Recently I engaged in posting lists of questions on my facebook page in
an effort to get people to think about the paradigms they base their
political opinions upon. I'm trying to get them to realize that there is
no difference between Democrats and Republicans. I'm trying to get them
to realize that when they vote for Democrats or Republicans they are
voting for their own enslavement. It is not an easy task as most people
prefer to live in a state of denial where they believe government loves
them, knows what's best for them and strives to protect and provide for
them. They will not admit that the whole system has become corrupt and
cares only about preserving itself. That would mean having to discard
lifelong beliefs and many are simply too psychologically weak to do such
a thing. They simply don't want to face the possibility that their
whole world has been based on lies and that their lives are not theirs.
This year, with the advent Ron Paul's quite successful run for the
presidency, many a Republican has come to the conclusion that the
political process is either broken or was never truly set up to
represent the will of the common folk or to make life better for the
grassroots. I say that Ron Paul's run was successful not because he
became the Republican nominee for president, which he didn't, but
because he managed to awaken so many Republicans who might have
otherwise still been blindly and blissfully following the party line
like sheep being led to the slaughter. It's too bad some similar
phenomenon didn't happen on the Democrat side of the equation as far too
many of them seem satisfied sucking on the teat of big government and
begging to be taken care of. They just don't seem able to come to the
realization of what for many is the very first step toward awakening,
the realization that both parties are the same.
Mitt Romney is an obvious puppet, a man who should have never sought the
GOP nomination. He is such a Democrat as to have designed the
cornerstone of the Democrat Party's greatest so called achievement, the
overblown healthcare bill that no so called congressional representative
ever had a chance to fully read and comprehend before they voted for
it. They are both bought and paid for by the same financial special
interests. They are so alike they might have been raised in the same
collectivist family. Their ideals are so similar that it has become
comical to watch the Democrat zealots derisively pointing out Mitten's
faults while ignoring the same faults in their man Barry. With the
disgraceful exclusion of Ron Paul supporters and the false pageantry of
Mitten's coronation, the Republican Party made it clear they couldn't
care less if they win or lose the election, they just want to be certain
one elitist, collectivist puppet or another gets selected. As such,
they don't care how many Republican faithful they've lost. The
Republican Party might very well have destroyed the last vestiges of its
credibility with the selection of such an obvious anti-conservative.
Our government has become a criminal enterprise. The Constitution has
been violated a thousand ways till Sunday. Politicians don't give a crap
about it because the people don't give a crap about it. As long as the
government gives the common folk a bit of money, or the illusion of
security, or the illusion that they'll be taken care of, or something to
make them feel good about themselves, or some other crumbs that fall
from the table where the ruling class gorges itself, they'll let the
government get away with doing the things it was never authorized to do.
Whether the people are unwilling or unable to enforce the Constitution
and limit government as it should be doesn't really matter in the long
run. All that truly matters is that the criminals are getting away with
their crimes and the more people that recognize this problem, the
better.
It was for this reason I started asking questions of people. Since the
Democrats didn't have a Ron Paul they could listen to, they need
something else to jump start their synapses (as do Republicans that
actually think Mitt Romney is conservative). They didn't even get the
benefit of having someone run against the incumbent this year and so
they didn't even get to see one of their own compare their glorious
leader to the neocons they have come to despise, even though he is more
neoconish in some aspects than the most hated Bush ever was.
If you are going to participate in the masquerade that is voting, then I
suggest you cast your vote for anyone other than the two establishment
cronies that they have picked for you. If you're worried about a vote
for this person being a vote for Mittens, or a vote for that person
being a vote for Barry, relax. It's all pre-ordained by the powers that
be anyway. After all, if you don't understand by now that the true power
isn't in the hands of politicians, if you don't understand that the
powers that be wouldn't leave such an important decision in the hands of
the unwashed masses, then you're awestruck by the illusion and not
peeking behind the curtain to see what's really going on. Below are some
questions to ponder that will hopefully help to shake the awestruck
from their collective trances.
Are you stuck in a political rut? Do you believe that societal problems
can only be solved by use of government force? Are you of the opinion
that there are only two sides to political problems? Do you believe that
we are all too stupid to figure out how to solve problems on our own
and that politicians are smart enough to do so? Do you think we have to
vote for one of two nimrods for supreme leader?
Are you better than me? Are you better because you're a Democrat and I'm
not? Does that make you more concerned about social issues than I am?
Are you better because you're a Republican and I'm not? Does that make
you more concerned and knowledgeable about economic issues than I am?
Do you think that because some libertarian believes something that I
must also believe the same thing? Even if he's a famous libertarian? If
that libertarian were to say something really stupid would that mean all
libertarians were really stupid? Are there issues much more important
than the stupid thing the libertarian said? Would people latch hold of
what that libertarian said, rub it in the face of all libertarians and
then claim rhetorical victory and moral superiority? What if I was an
anarchist, would that make me a bad person? Are you being active, or
simply reactive? Are you truly putting thought into your political views
and actions, or are you merely doing what someone else is telling you
to do and feeling what someone else tells you to feel?
Have you given away your power? Do you know what's best for you, or does
someone else? Does the school know what's best for your child, or do
you? Does your insurance know which doctor is best for you? Does the
government know which insurance is best for you? How much responsibility
for your life have you given over to others? How much of that trust has
been abused? How much choice do you truly have? How much of your choice
and responsibility are you willing to relinquish?
Do you believe in democracy? Do you think there is wisdom in crowds? Do
you believe the majority always knows what's best? Do you think it's ok
for 50% + 1 to tell the rest of us what to do? How to think? How to
feel? Do you think it's ok for 50% +1 to force everyone else to behave
in a certain way? To buy certain products? To pay for certain services?
To force people to use certain services they may not want to use?
Do you believe it's ok if the representatives of the majority force
people to behave in certain manners? To pay for and use certain goods
and services? Do you believe it is ok to murder one person if everyone
else wants that person dead? Would it be ok for 99% to kill 1%? If so,
what percentage would that stop at? 98% to 2%? 95% to 5%? 90% to 10%?
80% to 20%? 60% to 40%? 50% + 1 to everyone else? If not, is it because
you believe that individual rights should be honored no matter what the
majority thinks? Do you believe that people put in power really know
what's best for everyone simply because more people voted for them?
Do you still believe in democracy? Do you believe the federal government
of the USA is a democracy? Do you believe it is based on democracy? Do
you believe the founding fathers meant for it to be based on democracy?
If you still believe in democracy, is it only good if it benefits you,
when your principles, ideals and agenda are supported by the majority,
or would you happily support the majority even if you disagreed with
them? Even if it was detrimental to you? Even if it interfered with your
natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Would you
disobey bad laws because they are bad even if the majority agrees with
the laws, or would you merely say nothing and go along to get along? How
extreme would those laws have to become before you said or did
something about it? Should we always go along with the will of the
majority, or is honoring the natural rights of individuals a more
important principle and actually better for the greater good?
Perhaps the time has come to evaluate other options and to stop doing
what hasn't worked so far. Perhaps it is time to realize that voting
does not work, that change for the better has not happened through using
the ballot box. Perhaps we need to ignore the ruling class and start
living life as the free people we are. Perhaps it is time to support
those who decide for themselves to do so. Perhaps it is time to stop
aggressing against our neighbors and start honoring their choices.
Perhaps it is time to deny consent.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from
Kindle Direct Publishing. These are fine works of fiction that I'm sure
you'll enjoy. Please help support me and my efforts by purchasing one of
the following titles.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Politicians, Language and Control Mechanisms
"If you got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Barrack Obama
I realize that the above quote is taken out of context and that some people will argue that its simple reading isn't what Barrack meant. I know they'll say that he was stating that government has built the infrastructure upon which business is built. That might be technically true, but there's a couple of problems with that. First off, I think Barrack means just what he said in that simple sentence. I think he believes that because he has never done anything worthwhile on his own, he's always had someone holding his hand in one way or another as he's made his way through life. People seem to forget, both his father and his stepfather were men of power and privilege. He was brought up as a child of power and privilege. I think Mitt probably feels much the same way Barrack feels, though he likely would claim just the opposite. A politician is a politician, and politicians lie and break promises.
Another point is that just because the infrastructure was built by the government doesn't mean it wouldn't have been built if the government didn't do it. The fact is, we don't know what kind of a job a true free market would have done in building infrastructure. People seem to forget that at one time roads were private, yet many were still free to travel upon. The fact is that humans, when looking to benefit themselves, will look around their environment and use the tools they see at their disposal to build a better life for themselves if possible. Ancient humans would pick up rocks and sticks to use for their benefit and modern humans learn to type on keyboards and surf the Internet. Just because they use the infrastructure to build a business upon doesn't mean somebody else made it happen. You did the work, you should keep the profits.
Politicians love to twist words. They love to convolute concepts. That's because they love control. Think about it for a second. What do they call themselves? Among other things, they like to be known as lawmakers. Ooo, they make the laws, not you or I. They like to make it sound like they're special, like they're better than everyone else. They're not. In many ways they often demonstrate that they are the lowest of the low, and it seems to me more so the higher they get up the political ladder. What is a law, anyway? Mostly, it's a form of control. Mostly, it's words on a piece of paper that expresses how someone else feels you should behave. Mostly, it's something that dictates how you must interact with someone else or face the threat of government sanction, which can include fines, prison and even death. And most laws make crimes out of voluntary behaviors that victimize no individual.
The concepts they have twisted the most, and the ones that give them the most power, are the concepts of theft and fraud. They've done this by changing the words around and making these concepts seem moral and just to everyday people. For instance, they call theft "taxes" and say they must have them in order to provide you with certain services.
"Wait a minute," I've heard some people argue, "Taxes aren't theft. They're a necessary evil. Society couldn't operate if there weren't taxes. What about the roads? What about the schools? What about police and firemen? What about the courts? Who would provide us with running water? Who would take care of the poor and downtrodden? How would the country defend itself?" Etc., etc. etc.
