to the public health; during such an emergency, the Governor and public health officials could mandates forced vaccinations, quarantines, property confiscations, warrantless searches, seizures and arrests and de facto martial law. Furthermore, it has no provision for compensation; public officials would be able to confiscate your home, your car, your clothes, your guns and anything else they deem necessary and destroy those possessions without paying you one cent in compensation. It even goes so far as to absolve all participants in the state's pandemic response from all liability, except in cases of criminal negligence. There is no means for a redress of grievances described in this bill. These violations are only a few of the draconian provisions of the S-2028. If you would like to read the bill, you can see it at http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02pdf/st02028.pdf.
Upon reading the language in S-2028 the Liberty Preservation Association of Massachusetts (MassLPA) responded with a lobbying campaign, which has effectively stopped the Pandemic Preparedness Act in its tracks. It is presently sitting in the House Ways and Means Committee. Several state representatives have stated that it will not pass due to its overwhelmingly unconstitutional provisions, but Senator Bruce Tarr suggests that it will return in October during flu season. The MassLPA is not waiting for renewed hysteria to revive this bill; we are currently fighting it on multiple levels. First, we are continuing our lobbying efforts by means of a Lobby Bomb on Wednesday 9/9/09. This lobby bomb is an attempt to bring dozens of people to the State House to lobby their state representatives together. There is nothing more frightening for state representatives than a dozen or more angry citizens in their offices. Second, we are holding the sponsor responsible for this draconian legislation. The MassLPA is organizing a protest against the bill's chief sponsor, Senator Richard T. Moore (Worcester -Norfolk) on 9/12/09. We will be getting signatures from Moore's constituents on our impeachment petition. By seeking to impeach Senator Moore, the MassLPA is declaring to all state legislators that their tyrannical and unconstitutional actions will not be tolerated. Finally, we are marshaling a public outreach campaign called the Neighborhood Outreach Vaccine Awareness Campaign (NOVAC). The goal of NOVAC is to inform the public, especially those connected with the health care and education industries, about the dangers of this bill and the H1N1 vaccines.
The MassLPA is the tip of the spear fighting back this draconian legislation, and perhaps the only organization in Massachusetts to speak out and take action on this matter. If this bill passes in Massachusetts then it will soon spread throughout the country and our Constitution will be finally a dead document. Please offer any resources to our lobbying and ad campaigns to help us prevent the further spread of tyranny in America. With your help, the Liberty Preservation Association of Massachusetts can defeat this egregious assault on our Constitution and our Liberty. Categories: Globalism, Civil Liberties, Health Freedom, Grassroots News, Action Item, State Legislation Tags: |
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Reid, a fellow C4L member and I are looking for 2 more people to come with us to the Northeast conference. We're using a rental car for travel and the hotel should be $99 per night. The costs will be divided four ways, making the hotel a mere $25 per night per person, and the travel costs around $80. If anyone is interested, let me know ASAP. Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Miscellany Tags: Northeast conference, Massachusetts, Ride Sharing |
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Yesterday, Judge Loretta A. Preska, who presides over a United States District Court in New York City, ruled in favor of Bloomberg News, and ordered the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to release records identifying details about the Fed's emergency lending that began in the fall of 2008. Bloomberg reporters filed their initial complaint on November 7, 2009, over nine months ago, claiming that the Freedom of Information Act required the Fed to make it lending records public. Since that time, the Fed has continued to operate in the shadows, and has refused to comply with requests by congressmen for more openness with regard to its new lending practices and facilities. The docket history of the case can be viewed here. I called Judge Preska's office in New York, and one of her staffers was kind enough to provide me with a PDF file of the judge's ruling. You can download her opinion here. Chinks are showing in the Fed's armor. If it does not appeal, it must release over 231 pages of reports within 5 days of this ruling. Freshman U.S. Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), who is quickly making a name for himself as a leading advocate for Fed transparency, and who has pointedly criticized Ben Bernanke in congressional hearings, hailed the ruling and continued publicly to debunk Bernanake's argument for Fed "independence": "It's one thing to say that the Federal Reserve is an independent institution. It's another thing to say that it can keep us all in the dark." This is great news for the Audit the Fed movement. If the Fed appeals the ruling, its continued stonewalling will provide excellent fodder for those who might oppose Ben Bernanke's re-appointment as Fed Chairman, which President Obama announced this morning, from his vacation home in Massachusetts. Let's hope at least one senator will have the courage to speak out against Bernanke's actions, and bring this important issue to the attention of the American people. The case is: Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan), No. 08-9595.
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http://masslpa.org/sites/default/files/NOVAC_Tri-Fold.pdf Please click on the link and distribute about Vaccine issues. Categories: Globalism, Civil Liberties, Health Freedom, Grassroots News, Action Item, Current Events Tags: |
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Hey everyone - the Northeast Conference in Philadelphia is coming up and we want to organize ride and hotel room sharing so we can cut down on costs. For now, please contact me or Brad Wyatt regarding hotel and ride sharing. A hotel room is about $99 a night and if we take rides together we can really save on gas. If you have a vehicle, please consider volunteering to be a driver. It would be a great help to the Massachusetts C4L community. Sign up for the conference soon, as tickets are going quickly and you don't want to miss perhaps the best conference lineup to date - Ron Paul, Judge Napolitano, Daniel Hannan, Tom Woods, Peter Schiff, and more! Also, the conference begins just 1 day after Ron Paul's newest book, End the Fed, is released, and he will be holding a book signing - a great way to get something special! In the meantime, if you are in college make sure you let your professors know as early as possible that you will be missing a few classes. The Conference begins on a Thursday and ends on a Saturday. If you let them know ahead of time that you will be away they will likely be able to work with you so that there are no problems. Categories: Campaign For Liberty Tags: Northeast conference, Massachusetts, Ride Sharing, carpooling, hotel sharing |
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All of us have heard many explanations as to why our financial and economic fortunes have taken a drastic downturn. Our town is now trying recover from the resulting loss of revenue as we weigh the cost of needed services with available revenue in hopeful anticipation of a quick recovery. After reflecting on our economic problems, reading numerous articles and listening to one pundit after another pontificate on the state of the economy. I am left with more questions and doubts about our future economic recovery than answers. Many people, in an attempt to explain current events and predict future events use history as a guide, comparing similar events of the past to provide an explanation as to why a current event has occurred or to predict what may be a future outcome. The problem with this approach is that there are many misapplications of past events that may at first glance seem to be very similar, but lack some key component that would make it practical for this purpose. For instance, many have used the depression of the 1930's to compare with our current situation. However, the economy and financial system of today is much different from that of the 1920's and 1930's thus, making a direct comparison somewhat problematic. During the time of the great depression we were an exporting nation, with little or no national debt, most of the people did not have any personal debt and our currency was backed by established commodities of value -- gold and silver. Our economy today has very little resemblance to that of the 1930's. Our economy is service based with little manufacturing, importing most much of what we consume. W have a massive national debt (and growing), our people are in debt and we lack the industry to produce or meet much of our durable goods needs. So, my quest was to find a similar economic situation in history that can be used to more closely resemble our current situation. I needed to find a country that was saddled with massive debt, with much of its manufacturing capability destroyed or gone and in a recession with depending unemployment. One instance in history came to mind - that was post world war I Germany. Germany was saddled with the punitive debt (reparations) to repay the cost of the World War I and much of it's manufacturing capability was confiscated or destroyed. A strong socialist movement was pacified with evermore benefits and bestowed rights. There are similarities between the post war Germany and the U.S. economy of today. Huge debt, loss in manufacturing capability, a movement toward socialistic initiatives and the injection of large amounts of borrowed and printed money in an attempt to kick-start the economy were the common threads of ominous parallels between post war Germany and our economy of today. We all know what the end result was. With the failure of Germany's first stimulus package, many more followed. Ultimately, the currency of Germany collapsed under the weight of hyperinflation. What started out at 4 marks to the dollar in 1914 resulted, less than ten years later in an exchange rate of about a trillion marks to the dollar. We are now on our third stimulus package, anxiously looking for fleeting instances of recovery as each stimulus package provides that short-lived bump to the economy while inevitably weakening the dollar and destroying our savings. Will we continue down the same path as post war Germany? Unfortunately, our State and community are inevitably linked to the actions of our central government and the Federal Reserve. Our fate depends on the continued acceptance of the value of the US dollar. Not long ago our Town Manager's annual salary was about $85,000 - now we are seeking a new Town Manager and advertising an annual salary as high as $150,000. Unemployment continues to grow, prices are rising and home foreclosures persist. The promised $800 billion Green shoots are nowhere to be found and our country has taken a sudden leap toward socialism. Ominous parallels abound as we enter, what may be a decade of economic and political chaos. Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Finance, Domestic Policy, Grassroots News, History, Current Events, Revolution, Miscellany, Social Issues, Socialism, State Legislation, Economy, Monetary Policy Tags: |
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I'd say tonight's meet & greet with Rep. Frank was a resounding success. Was it rowdy at times? Yes. Personally I see nothing wrong with British parliamentary debate style. Was this town hall meeting ever out of control? Not in the least. Were people fed up? Most definitely and it showed! For those with short memories... be reminded the past 10 months we've had Bailouts I, II, going on III, AIG/Dodd executive bonuses, Government Motors takeover, Swine Flu hysteria, Afghanistan expansion, an unaccountable Federal Reserve chairman, Cash for Clunkers (tss), and Federal zombies marching towards socialized medicine. All the while DC has turned a deaf ear, save it be an Obama choreographed New Hampshire town hall meeting... It was long past the time to air it out! I did learn some positive things from Frank which I was not aware of and offer him credit for... He said he voted against the Iraq war and he voted against the Patriot Act- the two biggest mistakes of the past 8 years. Nonetheless, his habit of placing blame on others was the core of his debate tonight. And let me just add, you didn't catch me clapping my hands for any Republican agendas tonight. Each party is equally responsible for this national bankruptcy. I'm strictly for limiting government intervention in the market to which Frank has proved himself to be quite the menace. I honestly thought the Frank machine was here to stay, but with the force this packed to capacity crowd showed tonight, which I estimated to be at least 85% in strong disapproval of Frank and all issues previously mentioned, I think we have a real shot at voting him out. I see the person to beat him as being a fresh face crossing over from the private sector to clean house. Someone who has managed a company and experienced what its like to have the majority of his payroll taxed away by the great hand of government. A successful businessman who now has to compete against the unfair advantage of corporate bailout recipients. But maybe I'm being too utopian. After all, this is Massachusetts where government sinecures are a guarded tradition. Is there a Mr. Smith in the 4th District? Tags: |
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First - I'd like to point out I don't smoke, and the nerd in me starts coughing around cigars, however, it's my choice to be aorund or frequent businesses/buildings, therefore, in my opinion, this is a liberty issue. Also - it's completely foolhearty for a property owner to police outside his property. Considering how much government taxes smokers (total taxes on a single pack of cigarettes in Massachusetts is $4.25, that smoking is outlawed in every bar, restaurant, and business in the state, that the government pays researchers to produce anti-smoking studies no matter how questionable, that the tobacco industry has been thoroughly demonized (now the insurance industry is in the process of being), that that portion of the population who smoke have been turned into pariahs, and that Hollywood has been threatened by both state and federal government bodies about depicting smoking in movies, the war on smoking must be considered the most successfully brought about social change in my lifetime. On a broader scale, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which has been signed by more than 180 countries, is the first global treaty dealing exclusively with a public health issue and has profound constitutional as well a sovereignty implications.
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There's no time to waste! Big-Pharma has joined forces with big government to test a highly questionable Swine Flu vaccine on uninformed Americans across the country. MassLPA members have been working diligently to collect and distribute unreported information regarding the total potential for adverse reactions and violations of personal liberty / choice. Democracy only works when the voting public is FULLY INFORMED....otherwise it's just propaganda!
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Our efforts will perhaps be the only outreach effort in Massachusetts to educate on the dangers of the vaccines and our unalienable rights to refuse them. Susan Allen has prepared an updated packet which we will be delivering to our town and city officials i.e.: Select Board, City Council, Mayors, Town Clerks, Public Health officials, Schools Superintendents, Principals, Nurses, Police dept, Fire dept,. etc... We have created an educational video/DVD for distribution to our CATV (Local Cable Access TV), Schools, Colleges & hospitals. Please contact Bob at BobWDwyer@gmail.com for a copy of this educational DVD and spread this far and wide. You can view the 3 part Youtube version below filmed in Sharon Mass by our good Friend a fellow patriot Dan Happnie. Thank you for helping with our vaccine awareness campaign. Your Patriotic participation is noted and appreciated. Categories: Globalism, Civil Liberties, Health Freedom, Grassroots News, Action Item, Current Events, State Legislation Tags: |
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These notes, tips, and strategies were compiled from the first meeting of the Massachusetts (no joke!) chapter of the Campaign for Liberty. Sixty citizens showed up on a sunny Saturday afternoon to find out how they could get involved (not bad!). The advice is applicable anywhere in the country. Go get 'em! 1. How to lobby for an issue Go get 'em!
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In my experience with people who are depressed and have the sense that nothing matters to them, that things and people who used to matter to them no longer do, feel deeply that they are truly empty of caring at all. Invariably it is possible when discussing things with them that something still does move them profoundly and that which moves them is some form or manifestation of injustice. I mention this for a reason which I hope each of us realizes at this crucial milestone of our movement. There is only one thing which will enable us to achieve victory and success for us and that is for us to be able to recruit others to our cause. We know that many who were drawn to the president did so because he gave them hope that he would be the one to solve the problems facing our society. Many have lost that conviction as they find that his idea of a solution involves certain loss of freedom and intervention of the government in our lives which is unacceptable. In our daily lives we encounter others and have an opportunity to make them aware of the existence of the Campaign For Liberty. I overcome my inhibitions and speak up while waiting on lines wherever they may be. I try to find words which will enlighten and inspire others and observe to see if I have succeeded. After I get their attention by asking if they have ever heard of the Campaign For Liberty I tell them the following. I say: "We realize that our politicians take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and then they ignore it!" "We want to replace them with men and women who will keep their oath and abide by it." Often that is enough. I add: "The Founders spelled out certain enumerated powers in Article 1 Section 8. There is one Congressman who reads every bill and has voted no if the power sought is not listed in the Constitution." Often they nod in agreement and will thank me for making them aware of this issue. My contention is that this one point is the most important one of all and that it alone should be focused on to recruit citizens to our cause. It is telling that one of our members was evicted from a town hall meeting for simply asking what provision in the Constitution authorizes what the health reform plan proposal does. There is no authorization in the Constitution for so many things the governments under each major party have done in the last two hundred years. It is time we call them on it.
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Notes from the first meeting of the Massachusetts Campaign for Liberty Saturday, August 8, 2009, 18 Grafton Street, Worcester, MA, 3-7 PM
About the Campaign for Liberty The Campaign for Liberty is a non-partisan citizen lobbyist group whose goal is "to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity."
Who: Organized by Congressman Ron Paul, but it is a movement of the people. It has leaders, but it's not "top down." What: Advocates for liberty-positive issues, but does not lobby for candidates. Where: Everywhere, every state. When: NOW Why: The only two choices have been big government or bigger government. Democrats spend, and Republicans intrude on personal liberties.
Campaign for Liberty's immediate goals are to Recruit liberty-minded members. Liberty is popular! Educate members and the general citizenry about current liberty-positive or liberty-negative issues Train leaders in every precinct in areas like giving good radio and television interviews, campaigning, and leadership Organize constituents effectively behind issues so that they can reach out to a large proportion of the citizenry Mobilize citizens to effect change and preserve liberty through passing good policy and repealing bad policy
1. How to lobby for an issue Start small - rally behind a cause that's a surefire win. Mobilizing behind a poor government policy that you are confident you can overturn will get you a victory under your belt and a reputation as a mover and shaker. Build trust. See #4 Lobby your representative. See #2
2. How to lobby a representative You can write letters and emails, you can call their offices, and you can visit them during their local office hours. But none of that is going to do any good unless you go about it the right way.
