Saturday, March 23, 2013

Freedom and Private Property Versus Criminal Government and Banks

There's a meme in the world of debate that once you start to compare the politics of today to the politics of Germany during Hitler's reign the debate is over and you've lost. So, I'm going to start this article by comparing modern American politics to Hitler's Germany and other 20th century collectivist political schemes. The point of this beginning is to do so. If you don't want to read further, than don't. You see, I don't buy the meme. Such a meme is developed, in my humble opinion, simply because some people don't want to face the growing evil and choose instead to remain willfully ignorant as to what has been happening in the land that was supposed to be a beacon of individual freedom shining to the world.

The first thing I'm going to do is take the holocaust thing right out of the picture. Many people conflate fascism with murdering innocent people due to their religion or some other innocent aspect of their character perceived as a flaw by those in power. That really has nothing to do with the philosophy of fascism. That has to do with scapegoating. That has to do with a divide and conquer mentality. The state doesn't have to be murdering innocent people in death camps to be a fascist state. It doesn't have to murder in order to be criminal.

That said, don't think that just because such things haven't happened yet they won't happen in the future. It's just that murder and putting people in prison (FEMA) camps isn't what makes a nation a fascist nation, fascism is merely the unholy marriage of centralized (federal) government power and corporate power. This is tantamount to a marriage between organizations with a monopoly on legalized force and organizations with virtual monopolies on wealth. It is a very dangerous partnership for those of us who wish to remain free peoples.

The reason these two entities would want to unite is so they can steal your birthright. They actually want to get you to believe that they have your best interests at heart so that they can deceive you into giving over all your real wealth to them. The real wealth I speak of comes in the form of private property. It seems they believe that, as long as they own all the property, they own you. This is the very thing the founders of the United States were trying to alleviate when they came over here in the first place. They wanted to establish a nation where government could not dictate what you could and could not do on your own private property. That's why the wrote the Bill of Rights, to codify the limits of power that agents of the government could exercise over individuals and their property.

Private property is freedom. Without it one is basically a serf to the landlord. One is more or less indebted to whoever owns the land one lives upon. One must follow the rules and regulations that landlord lays down or one risks being evicted from one's residence and thrown unceremoniously into the street. As long as one owes a mortgage, one does not own one's private property, the bank does and one is their serf. As long as one pays taxes on one's property, one does not own one's private property, the government does and one is their serf. One is only truly free when one has bought one's property outright or paid off any loans one might have on it and no one else can make any claim that they can legitimately steal it for any reason.

At one time, owning your own property was known as the American dream, and many people were living it. Now it has become a nightmare. Now most are mortgaged to the hilt. Most are in debt to the point where if they lose their job they won't be able to make all their payments and in a matter of weeks might lose everything they supposedly own. Everyone has to pay taxes. Taxes have gone up for everyone, even the working poor. No one owns their own private property anymore, no one except the government, the banks, and the financial corporations. This is why they are becoming richer while you become poorer. This is why you're having problems paying for your lifestyle, why your quality of living goes down while theirs goes up. They have monopolies on the things that matter and you're going to have to pay through the nose in order to get the crumbs that fall from their table.

The ruling elite have all the real wealth, and they've gained it through illegal means. They've bamboozled us all by issuing debt based fiat paper currency instead of honest commodity based money. It is a scheme that's been going on for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Those who perpetrate it know very well that their system will eventually collapse. How could they not know? Historically, it has happened time and time again. They understand the harm such a system will do to the middle classes. They also understand that those who perpetrate the crime will end up with unfathomable wealth while the huge majority of humanity will be wallowing in poverty. The potential for reward is great and the risk low, for historically they have not been held accountable and after a financial collapse it will be they who, like the royalty of the middle ages, will be able to dictate how the wealth will flow, and they will be very stingy indeed when it comes to the lot of the serfs they will own.

When it comes down to it, I believe that all most people want is a nice place to call their own, a place where they can raise a family, a place where they make the decisions that will affect their lives, a place where they are sovereign. This is something that people have been striving for since time immemorial, to get the tyrants who tend to gravitate to the halls of power, the halls of government, out of their lives. This is something that the ruling elite have been striving to deny the people for just as long. This is what freedom boils down to, the individual's ability to make the choices, good or bad, that will determine that individual's destiny. That freedom starts with the ability to own private property. This is what America was supposed to be about. It is why the Bill of Rights was incorporated into the highest law of the land. It is the foundation of the American dream.