These are all fine questions with really unlimited answers. The truth is, I don't know how all that would shape up without taxes, but I somehow feel that things would work out. Anyhow, that's missing the basic premise of why taxes are theft. To me, theft is when someone either takes my property without my knowledge or permission, or steals my property using some kind of force, coercion or threat to my life or well being. My property includes the money I've earned. Theft occurs when my money is taken involuntarily from me. Taxes are not voluntary. I only pay my taxes because I am afraid of going to jail if I don't. That sounds pretty involuntary to me, and very coercive. The immorality of taxes is clear.
You say you pay your taxes voluntarily? That's fine with me. I will allow you to do that, just as I will allow you to give voluntarily to your church, and that's how I feel government should operate. The question is, will you allow me to not pay my taxes just like you would allow me not to give to your church? No? You think I ought to pay my "fair share"? What is my "fair share"? Maybe you think it's 10%. Maybe he thinks it's 25%. Maybe they think it's 50%. Maybe those getting the money think it's 75%. I think it's 0%. I think that maybe I should have to pay only for the products and services I use, and I think I should have choices that are provided from people other than the monopoly that calls itself government. There should be alternatives.
All I ask for is that I get to keep what is rightfully mine, what I've rightfully earned. All I ask is that I get to decide what to do with my earnings, not some politicians in some far off place who use them for their own agendas and self aggrandizement. All I ask is that I be left alone to make decisions for myself.
Politicians also use fraud to hang unto power. We all know they make promises they don't keep, but they also make promises they shouldn't be allowed to keep. They promise to steal from one group of people (the rich) to give to another group (the poor). In this way they want to be viewed as some kind of Robin Hood. What we seem to forget is that Robin Hood stole from the aristocracy (the government) and gave back to the people the money was originally stolen from in the first place (the tax payer). This little tidbit of information seems to be lost on many people. There is a vast difference between the rich who have earned their money honestly and the very wealthy who have used government force to obtain ill gotten gains through such means as government granted monopoly privilege and overbearing regulations and licensing schemes that create financial barriers to limit competition.
The best example of this that I can think of is, of course, the Federal Reserve. They have a monopoly on currency creation. This monopoly was granted by a few men who knew how to pull certain levers of power and circumvent the checks and balances that likely would have prevented its creation. Check into its creation for yourself. Read G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature From Jekyll Island." Ask yourself, why would such wealthy men go to such lengths to create the Federal Reserve System? What was in it for them? Do you truly think they did it for humanitarian purposes, as they would have you believe? What did Mayer Amschel Rothschild mean exactly when he said "Let me issue and control a nation´s money and I care not who writes the laws."?
Do these central bankers think they're above the law? Economic law? Natural law? The Constitution of our great republic? Do they believe they control everything, and everyone? Do they believe they own everything, and everyone? Do they still hold fast to the old belief system of the divine rights of kings? Are they jealous of the American dream of freedom and self determination? Are they really out to destroy such whimsical fantasies?
One thing is certain in my mind, these men wield tremendous power over our political system, far too much power. The politicians go out of their way to try to protect them. They make certain secrecy rules. They cover up or keep under wraps any nefarious dealings. They write laws to prevent close scrutiny of their activities. They prevent even their own organization from competing with them. They spew propaganda declaring that they are too big to fail when the too big should fail. They break and repeal old laws that might stand in the way of their complete economic domination over mankind. If the above questions are to ever have light shed upon them, we will need to sweep aside the politicians and the media lackeys who are protecting them.
There's one more fraud that seems to me has been perpetrated upon not only the American people, but people all over the world. That fraud is the notion that corporations, in particular extremely large multinational corporations, are straight forward businesses. I'm not talking about small time businesses that have incorporated, I'm talking about the supposedly too big to fail corporations that have formed cartels. It seems to me that these corporate interests have manipulated the public sector to do their bidding and are working to centralize their influence and rid the world of honest, hard working small business folk who might threaten to actually compete with them. These corporations have formed marriages with many governments, and there's something about the marriage of corporations and government that just doesn't sit right with me, more so if the corporation is a polygamist.
I know some small businesses have incorporated and some feel that they have to in order to compete and protect themselves. But there is a price to be paid. Remember, a corporation is a legal entity. Laws are written by government. When one becomes a legal entity, one becomes a government entity to a certain extent. When one has agreed to follow the government's set of rules in exchange for a measure of protection, one has given up a measure of one's sovereignty. One must follow government rules and regulations, even if they are contrary to what one might feel is best for the operation of the company. One is also subject to more expenses and higher taxes as a corporation, which is why government likes it. In a way, one purchases an insurance policy from government by incorporating. So, if one incorporates, in a roundabout sort of way, somebody else is helping to make business growth happen. A more accurate statement might be "if you have incorporated, someone else is making it easier for you to take risks." And now we have come full circle.
Politicians use language as a mechanism to gain control. I said earlier that politicians lie and break promises, but perhaps that's not quite accurate. It's more accurate to say politicians misrepresent their positions, or omit certain facts, or phrase their statements such that it sounds like they're stating something when they're actually stating something different. They don't break promises so much as they make ambiguous promises that can be fulfilled regardless of the harm their actions may cause. They certainly don't want to be perceived as liars and cheaters, even if that's exactly what they are. They want you to consent. They want you to do as they say even if you disagree with their policies. They want to easily control you, even when you feel wronged. They want you to remain the willing slave you are. They want to rule over sheeple, they do not want to serve a nation of free people.
It's time to stop listening to the propaganda and start judging by actions. It's time to get rid of the elephants and donkeys who haunt the halls of congress and replace them with free and independent human beings. It's time to dissent, or at least to support those who have the balls to dissent. It's time to say "no!" to the mandates and the dictates. It's time to stop shaking in your shoes and worrying about security. It's time to instead stand up tall and worry about freedom. It's time to restore the blessings of freedom so our children don't have to live their lives on their knees and dependent on others. It's time to enforce the Constitution. It's time to deny consent.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. These are fine works of fiction that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Please help support me and my efforts by purchasing one or more of the following titles.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Barrack Obama
I realize that the above quote is taken out of context and that some people will argue that its simple reading isn't what Barrack meant. I know they'll say that he was stating that government has built the infrastructure upon which business is built. That might be technically true, but there's a couple of problems with that. First off, I think Barrack means just what he said in that simple sentence. I think he believes that because he has never done anything worthwhile on his own, he's always had someone holding his hand in one way or another as he's made his way through life. People seem to forget, both his father and his stepfather were men of power and privilege. He was brought up as a child of power and privilege. I think Mitt probably feels much the same way Barrack feels, though he likely would claim just the opposite. A politician is a politician, and politicians lie and break promises.
Another point is that just because the infrastructure was built by the government doesn't mean it wouldn't have been built if the government didn't do it. The fact is, we don't know what kind of a job a true free market would have done in building infrastructure. People seem to forget that at one time roads were private, yet many were still free to travel upon. The fact is that humans, when looking to benefit themselves, will look around their environment and use the tools they see at their disposal to build a better life for themselves if possible. Ancient humans would pick up rocks and sticks to use for their benefit and modern humans learn to type on keyboards and surf the Internet. Just because they use the infrastructure to build a business upon doesn't mean somebody else made it happen. You did the work, you should keep the profits.
Politicians love to twist words. They love to convolute concepts. That's because they love control. Think about it for a second. What do they call themselves? Among other things, they like to be known as lawmakers. Ooo, they make the laws, not you or I. They like to make it sound like they're special, like they're better than everyone else. They're not. In many ways they often demonstrate that they are the lowest of the low, and it seems to me more so the higher they get up the political ladder. What is a law, anyway? Mostly, it's a form of control. Mostly, it's words on a piece of paper that expresses how someone else feels you should behave. Mostly, it's something that dictates how you must interact with someone else or face the threat of government sanction, which can include fines, prison and even death. And most laws make crimes out of voluntary behaviors that victimize no individual.
The concepts they have twisted the most, and the ones that give them the most power, are the concepts of theft and fraud. They've done this by changing the words around and making these concepts seem moral and just to everyday people. For instance, they call theft "taxes" and say they must have them in order to provide you with certain services.
"Wait a minute," I've heard some people argue, "Taxes aren't theft. They're a necessary evil. Society couldn't operate if there weren't taxes. What about the roads? What about the schools? What about police and firemen? What about the courts? Who would provide us with running water? Who would take care of the poor and downtrodden? How would the country defend itself?" Etc., etc. etc.
These are all fine questions with really unlimited answers. The truth is, I don't know how all that would shape up without taxes, but I somehow feel that things would work out. Anyhow, that's missing the basic premise of why taxes are theft. To me, theft is when someone either takes my property without my knowledge or permission, or steals my property using some kind of force, coercion or threat to my life or well being. My property includes the money I've earned. Theft occurs when my money is taken involuntarily from me. Taxes are not voluntary. I only pay my taxes because I am afraid of going to jail if I don't. That sounds pretty involuntary to me, and very coercive. The immorality of taxes is clear.
You say you pay your taxes voluntarily? That's fine with me. I will allow you to do that, just as I will allow you to give voluntarily to your church, and that's how I feel government should operate. The question is, will you allow me to not pay my taxes just like you would allow me not to give to your church? No? You think I ought to pay my "fair share"? What is my "fair share"? Maybe you think it's 10%. Maybe he thinks it's 25%. Maybe they think it's 50%. Maybe those getting the money think it's 75%. I think it's 0%. I think that maybe I should have to pay only for the products and services I use, and I think I should have choices that are provided from people other than the monopoly that calls itself government. There should be alternatives.
All I ask for is that I get to keep what is rightfully mine, what I've rightfully earned. All I ask is that I get to decide what to do with my earnings, not some politicians in some far off place who use them for their own agendas and self aggrandizement. All I ask is that I be left alone to make decisions for myself.