Pick one issue at a time. Complaining too much gets you labeled as someone they can never please, so they stop listening to you altogether. Don't go it alone. Is a representative more apt to listen to one person with a complaint or ten people with the same complaint? Ask the absolute basics before anything else. 1. Have you read the bill? 2. How much is it going to cost? 3. How are we going to pay for it? 4. Do you support it? 5. (If applicable) How can you support it if you haven't read it? Follow the pleasure/pain trail. For politicians, good media attention equals pleasure, and bad media attention equals pain. Publicize bad government policy. It lets them know that someone is watching their job performance. Bring the media. It is very difficult to affect change in a bubble. See #3 Compliment them. We all know what it's like to work for a boss whom we never see unless we've done something wrong. Don't be that guy. Once in a while, find a vote of theirs which you find favorable, and tell them you appreciate it.
3. How to reach out to the media Radio show call-ins Letters to the editor Follow up! At the end of a call or letter, give other citizens a website, phone number, or email address they can use if they too would like to get involved. If you've done a radio show call-in, ask the host if he/she would take a call from another listener who just called/emailed/visited the site.
4. How to build trust We get nowhere if our fellow citizens or constituents don't trust us. This goes for running for office and for rallying behind a cause.
Run for a volunteer board (cable board, light board) just to get your name out there. Citizens are more apt to listen to you if they already know your name. Being involved in your community also shows that you care.
5. How to talk to citizens about an issue Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Citizens are much more likely to listen to your solution if you have first demonstrated that you understand their problems. (Analogy: One car salesman wants to sell you a pickup truck because it has a rockin' V8, and another salesman wants to sell you a minivan because he asked if you had a family (and you do). Which vehicle do you buy?) Don't talk down to other citizens. It's rude, and it puts them off. See #2 above - understand and suggest instead of lecturing. Don't use scare tactics. They scare people - they don't bring them any closer to understanding. Keep information on you at all times. In the grocery store, at the playground, wherever - being prepared shows that your cause is legitimate, and it shows that you understand the issue. Having facts on you gives you confidence to strike up conversations where you might not otherwise.
6. If you are running for office Pick a race you know you can win. Sometimes it is simply not worth campaigning in an area which is heavily politically entrenched. (usually a volunteer board) Campaign for the office you're running for. Don't talk about HR 1207 if you're running for the Parks and Recreation Board. Be friendly with Town Clerk. They hold the keys. Stay away from people who don't vote. They will suck up your time. We cannot stress this enough. Target town leaders. A town leader, like the head of the town soccer league, is able to reach more constituents with one fell swoop than you would be if you tried to reach all of his or her contacts individually. Keep databases of who has signs in the yard, flags on the house, bumper stickers on the car, posters in the window. These citizens will be more apt to display your sign, sticker, or poster.
7. If you are not running for office We're not all cut out for public service. If that's you, remember that you can still: Design pamphlets Drop off pamphlets Design a website Phone bank Find good locations for signs (either by roadsides or lawns) Canvas door-to-door Organize events to raise money or promote the issues Donate money to get any of the above accomplished
Quotes of note:
"Citizenship is a right and a responsibility." "We don't need to listen to representatives; they need to listen to us." "Most lawmakers are lawyers who have never run a business." "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." "Capitalism didn't fail - we never had it." Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Grassroots News Tags: |
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Notes from the first meeting of the Massachusetts Campaign for Liberty Saturday, August 8, 2009, 18 Grafton Street, Worcester, MA, 3-7 PM
Ready to rally behind a cause?
Close the tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike www.closethetolls.com The problem: The Pike brings in $287 million annually, but it only costs $20 million to maintain the road. Waste is seen in things like the prevailing wage of Massachusetts state employees (at $58.84, while the federal prevailing wage is $37.45), the abuse of the disability payment system by toll collectors, and the fact that the average annual salary of a toll collector is $73,000 (not including their lifetime health insurance and pension). The solution: Close all tolls on the Pike through a ballot initiative in November 2010 Wanna rally behind it? CART (Citizens Against Road Tolls) needs 100,000 signatures from September 17 through December 3. Go to www.closethetolls.com to volunteer to collect signatures.
Prevent the legislation of mandatory vaccines http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02/st02028.htm The problem: S. 2028, The Pandemic Preparedness Act of 2009, will enable the Office of Public Health to require that you get vaccinated. If you refuse, you are legally allowed to be sent to a detention center. The solution: Prevent this legislation from passing in Massachusetts Wanna rally behind it? Read the bill at the URL above. Contact Brendon DeMeo on Campaign for Liberty (brendondemeo). Lobby your representative (appropriately).
Audit the Federal Reserve, and return to a funded currency. http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/hr1207home.php The problem: The Federal Reserve controls too much of the American banking system. The "dollar" has lost 96% of its purchasing power since 1913. The entire Federal Reserve system is unconstitutional. The House bill 1207, The Federal Reserve Sunshine Act, is being held up in the House Finance Committee by Representative Barney Frank-D (MA-4), even though it has enough cosponsors to be brought to the floor for a vote. The solution: Audit the Federal Reserve. End the Federal Reserve's hold on the American monetary system by abolishing it, and return to a funded currency. Wanna rally behind it? Start by writing a one-sentence email to your representatives: "What is the value of a dollar?" Visit the URL above. Go to Campaign for Liberty to get ready for a mass signature drop-off at Barney Frank's office on September 15.
Reintroduce freedom into America's public schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Blumenfeld The problem: True freedom includes educational freedom, something that is only available to those able to pay their property taxes and send their children to private schools. The government is too involved in the training of young minds. The solution: Get back to the basic principles of this country. Schools cannot be reformed; they must be made private by setting up a board of trustees, collecting tuition (not taxes), and setting up a town fund that pays for the education of the poor. Wanna rally behind it? Read some of Samuel Blumenfeld's books on the subject, available at the URL above.
Stop federal legislation that sets standards for state-issued drivers' licenses http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1261 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-realid18 2009jul18,0,4834720.story?track=rss The problem: Senate bill 1261 aims to impose federal standards for state issued drivers' licenses. Microchipping in the new drivers' licenses will be expensive and will be a massive intrusion onto the privacy of the citizenry. The solution: Stop this legislation by lobbying your representatives appropriately.
The Massachusetts Liberty Preservation Association www.masslpa.org MassLPA is a non-profit non-partisan group committed to promoting and defending the established American principles of individual liberty, sovereignty, constitutional government and economic sustainability within a free market system, through educational and political activity. Wanna rally behind it? Go to www.masslpa.org.
Kamal Jain-I, State Auditor Candidate http://kamaljain.com/ An audit is the only way the citizenry can keep tabs on what the government is doing with its money. Currently, the state is routinely and regularly audited -- it's just that there's nothing useful coming from it. The underlying details aren't available, and the summary is hundreds of pages long and conveys nothing. All at a tremendous cost, and flying the face of transparency. Kamal Jain pledges total transparency and will work to bring all budgetary matters online and available to the general public.
Bill McCarthy, Worcester Town Council Candidate www.billcares.com Bill asked for suggestions as to how he could better his campaign.
Susan Allen-I, Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District Candidate www.susanallenforcongress.com Susan Allen is a liberty-minded candidate for Congress in Massachusetts' 4th District. She is running against Barney Frank.
Susan supports HR 1207 The Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009, which would be a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve.
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Damon and Joey discussed the Republican Liberty Caucus, of which, Dr. Paul is a member. Notes from the conversation... How do we truly influence the direction of politics?
The Republican Party in Massachusetts is weak. They are ripe for reform. How do we reform the party?
The backstory: The State Republican Committee is composed of 40 elected men and 40 elected women (one man and one woman from each state senatorial district). They are elected every four years at the Republican presidential primary. Their job is to grow the party and make the party platform. What the cause of liberty needs: Liberty-minded men and women to influence and/or run for Republican State Committee representatives in 2012. How do you do this?
How can an organization called the Republican Liberty Caucus help? The Republican Liberty Caucus is another lobbyist organization founded by liberty-minded congressman Ron Paul. Whereas the Campaign for Liberty in non-partisan, the RLC is partisan. The RLC can provide support, and organization to help steer the Republican Party towards it's founding principles of Liberty. What can you do immediately if you are interested in running?
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Location changed - more members suggested Senator John Kerry's office as more convenient. Rally Location: Senator John Kerry's Boston Office, 1 Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA 02114 On September 15th, the Campaign for Liberty will be NATIONALLY promoting the Audit the Fed bill (co-sponsored by a majority of Congress currently). Across the country, citizens will deliver stacks of petitions to Federal Representatives. In conjunction with the National C4L movement, Massachusetts Campaign for Liberty will be delivering petitions, signed by residents of Massachusetts regarding support for HR1207/S604 to Senator John Kerry I need your help - I need every Massachusetts member to download and print out 50 Audit the Fed petitions, and have your friends/neighbors sign them. Then, please bring them with you to the rally on 9/15, or sent to my home. I want to get at least 1000 signatures. If anyone wants to go door to door, or needs help collecting signatures, I'll be glad to assist. EVERYONE must have at least 10-20 friends/family/co-workers/classmates that can sign easily. The big bankers that control the money supply are on the ropes. It's time for a knockout punch. Please help with signature gathering, and attending the rally. http://www.masslpa.org/sites/default/files/AUDIT_THE_FED_MassAction.pdf http://www.masslpa.org/sites/default/files/hr1207a.pdf
The Audit the Fed bill is THE most important bill, as the supply of money controls the making of laws. PLEASE help with this task! PS - The rally will be from 3:30-4:30 at Senator John Kerry's office in Boston Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Finance, Media, Grassroots News, Action Item, State Legislation, Economy, Congress Tags: |
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There is a ballot initiative to reduce the sales tax in Massachusetts. Dr. Paul has said before, that when you tax something, you get less of it. Massachusetts needs MORE commerce, and MORE business, and MORE jobs. Please click on the following link to get updates on the Ballot Initiative. http://web.oosterman.com/salestax.nsf/Inquiry!OpenForm Thanks, Brad Categories: Finance, Grassroots News, Action Item, State Legislation, Economy Tags: |
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Friends of Liberty, For those of you that don't know I am running for Congress in the special election for California's District 10 as candidate who has embraced the platform of the Campaign for Liberty and RetakeCongress. I am the only candidate calling for an end to the federal reserve and pulling our troops back from overseas missions with no end is sight (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan, Germany) The Republican Liberty Caucus has recently endorsed me and you can read their press release below. This is the latest of several endorsements we have received which can be found at http://cliftforcongress.com/endorsements.html Absentee ballots began going out earlier this week. We have a great opportunity to win this election and add another congressional seat for liberty but I can only do it with your help. Please sign up to volunteer at http://CliftforCongress.com/volunteer.html and with the combined help of liberty activists throughout California we can flood this district with the message of freedom. Please vote for me in online polls as well at http://halfwaytoconcord.com (unlimited votes allowed) and http://alamedagop.org (1 vote per browser) to help increase exposure with the click of a mouse. For Liberty,
For Immediate Release: The Republican Liberty Caucus of California has endorsed Gary Clift for Congress. Due to Ellen Tauscher's resignation as California's 10th Congressional District Representative, an open primary election will be held on September 1st. Mrs. Tauscher relinquished her congressional seat after being appointed undersecretary of state for arms control. Of the 11 candidates running for the 10th Congressional District, Gary Clift is the right choice for Congress, standing for our Individual Rights, Free Enterprise and Limited Government. "The financial future of our country is at risk if the Federal Government follows California's lead. Federal government has grown too big and expenditures greatly exceed tax revenues. This cannot continue. We need to reduce federal government by cutting the waste and mis-management. One of my first actions in Congress will be to cosponsor HR 1207 which aims to audit the Federal Reserve and make government transparent with our tax dollars. This is a priority among my many issues," states Gary Clift. Absentee ballots for the 10th Congressional District special election will be mailed this week. It is expected that better than half of all ballots cast will be absentee ballots. The RLC CA encourages support for Gary Clift for Congress by volunteering now. Please contact Gary Clift (www.cliftforcongress.com) for more information. The Clift campaign has requested volunteers for phone banking. Phone bank volunteers do not need to live in California's 10th Congressional district. "If we Liberty and Constitutional Republicans truly want to restore our Constitutional Republic, we must stand up and support candidates who will take our cause to the halls of Congress. Gary Clift is just that man. Support your freedoms by supporting Gary Clift; It is high time Liberty and Constitutional Republicans get elected. This special election for the 10th Congressional District is a unique opportunity for Liberty, don't hesitate," commented RLC CA Chairman Matt Heath http://www.rlcca.org/
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We are living in interesting times. Concerned citizens all over the land want to get the Federal Reserve audited. They want to find out what is going on with the TARP funds and why the Fed continues to operate in a bottomless pit of mystery since its establishment in 1913. When Obama finishes his first term in 2012, the Fed will be quietly celebrating a Century of success. A success of political subversion, controlling the money supply and fraudulent permeation of a seamlessly corrupt banking system through the entire economy. The hyper-centralization of everything, from banking system, education, healthcare, national security does not bode well for the future generations. We only have 2-3 years left at best. And given the rapidly declining numbers of liberty lovers, conservatives and the rapidly ascending power of welfare/warfare Bolshevik establishment, the odds are overwhelming. How urgently we need to act cannot be over-stated. The liberty movement will have to be that much more smarter, vigorous and persistent to influence the future course of events. Hence the need to push for HR1207 and S604 through the congress in "unaltered form" as hard as possible. The arrogance and blatant dismissive attitude of Massachusetts Reps and Senators towards demands of transparency is insulting and dangerous for the entire economy. HR 1207 was introduced on Feb 26, 2009. Since day 1, people in Massachusetts have been relentlessly canvassing their representatives to co-sponsor the bill. McGovern signed on 10th June and Tierney the perennial late comer signed on 20th July. Whats exciting is that 8 out of 10 MA representatives are still absconding. When 282 co-sponsors found time to do it, why couldn't they? * Capuano, Michael E., Massachusetts, 8th Whats even more exciting is that Capuano, Lynch and the gang leader Barney Frank are all in the House Committee on Financial Services. Ultimate Hideaway insiders if you will! And then there are the Senators. And what is their accomplishment? S604 was introduced on Mar 16, 2009 Almost 5 months have passed and they are still sitting on the bill. A million phone calls, letters, appeals, request for meetings have already been logged yet they continue to insult their constituents in the most dismissive manner. All of us in Massachusetts and out of state should press them to take action. We need to find out what is going on here!