The dream has been stolen by criminal banks and their government accomplices, for they have acted in a criminal manner by ignoring the highest law in the land. It has been stolen by promises broken, promises of a better, fairer way, promises that could not be kept for they were based on lies, deception, theft, coercion and force. We have been conned, folks. It's time to look in the mirror and admit that. We have been conned and those doing the conning continue to try to get you to blame anyone but them for the financial downturn we continue to suffer through. Those who continue to believe that the central banks are not at fault and that fractional reserve, fiat systems are legitimate continue to empower the criminality. Those government officials who continue to work to protect the central banking systems continue to deny you your birthright, the freedom you deserve.

The criminality and fraud need to be exposed. The spotlight needs to shine on those who have perpetrated it. Iceland has done so. They have arrested high level bankers and politicians. Now they are well on their way to fiscal recovery. The people of the United States still seem to want to remain frightened and willfully ignorant. They don't seem to want to admit that they've been played. They don't want to admit that we've become a fascist nation. They're frightened of what could happen should they attempt to tear down the collectivist system that the establishment has become.

There's really nothing to be afraid of, but the first step is to admit that there is a debt problem, then the common folk need to divorce themselves from those who have caused this problem. We need to insist that the thieves can no longer steal from us. We need to tell the so called "too big to fail" and their government agents that we are not afraid of what will happen should they fail. In fact, we should help to peacefully bring about a failure through criminal prosecution of those who have, in the past, threatened the masses with violence should they not get their way.

There are many ways to help restore the American dream. It begins by realizing we are no longer free and we are no longer represented by government, but that fascism has imposed itself in our government system. We must strive to divorce corporate power from government power. We must then strive to deny our consent to those who would try to impose their rule upon us. We must remove the levers of power they have constructed to impose their will upon society, levers that cannot be accessed by the common folk. These levers include the ability to create currency out of thin air (central banks) and the ability to impose taxes on private property and then claim that property, by force if necessary, should the so called owners refuse to pay (government).

We must strive to allow everyone to be free. We must strive to create a voluntary society based on love and trust that individuals will make good decisions for themselves rather than trying to regulate everyone through restrictive law which creates a society based on fear that individuals will make bad decisions for themselves. All these can be accomplished by civil disobedience. All these can be accomplished when enough of us simply say "No, I will not obey" to the powers that be.

There is no doubt the criminality must be dealt with and cleansed from the system. Most people realize that something is wrong, but they don't know what. They find it difficult to do something about it. There are several movements that are striving to deal with the problem and bring freedom back to the masses. There is the movement to audit and then abolish the Fed. There is the Tea Party movement. There is the Occupy movement. There is a movement away from the mainstream media and toward alternative sources of information. All these are valid ways to bring about positive change, but one must be wary of the tendency for the powers that be to infiltrate these movements in an attempt to neutralize them. When the message morphs into something other than peace and freedom, than one knows the mechanisms of co-opting are at work.

If you belong to a movement then it is important that you remember to stay on message. This is perhaps the most difficult thing of all to accomplish. Lasting change seldom happens overnight. Sudden change is usually violent. A peaceful world can hardly be achieved through violent means, as the violent means becomes the violence in the world. Freedom can hardly be achieved through tyrannical means, as the tyranny becomes the established method. An honest system can hardly be achieved through corrupt methods as the corruption rots away the system to its core. Adhere to your principles and you will lead be example. You will become the reminder to all of how things should be, how they should operate. You will become the change you wish to see and the world will be better for it.

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Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman

Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman

Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti

The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti

The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Confessions of a Serial Conspiracy Theorist

I think that perhaps I've always been a conspiracy theorist. Now, that statement needs a little clarification. Always is a long time, so perhaps it would be better to say I've been a conspiracy theorist in this lifetime. Ah, but even that is a long time and can be a little unclear, so perhaps it is a little more accurate to say I've been a conspiracy theorist for as long as I can remember. Hmm, even that's a little incorrect because I can remember pretty far back to times when I didn't have a realistic idea of how the world works. Perhaps if I claim I've been a conspiracy theorist for as long as I've been able to think about such things and use reason to come to logical conclusions. Yeah, that's the ticket.

But now there's something else missing. These two words, "conspiracy theorist," when used together, what exactly do they mean? You see, in recent times, in my opinion, these two words have been convoluted on purpose by certain interests in order to obfuscate truth. They've done this so that those who dig for the truth will be made irrelevant. Hmm, that's a bit of a conspiracy theory in and of itself.

