| Sunday, 19 July 2009 12:14 |
| Quintessential Liberal vs. Extreme Marxist
By JB Williams ©2009 USA Since 52% of American voters were foolish enough to buy the story that Barack Hussein Obama is some sort of “liberal messiah,” I thought it would be interesting to compare the belief systems of America’s father of liberalism and author of our Declaration of Independence, with the Marxist belief system of the false messiah. And since today’s liberals have so much trouble properly interpreting our Founders’ simple message to future generations, I am under no illusion that these facts will carry anymore weight with modern Marxists than Article II – Section I of the Constitution, which clearly states that Barack Obama cannot be President of the United States. But for the rest of America, namely those who have been baffled by decades of leftist balderdash via the NEA’s academia and the state run media complex, a few real facts might help sort things out. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Just for you leftists out there, what Jefferson was trying to say here is, you can’t be both stupid and free. This is the fly in your ointment friends. You think you can be stupid and irresponsible AND free. But you can’t… You think that freedom belongs to the spineless thief, but it doesn’t. You think you can use a democratic process to force others to accept responsibility for your ignorance, but you can’t. Oh sure, you can cast your vote on this basis and even elect a president and congress, who will seat a Supreme Court on this basis. But in the end, one of two things will happen. Either those who earned the gold you seek to steal, will take their gold and leave you holding your empty sack of broken promises, – or – you will trade your individual freedom for a pittance of “free stuff” from the public trough. You can be stupid, or you can be free, but you can’t be both… In the end, there is no way to be both stupid and free! Jefferson knew this, Obamanation doesn’t. “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” This is why Jefferson and fellow Founders designed and gave birth to a Constitutional Representative Republic instead of a “democracy,” and guaranteed every state a “republican” form of government. Their Republic was limited to governance which was “representative” of the people, AND limited to the letter of Constitutional authority. The 10th Amendment says it all… “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” If the Constitution does not specifically grant the federal government authority over a specific matter, then no such authority exists and any effort by the Fed to step into that territory is simply “unconstitutional.” Yet Obama and the modern “liberal” (aka 21st Century Marxist) believe that there are no such limitations on our federal government and that they are free to “take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent of Americans” on the basis that they won an election by “democratic process.” Their system of government is NOT a Constitutional Republic, but rather Democratic Socialism, in which their ends justify their means and the Constitution is no barrier. “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.” According to Jefferson, but not according to Obama, Pelosi or Reid, and their many minions and international friends, all of whom believe that the sum of good government is to “take from those who have used their freedom well, and redistribute to those who have not.” For modern leftists, there is a good greater than freedom. There is political power, bought with gifts from the public treasury for our nation’s “less fortunate” and paid for by America’s most productive. But unlike today’s faux liberals, Jefferson was THE quintessential liberal, believing in a maximum abundance of individual liberty. In fact, he went so far as to state unequivocally… “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” On the other side of complete individual liberty is anarchy. Yet Jefferson states that he would prefer the inconveniences of too much liberty, as opposed to too little. By today’s perverted definitions, this would undoubtedly make Jefferson a quintessential libertarian, not a modern liberal. “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Still, over the last hundred years or so, self-proclaimed liberals have built a political dynasty on the unparalleled practice of wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. There’s no special interest or minority group they haven’t exploited, and no social engineering program they haven’t bankrupted. Despite the very real fact that our federal government has never touched an issue it didn’t wreck, or established a budget it didn’t bust, the left has used its new power to confiscate control of banking, investment, lending, energy, auto manufacturing and individual income. Next they seek control of health care and insurance, all under the false pretense of taking care of the people while simply stockpiling their own personal power over those people. Jefferson would obviously, support no such thing. “Information is the currency of democracy.” I have always found this to be one of Jefferson’s most interesting quotes. Why would someone so clearly opposed to pure democracy, make this statement? In further studying Jefferson’s many writings, I discovered what Jefferson meant by this statement. As our nation’s most well-studied Founder and certainly our most prolific, Jefferson was clearly a lover of information – history in particular. As a result, he was right over and over again, including here… information is indeed the currency of democracy. He who controls the flow and content of information can thereby control public opinion, and therefore, the decisions made by democratic process. This indeed makes “information” the most important “currency” to any democratic society. Hence, the state run media complex. And again, Jefferson makes his point… “It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.” Today’s self-styled liberal believes in concepts that are historically proven to be wrong. Communism and Socialism have failed miserably everywhere on earth they have been tried. Still, the modern liberal believes it can work. That’s because they have to believe it to justify robbing their fellow citizens of the rightful earnings. It would be better for them to believe nothing at all, than to believe that which is clearly false. But doing so would not serve their agenda. Even after congressional leftists bankrupted Fannie and Freddie, forcing every homeowner into falling property values, investors into bad investments supported by bad mortgages, falling markets that threaten the US dollar and the future of the free market that made America the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth, the left remains determined to stick with their failed belief system. It has never worked anywhere on earth, but they are married to it just the same. “Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.” Obama has appointed more unconstitutional Czars in six months than the Soviet Union did in thirty years. They are not accountable to the people, the states, or even congressional oversight. They are appointed minions accountable only to the dictator-in-chief. Yet… “Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.” America’s day of reckoning for decades of ignorance, apathy and arrogance has arrived. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” There are none more ignorant than those who refuse to see… or learn from history. They are doomed to learn the hard way, again and again! Jefferson is America’s quintessential liberal and he had absolutely NOTHING in common with Barack Obama or any other modern liberal. In fact, quite the contrary. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” Under the Obama administration, these two statements from Jefferson would qualify Jefferson as a “right-wing extremist” and “potential domestic terrorist,” according to Obama’s Department of Homeland Security. That’s because Barack Obama’s belief system is based upon the concepts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He takes his orders from ACORN, represented by the Congressional Black Caucus, established by card carrying member of the Communist Party, John Conyers. His entire agenda was written by the Democratic Socialists of America, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established by card carrying member of the Socialist Party, Bernie Sanders Jefferson, like every other Founding Father, is rolling over in his grave at what now passes for “liberal” in America. Not one Founding Father would stand for what is happening to this wonderful country today, nor would any call themselves “liberal” by today’s perverted definition. The people running Washington DC today are not American. They belong in prison, not in power. But instead, on July 16, 2009, two days before the writing of this column, Obama’s Department of Justice, headed by Obama’s man Eric Holder, issued a written threat to the state of Tennessee, signed by Assistant Director of the ATF Carson W. Carroll. In that letter, Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stated the following… The passage of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, H.B. 1796, 106th Leg. (Tenn. 2009) 1796 (“Act”), effective June 19, 2009, has generated questions from industry members as to how this State law may affect them while engaged in a firearms business activity. The Act purports to exempt personal firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition manufactured in the State, and which remain in the State, from most Federal firearms laws and regulations. However, because the Act conflicts with Federal firearms laws and regulations, Federal law supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations, continue to apply. A full copy of the ATF letter can be found here – http://www.tfaonline.org/downloads/ATFfirearmsfreedomact.pdf Even though the Tennessee state legislature, through its proper course and authority, passed both a Tenth Amendment bill reminding the Obama administration that it is a sovereign state with constitutional rights, and that the federal government exists at the pleasure of the people and the states, not the other way around, and a Second Amendment affirmation in H.B. 1796, Obama does not see it that way. At the time of passage through the TN House and Senate, Judiciary Chairman Mae Beavers had this to say- “Be it the federal government mandating changes in order for states to receive federal funds or the federal government telling us how to regulate commerce contained completely within this state – enough is enough. Our founders fought too hard to ensure states’ sovereignty and I am sick and tired of activist federal officials and judges sticking their noses where they don’t belong.” But despite the fact that the Tennessee legislature passed and ratified H.B. 1796, the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act of 2009, securing the rights of firearms owners and dealers in the state of Tennessee, Obama’s ATF believes that “federal laws supersede state laws.” This concept could be applied to any law in any state, of course. It is NOT true however… The US Constitution supersedes both federal and state laws. Neither legislature can pass laws at odds with constitutional text. Under the US Constitution, the vast power is entrusted to the people and their states, not the Fed. (See Amendment X of the US Constitution) — Federal laws trump state laws only in the unbridled imaginations of leftists and federal law makers. But only because both act as though the Constitution no longer exists. For this reason, I share another of Jefferson’s sentiments… “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” American citizens have come to fear their tyrannical federal government. Decades of leftist fiscal insanity in Washington DC have left the nation in financial ruin. The moral relativity of the left has shoved the nation into an immoral abyss and the day of reckoning has arrived. The people must organize with local and state leaders in their individual states. According to the US Constitution, the Fed exists and serves at the pleasure of the people and their respective states. These principles either stand, or everything collapses. See Tenth Amendment action reports here – http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/07/18/the-battle-begins-atf-vs-the-constitution/ “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” JB Williams
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Consider this a subpage or sequel to our basic philosophy of liberty, recommended aid in understanding Force, defined as:
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- (private sector) The non-consensual act of taking or harming one’s life or property, whether murder, rape, theft or …, such acts being both immoral and unlawful.