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The "White House": "There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov." - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/ Note: When you're done reading mine, go write your own as well. From: Brendon DeMeo Subject: Fishy stuff Dear "Ministry of Truth", I would like to let you know I am personally spreading what you call disinformation on the healthcare bill. I know that it is in actuality a plan to monopolize healthcare and eliminate competition, all while imposing elitist schemes upon the innocent citizens, many of which were duped by the media and fancy, unsubstantial speeches into voting for your leader, Barrack Obama, who has been no better than George W. Bush. I hope your whole scheme fails miserably and according to the polls most of America does as well. Your Orwellian tactics will not prevail, and liberty will win in the end. If you're a staffer doing your job at your computer reading this email to report "fishy" crap to your superior, I hope you will go home and check out CampaignforLiberty.com, and look up YouTube videos regarding Ron Paul and healthcare. If the government can provide high quality affordable healthcare, then let them prove it by providing it to our veterans. Unfortunately, the same government that wants to run everyone's healthcare has gravely wronged our servicemen and women by providing them healthcare inferior to that which my cats receive at the vet. The same government that wants to run healthcare can't run a "cash for clunkers" program. The same government that wants to dictate what care you and I receive as the government does in England very poorly (deadly, even) can't run the Iraq War, Social Security, nor their other healthcare fiasco's: Medicare and Medicaid effectively. Not that any of these things should exist in the first place. Here's to hoping Obama and the elite fail in implementing their anti-constitutional, harmful policies, Brendon DeMeo Campaign for Liberty Massachusetts Region 5 Coordinator P.S. Cap and Trade sucks too. Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Civil Liberties, Domestic Policy, Health Freedom, Grassroots News, Action Item, US Constitution, Executive Power, Current Events, Revolution, Socialism Tags: Obama, Healthcare, flag at whitehouse dot gov, ron paul, ministry of truth |
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I just finished reading HR 2159, "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009." In short, it grants exclusive, unchecked, and unaccoutable power to the Attorney General to sieze and/or deny access to firearms, FFLs, and FIDs, even if you have a squeaky clean background check. Here are the highlights: 1. It grants the Attorney General the power to deny citizens "appropriately suspected1" (not convicted) of terrorism the right to keep and bear arms. 2. It gives this unbalanced power to an UNELECTED official - the Attorney General. 3. The only requirement for a revocation or denial of an FID or FFL? That "the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the applicant may use a firearm in connection with terrorism.2" 4. States have to comply. I mean, have to.3 5. The AG is explicity guaranteed the right to "withh[o]ld [evidence] from the petitioner if the Attorney General determines that the disclosure of the information would likely compromise national security.4" Yes, it says that. Often. 6. Even if a petitioner (that's you and me) takes the US to court over their denial, the AG can use summaries of his evidence against you. He doesn't have to present the primary evidence.5 I have read the bill. I looked at the US Codes that it references. I looked up the definition of "terrorism." I looked up the definition of "coercion." And I can say, with certaintly, that if this bill passes, it is absolutely possible that the AG could revoke and deny FFLs and FIDs and not have to explain to you, either in court or out of court, why you were revoked or denied.That is, an unelected United States official could sieze your firearms and/or your livelihood because he "reasonably suspected" you of being a terrorist. This bill: 1. Denies citizens the right to bear arms even if they haven't been convicted of any crime(s). 2. Violates the Second Amendment. (The Second Amendment states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms...shall not be infringed.") This is infringement. 4. Is wide open for abuse of power. There is a built-in catch-all for FID and FFL seizures and denials - "in the interest of national security." 5. Violates, most importantly, the spirit of the Constitution! It gives an imbalance of power to an unelected official! I urge everyone to call their Congressmen and Cogresswomen and tell them that you oppose this bill based on one or two of the above points. References: 1. HR 2159, page 2 line 18. 2. HR 2159, page 3, lines 10-12. 3. HR 2159, page 4, lines 23-25; HR 2159, page 5, lines 1-2. 4. HR 2159, page 8, lines 10-15. 5. HR 2159, page 8, lines 20-23. Categories: Civil Liberties, Action Item, Executive Power, Federal Legislation, Congress Tags: gun rights, guns, gun grab, firearms, second amendment, Constitution, Attorney General, Terrorism |
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Check This 1st -------> http://sholleyforcongress.us/
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I live in the 4th District, Happy to vote agaisnt Barney Frank...Does anybody have plans to go to the NorthEast Conference??? I haven't had the chance to make it to anymore meet-up groups, so i feel like i need to ask!! Thank You......Nelson Tags: |
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For those of you at the Rally for the Republic last year, Aimee Allen perform, and was incredible. I encourage anyone in Boston to try to see her show - she's a defender of Liberty, and Dr. Paul is a big fan! Aimee Allen has a show coming up on 08/04/2009 at 08:00 PM @ Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/5037975 Brad Categories: Just For Fun Tags: |
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Plans for a new, one-world currency are finally coming to fruition. A few weeks ago many of us were shocked to learn that a one-world currency coin was unveiled at the G8 meeting. The press hardly reported on it, as expected, and those who did cast the currency in a positive light. But this is a grave threat to our sovereignty. Mayer Amschel Rothschild said "give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." Many of us have heard this quote, and we see what central banks have done and the depth of their control over the nation or continent they "serve.". If we think the Federal Reserve is bad now, wait until there's a central bank shared among North America, Europe, and various other nations around the world. There would be no hope of an HR 1207-like bill. We'd have to ban together the politicians of many nations in order to audit a global central bank, and it's hard enough to audit the private central bank of the United States. With a one-world currency, the Establishment would gain complete control of the Western world, and with a united currency they may be able to assemble some sort of one-world government that pulls the United States into the fold of the likes of the European Union. Our nation would once again be subjugated to European interests. At any rate, you can see pictures of the first "test" coin at The coin has a chilling slogan imprinted on it, "Unity in Diversity." At first this sounds rather benign, but when we recognize what it would be uniting it's scary. Our sovereignty would be essentially abolished, as our money and debt would be controlled by an international body of Establishment bankers. The currency would unite America and other nations, destroying their ability to govern themselves. Furthermore, diversity is not always a good thing no matter how much the media or college professors tell us. Division is inherent in diversity. Unity in Diversity means a group of disunited people being governed by a unified elite. Germans lumped in with Canadians, Italians lumped in with Mexicans. Sure, such a currency would bring together a diverse group of races and languages, but the countries should govern themselves the way they see fit, without intervention from others who may not know what it is like to live in a differencing nation. Surely life in Italy as an Italian, and the issues a common citizen of Italy faces are much different than those of an American or life in the United States. Italy has its own political problems, moral problems, and other issues just as we have our own. The temporary name of the currency is the "United Future World Currency." What does a united future mean? To me, it means one world government, or a New World Order, as many call it. I don't want to be united with other nations. I don't want to share the same parliament with France or the same president with Canada. I want the government our forefathers gave us. I want the American Constitution which bought our people so far in just a few hundred years despite various setbacks and problems along the way. I don't want the sacrifices of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison to be all for naught, and meaningless. I don't want the torch of liberty to go out as power is further centralized and government is even more distant from the people, and I don't trust politicians from other nations, much as I don't trust my own politicians these days. We need less centralization of power, not more. We don't need to merge America with anyone else, we need to herald the return of States rights under the Constitution, and adhere to the 10th Amendment. As we read in the article on coinnews, "In 1996, Sandro Sassoli conceived the idea of the UFWC project, having taken advice from Arthur Schlessinger Jr, former adviser to President John F. Kennedy." Arthur Schlessinger Jr. is a long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Clearly this idea was bought about by the Establishment. We must resist them! We must fight for liberty before it gets even harder. The currency will be tested in 2015 at the Milan Universal Expo. Fighting the Establishment is hard, as Ron Paul's run proved last year. 2015 is 6 years away, but when fighting these people and their crooked ideas we need all the time we can get. We must unite now to defeat these plans, to retain our say in how we are governed before it's too late and our children "..wake up homeless on the continent their forefathers conquered," as Jefferson might say. Our first step is to Audit the Fed, which is also the first step in ending the Fed altogether. If we can end the Fed, we may be able to destroy plans of establishing the one-world currency in our nation, and perhaps America will once again lead by her example of liberty and those in other nations will throw off their central banks as well. Now is the time to start meeting with fellow Campaign for Liberty members, and those of other liberty-oriented organizations, and visit our neighbors houses and ask them to sign our petitions for HR 1207 and S 604, if you haven‘t already. If you live in a district where your congressman or woman already cosponsored HR 1207, go to another district and help them if you can. If you live in a state where one senator sponsored S 604, keep on the other senator until he or she does as well. If you're like me and you live in a district where your congressman or woman STILL has NOT cosponsored HR1207, its time to rally your C4L brothers and sisters someplace and start organizing to knock on doors, stand outside stores and get whatever media attention you can to promote HR 1207. After the Massachusetts state meeting on August 8th I will be organizing a district meeting someplace. I hope other C4L members would do the same in their districts as time is of the essence. We are just as important as the Sons of Liberty were. We're the new Washington's, Franklin's, Abigail Adams', Jefferson's, Paine's, and Henry's. We are just as important as they were because they handed us the torch of liberty and it is our responsibility to hand it to the next generation, but it is growing dimmer by the hour.
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People hate on Massachusetts for many things. We have high taxes, tough gun control, and we provided the country with a blueprint for socialist health care (a plan which is now causing us some problems). Believe it or not, giving government monopoly powers over an industry doesn't work on the state level either, costs are exceeding revenues, and cuts are having to be made. The governor recently proposed denying health benefits to certain LEGAL immigrants, a decision that would have no basis in in the realms of logic or morality. Two hundred and thirty-odd years ago, though, we were the epicenter of freedom. You know what other concept got its first test run here in MA? The written constitution. The legal document we all share - as citizens of what was originally a federation of diverse states with shared free trade, foreign, and defense policies - was based on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, drafted by none other than Sam Adams, a graduate of my high school. When I think about his and other names on the great frieze above the royal purple curtains in the assembly hall back at the Latin School, I can't help but be a little proud of my Bostonian heritage. To the matter at hand: today I read an article from last week's Herald (the more conservative of Boston's two newspapers), about the effects on law enforcement practices of the recently-enacted citizen referendum to make marijuana possession a civil rather than criminal offense. Here's the opener: "Thumbing their noses at the state's lax new pot law, Bay State stoners are brazenly lighting up in front of cops and then refusing to pay fines - leading some frustrated police chiefs to all but give up the fight." A friend of mine, a libertarian who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons, was recently smoking pot in a public park, and I asked him what he planned to do if a policeman passed by, and decided to hit him with the $100 fine that is the penalty for carrying an ounce or less of cannibus. "If he told me to give him 100 bucks?!" he retorted. "I'd tell him to give ME 100 bucks!" If you read the article, you'll find that lots of other Boston-area residents seem to share his understanding of this issue. There is no reason ever to pay this fine. Points will not get added onto your license, and they won't arrest you. They could haul you into court, theoretically, but that would cost them more than the amount of the fine. We may be socialists up here, but not all problems of economic calculations elude us. "All told, a staggering 83 percent of 415 tokers cited in Boston since the law took effect in January have refused to pony up the $100, a Herald review shows." This should be major news! One hundred and sixty-years ago, a liberty-minded Massachusetts native wrote, in his treatise on the idea of civil disobedience to government, "when the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished." 83% of pot smokers are refusing allegiance to the state, by openly defying it. Police officers aren't enforcing the law, if not on grounds of justice, than at least for practical reasons. According to Henry Thoreau's definition, marijuana is now legal in Massachusetts (in my neighborhood, anyway). If the other 13% of the "Bay State stoners" heard the news, I am positive they would turn to civil resistance as well. Let's all take note of Thoreau's advice, and take heart: as ever, the strength of the people lies in our numbers, and if enough of us refuse to submit to oppression, oppression will end. I guess this means I'll have to revise my campaign platform. Categories: Just For Fun Tags: |
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Listen live to today's Financial Services Committee hearing on monetary policy here. Update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSKWSnhCwI (Thanks to Marc!) Update 2: Dr. Paul's opening statement (Thanks to MRoCkEd for the link.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRvnXtrmtE (Thanks to Marc for the video) Update 3: Check out Alan Grayson's incredible grilling of Bernanke! (And thanks to the same two guys as above for the link and video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_VCy0lMU1g Update 4: Bill Posey continues Dr. Paul's questioning.
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please go to schiffforsenate.com and donate money to peter schiff's senate run
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I have been a lifelong admirer of both Ron Paul and Ayn Rand and recommend we all read the works of each of them despite whatever differences there are between them. What they have in common is far more valuable for the cause on individual freedom. Each provides us with a unique perspective. The Ayn Rand Institute established the Ayn Rand Center, ARC, to further the endeavor to restore our Constitutional Republic based on the concept of individual rights where government is limited to defending and enforcing those rights rather than acting to hold the "common good" above the individual.
Here is a brief commentary from the ARC site I found on their link to the Tea Parties. I asked for and received permission from ARC to post it here in order to show to those of us involved in the pro freedom endeavor we call the Campaign For Liberty: <<<"
">>> Keep in mind that Ron Paul recommended Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in his The Revolution: A Manifesto. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905 and lived through the 1917 revolution. She had experienced awareness of man as a potentially heroic being as a child in the works of Victor Hugo and others and had decided to become a writer. She studied History and philosophy in college and managed to escape to America in her twenties on the pretense that she was going to visit relatives in Chicago and would return to the Soviet Union. In order to achieve the goal of her writing which was to project her conception of the ideal man she identified and rejected the basic premises of the ideology which still prevails in the world today and devised a philosophy more suited to her task which she called Objectivism. After the success of her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged she published a journal called The Objectivist Newsletter 1962-65 in which she presents the fundamentals of her philosophy as well as book reviews which included books by Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Brand Blanshard, and Arthur Eckirch. Essays from her journal were published as The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology appeared in which she explained the basis of her views about man's ability to form concepts and validate them. The goals of those who have been involved in the profreedom movement by studying Ayn Rand's works and the works of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Fredrick von Hayek, F. Bastiat, Carl Menger, Eugen von Bohm Bawerk, Thomas Sowell, Walter WIlliams, Jacob Hornberger, Sheldon Rickman, Richard Ebeling and many others are similar. It is my hope that the present Campaign For Liberty will be filled with individuals from all over the country and the world who value individual freedom and limited government and who will arm themselves with the ideas which have been identified by those who have been engaged in this struggle and who might have identified themselves as liberals, conservatives, independents, Democrats, Republicans, Ron Paul Republicans, Objectivists, libertarians of whatever stripe. As is mentioned in the quoted blurb from ARC above, in order to achieve our goal the prevailing ideas about the role of government must be challenged and replaced with the concept of the role of government held by the Jeffersonian Founders who envisioned a profoundly limited government and the supremacy of individual rights and freedom. I hope that each of us is willing to "check our premises" in order to share a consistent and rational basis for the kind of society we want to restore. I think that an exploration of the works of Ayn Rand will help to crystallize your own thoughts on many fundamental subjects which are crucial to our cause.
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Thanks to all those who helped make C4L's Regional Conference at Las Vegas such a success! Before our official kick-off with Friday night's Freedom Celebration, we held a private sponsor's reception, where attendees could meet and spend personal time with Congressman Paul, Mrs. Carol Paul, and Tom Woods.
The Freedom Celebration was truly a tremendous experience (video coming soon). Over 1200 people packed FreedomFest's "Event Center" at Bally's Las Vegas to hear a lineup including FreedomFest producer Dr. Mark Skousen, Tom Woods, and Dr. Paul.
One of the highlights of the entire Conference came after C4L President John Tate welcomed Dr. Paul, as Mrs. Paul joined him onstage to introduce "the love of her life" to the crowd.
(Personal note - Thanks to C4L supporter Jonathan Mariano for giving Tom Woods, Steve Bierfeldt, Andrew Ward, and I a ride to In-N-Out Burger after the Celebration and also for providing an excellent driving tour around Las Vegas! Now if In-N-Out will just come to Virginia...)
The focus of the Conference shifted to grassroots training and state C4L networking for Saturday and Sunday's activities, where attendees learned how to turn their passionate support of liberty into lasting change. Classes included The Real Nature of Politics, Caucuses, Mass Meetings, and Conventions, Sound Money, Sound Economy (taught by Tom), and Tactical Skills.
C4L's Regional Conferences are designed to equip you with the tools you need to succeed in political activism and to arm you with information on the critical issues facing our country. In addition, the Conference weekends are a tremendous time of refreshment and encouragement among like-minded people (and there are more and more of us every day). Meeting and networking with others from your local area enhances the effectiveness of state C4L actitivies, and each state C4L can also discuss their different techniques and strategies with others to sharpen everyone's efforts. Campaign for Liberty also had a booth at FreedomFest, with whom we were partnering for the weekend's activities. With the help of several great volunteers, we passed out lots of information, signed up supporters to Audit the Fed, and left no doubt that the movement begun by the presidential campaign and continued in this organization is here to stay.