A conspiracy is simply two or more people plotting something evil, unlawful or just plain wrong. A theory is simply a proposed explanation or conjecture as to why something is the way it is or happened the way it happened. So a conspiracy theorist is merely someone who conjectures that something happened as it did because two or more people carried out a plot to make it so. Yet somehow the words "conspiracy theorist" have come to mean "some crazy loon with a wild imagination who makes things up" in the minds of many people.

Most recently many so called conspiracy debunkers have concentrated on conspiracy theories that involve government personnel. They will then declare the conspiracy theorists crazy as there are so many good people in government, too many people would know and it would be too hard to keep it secret, or someone would blow the whistle, or some such thing. These arguments are easily picked apart for the most part and are just as emotionally based, in my opinion, as some of the conspiracy theories they are trying to debunk. This observation makes me wonder if some hidden power isn't trying to make the masses believe that government is a most innocuous and beneficial organization so that they don't want to believe that it in fact creates an environment for the most destructive and malevolent forces of humankind to operate from. There I go again, spouting my conspiratorial thinking.

Yet believing the debunkers closes the mind. If one listens to them one may never clearly understand all the evidence of conspiracy. One might never ask the right questions. One might never question the right authorities. One might even go as far as to twist the laws of physics so that this religion of government, this belief that government is nothing but loving, caring, and beneficial to the masses, isn't shattered. Like a wife who refuses to break free of an abusive husband, (or a husband who refuses to acknowledge a wife's infidelity) the true believers debunk any evidence of unfaithfulness. Instead, they make excuses that hold no water and point to the occasions where their spouse expressed their loving and caring nature. It is the same with government. A true believer might say something like "How can our leaders who protect us from evil foreigners, provide us with retirement funding, care about the welfare of our poor, regulate the soulless businessmen, and give us education and roads do anything evil?"

I grew up on the heels of the Kennedy assassinations. I remember the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination and the riots it caused. There really isn't that much question that these conspiratorial events involved some very powerful government entities and yet the guilty parties were never held accountable. In fact those involved or their families or agents still have a hold on power today. Their agenda includes a determination to gain power across Western civilization and to never relinquish that power. After all, should they lose that power there's a chance that they may have to account for their past evils perpetrated against humanity. They can't let that happen.

Yeah, I confess, I do believe that there are powerful men hidden inside the complex that is the modern corporate structure directing events that will shape our future. I do believe they plot to create events that will benefit their interests. I do believe they use their wealth and power to buy high level politicians to make sure their interests are represented first and foremost when it comes to making national policies. I do believe they place their friends and even their family members into positions of high power so that they can continue to cover up past misdeeds and move forward an agenda. I do believe these people would do anything to hold onto power, anything. Anything. And everything. I don't believe they care one whit for the common folk. In fact, I think they're frightened of us, for they worry that if enough of us find out and decide to do something about it they may lose more than just their positions of privilege. They are frightened at what we may do should we decide to direct our ire at the true power behind their puppet politicians.

Do you mean to tell me you don't believe that? You don't believe that men of wealth and influence would use that wealth and influence to guide humanity along a path that would benefit their agenda? Do you think that all these events that have taken place that just happen to benefit the already too wealthy and too powerful are simple coincidences? Do you believe laws created that are beneficial to large corporations but make it difficult to create competing smaller businesses happen by accident? Do you think events that generate terror, change the direction of nations and usher in new paradigms happen on the whim of small minded people acting alone or in small and otherwise insignificant groups? Really? Well if we have that much power why can't we use it to build a more voluntary, peaceful society where the use of force, even government force, is no longer tolerated? Why must change be so violent? Why can't we have what 90 percent or more of us seem to want?

Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. I think that all major changes in this world have happened due to some conspiracy or another. I think there are events that have taken place that have caused major paradigm shifts and that other events have happened of a similar nature that have not caused major paradigm shifts. I do believe that the difference is in who has planned such events and what the common folks' reaction to these events have been. I do think that such things are studied by the powers that be, the wealthy privileged elite who want to remain in power. I do think they use this knowledge to plot a path for humanity to take into the future. I do think they have used this knowledge to plot events that show complete disregard for the humanity and they will continue to do so as long as they feel they can get away with it.