- (private sector) The non-consensual act of taking or harming one’s life or property, whether murder, rape, theft or …, such acts being both immoral and unlawful.
(governments) Compel, constrain, or oblige (someone) to do something.
Consider some basic differences between business and government.
Businesses produce goods and services to fulfill the needs and desires as chosen by the individual. Therefore businesses earn income which is recycled to continue that fulfillment. If the business is successful, it grows to provide more benefits to more people. If the business makes profits it may invent new goods and services which provide new benefits to the people. If the business is not successful and profitable, it will eventually cease to exist, having lost it’s customers to competitors or to goods and services which offer better benefits or more value. In a truly free market all transactions are of mutual benefit to both business and customer, and resulting from either consumer acceptance of a vendor’s price and terms, or from negotiation between parties.
Even though governments pretend to function as businesses, they are not. Governments produce nothing and have no income, funded only by only whatever they steal, by Force, from You and from all it’s subjects. Anything done by government can be accomplished only by stealing (taking by Force) the money, the property, and finally the life, of it’s citizens. Governments survive only via theft by taxation or by creating pseudo-businesses which sell “licenses” or “permits”, or by leasing or selling land and rights to land, or by selling privileges which are merely an extension of rights which are the inate natural belongings of all men. Government claims ownership of all these things, but all were in fact taken by Force from the private sector under one guise or another. Government acts to “legitimize” their actions are called “laws”.
In the private sector, Force is illegal and subject to criminal penalties. Force is always the tool of criminals. Yes, I said Force, stealing, wrongful taking, and extortion.
But in the “public” arena, called government, Force is always declared “legal” — how can that be? How can Force be immoral and illegal only when between private persons and entities, yet is perfectly “legal” if government does it to you? This renders virtally all government criminal! Why is that? Why do the people allow it?
All this has vast implications far beyond being just a drunken block party. Those are seen every minute of every day, it is the Force of governments at every level, whether town or nation or even the whole world. These are always “made legal” by passing a “law” or “regulation” or some-such nonsense. Because they are “the law” every citizen is supposed to obey and accept that item of Force because “it is writ”. Nonsense!
If you believe that we all own government, try asking them for your fair share, try selling your share when you have not even a piece of paper representing your share. Whatever they have stolen from you will never never be seen again.
If you don’t begin to “get it” by now, best read more about Morality, because you’re not close to ready for the big-time. Understand that every cent the government spends must first be STOLEN from YOU. The more schemes government enacts, the more it will cost you. This is not theft, it is armed robbery, it is taken by Force. You are not asked, you are TOLD, and if you don’t obey your Ruler will surely send someone to your door, with a gun, and authorized to use deadly Force to ensure your compliance. Go back to Morality and check to see if that fits with your Right to Life.
In the real world of life and the living, society has come to agree that Force is wrong, and has made laws declaring that Force is illegal and has set force penalties for using Force, heavier for murder than for burgling your neighbor’s flowerbed in the night, but always there are penalties. How then can this same society elect governments of Force, when the only difference of that Force is that government force is somehow “legal”. Even worse, governments are delegated to have more power, more Force, by a simple majority of it’s congress and a swipe of the President’s pen. No approval of the citizens is necessary. No protection for any person being of any minority which has reason to disagree.