Thanks again to all who came and to all who helped out!
Pictures (top to bottom): 1.) Peter Schiff stops by the sponsor's reception. 2.) Tom Woods speaks at the Freedom Celebration. 3.) Dr. and Mrs. Ron Paul at the Freedom Celebration. 4.) Steve Bierfeldt, Andrew Ward, Matt Hawes, Jonathan Mariano, and Tom Woods enjoy some downtime at In-N-Out Burger after the Celebration. (I'm serious about coming to the East Coast, In-N-Out.) 5.) C4L President John Tate at a Saturday training session. 6.) C4L Director of Outreach Allison Gibbs and volunteer Karina Zannat at our FreedomFest booth. 7.) Arizona C4L's table at our Regional Conference. For more pictures (and to see your photo for those who took one with Dr. Paul during the reception), visit our Flickr account here. Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Education, Grassroots News, History, Current Events Tags: Regional Conferences |
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Our country is at a crossroad.-one direction leads us toward the dream of our forefathers and the other, towards a nightmare of servitude. It was Ben Franklin that responded to the question "what have you given us?" as he exited the constitutional convention in 1787 and he responded - "A Republic, if you can keep it". Many of our founding fathers were educated men. Besides their native tongue, they could speak, read and write in Latin, Greek and French. A classical education was the standard of the day -they studied the likes of Vergil, Horace, Justinian, Nepos, Caesar, Tacitus, Lucretius, Eutropius, Phaedrus, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. They studied the writings of great philosophers and learned the lessons of history and about the evils of tried and failed experiments in Government. They learned that governments throughout history, no matter how benevolent, have always evolved over time to consume more power and enslave their own people. That is why they created for us a weak central government with three branches, each with an ability to check the power the others - while being held in check by the limited powers delegated to it by the States and the people through the constitution. They gave us a constitutional republic with limited powers, whose one and only reason for existence is to protect the rights of the people. It was the people who granted power to the government, it was the individual who was sovereign, whose rights were god given and not graciously granted to them by the government. Our country is a grand experiment in liberty based on the principle of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that these rights are natural rights and not granted to us at the whim of an omnipotent group of corrupt politicians. We have now come to a point in our history were our people are so ignorant of our philosophical foundations and the cause of freedom that we now willingly give up the very freedoms our forefathers fought and died for - for any dribble fed to us in the name of safety and security - we are willingly led to servitude as if sheep to the slaughter. Ladies and gentlemen - a free society is not always the safest, nor is it what some would consider the fairest. It is a philosophy that releases the spirit of the individual to achieve its own greatness and by doing so lifts and inspires others to do the same. But, this is not a greatness defined by the needs of governments and empire or a corporation's need for obedient trained workers, nor is it for the so called needs of society. Generations of brave Americans died not for society, but for the idea of freedom - an idea that our founders brought us through their blood and hardship. We as individuals and as a people have allowed our servants to become our masters, we have allowed them to define there own twisted interpretation of our Constitution and we have now reach a point, were it now has little or no meaning, and in fact is ignored at the convenience of government. Our two party system has evolved into a serpent with one body and two heads. The two faces of our major parties lead to the same body of failed philosophies called socialism and fascism -- The very same philosophies the created the worst atrocities in the history of mankind -- Pol Pot, Auschwitz, Dachau and Gulags; All in the name of protecting society. History and philosophy are not some obscure scribbling from the past - they are a looking glass into what the future may bring. Yet, it seems we are doomed to relive the nightmares of the past. We have failed ourselves and our children by not having the educational and philosophical tools to fight the onslaught of tyrants - peddling fear, and offering safety and security at the cost of our freedom. However, this 4th of July I saw a glimmer of hope! Hundreds of TEA Parties and thousands of people stood together in defiance of a government out of control. As William Wallace in "Brave Heart" aptly put it, - "I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?" While marching in the Chelmsford 4th of July parade with the TEA Party group, I did not hear jeers or mocking from the crowds. I heard applause, and words of encouragement. Has the sleeping giant awakened? Has the tree of liberty taken root again and will it again spread the branches of freedom throughout this country? Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Education, Finance, Civil Liberties, Law, Domestic Policy, 3rd Parties, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Grassroots News, US Constitution, Ethics, History, Current Events, Philosophy, Revolution, Social Issues, Socialism, State Legislation, Economy, Congress Tags: tea party, founders, |
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Alright so as we all know, our representatives ( ya right) just voted to pass the cap and trade bill. I think we should all schedule a day where we can hold a national protest, aimed to spread the message that global warming is bullshit. We can have a nation wide march where we hold signs and chant stuff like "global warming is a scam" "the environment is always changing" stuff like that.
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i met up with this guy at the boston july fourth tea party, he is running for congress against BARNEY FRANK
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On Saturday, I trekked out to Worcester to attend a meeting of the Massachusetts Republican Assembly. The Assembly bills itself as "the Republican wing of the Republican Party," and so I hoped that I could reach a few people who actually believe in individual liberty and minimal government. I happen to believe (along with Peter Schiff) that the rapidly-growing movement of young libertarians will do best not to attack the system by way of a third party, but by taking over one of the two existing parties, both of which are corrupt to the core and stand for no principles except self-aggrandizement and the expansion government control over the lives of individuals. Here is my address, in full: Address to the Massachusetts Republican Assembly I would like to thank Sandi Martinez for inviting me to address you today. Although I was born and raised in Boston, I have only recently gotten involved in Massachusetts politics. I am very grateful to Sandi for welcoming me into her network of friends and colleagues. I am here today to tell you who I am and why I am running for city council in Boston - but first I should tell you what I am not. I am not a Republican. Like about half of registered voters in Massachusetts, I am unenrolled. I have never been attracted to the idea of top-down political organizations. My mother is a Democrat, and my father mostly ignored the electoral process, which he saw as ineffectual and meaningless. I first became affiliated with a party in December of 2007. At the time, I was a student of orchestral conducting in Cleveland. When I came home for the Christmas holiday, I went down to Boston City Hall and registered as a Republican, so that I could request an absentee ballot for the upcoming presidential primary. After 8 years of George W. Bush's reign - after endless imperial entanglements and thousands of senseless deaths; after domestic spying, secret prisons, torture, and a brazen disregard for civil liberties and the Rule of Law - marking that little "R" next to my name was a bitter pill for me to swallow. I knew that most of my life-long friends and associates would think I was crazy - wasn't there ANY Democrat of whom I could approve? I grew up in Jamaica Plain, by the way, a neighborhood in Boston where many young progressives and leftists settled down to raise kids, when they retired from active radicalism. My parents were both more conservative in certain ways than those of my friends, but some of my friend's parents were (and are) fairly committed Marxists. So, by voting for a Republican, I was making myself into somewhat of a loner at holiday parties. What could have possessed me? Why had I suddenly taken such a keen interest in politics? Even thought I didn't fully realize it then, I had not only discovered a candidate who spoke the truth unflinchingly. I had begun the process of finding a new way of seeing the world - a philosophy more than anything. When that ballot came in the mail, and I voted for president, it was the first time in my life that I was proud to support a political candidate. Even though I did not agree with this man on every single issue, I finally felt that my vote mattered. Even if he were eventually to lose, I would know that I had done what was right - by clinging to the truth. * * * * * The truth is what is missing from our national dialogue. Today, there is a gaping void in American politics, and the party that can fill this void will attract young people by the millions. To fill this void, we must build a new party of liberty; and to fill this void effectively, we must show not just where, but why, we differ with the policies of BOTH mainstream parties, as they are currently constituted. There is no immutable law of existence that says we can have only two official party lines and an anti-competitive duopoly over government policy. For a clue as to where our nation's problems lie, we must examine the respects not in which these two mega-parties differ, but rather the ways in which they are the same. For not only do liberals and conservatives agree on forests of government intervention programs (choosing rather to debate the trees); but the single most important issue facing Americans today is not even a matter of mention. As we slide further into depression, and as the government's control over our economic and personal lives becomes increasingly draconian, an opposition party that differs with the establishment in degree, but not in principle, will be incapable of offering Americans an authentic alternative. At the same time, the Republican Party is in disarray. It is an all-but-powerless minority in Congress; it opposes a tremendously popular and charismatic executive with a mandate for vaguely-worded but distinctly collectivist change; and here in New England, it is out of touch with the population, and increasingly unable to affect the direction of our ship of state. By adopting a principled stand against the status quo; by giving a clear and explicit voice to the frustration of millions of men and women - not just in this country, but all over the world; by finally making the case for freedom in its deepest and most radical incarnation - we will not only restore Republicans to relevancy in Massachusetts, we may also avoid the need for a new revolution. How will we do this? The Massachusetts Republican Party must return to its principles, and state these principles in universal terms. It must distinguish itself from the Democrats (and from the "neoconservatives") in key areas, and refuse to compromise. It must tell the truth, and stick to it, even if it means losing elections. Above all, it must believe in freedom, instead of just paying it lip-service. And, in order for anyone to take the party seriously - as an organization that is sincere in its drive to limit government to its constitutionally-defined role - it should unite behind a leader who represents this ideal, and has represented it long before doing so became cool. There is only one politician with the record, the grass-roots following, and the principled integrity to lead a resurgent Republican party - he is Dr. Ron Paul. Ron Paul differs from mainstream Republicans and Democrats in three key areas: foreign policy, monetary and fiscal policy, and individual rights. It was Dr. Paul's anti-war message that attracted me to the Republican Party. Regardless of what you believe are the root causes of anti-American terrorism, it cannot be denied that our government administers a world-wide empire that is resented by many foreigners - whose only direct interaction with the United States comes in the form of guns, bombs, and military occupation. World War II is over, and yet we still have troops in Germany; the Cold War is over, and yet we still keep troops in Asia; we have a network of bases all throughout the Middle East, and we pay hundreds of billions of dollars a year to hobble and dilute our military's effectiveness, through these examples of imperial overstretch. The bottom line is that we cannot afford to pay for the empire. Our nation is broke, our national debt has doubled over that past ten years, and our creditors are losing confidence in the once-mighty dollar. The sooner we end the wars, the sooner we dismantle the empire, and the sooner our fighting men and women return home, the better. Our founding fathers advocated a strong national defense, but they also warned against going abroad in search of monsters to destroy. A close reading of history will show that most of the monsters we currently face were created or radicalized by our own meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Ron Paul is a true anti-war activist, for he opposes not just the current wars, but all future use of the military that is not directly tied to self-defence. With regard to individual rights, it is clear that both major parties agree that freedoms are merely privileges bestowed upon us at the whim of the government, and which can therefore be abridged whenever it is felt to be necessary or expedient. The conservatives want to regulate our personal habits and lifestyle choices, while the liberals advocate a brand of economic collectivism that makes a mockery of private property and contract law. The "neo-cons" and "neoliberals" have stripped us of our 4th-amendent rights to privacy; they force us to exercise our 1st-amendment rights in "free speech zones"; they are progressively weakening our 2nd-amendment right to defend ourselves; and they are inching toward "preventive detention" for American citizens who have committed no crime, but are simply deemed "dangerous" by the U.S. government. The executive branch is out of control, and its powers continue to grow under this new administration. In short, our individual protections against tyrannical government are hanging by a thread. It is time that Republicans not only defended economic freedom (to the extent that they still do), but also made a radical call for individual rights in the tradition of our founders. This will require an end to the paternalistic nanny-state that has grown up over the past 100 years, and a willingness to let all peaceful men lead their lives however they wish, even if we find some of their choices to be personally offensive. Real freedom would mean an end to the drug wars, to the legislation of morality, and to attempts to force conformity on a nation that is individualistic to the very core. We must remember that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." The proper role of government is not to give us things, but to protect what God has given us; and to make sure that we are free to earn anything else we want through honest efforts and productive pursuits. Monetary policy is an undiscovered issue in American politics, one waiting to be seized upon by the people and by any party that would make a credible claim to represent the interests of the people. As the depression worsens, as unemployment rises, as the socialist distortions in our economy intensify, the defenders of free-markets will face what could be an existential battle against those who would task the government with planning our future prosperity. Americans are largely unaware of what the Federal Reserve has done to our economic system, and it is probably not realistic to expect a majority of citizens suddenly to take an interest in Austrian economics. But the truth has a funny way of spreading, when a tireless minority refuses to accept the establishment lies. The Federal Reserve is the cause of the business cycle - it was Fed policy that created and sustained bubbles in the housing and stock markets, and which led to this foreseeable and inevitable bust. Since 1913, Fed-fueled inflation has devalued the savings of hard-working Americans and decimated the middle class. The Fed encourages deficit spending, rampant consumer debt, and big government entitlement programs. As Dr. Paul said in 1983, "there is no other power greater than the power over money - the power to create and contract the money supply." This power is the single most destructive force in America today, and as we and our neighbors become poorer, the Fed will increasingly feel the weight of public scrutiny. The party that opposes the Fed, and that advocates for a return to a free-market monetary system, will have powerful and truthful ammunition to use in the upcoming election cycles. * * * * * I am running for office in Boston because I believe that the truth must be defended, now more than ever. I ask for your support in my efforts, and I hope that you will consider the views of the many young libertarians who are now searching for political organizations to help them - or at least not to get in their way. By following the example of the only real leader we Americans have, the Republicans can redeem their party's reputation, and restore its honor. If the Massachusetts Republican Party will make peace, monetary reform, and personal freedom the bedrock of their efforts toward a renewed relevancy, then I would be first one in line down at city hall on Monday morning, ready to register my support for them as well. And this time, I would proud to represent this grand old party - for I would be Ron Paul Republican. June 20, 2009 Sean Ryan for Boston City Council, At-Large Categories: Ron Paul, Civil Liberties, 3rd Parties, Republican Party, US Constitution, War/Military, Monetary Policy Tags: |
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On Saturday, July 4th, citizens from around New England, concerned about the unrestrained growth in the size and scope of government will rally to promote individual liberty, free market ideals and Constitutional principles. The rally, to be held on the Boston Common from 12 pm to 2 pm and at Christopher Columbus Park on Boston Harbor from 3 pm to 6 pm, will feature speakers from grassroots, business and conservative policy leaders. Working with the Greater Boston Food Bank, organizers have set up an online Food Drive and will be collecting non-perishable items to support veterans in need and their families at the events. Billed as "A Revolution Reborn" the rally is a follow up on the highly successful Tax Day Tea Party held in Boston and in hundreds of cities across the country where attendees voiced their displeasure with the massive growth of an increasingly powerful federal government and unsustainable spending and debt. Speakers, led by Todd Feinburg of WRKO-AM 680 will offer their opinions and suggestions on how to restore the balance of power between the federal government and the states and individuals. The goal of the organizers of the rally is to provide a platform for citizens and grassroots/netroots leaders to come together to inspire participation in the growing movement for a return to constitutional principles with a focus on recruiting and supporting candidates at all levels, who are dedicated to limited government, individual liberty and free market principles. Speakers scheduled to appear include Dr. Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, Jim Wallace, Gun Owners Action League, Carla Howell, Center for Small Government, Kamal Jain, Mass-Truth.org, Jim Stergios, Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute, Barry Hinckley, MA State Director of FairTax.org, Brad Marston, Managing Director of the Foundation for Conservative Solutions, Sheridan Folger, Executive Director of SovereigntyAlliance.org, Jason Healy of StopUniversalHealthcare.org, Jack Marino, Producer of the film, Forgotten Heroes and Doug Bennett, candidate for Boston City Council. The event is non-partisan and organizers have neither invited any elected representatives to speak nor solicited funds from political parties. Attendees will have the opportunity to make donations and purchase items to help defray the costs. The organizers have attracted dozens of volunteers to help stage the rallies which will be broadcast live over the internet via UStreamTV and Blog Talk Radio. Additional information is available at http://BostonTeaParty.ning.com
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I am organizing a district visit to the Statehouse in Boston next Wednesday, June 24th where we can lobby in favor of Rep. Jeff Perry's 10th Amendment Sovereignty Resolution. As other state's pass their own 10th Amendment bills, we need to be on our legislators to have one passed in Massachusetts. I will be there at 1:30 and we will begin to lobby our representatives and senators around 2:00. The Statehouse closes at 5 pm for the most part, so I will be there until then if you cannot come earlier. I've been there several times over the last month and I lobby with the good folks from MassLPA (Massachusetts Liberty Preservation Association - www.masslpa.org).