I also think that more and more people are beginning to come around to my way of thinking. For instance, in a recent facebook discussion about aspartame one gentleman called those who claim aspartame to be dangerous conspiracy theorists and claimed that aspartame was one of the most studied and safe food additives ever. Most just laughed at that claim. The next post pointed out that the studies he referred to were those of the original patent holder (Searle) and that independent studies had found multiple dangers. I think people are catching on more than most realize. Conspiracies happen especially in certain government agencies where power is brokered and corruption is incentivised. Whistle blowers are punished now more than ever and secrecy is ubiquitous. Principle is greatly discouraged in government circles and anyone caught exercising it is as quickly as possible ushered out of any position of power he may occupy.

I think it's time we started our own little conspiracy. I think we should show those in power that they aren't the only ones who can conspire to create a vision of the world as it should be. Let us all conspire to take back the power to determine for our own selves what our own destinies should hold for us. Let us conspire to take back the personal responsibilities we should have for our own lives. Let us conspire to honor individual freedom. Let us conspire to honor the choices our neighbors make rather than coercing them into government mandated choices. Let us conspire to bring down government monopolies and provide competitive customer service for the one size fits all government solutions we are now forced to use.

Let us conspire to question authority. Let us conspire to say "No!" to unjust laws, police state brutality and surveillance state intrusion. Let us conspire to scale back federal government to constitutional size. Let us conspire to be peacefully disobedient. Let us conspire to deny consent. Let us conspire to do so without violence and to show that human beings can bring about lasting change in a peaceful manner. Let us conspire to show the world that the only tool government can use to make us compliant is force, and that, like bullies, they will use it if they think they must or they will have to back down. It might not be easy, but it starts with admitting that conspiracies exist and realizing that in order to take back power, even personal power, you must be among those conspiring to do so.

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Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman

Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman

Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti

The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti

The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti

Saturday, March 2, 2013

The Obvious Hypocrisy of Tyranny

If tyranny was a living being, it would be a strange and marvelous creature. By that I don't mean it would be a good thing, I mean it would be something to gaze upon and marvel at, much like a dangerous or poisonous animal. One could appreciate its qualities, but one wouldn't want to get too close for fear of being attacked or bitten. In many ways, tyranny engrosses the human mind, hypnotizing the observer with its brilliance and power. At the same time the observer knows he should back off and carefully put some distance between himself and the creature, yet he is enticed to creep just a little closer, to see just how close he can get to test his mettle. This is a dangerous practice which we know can end up in disaster.

But tyranny is a clever predator indeed. It likes to hypnotize its victims. It likes to entice them closer. It's much like a Venus flytrap, sending out an enticing scent to attract the fly and then closing around it when it enters. It operates much like humans did when they first learned to domesticate animals. It sets out food inside a pen for the victim and then once that animal comes to eat closes the pen and then the animal is trapped and has to count on something other than itself for its survival. Ah, but there's something even more insidious to tyranny than that. Tyranny has to deceive to survive, but it also wants those who serve it to participate. It wants to change the moral into the immoral. It wants to make its victims into small versions of itself as it feeds upon the innocent who blindly follow like sheep to the slaughter.

That's why hypocrisy is such a hallmark of tyranny. It has to be, otherwise human morality would not allow it to survive. No one, or almost no one, would want to admit that they were evil. Even Lucifer himself makes the claim that he is "the light" and is working toward the "greater good." When talking about intention, which I believe should be considered, it is notable to understand that often times good intentions can result in horrendous consequences. It is not just the intentions that matter, but the means by which one attempts to bring about those intentions. It is, for instance, hypocritical to tell others that they can't video supposedly public servants doing their job in public and then to use video cameras to spy on everyone else without warrant supposedly in an attempt to provide security. Yet it seems to be quite important to tyranny that those subjected to it believe it is necessary in order to achieve some kind of good intention.

This helps explain why politicians are able to promise one thing while delivering another. It helps explain why they can tell bald faced lies and still get re-elected. It helps explain why George W. Bush could make the promise of smaller government, a humble foreign policy and no nation (empire) building while campaigning and yet proceed to grow the federal government by leaps and bounds, dictate to other nations, start wars and expand the empire after he gets elected. It helps explain why Barack Obama can promise a roll back of the Bush administration's policies, a foreign policy of tolerance and peace, and government transparency while campaigning and yet proceed to strengthen Bush era unconstitutional legislation, continue allowing human rights violations by US military and intelligence organizations, and crackdown on more whistleblowers than proceeding administrations while becoming one of the most secretive administrations ever after being elected.