Politicians also use fraud to hang unto power. We all know they make promises they don't keep, but they also make promises they shouldn't be allowed to keep. They promise to steal from one group of people (the rich) to give to another group (the poor). In this way they want to be viewed as some kind of Robin Hood. What we seem to forget is that Robin Hood stole from the aristocracy (the government) and gave back to the people the money was originally stolen from in the first place (the tax payer). This little tidbit of information seems to be lost on many people. There is a vast difference between the rich who have earned their money honestly and the very wealthy who have used government force to obtain ill gotten gains through such means as government granted monopoly privilege and overbearing regulations and licensing schemes that create financial barriers to limit competition.
The best example of this that I can think of is, of course, the Federal Reserve. They have a monopoly on currency creation. This monopoly was granted by a few men who knew how to pull certain levers of power and circumvent the checks and balances that likely would have prevented its creation. Check into its creation for yourself. Read G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature From Jekyll Island." Ask yourself, why would such wealthy men go to such lengths to create the Federal Reserve System? What was in it for them? Do you truly think they did it for humanitarian purposes, as they would have you believe? What did Mayer Amschel Rothschild mean exactly when he said "Let me issue and control a nation´s money and I care not who writes the laws."?
Do these central bankers think they're above the law? Economic law? Natural law? The Constitution of our great republic? Do they believe they control everything, and everyone? Do they believe they own everything, and everyone? Do they still hold fast to the old belief system of the divine rights of kings? Are they jealous of the American dream of freedom and self determination? Are they really out to destroy such whimsical fantasies?
One thing is certain in my mind, these men wield tremendous power over our political system, far too much power. The politicians go out of their way to try to protect them. They make certain secrecy rules. They cover up or keep under wraps any nefarious dealings. They write laws to prevent close scrutiny of their activities. They prevent even their own organization from competing with them. They spew propaganda declaring that they are too big to fail when the too big should fail. They break and repeal old laws that might stand in the way of their complete economic domination over mankind. If the above questions are to ever have light shed upon them, we will need to sweep aside the politicians and the media lackeys who are protecting them.
There's one more fraud that seems to me has been perpetrated upon not only the American people, but people all over the world. That fraud is the notion that corporations, in particular extremely large multinational corporations, are straight forward businesses. I'm not talking about small time businesses that have incorporated, I'm talking about the supposedly too big to fail corporations that have formed cartels. It seems to me that these corporate interests have manipulated the public sector to do their bidding and are working to centralize their influence and rid the world of honest, hard working small business folk who might threaten to actually compete with them. These corporations have formed marriages with many governments, and there's something about the marriage of corporations and government that just doesn't sit right with me, more so if the corporation is a polygamist.
I know some small businesses have incorporated and some feel that they have to in order to compete and protect themselves. But there is a price to be paid. Remember, a corporation is a legal entity. Laws are written by government. When one becomes a legal entity, one becomes a government entity to a certain extent. When one has agreed to follow the government's set of rules in exchange for a measure of protection, one has given up a measure of one's sovereignty. One must follow government rules and regulations, even if they are contrary to what one might feel is best for the operation of the company. One is also subject to more expenses and higher taxes as a corporation, which is why government likes it. In a way, one purchases an insurance policy from government by incorporating. So, if one incorporates, in a roundabout sort of way, somebody else is helping to make business growth happen. A more accurate statement might be "if you have incorporated, someone else is making it easier for you to take risks." And now we have come full circle.
Politicians use language as a mechanism to gain control. I said earlier that politicians lie and break promises, but perhaps that's not quite accurate. It's more accurate to say politicians misrepresent their positions, or omit certain facts, or phrase their statements such that it sounds like they're stating something when they're actually stating something different. They don't break promises so much as they make ambiguous promises that can be fulfilled regardless of the harm their actions may cause. They certainly don't want to be perceived as liars and cheaters, even if that's exactly what they are. They want you to consent. They want you to do as they say even if you disagree with their policies. They want to easily control you, even when you feel wronged. They want you to remain the willing slave you are. They want to rule over sheeple, they do not want to serve a nation of free people.
It's time to stop listening to the propaganda and start judging by actions. It's time to get rid of the elephants and donkeys who haunt the halls of congress and replace them with free and independent human beings. It's time to dissent, or at least to support those who have the balls to dissent. It's time to say "no!" to the mandates and the dictates. It's time to stop shaking in your shoes and worrying about security. It's time to instead stand up tall and worry about freedom. It's time to restore the blessings of freedom so our children don't have to live their lives on their knees and dependent on others. It's time to enforce the Constitution. It's time to deny consent.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. These are fine works of fiction that I'm sure you'll enjoy. Please help support me and my efforts by purchasing one or more of the following titles.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Monday, September 3, 2012
Private FRNs or Public Currency?
"Eowyn: The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them. I fear neither death nor pain.
Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?
Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."
From the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
What I'm about to propose is a state sponsored method of bailing the nation and perhaps the entire world out of a particularly nasty economic depression. This does not mean that I have suddenly changed sides and become a statist, though some of you may accuse me of being one after reading this, nor does it mean that I suddenly endorse state solutions to problems created by the state, it simply means that I can see a threat and sometimes the best way to counter a threat is to do something one might find distasteful. I used the above quote from the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" because I felt it was quite appropriate for the situation we find ourselves in. The private owners of the Federal Reserve System long ago used the sword of government to create their monopoly on currency in this nation, and that sword will cut down the middle class if we don't learn to pick up that same sword or one very similar and use it to defend ourselves.
It becomes more and more obvious to me that the central bankers and the financial sector have usurped our government, and governments around the world, as time goes by. All one has to do is look at who's benefiting from the current economic conditions. All one has to do is look at who the politicians are maneuvering to protect. Just look at the Republican National Convention and how they've manipulated it to keep the voice of the Ron Paul supporters silent. Ron Paul was the only candidate that wants to end the Fed. I doubt very much that any of the other guys would seriously want to even audit that institution. This despite the fact that a law requiring a full audit of the Fed recently passed the House of Representatives by a huge margin.
Ron Paul was the only candidate that wants to get rid of the IRS. The other two major candidates simply argue about whether or not to raise taxes. According to many sources, every penny of income tax paid goes to pay off the interest on the debt owed to the private Federal Reserve. Not one penny goes to pay for whatever "service" you might want the government to provide. That's why the Constitution needed to be amended to allow for an income tax before the Federal Reserve Act was snuck through a legislature that had mostly gone home for Christmas in 1913. There wasn't even a plurality of senators or representatives present when the vote took place. The IRS is merely the enforcement arm to make sure the interest is paid by the working class of this country.
The Federal Reserve and the corporations that depend on its financial influence need to make certain that their people stay in charge of the executive branch. Why? Well, for one thing so they can use the bully pulpit of the president to spew their propaganda and muddy the waters of clearer thought. But, more importantly, I think they want to have the power of the United States military at their beck and call. They want to be able to use it to quell any dissention that might happen anywhere in the world if their cartels are threatened. The military is the arm of government that holds the sword that can be used to kill or to put a so called threat in a cage. The United States military isn't used for the defense of the people of the United States anymore, it's used to defend the interests of multinational corporations and central banking interests. If necessary the military could be used to force compliance with the wishes of those corporations and banking interests upon anyone who would wish to break the bonds of those corporations and try alternative methods of doing business which would compete with them.
The wars we see being fought in foreign lands are not defensive wars being fought to keep foreign invaders from coming over here, they are offensive wars being fought to keep a corporate elite empowered and their monetary schemes from collapsing. While they're punishing those who would oppose them, they're making money on the flip side selling weapons. It's a win and a windfall for them. It's death and destruction for any regime that might think the natural resources of their countries belong to the people of that country. It's an economic catastrophe and ruin for the common folk of this nation. That's why they must keep control of the executive branch.
So, what's the solution I mentioned earlier in this article? How can we get control of the office of the presidency back? How can we regain and reclaim the military that's supposed to defend and protect our nation, not the corporate interests? We saw what happened to Ron Paul's campaign at the Republican National Convention. We saw how they were kicked to the curb with no real recognition of their numbers and power. We know we won't be able to get enough people to vote for a principled third party candidate like Gary Johnson and even if we did we know that the fix is in. It's David versus Goliath all over again. How can we overcome such a giant?
It's really quite simple, and it's legal and peaceful and constitutional. We turn up the heat. We keep demanding an end to the Fed. We demand that those who want to govern obey the Constitution of this nation, and we remind them that the Constitution is the highest law of the land. We demand that they keep their oaths of office and expose them when they don't. We remind them that the Constitution delegates the power to mint and coin money to congress, and that they cannot pass that responsibility onto private interests who profit from such a government sanctioned monopoly. We then give them fair warning, either comply with the highest law in the land or face criminal sanctions.
You might think I'm dreaming, and maybe I am, but the law is on our side. Whether it can be enforced or not, that is where the question really lies. This is why I use the word "we" above. I really don't like to talk in the collective, but sometimes reality steps in and forces your hand. By "we" I mean people concerned with individual liberty and the natural rights of individuals being honored by people entrusted with government power. It's strange to think that those of us wanting to establish an individualist society and mindset should have to form a collective in order to do so, but there is strength in numbers. I know there's a lot more people out there who think like we do and have just kept their mouths shut even at this late date, but the time has come for all to speak out and be heard. We must let those who would rule us know that we are a power to be reckoned with and we are not going to give away our power that easily.
Do not let the conversation die. Let it be known far and wide that the Federal Reserve is a privately owned organization that our tax dollars pay for. Then let it be known that if the government printed treasury notes, it could get rid of the income tax and the IRS because it wouldn't have to pay interest on debt anymore. Furthermore, with the government in charge of the money creation, it could make money by collecting interest. It would loan out money only to businesses, like banks, who came to it for loans. Only those who wished to do business with the government would have to do business with it, the rest of us would be left alone. If enough people were to become aware of these facts, the political pressure we could put on our politicians would become so great that they wouldn't have a choice, they'd have to either succumb to the wishes of the people or become politically insignificant.