Here's just a quick rundown of what we do there: We find out who your state representative and senator is, if you don't already know. Then we find out where their offices are, if we don't already know. Then we go to their offices and ask to speak with them, or, because they're usually not there, their aide who listens to our concerns and passes the information along to their boss. We all go together, from room to room, and it's ok to talk with politicians who aren't your own, they appreciate your input if it's on topic and you're with the organization (in this case, Campaign for Liberty). If you're shy and don't wish to say much that is ok, there are people who will be there such as myself who are willing to speak and mention any information. Your presence there is what really matters, and your support. Going to their offices shows that you really care - you are taking time out of your life to travel to Boston to meet with them, so they know you must really care. It goes beyond writing a letter, sending an email, or calling them, although that is strongly encouraged and recommended as well.
While I am from the 5th district and I am organizing this for my district, anyone from Massachusetts is welcome and I would like to see you there. The more people we have, the more legislators we can visit.
If you would like to come next Wednesday, please message me, and I will pass along more information. Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Civil Liberties, Domestic Policy, US Constitution, Executive Power, Current Events, Revolution, State Legislation Tags: Massachusetts, 10th amendment sovereignty resolution, StateHouse, masslpa, jeff perry, 10th amendment |
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I'll be visiting my home state of Massachusetts for a couple days this week, and will be giving what I hope will be a fairly punchy talk on the economy and the financial crisis this Thursday night at The Greatest Bar, 262 Friend Street, Boston. The room will open at 6:30 and I'll start talking at 7:00. I'll have some books (mostly Meltdown but a few of my other titles as well) available there, too. If you live in the area, please come. Even if I stink, it'll be a night of good cheer with like-minded people. Thanks to interim Massachusetts state coordinator Brad Wyatt for helping me out on this. Categories: Economy Tags: |
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C4l'ers, Some great news in the last 24 hours 1) Rep McGovern is supposedly to co-sponser HR1207 2) State Legislature has offered a resolution to support 10th Ammendment 3) Word is getting out about the bad Massachusetts forced Vaccination bill, and it will likely die. Next - Let's target another Congressman for HR1207 - Any ideas who to target? Someone who is looking for higher office, or vulnerable in their district. Any ideas??? Please vote! Looking to create a meeting August 1st or July 25th in Worcester, a Sat from 3-7. Fun, friendly time to get together, discuss C4L, and determine our resources, talents, and how to promote Liberty in Massachusetts. Office space will definately be set up by then! Brad PS Tom Woods - June 4th - Going to be incredible time! Don't miss it.
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Hello everyone: I, like everyone else who is following the incredible support of HR 1207 is really psyched at the amount of democrats and republicans (179 as I write this), that are signed on as co-sponsors! However I am concerned, as I read in a letter from CFL that they are hopeful because congressman Frank has stated he will do what he can to push this to the House Banking and Financial Committee of which he is the Chair! I have spoken to him personally, more than once, (as he is my Representative in Dist 4, MA) and have been flat out lied to ( as I have investigated the reasons he gave me for not signing on to this bill). He has stated that he will not sign on as a cosponsor because he "does not like to sign on to co-sponsor bills that are coming before his committee, as he is the Chairperson"!!!!!! Well, since the beginning of the year he has cosponsored several bills that came before his committee, and even has sponsored one himself! He also stated the first time we spoke that he has been working closely with Congressman Paul on this matter, but the bill needed several ammendments added before his support! How much more clear can this bill be! An audit of the Fed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is he looking for a loophole to be added to not hold the cartel of the FED to be held 100 percent accountable!!!!!!!!!!! I have all of this on video also, somehow I knew he couln't be taken at his word! Categories: Federal Legislation Tags: |
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"U.S. Senator John Kerry is rumored to have attended the 2009 Bilderberg conference despite not appearing on the official guest list, suggesting he will play a prominent role in getting globalist-mandated legislation like carbon taxes passed over the course of the next year. If Kerry was in attendance during the elitist confab at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece then he was breaking federal law in the shape of the Logan Act, which forbids U.S. citizens from engaging in negotiations with foreign governments without express permission. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years. In an article headlined, Where in the world is Sen. Kerry?, the Foreign Policy.com website notes that, "Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been on foreign travel since Friday," adding that Hill staffers thought the details of the trip "seemed unusually hush-hush". Kerry attended the World Economic Forum as well as a preparatory meeting in Rome in anticipation of the Copenhagen climate change negotiations to be held at the end of the year, which will be used to push an integral part of the globalist agenda - the carbon tax. Kerry has played a central role in advocating the Obama administration's so-called cap-and-trade proposal, which will be the entrée for a tax on the life-giving gas that all humans exhale - carbon dioxide. Essentially taxing us for breathing is a prime centerpiece of Bilderberg's feudalist agenda. This is why top oil company CEO's like British Petroleum's Peter Sutherland, who attended this year's meeting in Greece, have vowed during CFR, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg meetings to exploit global warming fearmongering to ratchet up taxes and control over how westerners live their lives. "Some Hill folk wondered whether Kerry might have also stopped in at the secret Bilderberg Group meeting being held in Athens," adds the Foreign Policy report. Chief counsel of the Foreign Relations committee Frank Lowestein denied that Kerry attended Bilderberg." Infowars.com broke this story earlier this week. If you are not famialar with the Bildeberg group read The True Story of the Bildeberg Group by Daniel Estulin. John Rockefeller always attends these secret meetings and helped the founding of the group in 1954. John Rockefeller stated in his memoir, "Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." This group sets future world policy and are actively pushing for a one world government. Bill Clinton attended the Bildeberg conference in 2001 and became president the year after attending. The importance of this article is great. If he did attend this meeting this confirms that John Kerry is taking orders from top globalist and breaking the law. Are we going to let our own state senator to take orders from globalist who admit they are working against the best interest of the United States? Categories: Globalism, Action Item, World Affairs Tags: |
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I thought the folks in Massachusetts would be interested in reading this legislation that is soon to pass our congress: "An Act Relative to Pandemic and Disaster Preparation and Response in the Commonwealth" http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st00/st00018.htm Here are the money quotes: "Upon request or issuance of an order by the commissioner or his or her designee, or by a local public health authority or its designee, an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order." "An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction." " An order for isolation or quarantine may include any individual who is unwilling or unable to undergo vaccination, precautionary prophylaxis, medical treatment, decontamination, medical examinations, tests, or specimen collection and whose refusal of one or more of these measures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health." There is a reason why such laws never existed in the history of Massachusetts, because such a power grab by our government means that any leader can deem any person too sick to live in the public domain and lock that person up without a warrant. This is a disgrace, and I ask that you call, write, and meet with Senator Moore as soon as possible. I am gathering a group of individuals to meet with Moore this week, please let me know if you will attend. Moore can be reach at: 111 State House, You can also email him here: http://www.congress.org/bio/id/4012
Dear Senator Moore, My name is John Niewiecki and I live in Uxbridge. I am not a politician and I have no desire to run for office, but I hold near and dear my love for my country and the principles for which it was founded. I am also not a republican nor a democrat. I support people, not parties. What follows are some of the specific portions of the Act Relative to Pandemic and Disaster Preparation and Response in the Commonwealth that I find most concerning. I would very much appreciate a detailed response from you in a timely fashion. Act Language of Concern: "Upon request or issuance of an order by the commissioner or his or her designee, or by a local public health authority or its designee, an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. Any person who knowingly violates an order of the commissioner or his or her designee, or of a local public health authority or its designee, given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by a fine of note more than one thousand dollars, or both. " My Concern: Our Constitution state specifically in the Fourth Amendment that "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"; and the language aforementioned (among other subsections of this Act) is in complete contradiction to this obvious natural right. Questions: 1. Warrants are to be served only when there is probable cause to do so, correct Senator Moore? What motivation do you have to take this standard away from the citizens of Massachusetts in any circumstance? The Amendment reads that if at first there is probable cause, then a warrant is issued; not that if probable cause exists, a warrant is not necessary. That is correct, is it not? 2. You are granting this right to the "the commissioner or his or her designee, or of a local public health authority or its designee"? Who are these people, and from where do you derive the right to grant them the ability to request people start being arrested without a warrant? 3. Lastly, did you or did you not support wire tapping without a warrant phone calls originating in the United States to known terrorist overseas? And if you did not, I would like you to explain how your advocacy to do this to American citizens is not a complete and absolute hypocrisy. Act Language of Concern: "No person making a report under this section shall be liable in any civil or criminal action by reason of such report if it was made in good faith." My Concern: Not only are you granting these unconstitutional rights to individuals for whom do not possess this authority, but you are also protecting those for whom may use this power maliciously. Question: 1. From where do you derive this authority? Act Language of Concern: "An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction." My Concern: The use of force to inject any person with any substance is immoral and not based in American values. Questions: 1. From where do you derive the right to force people to inject anything into their body? (Taking a person's freedom by quarantine is the use of force, and being suspected of being sick is not a crime). 2. If it is later found that these vaccines have adverse effects, what will (or can) you do to remedy the effect on people's lives? There are more issues with this Act, but the questions and concerns remain the same. Please be aware that I recognize you likely have a genuine concern for the people of the Commonwealth and would execute on this Act in a moral and ethical fashion. Yet we do not know what the future holds for the governing body of Massachusetts. Such power for which you are granting our government could very easily be abused by future generations of government. I cringe at the thought of George Bush being given this power, do you as well? I respectfully ask that you address these questions fully in writing or remove this bill from consideration completely. Best regards, John Niewiecki
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Remember how the toll hike was delayed until July 1? Well, the MTA has already printed and are passing out erroneous toll tickets to unwitting drivers. (Boston Globe, May 15) This is just the most recent instance of a breach in the public's trust since the tolls were promised to be closed when the roads were paid off in the mid 1980's. So far there's been no accountability for the MTA, and it's up to us to not let that happen again. Help us put them out of business by closing the tolls. We've only got one shot at this thing, and we need to raise $200,000 to get this issue on the ballot in 2010. We believe that if we can get this question on the ballot, the voters of Massachusetts will vote to close the tolls. Please tell your friends, family, neighbors, roommates and coworkers and invite them to join us today. It is time to send a message to Beacon Hill that they will not soon forget: Close The Tolls! When thousands of us act together, we CAN have an impact. Thank you all, for all that you do.
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I thought the folks in Massachusetts would be interested in reading this legislation that just passed our congress: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st00/st00018.htm Here are the money quotes: "Upon request or issuance of an order by the commissioner or his or her designee, or by a local public health authority or its designee, an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order." "An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction." "An order for isolation or quarantine may include any individual who is unwilling or unable to undergo vaccination, precautionary prophylaxis, medical treatment, decontamination, medical examinations, tests, or specimen collection and whose refusal of one or more of these measures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health." There is a reason why such laws never existed in the history of Massachusetts, because such a power grab by our government means that any leader can deem any person too sick to live in the public domain and lock that person up without a warrant. This is a disgrace, and I ask that you call, write, and meet with Senator Moore as soon as possible. I am gathering a group of individuals to meet with Moore this week, please let me know if you will attend. Moore can be reach at: 111 State House, You can also email him here: http://www.congress.org/bio/id/4012 Categories: Health Freedom Tags: health |
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Before anyone invokes any of the usual pejorative remarks about statistics let me finish: Numbers don't lie, unless...people lie about the numbers. And, sadly, there are many ways to lie. Politicians have everyone believing there is nearly always a budget "shortfall" or "deficit" or "gap", when in fact there is no such thing. They threaten to begin cuts to programs that people actually care about and get everyone riled-up about the coming of Armageddon if they don't find a way to get more money. Thomas Pynchon wrote: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Simple and obvious as that may seem, it's one of the fundamental tactics and strategies of the establishment -- of the politicians, lobbyists, bureaucrats and the fat cats who feed from the public trough and have ever-greater control over our lives. Misleadingly-named groups like the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation claim to represent taxpayers and businesses, and feign support for greater levels of taxation and spending. They claim the state will fall into utter chaos and anarchy if any cuts are made, and that cuts would actually be BAD for people and businesses. These groups hide the fact that they directly and indirectly benefit from government largess. They don't like to talk about the fact that their members and their companies receive a lot of dollars from government with very little visibility. Why so little visibility? Because while state and local governments publish audited financial reports, they make them very long, boring and complicated. The data is hidden in plain sight through its sheer size and complexity. And if someone is intent on reading these reports, they begin to get very fuzzy picture that is hard to learn anything from other than a few vague characteristics. Worse yet, because the reports are so big and scare non-financial people away, no one realizes that there are giant portions of government which are not covered in the reports; in many cases they are not even mentioned, let alone audited. The Massachusetts State government outlines only about 55% of total general government spending ($28BN) in what they call "the budget". Roughly 45% (another $22BN) is "non-budget", "expendible trust", and a variety of "other" categories which vary year to year. But that does not even cover the financial operations of most of the independent bodies like the MBTA, Turnpike Authority, MWRA, or most of the dozens of others. And that, my friend, is why transparency is so important, and why we must have an independent State Auditor driving toward total state and local government transparency. Because the politicians are lying and have been lying about the size, scope and COST of government. It does not matter if the spending is called "budget", "non-budget", "expendable trust" or "simple magical good stuff" -- it's all spending, and without transparency, there can be no accountability. Instead, we have near-complete opacity and politicians telling us to "get used to it". This has been going on and getting worse for decades. The good news is that the data is available and could be exposed, but only by a willing and able leader interested in the good of all of the people rather than special interests. The numbers don't lie, but they are locked away and hidden inside the government that is supposed to serve we the people. For the past year I have been obsessed with trying to find the numbers, only to be blocked and ignored by the government. Rather than begin what could become a long, drawn-out and expensive court battle with the state which would accomplish very little, I have decided to run for Massachusetts State Auditor. In Massachusetts, with one of the highest in the nation per capita tax burdens and commensurate levels of government spending, here in one of the high-tech centers of the world, we have no transparency or accountability into state government spending. This is an outrage. According to the most recent data available from the state Finance and Administration site, the State Auditor's office employs more than 290 people, and the State Comptroller's office another 121 or more. There are over 400 state government employees working in the two offices which are responsible for auditing and reporting all the state's financial data, and they have no interest in transparency. I am looking for good people to be part of my campaign committee across the entire state. It is 18 months to the election. With a lot of hard work, meeting people and getting the word out about the politicians lying about the numbers -- this race is very winnable. Total government spending is where the rubber meets the road. Transparency and accountability down to each and every transaction, adding up to total spending is the key. The numbers don't lie. Now let's go find those numbers!