The biggest hypocrisies take place when these people take their oaths of office. They vow to uphold and defend the constitutions (of the US and, at a more local level, of their states) against all enemies, foreign and domestic, then they turn around and become the very enemies they just vowed to defend against by creating laws that violate the individual rights of the people, which these constitutions explicitly forbid. They more or less have to do this if they want to increase their power, and most politicians do want to increase their power, because these constitutions are written to limit their power. Politicians, then, are making an oath to obey the law and not become tyrants, and then turning around and doing the very things that tyranny demands.

What we seem to have forgotten is that constitutions are not laws that apply to the populace, they are laws that apply only to politicians. They are the highest laws of the land because they are meant to regulate those with the ability to cause the greatest harm. Constitutions also, unfortunately, do not carry with them any recommendations for discouraging the breaking of the law. In the meantime those who would profit from using those in power to create a restrictive society can provide an incentive for them to do so. Politicians who dishonor their oaths and break the highest law of the land do so with impunity while those who protest prohibitions and break bad laws have to worry about government retribution and the wrath of the tyrants. The administration and the critters inhabiting the halls of congress should have to worry about the people, we should not have to worry about them and their enforcers.

Hypocrisy is the way of the collectivist. It is not the way of the individualist. Even though they may wish to become tyrannical, those in power still seem to want your consent to do so. They want you to participate in your slavery. The way out of this is to choose to not give your consent. The way out is to insist on freedom. It is to realize that in order to be free, you must allow others to be free. It is to realize that when one person is tyrannized, we are all tyrannized. Understand that just because someone speaks out for something you might disagree with, or against something you might agree with, that you must allow him to so that you might also be able to do so. Understand that that same someone should be allowed to speak his mind to those in power, especially at a public venue, and not be limited to some "free speech zone" where those in power will not hear him. Respect his right to do so and your right to do so will also be respected should a time arise when you feel it is necessary to express your views to those in power.

Understand that people own their own bodies and should be allowed to determine for themselves what they want to put into them. No one should ever be forced to put something in their body that they don't want to put in their body either. By allowing others to consume what they wish to consume, you help create a precedent that will make it far less likely that anything you wish to consume will ever be prohibited. By standing up for another's right to refuse to be forcefully medicated you help create a precedent that will make it far less likely that you will ever be forcefully inoculated.

Understand that by owning their own bodies, people also own the fruits of their labor. If that fruit comes in the form of fiat currency, they should be able to decide what they want to do with that currency, whether they want to spend it or save it, who they want to do business with and what products and services they wish to prioritize in their lives and voluntarily purchase. No one should be forced to give a portion of the product of their labor to any other individual or group of individuals, no matter how important those others might believe their service is. The immorality of this type of system should be obvious to all. Anything important enough to be worth doing should be worth doing on a voluntary basis. Anything that needs to use force and coercion to fund itself is not a legitimate endeavor.

The individualist is not hypocritical. To him, freedom is the answer no matter the question. As long as no harm is being done to another and no one else's property is being damaged or stolen, then people should be allowed to do as they please. The collectivist will claim the same morals, but with exceptions. I can own a gun, but she can't because, blah, blah, blah. I can express my opinion, but he can't because, blah, blah, blah. We can print money out of nothing, but they can't because, blah, blah, blah. I can take certain substances into my body, but you can't because, blah, blah, blah,. You can't run a ponzi scheme, but we can because, blah, blah, blah. You can't forcefully take money from others to provide protection, but be can because, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Those who would impose a tyrannical collectivist system on you understand that most people don't want such a system. That's why they need you to believe you are free. That's why they want you to believe that you need them. That's why they are forced into hypocrisy, for if they kept their promises they'd make themselves irrelevant, and if those who wish to truly make us free were allowed to run fair political campaigns against the collectivists the tyrants would lose and become irrelevant. By merely having a centralized authority with the ability to force their will upon the populace tyranny exists. Until we all learn to stop co-operating with such powers, the tyranny will grow until it metastasizes. Until we stand up and refuse to accept the excuses for the hypocrisy, we will be subject to the tyrannical whims of those who rule.

I am proud to announce that my latest book "Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom." by Szandor Blestman is now available at smashwords.com. Also available exclusively at smashwords is the latest installment of my next book "The Blessings of Freedom; Creating Prosperity in the 21st Century." Chapter 5 of the serialized version is available here.

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Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman

Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman

Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti

The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti

The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti

The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti