On Wednesday, Dr. Paul joined Daniel Hannan, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, Peter Schiff, Shelley Roche, and Tom Palmer on the latest installment of Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch.
I watched/listened to most of it this afternoon. It was pretty awesome. Thomas Woods was right when he said that someone ought to go after (legally) the government for breaking laws. There must be a way to stop the madness.
Very good. Needs to be in prime time though. Again, eliminate the FED and legal tender laws and the central government would become impotent. But, as Dr. Paul notes, it will probably have to come apart before real change occurs.
Always a good show. Mr Hannan is incredibly eloquent.
After we push 1207 through, we should should bombard Fox News with emails until they put freedom watch on primetime saturday. They give huckabee his own show.
Mrocked nailed it. It was all hands on deck:
Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Daniel Hannan,Thomas Woods, Peter Schiff, Tom Palmer, Judge Napolitano. If you want to hear words from all the free market heavy hitters this is it.
My favorite part was Daniel Hannon saying that Ron Paul is a hero for freedom, not just in the US, but around the world. Dr. Paul has lit brush fires in millions of minds...there is no telling where it could end. Liberty at last, maybe?
Posted 05/13/09 8:50 PM galtgulch Southborough, MA
I just don't understand why our growth is so slow. I must assume that only a tiny number of the 152,418 are taking the trouble to bring our subject up with the people they encounter. Consequently our daily growth is just another 100 to 200 members.
That is disheartening although I try to remain optimistic. I think that if we can find candidates within our ranks to run for office in every congressional district who are articulate if not eloquent, assertive enough to present our argument for adhering to the Constitution then we just might attract a significant number of like minded citizens who will join and help to spread the word.
I intend to strongly consider running against another gentleman businessman in my district who is also a C4L member! The idea is that if there are two of us in the primaries we can plan debates in every town in our district every week or more. We both agree that it would be a good idea. We do differ on the right of a woman to abort. I am pro choice and he is not.
Otherwise we are both in favor of the Austrian school of free markets and constitutional limitations on govt etc.
I anticipate that if we make our vision heard there will be many questions about how to bring it about without disrupting lives, e.g. if Social Security were to be modified to let the younger generation opt out of it. We have to keep in mind that the SS involves disability not just retirement and there are many who are dependent on it.
That does include drug addicts who are willing to say they hear voices and to take antipsychotic meds in order to be on disability and get a check they use to subsidize their drug habits.
Should be challeging, not to mention the winner of the primary will go up against a long time incumbent in a largely Democratic district given the gerrymandering.3#rd CD in central MA includes all of Worcester and stretches down to include a piece of Fall River a hundred miles away.
Liberty is a tough subject. People don't see it eroding until its gone. Also, people are very distracted right now and msm is almost useless.
I've been plowing through books... any break I get I'm reading at work and people notice the books I am reading and ask about them and jot down the titles etc. Working on Economics in One Lesson now.
Keep books in hand and people will notice.
Posted 05/13/09 11:58 PM WinstonSmith1984 Oceania, United Kingdom
Got to love those guys. Beyond them, I can't really think of anyone else today I'd allow to entertain political discussions.
In the first-part discussion concerning the power of the U.S. Treasury to regulate executive pay at banks, the Treasury Secretary may not be too far off.
National banks are federal instrumentalities. As such, it seems pretty clear to me that arguments over executive pay are a legitimate function between department heads in the federal government.
The media presents these arguments as government intervention in private enterprise. However, national banks are not private enterprises - they are agents of the federal government.
With respect to non-national banks, I'll use GA-chartered banks as an example of perhaps the opening to control. Here's a response I received from the Georgia Department of Banking & Finance:
"All banks in this state are required to have federal insurance. All Georgia banks, whether state or nationally/federally chartered are insured by the FDIC. It would be rare that you would find an uninsured bank in any state unless it was special purpose, in which case it probably would not be a deposit taking institution."
So, what we are seeing is a dispute between partners.
This ties nicely to the role the states play in perpetuating this partnership by requiring their banks to be part of the federal system.
It is not only Congressional seats that are important. I would submit that it is just as important, if not easier and cheaper, to run for a seat in your state's legislature.
Here in Virginia I was astounded to see that in the last election cycle out of the 100 House of Delegate seats and the 40 Senate seats, almost half WERE NOT CONTESTED by one of the major parties.
Granted there is obviously a reason for this i.e. the incumbent was so entrenched that it would almost hopeless to win, but the signature requirements to get on the ballot are so low and the cost to put on a decent campaign so inexpensive compared to a Congressional run, that it's a no brainer.
One gentleman I knew ran as an Independent in a House of Delegate district that was competely owned by a corrupt Democrat, but he got 35% of the vote while spending only $5,000!!
And why did he do so (relatively) well?
Because people were desperate to vote against the crooked incumbent. While going door to door during the campaign he said that numerous people told him they were so happy that "finally" someone was running againt the crook and they couldn't wait to go vote.
If we build it (a good issued-based campaign), they will come (and vote for us).
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