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Gold StandardGold and economic freedom are inseparable, . . . the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and . . . each implies and requires the other. What medium of exchange will be acceptable to all participants in an economy is not determined arbitrarily. Where store-of-value considerations are important, as they are in richer, more civilized societies, the medium of exchange must be a durable commodity, usually a metal. A metal is generally chosen because it is homogeneous and divisible: every unit is the same as every other and it can be blended or formed in any quantity. Precious jewels, for example, are neither homogeneous nor divisible. More important, the commodity chosen as a medium must be a luxury. Human desires for luxuries are unlimited and, therefore, luxury goods are always in demand and will always be acceptable . . . . The term “luxury good” implies scarcity and high unit value. Having a high unit value, such a good is easily portable; for instance, an ounce of gold is worth a half-ton of pig iron . . . . Under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy’s stability and balanced growth. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold . . . . The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard. Alan Greenspan, "Gold and Economic Freedom" in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 96. I posted this for all to see but given what Alan Greenspan did as Chairman of the Federal Reserve you will understand why those of us who had read this are still "scratching our heads" in bewilderment. The fact that Greenspan knew this and presided over the institution which flagrantly disregarded what he once knew should make us even more cautious in granting powers, enumerated powers at that, to the Federal government. It highlights the utter necessity that every citizen learn certain essential facts of reality regarding American history, economics and the US Constitution to truly secure our liberty, if and when we ever regain it. Wm
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boston end the fed rally, i had all kinds of problems getting this footage uploaded to youtube, but finally was able to. well enjoy
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Campaign for Liberty member Bob A. recently posted a link to the Boston Herald's Massachusetts state employee salary listing. That's a great resource, but it's worth pointing out that the link went specifically to a view sorted in descending order and only for the DMR division of the state government. The main page for the Herald's MA state salary project: http://www.bostonherald.com/projects/payroll/massachusetts/ Meanwhile, I have been trying to get state expenditure transactional data from the Comptroller's Office for 8-9 months and have gotten nowhere. It is an ongoing project of mine where I plan to create a web-based, searchable, sortable view into total state spending ($50 BILLION+).
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This is the text of a speech I gave at Boston's tax day "Tea Party." Inflation: the hidden tax. If we want to make a credible case for the abolition of the income tax, we must by necessity also call for reductions in government spending. For, if we allow the U.S. government to continue spending our money on its latest batch of benevolent schemes - which today include
- if we allow all of these insane practices to go on, it will matter little whether we continue to pay an income tax or not. Taxes are just one of the ways that our rulers exact payment for their years of "service" and for the utopian paradise they keep promising us - one that is always just a few more years (and few new government powers) away. Washington has two other sources of revenue at their disposal, and we cannot neglect these, as they are the cause of much of what ails the country today. They are: borrowing and inflation. The fact that we allow the government to borrow money is taken for granted by most Americans. But think about what it really means! A government is not an individual. If, as an individual, I decide that I want to pay for something that I can't afford, I can borrow money from a lender. But he only lends me this money because he is reasonably sure that I will repay the loan, plus interest; and because, if I default, he can seize whatever asset I have pledged as collateral. If I become hopelessly debt-ridden, taking out new loans to pay off the old ones until I die an impoverished pauper - well, my debts die with me. We don't believe in saddling the friends or family members of irresponsible debtors with the consequences of decisions over which they had no control. In America, we believe in self-reliance and personal responsibility, not collective punishment. So what does it mean for a government to borrow? First of all, as I already mentioned, it means that it has not raised the revenue it requires through direct taxation. Or, to put it more accurately, it knows that if it were to attempt to raise taxes further, the people would refuse to pay, and the result would be rebellion. If there is anything that we can trust these politicians to protect, it is their own skins. Borrowing - and its corollary, deficit spending - is done because it allows the government to avoid having to ask the people's permission. Every three months, the Treasury just floats a few billion dollars in bonds, and they are bought up by governments in China, Japan, the Middle East, and elsewhere. When the interest comes due, the Treasury just issues new debt to pay off the old. Categories: Monetary Policy Tags: |
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Be at the Lexington Green in Lexington Mass on 4/19/2009 (Sunday) from Noon to 3pm for a Rally on the Anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World! Speakers include: - Dr. Edwin Vieira (Attorney, Author, Constitutional Scholar) - Walter Reddy (CFL Precinct Leader, Committees of Safety Founder) - Garret Lear (Patriot Pastor) - Stewart Rhodes (founder, The Oathkeepers)
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I'd like to thank Karyn Polito for coming to the last Mass Liberty Preservation Association Meeting and speaking to the Campaign for Liberty members. She did a great job, and her "I will not vote to raise taxes" line brought a nice round of applause from the audience. While I may not agree 100% with everything a politician stands for (except Dr. Paul of course), Karyn is certainly fighting for economic Liberty, in a corrupt Massachusetts government with indicted speakers, bra-stuffing payoffs, repeat offender molesters, and political hack/cronyism jobs. (Plus, it was nice to have some recognition from elected officials that Campaign for Liberty members will be letting their opinions known in the next election cycle) I wanted to pass along a letter Karyn wrote [I was supposed to publish this about a month ago, but got tied up with my own work issues] Dear Friends, I hope that the first few weeks of the new year have been good to you and your family, and that good health, happiness and blessings are yours throughout the year. I am writing to personally share with you the launch of my new online office and my legislative agenda for the coming session on Beacon Hill. I'm excited to get going and I hope to hear a lot from you in the weeks and months ahead. There is no question that Massachusetts residents and people throughout our nation are facing very difficult times right now. So many people have shared stories with me about how the economic downturn is affecting their own family budget, and how new taxes and tolls will make it even harder to stretch their hard-earned dollars. When I sat down to create my legislative agenda for the new two-year legislative session, I focused on filing bills aimed at making Massachusetts more affordable, strengthening criminal laws to better protect families, and creating opportunities for regular citizens to save energy. You can read about these and other bills I've filed on my new Web site. You can also find a digest of my monthly electronic news updates, press releases, photos and more. My site includes a feature called "Thought of the Day," and you can find new content there throughout the week. There is also a special page dedicated just to the state budget. The address for the new site is www.karynpolito.com. I promise to post regular updates so that you can know exactly what's happening on Beacon Hill and how it could affect you. I also want to thank you for both your interest and commitment to making Massachusetts a better place to live, work, raise a family and retire. Our shared goal is to make state government more accountable and transparent, and that starts with making Massachusetts more than a one-party dominated state. Visit www.takebackbeaconhill.com and join our Compact with Massachusetts. As we move ahead, I hope you will share your thoughts with me on the developments that arise on Beacon Hill and in your own community. I hope to hear from you soon! Sincerely, Karyn
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Over the past week-or-so a scandal has caught the attention of the nation, as the news media zeroed in on the scent trail of the AIG bonus debacle. It was a "who-done-it" mystery of grand proportions that captured the undivided attention of the mainstream media. Waves of crocodile tears and outrage spewed forth from our politicians and senior government officials. They line up before the fawning media to express their surprise, outrage and indignation of the impertinence and insensitivity of AIG. How could something like this occur? How could a corporation that has been bailed out with billions of dollars of Taxpayer money, get away with this? Of course our politician's dramatic display of surprise and indignation was ultimately revealed for what it was - fake outrage. Senator Dodd is the poster child for this theater of the absurd. His initial theatrical response, a sham for public consumption and was soon exposed as a farce. It was discovered that he was responsible for the last minute change in the Bill that allowed AIG to award $165 million in bonuses to the AIG financial group responsible for AIG's demise. As with most political drama the ultimate purpose is public consumption and misdirection. I would ask --- who owns AIG? Who runs AIG? Who is responsible for AIG's actions? Well, if you do not know, let me tell you. We own it! AIG was bought by the Taxpayers (80% share) when we bailed them out. Our government hand picked the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). However, AIG still gave out nearly $430 million in bonuses (Which includes the $165 million in bonuses to the financial group). It does beg the question. How could they be so stupid? If you believe they aren't stupid, then what was the purpose of this "Kabuki Theater"? I would wonder why we are being distracted over what is a piddling amount compared to the total amount of taxpayer funding we have funneled AIG's way? What has happened to the $180 billion in taxpayer money we provided to AIG? I think this is the big story and the $165 million in bonuses is merely "Kabuki Theater" and slight-of-hand designed to distract and entertain. Well, there is always the story behind the story. So here it is, or what I could determine through hours of searching. Most of the money that was incrementally provided is gone. It was used by AIG to cover the toxic financial instruments of numerous financial institutions that they insured. This was the purpose of the AIG bailout. Rather than individually and publicly bailing out financial institutions, AIG afforded our government the opportunity to do the same thing except behind closed doors. It also meant AIG paid out on losses without the financial institution validating an urgency or need in order to remain a viable corporation. In some cases, financial institutions that had already received bailout funding, received more through AIG. Funding went to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and other U.S. investment houses. What I think is real story behind the story is that most of the money went to foreign banks and financial institutions. U.S. Taxpayer money was used to pay for the losses incurred by foreign banks. Financial institutions from around the world including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland and numerous others were beneficiaries of Taxpayer dollars distributed by AIG. Does anyone think that if Congress had publicly debated and approved Taxpayer money to bail out foreign banks that they would not catch some heat from their constituents? If they were up for reelection they would surly be in serious jeopardy of losing their seat in the House or Senate. Isn't it funny how our politicians always find a way to shield themselves from controversial issues and decisions? So now you have it, the real reason for this ridiculous charade about the bonuses. I am not saying that the bonuses are a good thing. They are not! However, let's put it in perspective and consider what is not being reported and overlooked, as our attention is diverted by this petty issue orchestrated by the mainstream media. Are the bonuses just a political slight of hand use to conceal from the people the transfer of billions in taxpayer dollars to foreign banks? Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Finance, Media, Globalism, Republican Party, Democratic Party, US Constitution, Ethics, Executive Power, Federal Legislation, Current Events, Socialism, World Affairs, Congress Tags: |
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This afternoon, I had an extremely interesting conversation with Tom Woods, author of the New York Times best-seller: Meltdown - A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. Tom is very busy promoting his book, so I was really happy to be able to spend a half hour with him, discussing the financial crisis. In order to record my talk with Tom, I used a website called Talkshoe, on which I plan to continue hosting a "show," featuring interviews with people whose political or economic views I think deserve more attention. You can use the widget below to listen to our conversation. You can also download the mp3 file by clicking here.
If you think it sounds like Tom knows what he's talking about, I encourage everyone to read his book. You can order it from Amazon by clicking on the image below.
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The People's Bank of China holds about $2,000,000,000,000 in U.S. currency as "reserves." How did they get all this money? Well, they did it by selling products to lots of Americans, who paid for those products in dollars. Why didn't they use the dollars we gave them to buy American products, you ask? Well, America isn't the industrial powerhouse it once was. We don't make products that people in other countries want to buy. But wait, you may ask, if Americans don't produce anything, where do we get the money to afford our oversized houses, gas-guzzling SUVs, and oh-so-indispensable electronic gadgetry? Simple - we borrow money from the Chinese. After all, they're the ones who have it. And they don't just stuff it mattresses - they've been more than happy to lend some of their profits back to our government, by buying Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve has recycled this money back in our economy, keeping interest rates artificially low, and the American standard of living artificially high. Why do the Chinese lend money to America? For the same reason that any lender does - they expect eventually to be paid back, in full, plus interest. However, it is becoming apparent that the United States might just not decide to ever begin paying back its debts. Whenever a bond comes due, the U.S. just floats another bond to get the money to pay off the first, and so on. The Chinese then, instead of accumulating more and more of our wealth, have more and more of our debt, every year. The U.S. national debt stands at about $11,000,000,000,000 - and since it is clear that our new president has no intention of offering up even one balanced budget over the course of his first term, the national debt will continue to grow. It might seem obvious, but in order for the U.S. to make good on its debts, we will actually have to start spending less and saving more. Or we can just keeping borrowing until no one is left who is willing to lend to us, and then we can default, leaving our creditors holding the bag - which will either be empty, or filled with trillions of worthless Federal Reserve Notes (that have lost all their purchasing power due to hyperinflation). Either way, our creditors lose big. Last week, the Chinese Premier, to whom our Secretary of State paid a special visit in order to beg him to continue giving the U.S. government the money it needs to pay its bills, said that he is "concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried." He also asked the U.S. to "maintain its good credit, to honor its promises and to guarantee the safety of China's assets." Guarantee? In what way? Does he think that the U.S. is going to pledge some real asset as collateral - Hawaii, perhaps? I skyped yesterday with a friend of mine who lives in Shanghai. We discussed the trade imbalance between the U.S. and China, and I asked him the question that Peter Schiff asks almost every day: why would the Chinese continue to loan us the money to buy their products, when it is clear that we are fleecing them, and equally obvious that they could get us to pay up simply by threatening to short sell the dollar and destroy out economy. Don't they have us by the balls? He told me that the communist regime is concerned about one thing above all else - preserving stability. He told me that 20 million Chinese factory workers have lost their jobs in this depression and have gone back to the countryside, that there are hundreds of small protests every day throughout their immense land, and that the government knows that if demand for their exports were to fall even more, the resultant job losses could bring about a domestic insurrection. Couldn't the Chinese just consume their own products, I asked? My friend reminded me that just as Americans of my generation have learned to spend beyond their means and fund their life through endless debt, the Chinese people have a culture of saving and thrift. Their government can't force them to become hyper-consumers, not overnight. Just as it will take Americans a while to learn how to save, it will take the Chinese some time to learn how to consume. Their government is actually subsidizing large consumer purchases, in an attempt to get people spending - but the efforts have been mostly unsuccessful. And so they need us, for the time being. Interestingly, today the governor of the People's Bank of China, aka the Ben Bernanke of the East, posted a speech in which he called for a new international monetary system, one in which the reserve currency would be "disconnected from individual nations" and "able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies." When I read the first paragraph, I thought: "Wow - have the Chinese finally woken up and decided to buy gold, and return to REAL money?" This move would certainly put them in a position to dominate the world markets for a long time to come. But, as it turns out, Mr. Zhou (who once declared "If the market can solve the problem, let the market do it. I am just a referee. I am neither a sportsman nor a coach.") is not advocating for the abolition of central banks and a return to a free-market commodity money. No - he wants more of the same. He's not arguing for market competition, but rather for the opposite: a monopoly "super-sovereign reserve currency," controlled by a world central bank, which he thinks will most likely evolve out of the International Monetary Fund's SDR. Since the Chinese will certainly have an influential seat at the table of any upcoming international monetary reform negotiations, perhaps Zhou is hoping that this new bank, this "trustworthy international institution" which will "both create and control the global liquidity," will soon be in the market for a new global governor. With a good Keynesian like Zhou at the helm, we could all look forward to a glorious future. Originally posted on www.FreedomRide.us. Categories: Finance, Globalism, Current Events, Socialism, World Affairs, Monetary Policy Tags: China, SDR, imf, fiat currency, Monetary Policy, Sean Ryan |
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need your help hi everyone, im sure many of you have seen some of my videos, im planning on making a new one that aims to explain the true origins of inflation. Most of you here at c4l probably already know what really causes inflation but i wanted to make a 20 minute, maybe half hour video that would explain to everyone else the true causes of inflation. The only thing im unsure of is what to name it. i was thinking of calling it "inflation a hidden theft" "the inflation con" "who's really stealing your wealth" "inflation eroding your standard of living" obviously i need some help with the name, and that's where you come in, can any of you suggest a better name than the ones i just listed i could really use a nice catchy eye popping name, any suggestions would be appreciated
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How many of you take the time to stay up to date with your local news and politics? The Campaign For Liberty will be most effective if we begin the revolution at home at a local level.
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Read the 'Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009' (HR 1207) at http://thomas.loc.gov I sent my letter to Barney Frank earlier today. Make sure to tell other supporters of liberty to get involved as well! Categories: Ron Paul, Action Item, Economy, Monetary Policy, Congress Tags: ron paul hr 1207 federal reserve audit transparancy |
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the next end the fed rally is scheduled for April 25th 2009, go to endthefed.us for more
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I can't say enough how amazing the Liberty Forum was!!!! I finally got to meet Ron Paul! =D It was a pleasure to meet him and all the speakers from the event. The reception beforehand was great! I got to meet some of the people I have become friends with through C4L, notably Brad Wyatt and Marc Florman with his lovely wife. All the speakers were amazing. The crowd was so tightly packed into the small room, it was quite a site. So much passion and enthusiasm in one room! Breath-taking, really. I'm a person who gets pretty distracted pretty easily, but it was hard to not pay attention to the hours of brillance that took place in that room. I learned a bit more about Young Americans for Liberty, what a great group! I'm definitely getting involved in that. Speaking of YAL, the afterparty at Asylum was aaaaamazing! Never have I been in a bar full of 20-somethings all with the passion for liberty and Ron Paul! I loved it so much. I met some great people there as well. The atmosphere was so refreshing. It really makes you feel hopeful knowing there are people out there who are striving to do the right thing, and spread the word. Coming from Mass, I had never met anyone who has the same views as myself. A night packed with fun, for sure!!! So overall, it was a night to remember. Definitely the most fun I've had in a long, long time. If not ever. Thanks to everyone for being so nice and friendly! To those who I met, I hope to see you all again at future events!!! LONG LIVE LIBERTY!!!!!
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so here is my submission for the video contest announced by Adam de Angeli for the Michigan Republican State Convention here is a link to the blog im responding to http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=9713#24450
forgive me for the poll, i was going to add a No option but i accidentally hit the enter button on the second question and it posted as is.
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In Naomi Wolf's book "Give Me Liberty", she talks about this idea of Democracy Commandos, basically a group of 10 or 20 registered voters that use their numbers for greater leverage when it comes to writing your elected representatives. If you all turn out to vote every year, you will be taken very seriously since your group represents 10 to 20 votes rather than just 1. It also helps if at least some are active in the community and at least 5 of you willing to volunteer to help out a campaign that matches your agenda. Here in District 4 we are represented in the US Congress by Barney Frank. Although he doesn't exactly seem to be aligned with the Campaign For Liberty, he does work directly with Ron Paul on the Financial Service Committee, which Frank chairs, and has no doubt heard many of the ideas straight from the horse's mouth. If there is a strong showing from his constituents backing those ideas, then perhaps he will be more likely to "vote like Ron Paul" in the future. Those who are interested in taking this action will need to start talking about what issues are most important to us and where we stand on them. We obviously need to agree on any given issue that we take up on our agenda, and once we know what those are, perhaps then a group name and mission statement appropriate to the issues and where we stand. What say ye? Categories: Action Item, Voting, Congress Tags: Barney Frank, Massachusetts, voting, Democracy Commandos |
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Just wanted to say that I'm so excited to go to CPAC '09 and the Liberty Forum! =) Anyone else from MA/NH/RI/CT going? I would love to meet you all! (Unfortunately, I couldn't sponor the event :( the cost is too much for flying down and staying for a couple nights.) <3 Bernice
Edit: Nevermind, I guess I am sponsoring it! Right before it sold out too =)
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Gotta start somewhere right? Our community is very small and not very active, but that needs to change. If Bristol leads the way, the other counties will get stimulated soon after. I know that at least in my experience so far, it's very hard to get people to listen and follow through on things that you want them to take a look at. A lot of people want to make excuses or choose to do other things, as if it doesn't matter. How can your freedom be second to watching your favorite television program or playing a video game? I just don't think they take it seriously at all. Of course we don't want to be depressing and not have any other discussion from time to time, but seriously, if people just took care of it first, we could solve this problem in one day. A good example of this would be, if a small flame started on your house, and someone walked up to you to talk about football, would you rush to put out the fire or keep talking about football? Yet getting people to see this is hard when you have just so many chances until you get face palmed and shut out permanently. We have a huge problem due to the fact that so many people work, somewhere around 80%. They have hardly any time to be activists or even read up on things. Stress can be a huge motivator for spending all your time on TV when you get home. I think the most aggravating people I have come across so far are Doomsday Bible Thumpers and the apathetic hateful crowd. But I stay as professional and respectful as I can regardless. You can't ever lash out at people, you just burn bridges. So anyway, to keep this from getting too long, i think that we should set a goal for this community. We have 500,000+ total population in bristol county and only 33 members. How about each and every one of us, get 10 people to join the site by the end of February. That would put us at 330 people. And if those 330 people find 10 people the next month, that would put us at 3300. And if those 3300, did the same thing, we'd be at 33,000. So lets aim for that by using the power of 10 every month. The only hope for this country is through rallying up through this website. So lets make it happen! February: 330 March: 3300 April: 33,000 May: 330,000 June: 500,000+ Ambitious, yet its possible. Categories: Action Item Tags: |
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(note: there is quite a bit to read. but as you are reading, I swear, it does all tie into the big picture!!)
People are so stubborn. It's frustrating. My semi-temporary job is cleaning people's homes. Pretty solitary job. I use a radio with headphones sometimes. But mostly, I have a ton of time with nothing but my own thoughts. So today, as I was working, I started to think about how we can spread the word for C4L. Yes, word of mouth is great. Signs, posters, stickers, etc. are also grand. But, there's only so much these things can do. You can sit your friends, family - even strangers down and try to explain what C4L is and the views of Ron Paul. But there's just so much to say that you're either going to 1) run out of time, 2) bore the person (given the person is your average, every day, run of the mill American who has the intellectual attention span of a 3 year old) or 3) bog them with so much information that it is most likely overwhelming in substance, leading to confusion. To explain what C4L is about, there is so much you need to know beforehand that goes deeper than face-value opinions. Before C4L is even mentioned in a conversation, you need to know if the person you are trying to educate knows American history. And sadly, from my experience of trying to spread the word, people don't. That is NOT to say I am an expert - not in any sense of the word. I was pretty clueless about American history until a couple of months ago. I'm still learning more and more everyday, and loving it. But I didn't always have a yearning for knowledge. Not even slightly. Of course I remember a bit about American history from my high school history courses. But, admittedly, I was usually skipping class to go smoke weed with my friends - which I do not regret! Anyways, I only remember bits and pieces from the courses because I wasn't really interested. It was forced on us in a very boring manner. I would forget everything I learned once I took a test on the information. Like I said, I didn't really get interested until a couple of months ago. Why, one may ask? Well, it all starts with entertainment of course! Entertainment. Mindless, brain numbing entertainment. Reality TV. America's Funniest Home Videos. Judge Judy. Dogg the Bounty Hunter! (Haha, I must admit I never watched that.) You know what I'm getting at though. Programming that doesn't require you to think. At all. A passive observer. Well, I guess that could go for almost all programming on TV. And then, there's my real vice, my catch all - video games. God, how I love the video games! Those are at least interactive, but still, not thought provoking. I was really addicted to this one video game - World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is the same thing as heroin, but ingested differently. After mindlessly playing for months and months, I decided - enough is enough!!! Put down the crack pipe Bernice! So I did. It was really hard. REALLY, really hard. Like trying to quit smoking cigarettes (which I unfortunately have not). Sad to say though, when I did stop playing this game, my brain was aching for entertainment. So I played different games. Watched more TV. Went to more drinking parties. I just HAD to keep myself entertained. I never gave myself time to really think about the world around me. I also didn't give a shit. I was living in my own little bubble of personal entertainment where the world around me didn't even exist. My attention span was about five minutes, tops. How did I get out of this black hole of entertainment? I wish I could say I did it on my own. That something inside me said "Bernice, what are you doing? Don't you see that there's more to life than mind sex?" But, I didn't get out of it by my own accord. It was by the graces of mother nature that I broke free from the endless cycle of media. If you recall, Massachusetts was hit really hard with an ice storm of epic proportions a few months ago. I happen to live in the area that was hit the hardest - Fitchburg, MA. We didn't have power for 14 days! No lights, no TV, no games. No power! I had never gone without power for that long. And I'm sure most of you haven't either. Well, let me tell you, it was a life-changing experience. I live with four other people. My brother, his wife, her brother, and a non-related roommate. At first we all sat around by the fireplace and played board games. Mindless! But as time went on, board games got old. My brain was still in hyper drive yearning for entertainment. Reading books became the only way for us to keep ourselves occupied. It was great. I forgot how nice it is to read. In addition to reading, I started to write a lot more. I have kept a very detailed diary of my life since I was nine years old, about 500 pages worth of my life experience. But when I opened my journal during the power-outage, I realized I haven't written in two years! Wow, what happened! I'll tell you what happened - I didn't want to think about my life. I didn't want to have to sit with a blank piece of paper staring me in the face saying, "THINK! WRITE! IS THERE AN OUNCE OF INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR HEAD!" That really opened my eyes. I realized I was no longer a thinker. I was a passive observer. I got up the courage to write though. At first, my writings were just merely a recollection of what I had been doing in my day to day life. The more I wrote though, the more my mind was evolving. I started to think about things like "Where is my life going?" and then leapt into even more broad terms, "Where is this country going?" It was the first time, in a long time, that I really started to think. I had no media entertainment. I had no more visual stimulation. I was in a room lit by candlelight, for two weeks. Writing. More importantly - thinking. People existed for thousands of years without electricity. I got used to it. It wasn't the end of the world. Granted I still had the pleasures of things like my car and running water. But, I hated it at first. Then by the time it was over, and the power came back on, I had a wave of disappointment wash over me. Back to the media filled world. Back to advertisements for penis enlargement. Back to watching hot chicks cat fight over who has nicer tits (not saying that isn't arousing, haha ;)). When it all came back on, my roommates and I, didn't jump at the TV. We had gotten used to life without power. It was only two weeks, but it was long enough for us to free our minds from the chains of modern society. I had an epiphany. My brain was like the gears of a clock where something was jamming the teeth. Once this obstruction was removed, the gears started turning and the clock started ticking. I don't watch TV anymore. I don't play games. I party, but in healthy moderation. Now I just want to learn. Everything I can. I try to channel it towards where our country is going for the most part. Ever since Obama was elected, I really started to care a lot more about politics. I have dabbled in activism in the past. But after everything I've learned about American history and current politics and banking today, I'm really into activism. This country is going to shit. Fast. And I'm going to try my damn'dest to try to stop it! I used to buy into Obama's rhetoric of "hope and change" sadly. But I was very ill-informed and didn't look below the surface. I thought I was a liberal democrat. I thought Obama was actually going to work in favor of the people of the United States. Problem was, my gears were jammed. I didn't have thoughts. I had made assumptions on passive observance. And they were not the right ones. So long story short, I educated myself. I read a lot of books. I found out about the Federal Reserve. I looked closely at the Patriot Act. I learned (vaguely) about Austrian economics. I looked at past administrations and found the flaws in how this country is governed. I found our civil liberties being taken away. I found Ron Paul. When I see television programming now, or listen to the radio, I don't passively observe. I ask questions all the time. I have been able to restore my ability to critically think. Which gets to my main point (finally). If we want to recruit people to C4L, for what our founding Fathers truly wanted for this country, we need to start at square one. Now this is where the open discussion comes into play. I want to hear as many ideas as I can. We need to remember - most people think like I used to, which is not at all. People are media slaves. So, how can we use this to our advantage to direct them in the right direction? To get them to critically think, to take it upon themselves to educate themselves? I started to educate myself because I was literally forced to not watch TV, to not listen to the radio, to not play games. This is not the case for most. We can't say, "Don't watch TV! You should care about what's really going on! Don't listen to media spin! Get the facts!" People will just think, "Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna go watch TMZ." How can we show people that this county is seriously in dire need of REAL change? Most people just don't care. We need to get people to feel passion again. Every time I think of passion, I think of one quote from "Network" (1976).
How can we rouse passion? How can we sit a person down and tell them to listen to Ron Paul? Ron Paul was brilliant the other day on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. But most people have absolutely no attention span, no interest, so they just say, "borrrinngggg," and change the channel. If we pass out fliers, they mostly end up in the trash can ten feet away. No one seems to care anymore about where we're headed. And no one seems to understand the magnitude of our situation. This last election was American Idol. A popularity contest. Not many people actually looked into the voting background and ideology of the candidates. Voters have become passive observers who watch a debate, but don't really listen - they just wait for what the commentators and talk-show hosts have to say about them after the fact and base their opinions off of what the talk-show hosts say. So, how can we rouse this sense of critical thinking? Where does it start? Should we use the same tactics an advertiser does? Should we use flashy colors and 'wackey' antics to get mindless zombies we call our brethren to pay attention? I don't necessarily think we should instill fear into people. People are entrenched in fear everyday because of main stream media and fear-mongering tactics of current governments. Your average Joe seems to take comfort in rhetoric. But, it's rhetoric with no substance. Is there a catch-phrase that is simple, yet effective, that can get our message across but that is not misleading? Should we ask questions that have simple yes and no answers, that open up a world of interest to them based on their answers? Example: "Do you care about personal freedoms?" If they answer 'yes,' that's a hook to engage in an open discussion. Maybe a hit-or-miss tactic, but still, worth a shot. I ask these questions because I'm in a tough spot. I love my family, my roommates. I try so hard, I beg, "Please, just listen to this interview. Please, listen to what I have to say. Please, try to educate yourself. Please, BE PASSIONATE! CARE!" It's so frustrating because they are so locked in their ways. I once called my sister-in-law ignorant because she refused to give my views a chance, and she LOST HER MIND! She was so offended that I called her ignorant. I learned that that was obviously not the way to approach her. But it's people like my roommates that we need to get to. I've learned that I can somewhat enlighten them by casually slipping in tid-bits of information here and there that they did not know. Makes them go, "Oh, really?" and sometimes I can spark some interest from them. It's still hard though. They refuse to discuss the Constitution with me, and to discuss what's so wrong with the direction the Federal Government has been taking for far too long. They've flat out told me, "Bernice, I don't care." WHY?! AH! Is the only way to get them to care is for them to see the dollar actually collapse? Do they have to lose their job? It's a slippery slope towards socialism and the way I see it, the passive observer is going to be brain-washed into embracing it. Partially, there are definitely groups in the United States who like it the way it is. Those people are on welfare. Those people are taking all the hand-outs they can get from our tax dollars. Those people demand to be bailed out! Those people have no PASSION! Those people have no idea the repercussions of their actions (or lack there of)! It's like you open your eyes one day, and your neighbors all turned into a bunch of babies who can't lift a finger and contribute something useful! As Dr. Paul said, the federal government is taking the money from the few productive people we have left and giving it to non-productive people. If you have a brain, you can see what's wrong with this!! So the fundamental question still remains. How can we get people interested in C4L. I'm not the most brilliant person in the world. I cannot answer these questions alone. I really want to see what you all think. I know I'm not the first person to raise these questions, but I'm glad I am raising them! I'm glad I have taken back control of my brain. Everything I ask is just a result of all the information I have been absorbing for the past couple of months.
Okay, I think I've gone on long enough. PLEASE, please comment! We need to act fast. What's the best, most efficient route? I'd love to hear what you have to say. Love you all, for we are all one! Bernice 21 years old, Boston. Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Education, Revolution, Social Issues, Socialism Tags: C4L, Campaign for liberty |
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Greetings, I'm Ed Rombach of Marblehead, Massachusetts and I served as an alternate delegate from the 6th distrct to the RNC in St. Paul, MN back in September. I'll never forget the Rally for the Republic, while on the other hand the RNC was rather forgetable. One third of the Massachussets delegation came as supporters of Ron Paul, even though they may have been pledged to McCain or Romney. Our group who became well acquainted before, during and after the RNC has not dispersed. We have gone on to form the Massachusetts Liberty Preservation Association (MassLPA), a non-profit, non-partisan organization liberty, U.S. sovereignty, constitutional government, free markets and sound money. My focus as district 6 coordinator for MassLPA is on "Economy and Sound Money", which ties into my background and work experience. In December I attended the Boston Tea Party event at Faneuil Hall and heard Rand Paul speak about ending the Federal Reserve. I spoke with him afterwards and told him about my idea to convene a Bretto Woods II conference in Bretton Woods, NH in the Spring as an alternative to the faux Bretton Woods II conference being arranged by the G20 members in Lonndon on April 2. Rand responded positively to the idea and suggested that I try to raise the profile of the effort with Campaign for Liberty which is why I am reaching out today. I have published two essays on the MassLPA website, "The Optimal Price of Gold" http://www.masslpa.org/node/164 and "The Optimal Price of Gold & The Jelly Bean Contest" http://www.masslpa.org/node/184, and invite all who are interested in this subject to read the essays. Specifically I am seeking feed back and input from the second article which is shorter and less long winded than the first one. It is my view that we must press forward with designing and implimenting an emerging new monetary policy that will anchor the dollar to gold simultaneously as we watch the imploding fiat currency system go through its death throws. We have a lot of work to do. So much tyranny and so little time. In Liberty, Ed Rombach
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This is a repost from 1/29/2009 RedMassGroup.com - By Karyn Polito - One of the finest Reformers on Beacon Hill. Karyn attended a Campaign for Liberty meeting earlier in January!