If we begin to once again enforce a legal definition of the dollar being a measure of silver, as it used to be, this solution becomes even better. The economy would quickly stabilize as everyone would know what the value of a dollar was and not be concerned that tomorrow it would loose value. The uncertainty in currency would be gone. The world would quickly once again accept the dollar as a reserve currency so long as they could trust that it would pay its value as a precious metal. Goods and services would soon be priced by market competition and the law of supply and demand and not by artificial mechanisms of the state and their corporate agents.
As a matter of course, the interest on our national debt would have to be forgiven. Whether or not we should even have to pay the principle would have to be determined. It can likely be shown that the whole scheme was a fraud and therefore we are not liable to pay it back, as was done in Iceland. Some bankers, and maybe even some politicians, might end up in jail. More importantly, those who have fleeced our nation of real wealth and commodities through fraud should have to return such wealth and commodities to the marketplace where they can be put to good use by the common folk. This is how it should be. The easiest way to accomplish this is with the power of government, the power of the many. Those in control of the private Federal Reserve have known for years that their scheme was fraudulent and criminal and would eventually collapse. A little honesty and prudence is all it would have taken to avoid the economic mess we find ourselves in, but their greed is insatiable. It's time to put humanity first.
I know that there are many who want to see a market solution to the currency problem, and I agree that there should be an end to the legal tender laws and the currency monopolies. I realize that a state run currency monopoly is also subject to corruption. However, it might be time to realize that those who don't use government can still suffer from government. As long as we have a federal government, we should strive to keep it on our side in whatever ways possible. When it comes to economics, if the government isn't protecting the interests of the common folk, then it's protecting the interests of someone else. It's protecting the interests of the ruling elites. It's protecting the interests of the corporate establishment and the financial sector. It's protecting the Fed. It doesn't matter who the president is or what party runs congress, it's time to end the Fed. Perhaps the best path to take to accomplish such a goal would be the path of least resistance.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?
Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."
From the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
What I'm about to propose is a state sponsored method of bailing the nation and perhaps the entire world out of a particularly nasty economic depression. This does not mean that I have suddenly changed sides and become a statist, though some of you may accuse me of being one after reading this, nor does it mean that I suddenly endorse state solutions to problems created by the state, it simply means that I can see a threat and sometimes the best way to counter a threat is to do something one might find distasteful. I used the above quote from the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" because I felt it was quite appropriate for the situation we find ourselves in. The private owners of the Federal Reserve System long ago used the sword of government to create their monopoly on currency in this nation, and that sword will cut down the middle class if we don't learn to pick up that same sword or one very similar and use it to defend ourselves.
It becomes more and more obvious to me that the central bankers and the financial sector have usurped our government, and governments around the world, as time goes by. All one has to do is look at who's benefiting from the current economic conditions. All one has to do is look at who the politicians are maneuvering to protect. Just look at the Republican National Convention and how they've manipulated it to keep the voice of the Ron Paul supporters silent. Ron Paul was the only candidate that wants to end the Fed. I doubt very much that any of the other guys would seriously want to even audit that institution. This despite the fact that a law requiring a full audit of the Fed recently passed the House of Representatives by a huge margin.
Ron Paul was the only candidate that wants to get rid of the IRS. The other two major candidates simply argue about whether or not to raise taxes. According to many sources, every penny of income tax paid goes to pay off the interest on the debt owed to the private Federal Reserve. Not one penny goes to pay for whatever "service" you might want the government to provide. That's why the Constitution needed to be amended to allow for an income tax before the Federal Reserve Act was snuck through a legislature that had mostly gone home for Christmas in 1913. There wasn't even a plurality of senators or representatives present when the vote took place. The IRS is merely the enforcement arm to make sure the interest is paid by the working class of this country.
The Federal Reserve and the corporations that depend on its financial influence need to make certain that their people stay in charge of the executive branch. Why? Well, for one thing so they can use the bully pulpit of the president to spew their propaganda and muddy the waters of clearer thought. But, more importantly, I think they want to have the power of the United States military at their beck and call. They want to be able to use it to quell any dissention that might happen anywhere in the world if their cartels are threatened. The military is the arm of government that holds the sword that can be used to kill or to put a so called threat in a cage. The United States military isn't used for the defense of the people of the United States anymore, it's used to defend the interests of multinational corporations and central banking interests. If necessary the military could be used to force compliance with the wishes of those corporations and banking interests upon anyone who would wish to break the bonds of those corporations and try alternative methods of doing business which would compete with them.
The wars we see being fought in foreign lands are not defensive wars being fought to keep foreign invaders from coming over here, they are offensive wars being fought to keep a corporate elite empowered and their monetary schemes from collapsing. While they're punishing those who would oppose them, they're making money on the flip side selling weapons. It's a win and a windfall for them. It's death and destruction for any regime that might think the natural resources of their countries belong to the people of that country. It's an economic catastrophe and ruin for the common folk of this nation. That's why they must keep control of the executive branch.
So, what's the solution I mentioned earlier in this article? How can we get control of the office of the presidency back? How can we regain and reclaim the military that's supposed to defend and protect our nation, not the corporate interests? We saw what happened to Ron Paul's campaign at the Republican National Convention. We saw how they were kicked to the curb with no real recognition of their numbers and power. We know we won't be able to get enough people to vote for a principled third party candidate like Gary Johnson and even if we did we know that the fix is in. It's David versus Goliath all over again. How can we overcome such a giant?
It's really quite simple, and it's legal and peaceful and constitutional. We turn up the heat. We keep demanding an end to the Fed. We demand that those who want to govern obey the Constitution of this nation, and we remind them that the Constitution is the highest law of the land. We demand that they keep their oaths of office and expose them when they don't. We remind them that the Constitution delegates the power to mint and coin money to congress, and that they cannot pass that responsibility onto private interests who profit from such a government sanctioned monopoly. We then give them fair warning, either comply with the highest law in the land or face criminal sanctions.
You might think I'm dreaming, and maybe I am, but the law is on our side. Whether it can be enforced or not, that is where the question really lies. This is why I use the word "we" above. I really don't like to talk in the collective, but sometimes reality steps in and forces your hand. By "we" I mean people concerned with individual liberty and the natural rights of individuals being honored by people entrusted with government power. It's strange to think that those of us wanting to establish an individualist society and mindset should have to form a collective in order to do so, but there is strength in numbers. I know there's a lot more people out there who think like we do and have just kept their mouths shut even at this late date, but the time has come for all to speak out and be heard. We must let those who would rule us know that we are a power to be reckoned with and we are not going to give away our power that easily.
Do not let the conversation die. Let it be known far and wide that the Federal Reserve is a privately owned organization that our tax dollars pay for. Then let it be known that if the government printed treasury notes, it could get rid of the income tax and the IRS because it wouldn't have to pay interest on debt anymore. Furthermore, with the government in charge of the money creation, it could make money by collecting interest. It would loan out money only to businesses, like banks, who came to it for loans. Only those who wished to do business with the government would have to do business with it, the rest of us would be left alone. If enough people were to become aware of these facts, the political pressure we could put on our politicians would become so great that they wouldn't have a choice, they'd have to either succumb to the wishes of the people or become politically insignificant.
If we begin to once again enforce a legal definition of the dollar being a measure of silver, as it used to be, this solution becomes even better. The economy would quickly stabilize as everyone would know what the value of a dollar was and not be concerned that tomorrow it would loose value. The uncertainty in currency would be gone. The world would quickly once again accept the dollar as a reserve currency so long as they could trust that it would pay its value as a precious metal. Goods and services would soon be priced by market competition and the law of supply and demand and not by artificial mechanisms of the state and their corporate agents.
As a matter of course, the interest on our national debt would have to be forgiven. Whether or not we should even have to pay the principle would have to be determined. It can likely be shown that the whole scheme was a fraud and therefore we are not liable to pay it back, as was done in Iceland. Some bankers, and maybe even some politicians, might end up in jail. More importantly, those who have fleeced our nation of real wealth and commodities through fraud should have to return such wealth and commodities to the marketplace where they can be put to good use by the common folk. This is how it should be. The easiest way to accomplish this is with the power of government, the power of the many. Those in control of the private Federal Reserve have known for years that their scheme was fraudulent and criminal and would eventually collapse. A little honesty and prudence is all it would have taken to avoid the economic mess we find ourselves in, but their greed is insatiable. It's time to put humanity first.
I know that there are many who want to see a market solution to the currency problem, and I agree that there should be an end to the legal tender laws and the currency monopolies. I realize that a state run currency monopoly is also subject to corruption. However, it might be time to realize that those who don't use government can still suffer from government. As long as we have a federal government, we should strive to keep it on our side in whatever ways possible. When it comes to economics, if the government isn't protecting the interests of the common folk, then it's protecting the interests of someone else. It's protecting the interests of the ruling elites. It's protecting the interests of the corporate establishment and the financial sector. It's protecting the Fed. It doesn't matter who the president is or what party runs congress, it's time to end the Fed. Perhaps the best path to take to accomplish such a goal would be the path of least resistance.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Monday, August 27, 2012
Corrupt Republicans and Principled Ron Paul
Well, the Republican National Convention is upon us. Time sure has
flown. It seems like 2007 was only yesterday when I first started
writing about Ron Paul. Back then I held no expectation at all that Ron
Paul would receive the Republican Party nomination and wrote mostly
about his message of freedom and how important it was. Times have
changed. Ron Paul and his message are more popular than ever.
I have to admit, for about two seconds this year I actually felt that Ron Paul and his supporters could pull it off. I actually thought that the Ron Paul campaign knew what it was doing and the Republicans might actually be forced to run a free thinking, principled individual as their candidate rather than an obvious establishment puppet. I thought the Republican candidate just might be the person that was elected by the grassroots of the party rather than selected by the upper echelon of that party. Of course for that to have happened the Republican Party leadership would've had to become honest and even *gasp* followed their own rules.