A government of collectivists which gives lip service to liberty but rejects liberty at every turn may not intend to kill you, but as surely as they are killing America, so are they killing you.
Those who reject Force and practice the morality of liberty must prevail; death is your only alternative. If you continue to pay taxes or support government in any way, you abandon, compromise and forfeit your right to Life. You must refuse; you must withdraw; you must have the courage to spread the word; at the very least to tell those within your circle why they should do likewise. You will find many more ears as we continue the slide into the abyss of economic collapse.
If you cannot accept Liberty, then you are party to the loss of America. Beyond that, if we appreciate Liberty but fail to insist upon it, we lose a bit more each time. Because each encroachment upon our Right to Life endangers everyone, we must reject it or lose some part of our lives. When you have finally lost too much of your life, you are … what? … oh no, not DEAD! Really?
Political Force is wholly intentional, and we who tolerate Force must be the stupid ones!
Nobody wants to mention tax rises just ahead of the elections,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland. “But if the budget deficit is 10 percent of GDP and the official debt is approximately what the nation can produce in one year, then the politicians will have to raise tax and reduce public spending.
Striker
It’s hard to pay attention to what’s happening in such a seemingly small, remote and insignificant country as Iceland, but the parallels of retro-progress in Iceland and USA are stunning and terrifying. Think for a moment, this is a part of global collapse begun here in our USSA with the last trigger on this shotgun being the CRA. Then note our Rulers now considering renewal of the CRA to cure the problems caused by the CRA.
Please read this article and review the Digg comments.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.
…The 51-page bill does not define what private sector networks would be considered critical to the nation’s security, but the Center for Democracy and Technology fears it could include communications networks in addition to the more traditional security concerns over the financial and transportation networks and the electrical grid.
To All My Valued Employees,
There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of
this company and, more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy
has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the
good news is this: The economy doesn’t pose a threat to your job. What
does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in
this country.
However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help
you decide what is in your best interest.
First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against
employees, you have to understand that, for every business owner, there
is a Back Story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by
what you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You’ve
seen my big home at last year’s Christmas party. I’m sure; all these
flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.
However, what you don’t see is the BACK STORY:
I started this company 28 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300
square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living apartment was
converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building
a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.
My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I saved
went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a
defective transmission. I didn’t have time to date. Often times, I
stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and
partying. In fact, I was married to my business — hard work,
discipline, and sacrifice.
Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a
modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy
cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes.
Instead of hitting the Nordstrom’s for the latest hot fashion item, I
was trolling through the discount store extracting any clothing item
that didn’t look like it was birthed in the 70′s. My friends refinanced
their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put
my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that
eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my
friends supposedly had.
So, while you physically arrive at the office at 9am, mentally check in
at about noon, and then leave at 5pm, I don’t. There is no “off” button
for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend
all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and
breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There
is no weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is
attached to my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of
course, only see the fruits of that garden — the nice house, the
Mercedes, the vacations… you never realize the Back Story and the
sacrifices I’ve made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right
decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who
didn’t. The people who overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled
to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed more than a decade of
my life for.
Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I’ve paid is steep
and not without wounds.
Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is
starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell
you why:
I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don’t pay enough.
I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes.
Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes. Taxes on
taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess
what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and
regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of
my time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000
for quarterly taxes. You know what my “stimulus” check was? Zero.. Nada.
Zilch.
The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy
who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000
people per year with a flourishing business? Or the single mother,
sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next
welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the real
economic stimulus of this country.
The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you’d quit
and you wouldn’t work here. I mean, why should you? That’s nuts. Who
wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree, which
is why your job is in jeopardy.
Here is what many of you don’t understand … to stimulate the economy
you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly, the
government mandated to me that I didn’t need to pay taxes, guess what?
Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I
would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial
economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax
cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But – you can forget
it now.