Governor Patrick filed his spending plan for Fiscal Year 2010 on Wednesday, and I'm finding a lot of things to worry about as I comb through its various provisions. I wanted to share some of them with you. Basically, the governor is trying to tell us that we have a $3.5 billion dollar budget shortfall heading into next year, a gap he proposes to close with budget cuts, one-time solutions and new taxes and fees. I disagree with the governor's assessment of where we are at, how we got there and how we can fix it. Let me explain why. I believe first and foremost that the governor's conception of a budget shortfall is an unwilling acknowledgment on his part of dramatic excess spending by our state government in recent years. During the economic surge we experienced a few years ago, the governor and the Legislature did not act responsibly by setting money aside for leaner times. Instead, they spent money excessively on programs that might have made sense but that we generally didn't need. Now that we are experiencing a sharp economic downturn, this spending is finally catching up with us but we are not taking the right steps to address it. As far as I am concerned, the governor is not going far enough in making some cuts, and he is going too far in making others. Really, he is passing the buck when it comes to making tough fiscal decisions. For example, I believe the governor's biggest mistake in his budget plan is his decision to cut local aid by $375 million. Cities and towns desperately rely on this money to fund local services, and deep local aid cuts will only put more pressure on local property tax increases and overrides to preserve local government. At the same time, I fault the governor for not making decisions to institute meaningful reforms (like eliminating the Turnpike Authority) and cutting other wasteful spending (like the state's Washington, D.C. lobbying office and trade offices in China). Basically, the governor is unwilling to place government reform in front of new revenues, and he wants cities and towns to make tough budget decisions for him. We need better leadership from the corner office. That brings me to the subject of taxes. The one that is getting the most attention right now is the governor's plan to make alcohol, sweetened beverages and candy subject to the 5 percent Massachusetts sales tax. Aside from the fact that I oppose raising taxes to pay for government waste and irresponsibility, this tax just makes no sense to me - especially during tough economic times. I also oppose the increases in hotel and meals taxes the governor is proposing, especially at the local level. Again, it is wrong to turn to cities and towns to make up the difference in state government's irresponsible spending, and it's wrong to ask them to tax their own citizens at the local level to solve statewide problems. The use of one-time revenues is also a problem. Senate President Therese Murray has even criticized this practice, saying there is too much reliance on one-time revenues and not enough cut backs. The budget is balanced by using hundreds of millions of dollars of money from the federal economic stimulus bill, which has not even been passed into law yet. It also raids almost half-a-billion dollars from the state's Rainy Day Fund. Relying on these one-time solutions to cover long-term spending problems only sets us up for bigger dilemmas in future years, passing the buck to future leaders and future generations to fix our current-day problems. I can't support that practice. Ultimately, many of my colleagues seem to agree with me that the governor's budget is like a trial balloon, an attempt to see how people will react to some of the more controversial proposals the governor is making. The danger is that if people don't express real outrage to these proposals and to other big-government ideas (like raising gas taxes and increasing Turnpike tolls), then there might be a tendency for the majority party to "go along" with raising taxes as the only solution to our problems. The answer is for everyone at the grassroots level to call for reform -- making the tough decisions. Otherwise, it could be the taxpayers bailing us out of this problem. So keep posting. Keep letting us know how you feel. And keep reminding my colleagues that we need reform in this state to get spending and taxes under control. For more information on the budget, please feel free to visit my Web page: www.karynpolito.com . There's a special page devoted just to the budget. You can also see a column I wrote about the budget in today's Worcester Telegram. Sincerely, Karyn Polito Categories: Finance, Republican Party, Grassroots News, Executive Power, State Legislation, Economy Tags: Massachusetts, State, Legislature |
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in ever congress since the 104th Congressman John Shadegg has introduced a bill called the Enumerated Powers Act. this bill if enacted would make it very difficult for politicians to violate the constitution. of course ever time it is proposed it goes down in blazing defeat. watch this video to find out more about it, and what we here at c4l can do to help it get more attention, and hopefully pass.
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Here is another example of our state government too dumb to figure out that when you tax an activity,you get LESS of it.(Full disclosure - this was 'borrowed' from ) http://worcesterma.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-told-you-so.html
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this is my latest C4L promotional video. One of my biggest skills in life is videogrpahy, in particular editing, I try to use it to spread the message of the freedom movement
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im trying to organize a nation wide protest of the bailouts. it will be held at your local statehouse jan 17th start time 10am please do whatever you can do to spread this video, put it on your myspace page, digg.com, post it as a blog here on c4l, whatever you can do!!! us c4l members have to start making a difference, if this is a success then i have some even better ideas for future protest Categories: Ron Paul, Media, Globalism, Civil Liberties, Republican Party, Just For Fun, Current Events, Revolution, Social Issues, Socialism, Video, Economy, Congress Tags: bailout, bail out, protest, ron paul, Campaign for liberty, End the Fed, Federal Reserve, GM, Ford, Detroit |
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im going to start a new video series on youtube called The Ron Paul 3D Studio it will feature videos that blast the big government agenda, and of course promote DR. Paul check out this promo video i made, if you like it please help me spread it around
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Our Goverments do not want us to speak out against their policies. This is because any serious inquiry would lead to the realization that many of the institutions and traditions we hold dear are mere illusions. As we well know, the Democrats and the Republicans are essentially the same party, with no major philisophical distinction. Their arguements are minute and tidious, but because they never debate any Party besides one another, most people are ignorant as to the possabilities for real change. All the the laws regulating First Amendment Rights--such as protesting and demonstrating, election Debate regulations, Election coverage, Speech Laws...are all deseigned to create in the mind of the average American person, the small world-view under which a Democrat or a Republican are considered "correct". Therefore, we must not only lobby for our goals, but also go against the rules meant to keep us at bay. On Constitution Day of this year, the We The People Congress were supposed to have had a large hunger-strike in Washignton D.C., in an attempt to recieve from the government a Redress of Grievences. However, they were denied a permit because--as the City claims--it is illegal to sleep in the park. The We the People Congress responded to this in the worst of ways: they cancelled their protest. In a proper Non-Cooperation Campaign, they should have carried on without permission. These are the movements that make changes. If reformers and liberty-activists in America had always acted this way, we would still have slavery, women would be treated like pets, and we would probably still be British Colonies. The We the People Congress failed us by following the hegemonic rules that they should be against, but where they failed we shall suceed. The only way to protest oppression is to not cooperate with the authority that institutes it. Next year, every Liberty- Acvtivist in the country should go to Washington D.C. on Constitution Day and sit in that park and have that hunger strike, without even applying for a permit. That would be the perfect protest, one that would make strides in restoring freedom to this country. I have read that "sit-ins" are the perfect form of protest because they are non-violent, less "in your face", but they get the message across better than any other form of protest. Non-violence is key, for violent insurrectionists are often labelled, jailed, and discarded and their cause loses all gravity. If we follow the example of Gandhi and King, we shall overcome. If we can suffer the economic, social, and political crises our American governments have caused, we can suffer a little more mistreatment at the end of the long struggle for freedom. Sit-ins are a direct form of Non-Cooperation, and thus go against the rules put in place to stifle dissent; because of this, it is crucial that a sit-on demonstration not end when the protestors are asked to leave, but when they are moved by force. Leave the governments their monopoly on force and violence, we have no use for it in our revolution. Another travesty is the requirement of permits for public protests. This is a severe violation of our rights, and can be changed. First, we must gather in the thousands and decide on a place of importance--Washington should work. Next, we gather and march in our numbers. They will send the police and perhaps the National Guard, due to the erroneous notion of the "illegality" of such a protest. Then, we will march on and be dispersed, but we must never give in to the temptation of violence, especially when we are attacked. A few marches like these, and we will see a decided change in Congress. Morever, picketing and waving signs outside of State Assembly Buildings, Local Federal Reserve Branches, and other important symbolic places will be useful in provoking change. Meanwhile, the unconstiutional laws surrounding protesting will be challenged, and perhaps overturned. Such Campaigns must be organized. If it begins in one part of the country, other parts must follow suit. Protestors in Massachusetts should be met by equally provocative protestors in Texas, California, Arkansas, Florida, and Kentucky...We must send the message: we will not shut up, we will not go away, and we are not blowing off steam; we are here to stay. Liberty is here to stay. Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Foreign Policy, Education, Finance, Media, Globalism, Civil Liberties, Law, Domestic Policy, Presidential Race, 3rd Parties, Health Freedom, Election News, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Grassroots News Tags: |
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This November 22nd is "National End The Fed" day. We are having a rally smack dab infront of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Right now we are in the planning stages if you would like to get involved please contact me. Also, we need help funding this event. If you can't make it in person then send some of those federal resreve notes in your stead. We are planning on buying and distributing, flyers, banners, t-shirts, and if we raise enough money we are going to take out a big ad in the metro. Follow this link to help out. http://endthefedboston.chipin.com/end-the-fed-boston Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Education, Finance, Media, Globalism, Law, Domestic Policy, Grassroots News, Action Item, Commodities, US Constitution, Ethics, Federal Legislation, History, Current Events, Philosophy, Revolution, World Affairs, Economy, Monetary Policy, Congress Tags: |
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The truth of the matter is, the American people are getting ripped off. Poor and middle class communities are suffering from Government agencies controlling families, such as the various so-called Social "Services" which divide & dictate to many families; law enforcement agencies enforcing drug laws and unconstitutional social restrictions ruin lives daily; Taxes of all sorts, such as property, sales, excise, mandatory charges--such as driver's license fee's, and hidden taxes--such as bank fees (instituted by the Federal Reserve), and the worst: inflation. Inflation is the "invisible tax" because it cannot be measured in monetary amount, only buying power. These taxes--many of which are illegal, are harming our economy and our lives in a variety of ways. Inflation is primarily stealing from the middle class and the poor, since the rich aren't nearly as affected in their daily lives, because their wealth provides a shield against inflationary losses. Moreover, most of us have savings and retirement accounts. If we, the poor and middle class of America, have $100,000 dollars saved for retirement and there is an annual inflation of 2-3%, over time we could lose over 20%. In the short term, this harms buying power, and impacts savings. With 2% inflation, savings accounts are losing 2 dollars on every hundred. Meanwhile, the cost of living goes up because the currency is worth less, and wages stay the same. This causes strain on the poor and middle class families when they are attempting to keep their homes, put their children through any level of school, pay the legal taxes; this also makes buying food, clothing, fuel, and the other necessities of life all that much more difficult. This combined with all the other taxes is causing tremendous strain on the American economy, as seen by the Crisis in the Financial Markets, which was caused by inflation and government subsidies. We, the people, should no longer put up with such undemocratic policies, and fight this injustice. Many would say that it is foolish to resist the government, and in some ways it is. It would be foolish to do so violently--as some have attempted in the past--after all, America part of the problem is the militaristic tactics the Government is using. Further, violence solves nothing, as we have seen in the War on Drugs, Terror, and the War in Vietnam--where 60,000 American soldiers and many more Vietnamese lost their lives for a War in which Democracy lost. Since then, Vietnam has instituted reforms and we have solved in peace what could not be solved in over Twenty Years of war. And since every major Non-cooperation Campaign in the Western--and even Eastern--World seems to have suceeded to a large degree, it is evident that our current predicament is a problem which can only be solved by non-violent civil disobedience, and the namesake of this tract: Non-cooperation. A people so oppressed must end that oppression by ceasing all compliance with injustice. This has been done before, both in America and abroad. The Civil Rights Movement, which is credited with beginning with the civil disobedience conducted by Rosa Parks, now a national icon, when she refused to comply with the laws regarding the Segregation of busses--this movement changed America forever, and for the better. Now we have black children and white children, Catholics and Protestants, and all variety of ethnicities and religious people coming to gether and become friends and allies regardless of these superficial differences. Moreover, this movement is a working example of how Non-cooperation can and ultimately will--if the cause is just--succeed. However, it is necessary first to look an earlier example, to illustrate how this can make changes on an even wider basis. The Indian Independence Movement evolved when Gandhi brought his Non-cooperation Campaign to India, after his strides against apartheid in South Africa. Now in Champaran & Kheda in 1918 he led impoverished farmers, mired in social evils such as unhygienic conditions, domestic violence, discrimination, military oppression, oppression of women & untouchability. On top of their miseries, these people were forced to grow cash crops like indigo, tobacco and cotton, instead of food, by the government without compensation, thus causing starvation and numerous financial problems. In addition, they would have to pay taxes despite a famine. Due to Non-cooperation, the people in these regions won the largest victory against the British Empire since the American Revolution: the cessation of taxes during famines. This Non-cooperation movement consisted of people quitting government positions, boycotting government services and law enforcement, boycotting the courts, boycotting government goods. These measures led to major problems for the British when there was a communcation blackout when every telephone, telegraph, and radio operator ceased work. Meanwhile, the Salt march led to a major blow to the British Monopoly on Salt in India, a vital resource in many areas in the economy and life. The result: the eventual rise of an Indian Nation-State, the goal of the movement. All of this was accomplished with widespread Non-cooperation, begun at the local levels. This too, must be our goal: to cease cooperation on the local level, which will lead to the rise of more such movements, and eventually a national one will emerge and reign victorious. The Indian Non-Cooperation Campaign did the equivalent of what Americans must do: break the two-party system, abolish the Federal Reserve & return to sound money, force the government to respect our civil & human rights, return to the Constitution, and cease the U.S. role in the militarization of diplomacy. More on statement of methodology in Part 3. The civil rights movement grew in the local communities. The Movement can be traced back to the Radical Republicans in the 19th Century, but the modern movement began in 1955. One of the Movement's earliest Non-cooperation campaigns was the famous and glorious Bus Boycott, as mentioned previously. This Campaign grew out of local congregations, and met at the Church of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose actions in subsequent years made him a Nation hero. This local movement recieved Nation attention, resulting in a major victory: Alabama's racial segregation laws for busses were deemed unconstitutional. There was still work to do, but this was one early example of the power and success of Non-cooperation. We too, must gather people at the local level through useful agents. Together we as a Nation can rise up in defiance of Government policies, uniting together through religious centers, town centers, and political action groups. however, we must be careful to remain decentralized; centralization will only lead to our movement becoming an easier target for attack, both violent and in a propaganda sense. The usefulness of a decentralized Non-cooperation is that it does not rely on central leadership. Therefore, if a prominent component of our Movement is somehow taken out of the picture, the other numerous groups can continue the struggle. Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Foreign Policy, Education, Finance, Media, Globalism, Civil Liberties, Law, Domestic Policy, Presidential Race, 3rd Parties, Health Freedom, Election News, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Grassroots News Tags: campaign |
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Greetings to all those who may read this, and noble are those who will spread it.Categories: Ron Paul, Campaign For Liberty, Foreign Policy, Finance, Civil Liberties, Domestic Policy, Presidential Race, 3rd Parties, Health Freedom, Election News, Grassroots News Tags: |
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