For a time, even though Ron Paul supposedly lost so many primaries, I thought his supporters were really going to be able to pull off the political surprise of the decade by simply following the rules laid down by the Republican Party and taking over the delegate process. After all, we all know elections can be fixed. It is well documented that electronic voting machines can be hacked. Anyone who doesn't believe this and still thinks that elections in this country are fair, I suggest you check out Bev Harris' work at Black Box Voting. I'll believe that voting is fair when we once again have paper ballots counted at the precincts at the end of the night with the general public invited to watch and independent representatives watching alongside representatives from any political party involved.
That said, I was very disappointed with the Ron Paul campaign that they didn't follow through with demanding investigations when evidence of vote fraud was discovered in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states. I was disappointed that they didn't make more of a big deal out of winning a plurality in a number of states. I was very disappointed that they gave up so early in the year when there was still so many primaries to be held. I wanted them to stick it out to the end and cause as much of a stir as possible. I wanted as many people as possible exposed to the message of freedom. I wanted there to be a choice of someone other than the Democrat Mitt Romney. I wanted a true Republican candidate, one who believes in the idea of a constitutional republic with a federal government of limited power.
Well I should have known better. That didn't happen. Barring a miracle, I doubt very much that that's going to happen. The problem with Ron Paul is that he's too damn honest. He's too damn principled. He couldn't lie to save his life and he's not about to make any promises he doesn't plan on keeping. He doesn't tell you what you want to hear just to get your vote, he explains to you his position and why freedom is the answer. There's no way the Republican establishment is going to let him or anyone like him get the nomination. There was never any way that was going to happen. They want someone in there that they can control, not some maverick that wants to empower ordinary people.
When you lay down with pigs, you're going to get dirty. That's as true if you lay down with Republican pigs as it is when you lay down with Democrat pigs. They're all dirty, and Ron Paul did not want to get dirty. He did not want to play their games. He did not want to compromise his principles to gain power. That is why the Republican establishment couldn't afford to let him win, despite the polls that showed he would have so much better of a chance of beating the Democrat incumbent than Mitt could ever hope for. That's why they pulled all the dirty tricks to make sure he'd lose and kept Ron Paul's name out of the spotlight as much as they could.
Now, they want to silence Ron Paul's message. Now they want to take away the voices of the millions who supported Ron Paul's candidacy. I don't suppose that should surprise me either. They want to make this convention a love fest for Mittens. They want the world to think that everything is hunky dory with Republicans and they all just want to get behind him as a candidate because he is so different from Obama. Yeah, right. When it comes to policy, they are twins separated at birth. They are both big government, corporate bought and paid for elitists who are going to do what their central banking corporate masters tell them to do. Mitt Romney was selected by the establishment, not elected by the people. His message of more of the same, maybe with a twist, is the only message they want you to hear. Enough of this freedom stuff.
I write this the night before the Republican convention is slated to start, so I can't be sure how things will play out. I'd really like to see the Ron Paul delegates stand up and be counted. I'd like to hear them get his message out. I'd love to see a huge conversion of Mitt Romney delegates. I'd love to see them come to their senses and cast their votes for Ron Paul and his message of freedom rather than for Mittens and more corporatism. I doubt very much any of that is going to happen. As tenacious as the Ron Paul delegates are and as much as I admire them for that, I think the Republican Party leadership is too spiteful to let that message get out. I think they are frightened of the Ron Paul folks. I think they will do everything in their power to prevent the Ron Paul delegates from so much as even gesturing their support for him, even to the point of initiating violence. That's how criminals role.
I hope I'm wrong in my prediction, but if I'm not I hope their will be plenty of cameras rolling at this convention. I hope there will be plenty of Ron Paul delegates reporting on Youtube what I'm sure the mainstream media will neglect to report. If things play out poorly, I hope the American public will be able to see just how despicable the Republican establishment can be. If the Republican Party doesn't give Ron Paul's delegates the voice they deserve, then that party makes itself irrelevant. At that point it might as well just merge with the Democrat Party. Policy wise they're both pretty much the same anyway.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
I have to admit, for about two seconds this year I actually felt that Ron Paul and his supporters could pull it off. I actually thought that the Ron Paul campaign knew what it was doing and the Republicans might actually be forced to run a free thinking, principled individual as their candidate rather than an obvious establishment puppet. I thought the Republican candidate just might be the person that was elected by the grassroots of the party rather than selected by the upper echelon of that party. Of course for that to have happened the Republican Party leadership would've had to become honest and even *gasp* followed their own rules.
For a time, even though Ron Paul supposedly lost so many primaries, I thought his supporters were really going to be able to pull off the political surprise of the decade by simply following the rules laid down by the Republican Party and taking over the delegate process. After all, we all know elections can be fixed. It is well documented that electronic voting machines can be hacked. Anyone who doesn't believe this and still thinks that elections in this country are fair, I suggest you check out Bev Harris' work at Black Box Voting. I'll believe that voting is fair when we once again have paper ballots counted at the precincts at the end of the night with the general public invited to watch and independent representatives watching alongside representatives from any political party involved.
That said, I was very disappointed with the Ron Paul campaign that they didn't follow through with demanding investigations when evidence of vote fraud was discovered in Iowa, New Hampshire and other states. I was disappointed that they didn't make more of a big deal out of winning a plurality in a number of states. I was very disappointed that they gave up so early in the year when there was still so many primaries to be held. I wanted them to stick it out to the end and cause as much of a stir as possible. I wanted as many people as possible exposed to the message of freedom. I wanted there to be a choice of someone other than the Democrat Mitt Romney. I wanted a true Republican candidate, one who believes in the idea of a constitutional republic with a federal government of limited power.
Well I should have known better. That didn't happen. Barring a miracle, I doubt very much that that's going to happen. The problem with Ron Paul is that he's too damn honest. He's too damn principled. He couldn't lie to save his life and he's not about to make any promises he doesn't plan on keeping. He doesn't tell you what you want to hear just to get your vote, he explains to you his position and why freedom is the answer. There's no way the Republican establishment is going to let him or anyone like him get the nomination. There was never any way that was going to happen. They want someone in there that they can control, not some maverick that wants to empower ordinary people.
When you lay down with pigs, you're going to get dirty. That's as true if you lay down with Republican pigs as it is when you lay down with Democrat pigs. They're all dirty, and Ron Paul did not want to get dirty. He did not want to play their games. He did not want to compromise his principles to gain power. That is why the Republican establishment couldn't afford to let him win, despite the polls that showed he would have so much better of a chance of beating the Democrat incumbent than Mitt could ever hope for. That's why they pulled all the dirty tricks to make sure he'd lose and kept Ron Paul's name out of the spotlight as much as they could.
Now, they want to silence Ron Paul's message. Now they want to take away the voices of the millions who supported Ron Paul's candidacy. I don't suppose that should surprise me either. They want to make this convention a love fest for Mittens. They want the world to think that everything is hunky dory with Republicans and they all just want to get behind him as a candidate because he is so different from Obama. Yeah, right. When it comes to policy, they are twins separated at birth. They are both big government, corporate bought and paid for elitists who are going to do what their central banking corporate masters tell them to do. Mitt Romney was selected by the establishment, not elected by the people. His message of more of the same, maybe with a twist, is the only message they want you to hear. Enough of this freedom stuff.
I write this the night before the Republican convention is slated to start, so I can't be sure how things will play out. I'd really like to see the Ron Paul delegates stand up and be counted. I'd like to hear them get his message out. I'd love to see a huge conversion of Mitt Romney delegates. I'd love to see them come to their senses and cast their votes for Ron Paul and his message of freedom rather than for Mittens and more corporatism. I doubt very much any of that is going to happen. As tenacious as the Ron Paul delegates are and as much as I admire them for that, I think the Republican Party leadership is too spiteful to let that message get out. I think they are frightened of the Ron Paul folks. I think they will do everything in their power to prevent the Ron Paul delegates from so much as even gesturing their support for him, even to the point of initiating violence. That's how criminals role.
I hope I'm wrong in my prediction, but if I'm not I hope their will be plenty of cameras rolling at this convention. I hope there will be plenty of Ron Paul delegates reporting on Youtube what I'm sure the mainstream media will neglect to report. If things play out poorly, I hope the American public will be able to see just how despicable the Republican establishment can be. If the Republican Party doesn't give Ron Paul's delegates the voice they deserve, then that party makes itself irrelevant. At that point it might as well just merge with the Democrat Party. Policy wise they're both pretty much the same anyway.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Sunday, August 26, 2012
The World Needs More Courageous and Prominent Whistle Blowers
Are you afraid? Are you shaking in your shoes? If so, why? What are you
afraid of? If not, why not? According to many sources, you're supposed
to be. The economy is collapsing. Currencies are failing. War is on the
horizon. It's all part of a grand scheme devised by an all powerful
elite ruling cabal. There's something I've noticed about fear. Fear can
freeze people. It can keep people from moving forward. It can stop
people from doing something they should do. It can even make some of
them act in immoral ways and then they will make excuses for their
actions or inactions later. Fear is a very powerful force.
There are good people who work in positions where they see things going on which are unethical, immoral and even criminal. These people keep their mouths shut because they're scared. They want to keep their jobs. They want to keep their pensions. They feel their entire future is threatened if they speak out. It is possible that they worry they might lose their freedom. They have seen some whistle blowers speak out and end up in jail or worse, an injustice so despicable it should lead to the imprisonment and complete ostracism of any who would perpetrate it.
Sometimes the people they work for are so powerful that they might even be scared for their lives. It's even possible in some cases that they feel fear for the fate of their families should they speak out. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people in positions of power these days who are so criminal as to hold no regard for even the flimsiest principles once held by the most hardened mobsters. It's no wonder these people put their heads down and simply do their jobs and keep their mouths shut. Sometimes the best they can do for their own sense of morality is quit, but even then they feel they must remain quiet in order to stay safe.