When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don’t
defibrillate and shock his thumb, thinking that will bring him back to
life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the
heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate
it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the
poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic
engine. Nothing could be further from the truth; this is the type of
change YOU can keep.
So where am I going with all this?
It’s quite simple.
If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be
swift and simple. I’ll fire you. I’ll fire your co-workers. You can
then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and
your child’s future. Frankly, it isn’t my problem any more.
Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and
retire. You see, I’m done. I’m done with a country that penalizes the
productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work, and to
provide jobs, will be destroyed and, with it, will be my citizenship.
So, if you lose your job, it won’t be at the hands of the economy; it
will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this
country, steam-rolled the constitution, and will have changed its
landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach,
retired, and with no employees to worry about….
Signed, THE BOSS
The first rescue package of $700 billion passed by the Bush Administration was supposed to buy back this bad paper. Instead the government … gave half of it to banks with no strings attached instead of designating it for security redemption. The banks did not use the money to redeem the bad paper certificates…
Starts out off-track pointing at speculation, but gets it pretty much right overall. It’s really worth the read.
But when central banks, through their manipulation of the money supply, artificially lower the interest rate, then the signals get distorted; investors are led to act as though consumers have a lower time-preference than they actually do. Thus investors are led to invest in longer-term projects that are unsustainable,
This is a followup to America is History which I wrote and submitted to Digg last week. Our government made a surprising move which is delaying the collapse for a short while, but the collapse is beyond avoidable. This is my attempt to warn you — protect whatever assets you have as best you can, and prepare for a long dark age.
On that day, it appeared certain that WaMu, then Morgan-Stanley, then Goldman-Sachs were going to wipe out, and the domino effect would follow. However, right after my original post, Bush, Paulson & Bernanke finally emerged from their caves to announce we were in horrible trouble. Hell, we knew that, and so did they (well not the sheeples). So Dodd blurted out “meltdown” and Congress, which had surely also known disaster was coming, finally had to go to work – now that’s different! The bailout solution presented is horrible! If our 537 elected officials had done anything right before this housing/mortgage crisis began, this whole dilemma may never have arisen.
This I shall elaborate just a tad more. The trigger which began the housing/mortgage fiasco was NOT caused by greedy anyone, nor by overpaid CEO’s, nor by inadequate regulation. It was caused by The Fed manipulating interest rates, which caused first the housing boom and then, after millions of ARM’s had been stupidly signed by sheeples, The Fed raised the rates, causing ARM payments to rise to impossible and triggered so many defaults. Meanwhile our brain-dead Congress just watched the turds roll by, as they’ve done since 1911 when they created The Fed.
By now you should pretty well know all that, but there is at least one action you should take TODAY (because time is fleeting!), an email complaint to your congressmen – this site makes it quite easy and you can/should edit their form prose to say what YOU think! America is in collapse way beyond recovery, hell we might as well say goodbye now.
Just this morning we got a really shocking revelation started it’s rounds on Digg (if you wish to promote and comment). THEY KNEW this was coming months ago. Ahhhhh, NOW we get the news!
Well, Congress is now battling not only about the original language, but also trying to add all sorts of riders to the bill. Those riders are largely from socialist Democrats, and I heard this woman on the TV insisting on even more dictatorial riders, so I went to see who the hell that was, and sho’ nuf, it was Hillary! If a bunch of these riders should pass, the $700 billion cost-guess will mushroom to the stratosphere. Actually, ANY bailout bill will make everything worse, not better. For those who get hurt in the process, well gee, you did it to yourselves, deal with it!
Every time that Congress spends our stolen tax-dollars, some entity, corporate or person, gets a benefit at the your expense. They call it transfer payments, aka robbing Peter to pay Paul. Paul gets the benefit, while Peter gets the shaft. The only moral and Constitutional exception is defense (note that I did not say offense).
Again as I have said often, the root cause bringing our collapse is our failure to insist on basic morality — the right to life and the right to sustain that life and to maximize our happiness. I hope you will read enough while you are here to grasp how simple it could be! Maybe you would also like to come back from the dark age? If there is a next time, this is the foundation to do it right.