A few decades ago it seemed that powerful forces in this world were out to destroy the principles upon which this nation was built. Fascist and communist powers were building collectivist societies and trying to force the rest of the world to accept their power systems through military force. Brave men and women were armed and mobilized to take on these threats. I imagine there was much fear back then as well armed forces of many nations faced off against each other. Men had to overcome their fears to perform the courageous deeds of warfare that helped to defeat those forces of collectivism and secure the principles of individualism upon which such a powerful nation was built.
Unfortunately, even as victory was fresh and our nation was thrust into prominence upon the world stage, we as a people forgot to honor the basic principles which had enabled our nation to achieve greatness. A more subtle form of collectivism that had been instilled much earlier in our history began to erode the foundations which had made this nation such a superpower. The economy boomed largely because we were nearly the only industrial nation that hadn't been devastated by war. Government began to regulate and grow. Corporations and industries grew and gained privileges. Not much was said by the working class because the future seemed so bright.
Slowly, subtly the corruption crept in. The corporations and financial sector were able to use their fantastic wealth to influence politics more than ever. They developed their own agenda and formed their own global vision which would allow them to control the human collective. As long as the economy boomed, not much was said. Even when a president was assassinated and a coup took place at the highest levels of government, there simply weren't enough people coming forward, nor enough honest reporting from the media, nor enough independent thinking to create the public outcry needed to expose the cover up and wrest power away from the moneyed elite. Whistle blowers were buried instead of elevated and honored for their heroic actions.
Now the corruption is everywhere. It is in everyone's face. The criminal element has taken over. They have criminalized freedom while legalizing their own criminal activities. They have trashed the Constitution. They run around unfettered by the law they are supposed to obey while arresting common folk for merely speaking out against their injustices. They are regulating the middle class out of existence while creating corporate/government cartels to control all aspects of life. Still, too few in the system step up to say something. They are still too frightened. They are the cogs that keep the machinery of government churning away and they say nothing as the criminal element operates with more and more impunity.
These souls are on the front lines of a subtle, undeclared war the elite corporate class is waging against the common folk. This war threatens our way of life with as much certainty as those authoritarian, collectivist nations did when we fought against their way of life in the 1930s and 40s. The difference is the war is not as overt. The difference is the war is not fought with bombs and bullets, but with deceit and disinformation. The difference is that the soldiers don't even know they're soldiers, let alone what they need to do to fight the enemy. Information needs to be revealed and disseminated. The truth needs to be told and the criminality needs to be exposed and punished.
Those who merely follow orders need to overcome their fears and speak out if they see something criminal, immoral, unethical, or unjust taking place in the bureaucracies which have become powers unto themselves within the system. They need to speak out despite the risks if we are ever to reestablish the principles upon which our nation was founded. If one whistle blower is struck down, another needs to rise up and take their place. The higher up the chain of command, the better. The more prominent the whistle blower, the better. The criminals need to be given no respite, no place to run, no excuses to make, until even the most sheepish person has to realize that our political, financial and corporate systems are so inundated with corruption as to be unsustainable if we are to remain a free and moral society.
What the world needs now is more whistle blowers, not less. It needs them to be honored not punished. It needs their allegations to be investigated, not whitewashed and covered up. What the world needs is for those in prominent positions to speak out against the current, corrupt state of affairs that promise nothing but further decline and more of the same. What the world needs is to leave no uncertainty as to the depth of the criminality. Maybe then we can at least rid ourselves of the psychopathic control freaks that have grasped the reins of power. Maybe then we could at least expose those who are really at the top of the power structure for the puppet masters that they are. Maybe then we could start building a freer society with a more transparent power structure where those who exhibit criminal, immoral or unethical behavior are truly held accountable for their actions and not elevated to positions of power over others.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
There are good people who work in positions where they see things going on which are unethical, immoral and even criminal. These people keep their mouths shut because they're scared. They want to keep their jobs. They want to keep their pensions. They feel their entire future is threatened if they speak out. It is possible that they worry they might lose their freedom. They have seen some whistle blowers speak out and end up in jail or worse, an injustice so despicable it should lead to the imprisonment and complete ostracism of any who would perpetrate it.
Sometimes the people they work for are so powerful that they might even be scared for their lives. It's even possible in some cases that they feel fear for the fate of their families should they speak out. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people in positions of power these days who are so criminal as to hold no regard for even the flimsiest principles once held by the most hardened mobsters. It's no wonder these people put their heads down and simply do their jobs and keep their mouths shut. Sometimes the best they can do for their own sense of morality is quit, but even then they feel they must remain quiet in order to stay safe.
A few decades ago it seemed that powerful forces in this world were out to destroy the principles upon which this nation was built. Fascist and communist powers were building collectivist societies and trying to force the rest of the world to accept their power systems through military force. Brave men and women were armed and mobilized to take on these threats. I imagine there was much fear back then as well armed forces of many nations faced off against each other. Men had to overcome their fears to perform the courageous deeds of warfare that helped to defeat those forces of collectivism and secure the principles of individualism upon which such a powerful nation was built.
Unfortunately, even as victory was fresh and our nation was thrust into prominence upon the world stage, we as a people forgot to honor the basic principles which had enabled our nation to achieve greatness. A more subtle form of collectivism that had been instilled much earlier in our history began to erode the foundations which had made this nation such a superpower. The economy boomed largely because we were nearly the only industrial nation that hadn't been devastated by war. Government began to regulate and grow. Corporations and industries grew and gained privileges. Not much was said by the working class because the future seemed so bright.
Slowly, subtly the corruption crept in. The corporations and financial sector were able to use their fantastic wealth to influence politics more than ever. They developed their own agenda and formed their own global vision which would allow them to control the human collective. As long as the economy boomed, not much was said. Even when a president was assassinated and a coup took place at the highest levels of government, there simply weren't enough people coming forward, nor enough honest reporting from the media, nor enough independent thinking to create the public outcry needed to expose the cover up and wrest power away from the moneyed elite. Whistle blowers were buried instead of elevated and honored for their heroic actions.
Now the corruption is everywhere. It is in everyone's face. The criminal element has taken over. They have criminalized freedom while legalizing their own criminal activities. They have trashed the Constitution. They run around unfettered by the law they are supposed to obey while arresting common folk for merely speaking out against their injustices. They are regulating the middle class out of existence while creating corporate/government cartels to control all aspects of life. Still, too few in the system step up to say something. They are still too frightened. They are the cogs that keep the machinery of government churning away and they say nothing as the criminal element operates with more and more impunity.
These souls are on the front lines of a subtle, undeclared war the elite corporate class is waging against the common folk. This war threatens our way of life with as much certainty as those authoritarian, collectivist nations did when we fought against their way of life in the 1930s and 40s. The difference is the war is not as overt. The difference is the war is not fought with bombs and bullets, but with deceit and disinformation. The difference is that the soldiers don't even know they're soldiers, let alone what they need to do to fight the enemy. Information needs to be revealed and disseminated. The truth needs to be told and the criminality needs to be exposed and punished.
Those who merely follow orders need to overcome their fears and speak out if they see something criminal, immoral, unethical, or unjust taking place in the bureaucracies which have become powers unto themselves within the system. They need to speak out despite the risks if we are ever to reestablish the principles upon which our nation was founded. If one whistle blower is struck down, another needs to rise up and take their place. The higher up the chain of command, the better. The more prominent the whistle blower, the better. The criminals need to be given no respite, no place to run, no excuses to make, until even the most sheepish person has to realize that our political, financial and corporate systems are so inundated with corruption as to be unsustainable if we are to remain a free and moral society.
What the world needs now is more whistle blowers, not less. It needs them to be honored not punished. It needs their allegations to be investigated, not whitewashed and covered up. What the world needs is for those in prominent positions to speak out against the current, corrupt state of affairs that promise nothing but further decline and more of the same. What the world needs is to leave no uncertainty as to the depth of the criminality. Maybe then we can at least rid ourselves of the psychopathic control freaks that have grasped the reins of power. Maybe then we could at least expose those who are really at the top of the power structure for the puppet masters that they are. Maybe then we could start building a freer society with a more transparent power structure where those who exhibit criminal, immoral or unethical behavior are truly held accountable for their actions and not elevated to positions of power over others.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. As a special offer, on Sept. 5th, and Sept. 6th, 2012, the full versions of all my ebooks will be available for free to download. Please help support me by downloading my ebooks for free on those days. The more downloads I get, the better. Tell your friends. If you don't have a Kindle, amazon.com offers a PC version for free. Please download and enjoy.
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity
The Ouijiers
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Peaceful Terrorists, Violent State Reactions
There's a spiritual practice in China called Falun Gong.
It's a practice that involves meditation, slow movement (qigong), and
high moral standards (Buddhism and Taoism) which is supposed to
eventually lead to spiritual enlightenment. Practitioners are taught the
virtues of honesty and compassion among other things. They are peaceful
and well behaved people who wish only to delve deeper into themselves
and learn to be the best humans they can possibly be. So why is it that
the Chinese government decided to crack down so hard on those who
practice Falun Gong? What is it about this practice that terrorizes
those at the highest level of the Chinese state?
There is a history behind peaceful movements being brutally suppressed by oppressive states. We can go all the way back to the Christians of the Roman Empire and even before that to see this. There was Gandhi's movement in India and King's civil rights movement in America. Why are so many peaceful movements so violently opposed by establishment organizations? Even the recent Tea Party and Occupation movements have been made up mostly of peaceful people looking to peacefully change the establishment system. The Ron Paul Revolution emphasizes love and peace.
Why are these movements cracked down upon? Why are they so demonized by the establishment? Why would organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center make the claim that freedom loving, peaceful, normal, every day people who simply wish for their voices to be heard are terrorists? That is an awful claim to make. It is, in my opinion, fraudulent, malicious and can cause harm and violate individuals' rights. I think those who make such claims should be investigated to find out why they've made them and if they're being purposely malicious and fraudulent.
That said, I believe the realities of why these movements are so strongly opposed go far beyond the obvious. I believe it goes beyond the physical world. I believe there is a deeper truth that the powers that be don't want us to find out about. I believe there is a spiritual awareness that they don't want us to find. I believe they would go so far as to kill to keep such knowledge from becoming generally accepted by the masses of humanity. There is a dark side to spiritual awareness, and that dark side wants to remain hidden. It wants to use fear to maintain control over the human race. It worries that too many might discover this. Those who use the power of the dark side worry that if this happens, they will lose control, and maybe something else.
What if a great many of us were to discover that this three dimensional reality really was just an illusion? What if we were to discover that there was a much greater reality beyond the veil of our limited physical senses? What if we were to discover that we really are all connected at a higher level and that hurting another is tantamount to hurting yourself? Would that make people behave differently? Would that be a threat to those in power?
Agents of the state sure act like it is. Their superiors who give them their orders certainly act like it is. Certainly they can't believe that such promoters of peace and even tranquility pose a clear and present danger to their physical well being. Do they think that peaceful people are suddenly going to become wild eyed maniacs, produce weapons from under their garments and start blowing well armed bureaucrats away? Do they believe that someone in search of Christ consciousness or some deeper spiritual truth is suddenly going to become a maniacal killer? Do they believe that people who want to change the world through peace, love and practicing higher moral principles are going to kill thousands of people by planting bombs and flying airplanes into buildings? If they do, then I think they're aiming at the wrong targets. That just doesn't seem likely to me.
Even if I'm wrong, even if there is no spiritual threat to the establishment elite going on here, there is no reason for the state to overreact so. Unless, that is, there are subtle reasons not readily apparent. Perhaps it is because they like being seen as significant and legitimate. Perhaps peaceful people challenge this. Perhaps peace loving individuals who refuse to participate in their system can expose their illegitimacy. Perhaps those who chose to remove their consent from those who would govern can expose how insignificant the state and its agents really are. Perhaps that would explain why those in control of such a powerful state like China would be so terrorized by a group of people publicly practicing Fulan Gong or something like it.
But then, doesn't the arrest of such peaceful people expose the criminal nature of the state? Doesn't it expose a reality as frightening and painful as the exposed nerve of a tooth? Of course that only works if others see the abuses and speak out against them. The agents of the state who crack down upon the peaceful will only feel shame for doing so when the multitudes shame them. The sheep who have seen their fellows go into the slaughterhouse and not come out will still go into that same slaughterhouse when it is their turn. They will not leave the corral even when the gate is open so long as there is food to be had and the flock is around them. Are we nothing but sheep, doing nothing, saying nothing, when our fellow peaceful human beings are kidnapped, tortured and abused? If that's the case, then don't be surprised when you find yourself stuffed in a cage and perhaps tortured by a sadistic agent of the state for doing or saying something you thought was perfectly safe and legal and harmed no one. We can no longer afford to make excuses for the state. We can no longer afford to go along to get along.
The peaceful people, those who protest and want change and those who simply want to become the change they wish to see, are not the terrorists. Those who terrorize them are the terrorists. Those who operate for the state against the people, against the masses are the terrorists. They are the ones who will most likely initiate the violence, even though they'd like you to think otherwise, even though they'll try to make it look otherwise. We need to record the violence. We need to make them look at it. They need to look in the mirror and see the ugliness they embody. Perhaps then they will come to understand the violent nature of the organization they work for. Perhaps then they will find it easier to say "no" to their orders and refuse to harm peaceful people.
So what is it about peace and love that makes authoritarian globalists and the establishment elite quake in their boots? I don't know. I have my thoughts and suspicions, but I can't say for certain. Perhaps it is as simple as they're afraid of being made insignificant and illegitimate. The ego is a powerful force. Perhaps it is something more spiritual. Perhaps it is something even far more sinister, something so evil and unimaginable as to be completely unbelievable to the masses of humanity. It truly is difficult to say. Perhaps I should go meditate on this. I hope I don't get arrested and tortured for doing so.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. Keep an eye out for special offers. In the meantime, I do need sales in order to support my habit of eating. These are great, well written books that I'm sure you'll find enjoyable. Here are the links to all my ebooks so you can purchase and enjoy them:
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity (a Matthew Wayne novel)
The Ouijiers (a Matthew Wayne novel)
There is a history behind peaceful movements being brutally suppressed by oppressive states. We can go all the way back to the Christians of the Roman Empire and even before that to see this. There was Gandhi's movement in India and King's civil rights movement in America. Why are so many peaceful movements so violently opposed by establishment organizations? Even the recent Tea Party and Occupation movements have been made up mostly of peaceful people looking to peacefully change the establishment system. The Ron Paul Revolution emphasizes love and peace.
Why are these movements cracked down upon? Why are they so demonized by the establishment? Why would organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center make the claim that freedom loving, peaceful, normal, every day people who simply wish for their voices to be heard are terrorists? That is an awful claim to make. It is, in my opinion, fraudulent, malicious and can cause harm and violate individuals' rights. I think those who make such claims should be investigated to find out why they've made them and if they're being purposely malicious and fraudulent.
That said, I believe the realities of why these movements are so strongly opposed go far beyond the obvious. I believe it goes beyond the physical world. I believe there is a deeper truth that the powers that be don't want us to find out about. I believe there is a spiritual awareness that they don't want us to find. I believe they would go so far as to kill to keep such knowledge from becoming generally accepted by the masses of humanity. There is a dark side to spiritual awareness, and that dark side wants to remain hidden. It wants to use fear to maintain control over the human race. It worries that too many might discover this. Those who use the power of the dark side worry that if this happens, they will lose control, and maybe something else.
What if a great many of us were to discover that this three dimensional reality really was just an illusion? What if we were to discover that there was a much greater reality beyond the veil of our limited physical senses? What if we were to discover that we really are all connected at a higher level and that hurting another is tantamount to hurting yourself? Would that make people behave differently? Would that be a threat to those in power?
Agents of the state sure act like it is. Their superiors who give them their orders certainly act like it is. Certainly they can't believe that such promoters of peace and even tranquility pose a clear and present danger to their physical well being. Do they think that peaceful people are suddenly going to become wild eyed maniacs, produce weapons from under their garments and start blowing well armed bureaucrats away? Do they believe that someone in search of Christ consciousness or some deeper spiritual truth is suddenly going to become a maniacal killer? Do they believe that people who want to change the world through peace, love and practicing higher moral principles are going to kill thousands of people by planting bombs and flying airplanes into buildings? If they do, then I think they're aiming at the wrong targets. That just doesn't seem likely to me.
Even if I'm wrong, even if there is no spiritual threat to the establishment elite going on here, there is no reason for the state to overreact so. Unless, that is, there are subtle reasons not readily apparent. Perhaps it is because they like being seen as significant and legitimate. Perhaps peaceful people challenge this. Perhaps peace loving individuals who refuse to participate in their system can expose their illegitimacy. Perhaps those who chose to remove their consent from those who would govern can expose how insignificant the state and its agents really are. Perhaps that would explain why those in control of such a powerful state like China would be so terrorized by a group of people publicly practicing Fulan Gong or something like it.
But then, doesn't the arrest of such peaceful people expose the criminal nature of the state? Doesn't it expose a reality as frightening and painful as the exposed nerve of a tooth? Of course that only works if others see the abuses and speak out against them. The agents of the state who crack down upon the peaceful will only feel shame for doing so when the multitudes shame them. The sheep who have seen their fellows go into the slaughterhouse and not come out will still go into that same slaughterhouse when it is their turn. They will not leave the corral even when the gate is open so long as there is food to be had and the flock is around them. Are we nothing but sheep, doing nothing, saying nothing, when our fellow peaceful human beings are kidnapped, tortured and abused? If that's the case, then don't be surprised when you find yourself stuffed in a cage and perhaps tortured by a sadistic agent of the state for doing or saying something you thought was perfectly safe and legal and harmed no one. We can no longer afford to make excuses for the state. We can no longer afford to go along to get along.
The peaceful people, those who protest and want change and those who simply want to become the change they wish to see, are not the terrorists. Those who terrorize them are the terrorists. Those who operate for the state against the people, against the masses are the terrorists. They are the ones who will most likely initiate the violence, even though they'd like you to think otherwise, even though they'll try to make it look otherwise. We need to record the violence. We need to make them look at it. They need to look in the mirror and see the ugliness they embody. Perhaps then they will come to understand the violent nature of the organization they work for. Perhaps then they will find it easier to say "no" to their orders and refuse to harm peaceful people.
So what is it about peace and love that makes authoritarian globalists and the establishment elite quake in their boots? I don't know. I have my thoughts and suspicions, but I can't say for certain. Perhaps it is as simple as they're afraid of being made insignificant and illegitimate. The ego is a powerful force. Perhaps it is something more spiritual. Perhaps it is something even far more sinister, something so evil and unimaginable as to be completely unbelievable to the masses of humanity. It truly is difficult to say. Perhaps I should go meditate on this. I hope I don't get arrested and tortured for doing so.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. Keep an eye out for special offers. In the meantime, I do need sales in order to support my habit of eating. These are great, well written books that I'm sure you'll find enjoyable. Here are the links to all my ebooks so you can purchase and enjoy them:
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity (a Matthew Wayne novel)
The Ouijiers (a Matthew Wayne novel)
Monday, August 13, 2012
Pirates, Risk and Student Loans
A couple days back a facebook friend called me "a libertarian with a
heart." It's sad to think that people believe libertarians are cold
hearted individuals. Libertarians and freedom lovers of like mind are
some of the kindest, warmest people I know. I can understand, however,
why people would consider them cold. It has to do with the propaganda
spread about how they would advocate such things as slavery and debtor's
prisons. This is just a perversion that takes certain aspects of
contract principles to the extreme. Well, I'm going to state something
right now that might be taken by some as being very unlibertarian. I
don't hold sacred the contract. I think that sometimes contracts can be
quite unreasonable and even criminal in nature. I think there is every
reason the individual should be protected from powerful establishment
interests that abuse contract law.
One of the things to take into consideration when it comes to contracts is the element of risk. The borrower risks losing any collateral and, perhaps more importantly, his reputation. The lender risks losing his money, of course, and perhaps anything else he may have loaned to the borrower. This leads to both parties measuring the risk/reward ratio to help determine whether to ask for, or grant, loans or whether to look to other means to finance or for other investments to make.
Over the past couple of decades, however, there has been a movement in government to pass laws or create financial environments that mitigate the risks that lenders take. This has led to lenders tending to make loans that have little to no chance of being paid back. This has helped cause the financial crises we currently face by creating an orgy of bad investments, or gambols, by large financial firms which end up being paid for by the common folk of the world. This also creates bubbles that will all eventually pop.
Think of it this way. It's like someone came up to you and offered to let you go to Las Vegas on their dime. Gambol all you want. Engage in any activity or debauchery you can think of. Any money you win, you can keep, but any money you lose you have nothing to worry about. It won't be your money. They'll pay for it. Better than that, everyone will pay for it. The idea is that everyone will pay such a small amount that no one will mind. How much would you spend? How much would you risk hoping that one of your gambols hits the Jackpot? Millions? Billions? Trillions? More money than even exists?
The lenders are now above the law. They are above risk. Borrowers, on the other hand, still risk losing their reputations, but there is still recourse when it comes to the financial end of things. There are still legal protections one can take when lenders come to collect. They can go through bankruptcies, even if such actions have become harder to qualify for and achieve over the last few years. This is not true, however, when it comes to student loans.
If you have a student loan, and you can't pay, you have nearly zero recourse. You will end up paying the loan back, one way or another, or you will die before it is forgiven. When I hear people complaining about young people in the occupy movement asking for their student loans to be forgiven, I don't know if they understand this. Most are likely just asking for the normal protections given to anyone else who borrows money to be put back in place.
I'm fairly certain that if a college education was worth what it was twenty or thirty years ago and these young folks could go out and find well paying jobs after they graduate then they wouldn't mind paying back loans, but to have to pay for the rest of your life for a crappy, nearly worthless education simply isn't right. Promises were made and trusts were broken. Lending institutions should have to shoulder some of the risks too. Those risks should be assessed and it shouldn't be so easy to get that kind of credit. Perhaps the education would be worth more if the money for it wasn't so easy to get.
A friend of mine, Tarrin Lupo, wrote a book a while back entitled "The Pirates of Savannah." The protagonist in the book, a chap named Patrick Willis, begins the story locked in debtor's prison. He was put there due to circumstances beyond his control, but the system didn't care. It only cared that money was owed and so he was thrown in a hell hole until someone could pay, or he died, whichever came first.
When he is finally released, he is shipped off to America to begin a new life as an indentured servant. Patrick is able to come to America and pursue his ambitions because his debt was paid off by a ship's captain who forces him to work on the ship to pay for his passage and then sells him into indentured servitude, a type of slavery. The book is historical fiction. The characters were created in Terrin's mind, but the places and situations are based on historical facts. It is quite an interesting mix.
Is this where our culture is heading? Are we taking a step back in time of nearly 300 years? Are we going to have to find a new place, a new America, where people can go to have the opportunity to be free? Have the financial elite become so powerful that they can turn back the hands of time simply so they can wallow in luxury while the rest of us struggle to feed ourselves? That seems to be the direction we're heading.
In life, shit happens. There's an infinite number of situations that can arise that would render someone unable to take care of their commitments. On the other hand, there are many people who would try to weasel out of taking care of the commitments they should be able to handle. This is why having an objective, unbiased dispute resolution system is so important. Our current system has proven itself to be quite lacking in these respects. Each case should be handled separately and uniquely, not shuffled through a one size fits all court system which leaves out enumerable personal circumstances.
A dispute resolution system, or an arbitration system, should be subject to reputation awareness. The reputation of the current system is poor, just ask anyone who has been involved in some kind of dispute. This has much to do with the corruption of the system. Not only can individual judges be corrupted, which probably won't be the case, but the politicians who dictate to the judges what they can and can't do can easily be corrupted, usually with plausible deniability. They create the laws and regulations that tie the hands of the judges. They do so to help their biggest contributors, who are those that have the spare money to contribute, like big banks and corporate financial institutions. The average guy on the street who is getting student loans for himself or his kids doesn't have that kind of spare change. These laws and regulations tend to help those with money and power and to screw those who are struggling to make a better life for themselves in a depressed economy that favors the corrupt. In many cases judges are forced to make a decision between two bad choices, much like we all must many times when we go to the voting polls.
In the book, Patrick gets lucky and is able to overcome his indebtedness to obtain his own opportunity. His master is quite understanding and permissive. He becomes a pirate. He gets revenge on those who done him wrong. In real life the carriers of student loans are not so lucky. Many will have to live with that burden the rest of their lives. That monkey on their backs will remove many opportunity they might otherwise have had. They cannot so easily take to the seas and target those who have used the system unfairly to their advantage. Even as they struggle to get by, even as the most their education can do is get them a minimum wage job, even as forces they cannot control topple the economy around their ears, powerful corporate forces teamed up with an intrusive surveillance state will squeeze what blood they can from the poor souls who fell for the scam and remove opportunity while doing so. It can all make a thinking man wonder who the pirates really are.
My best advice for the moment is to avoid student loans. Stop empowering the system by not using it. Find another way to fund your education, like working through school, or simply don't go and find another way to get through life. Start a business. Many millionaires never went to college. If you have a loan and you can, pay it off as quickly as possible. If you took one out and are one of the many having problems finding work or a decent paying job, start asking for the simple protections that all borrowers should have against predatory lenders. Just because one uses the money to buy an education doesn't mean that those protections should be removed. Just because one uses the money to go to school doesn't mean they should be forced into some sort of servitude they didn't foresee.
Risk should fall equally on lenders and borrowers. Do not ask for forgiveness for all student loans or ask for government to give you something for nothing. Simply ask for the opportunity to present your case in front of an arbitrator. Simply ask for the same type of bankruptcy protections that failed businesses receive. After all, are you a business trying to sell your skills in a free marketplace, or are you a slave trying to find a better master that will have you? A man can only be truly free when he is indebted to no one.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. Keep an eye out for special offers. In the meantime, I do need sales in order to support my habit of eating. These are great, well written books that I'm sure you'll find enjoyable. Here are the links to all my ebooks so you can purchase and enjoy them:
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity (a Matthew Wayne novel)
The Ouijiers (a Matthew Wayne novel)
One of the things to take into consideration when it comes to contracts is the element of risk. The borrower risks losing any collateral and, perhaps more importantly, his reputation. The lender risks losing his money, of course, and perhaps anything else he may have loaned to the borrower. This leads to both parties measuring the risk/reward ratio to help determine whether to ask for, or grant, loans or whether to look to other means to finance or for other investments to make.
Over the past couple of decades, however, there has been a movement in government to pass laws or create financial environments that mitigate the risks that lenders take. This has led to lenders tending to make loans that have little to no chance of being paid back. This has helped cause the financial crises we currently face by creating an orgy of bad investments, or gambols, by large financial firms which end up being paid for by the common folk of the world. This also creates bubbles that will all eventually pop.
Think of it this way. It's like someone came up to you and offered to let you go to Las Vegas on their dime. Gambol all you want. Engage in any activity or debauchery you can think of. Any money you win, you can keep, but any money you lose you have nothing to worry about. It won't be your money. They'll pay for it. Better than that, everyone will pay for it. The idea is that everyone will pay such a small amount that no one will mind. How much would you spend? How much would you risk hoping that one of your gambols hits the Jackpot? Millions? Billions? Trillions? More money than even exists?
The lenders are now above the law. They are above risk. Borrowers, on the other hand, still risk losing their reputations, but there is still recourse when it comes to the financial end of things. There are still legal protections one can take when lenders come to collect. They can go through bankruptcies, even if such actions have become harder to qualify for and achieve over the last few years. This is not true, however, when it comes to student loans.
If you have a student loan, and you can't pay, you have nearly zero recourse. You will end up paying the loan back, one way or another, or you will die before it is forgiven. When I hear people complaining about young people in the occupy movement asking for their student loans to be forgiven, I don't know if they understand this. Most are likely just asking for the normal protections given to anyone else who borrows money to be put back in place.
I'm fairly certain that if a college education was worth what it was twenty or thirty years ago and these young folks could go out and find well paying jobs after they graduate then they wouldn't mind paying back loans, but to have to pay for the rest of your life for a crappy, nearly worthless education simply isn't right. Promises were made and trusts were broken. Lending institutions should have to shoulder some of the risks too. Those risks should be assessed and it shouldn't be so easy to get that kind of credit. Perhaps the education would be worth more if the money for it wasn't so easy to get.
A friend of mine, Tarrin Lupo, wrote a book a while back entitled "The Pirates of Savannah." The protagonist in the book, a chap named Patrick Willis, begins the story locked in debtor's prison. He was put there due to circumstances beyond his control, but the system didn't care. It only cared that money was owed and so he was thrown in a hell hole until someone could pay, or he died, whichever came first.
When he is finally released, he is shipped off to America to begin a new life as an indentured servant. Patrick is able to come to America and pursue his ambitions because his debt was paid off by a ship's captain who forces him to work on the ship to pay for his passage and then sells him into indentured servitude, a type of slavery. The book is historical fiction. The characters were created in Terrin's mind, but the places and situations are based on historical facts. It is quite an interesting mix.
Is this where our culture is heading? Are we taking a step back in time of nearly 300 years? Are we going to have to find a new place, a new America, where people can go to have the opportunity to be free? Have the financial elite become so powerful that they can turn back the hands of time simply so they can wallow in luxury while the rest of us struggle to feed ourselves? That seems to be the direction we're heading.
In life, shit happens. There's an infinite number of situations that can arise that would render someone unable to take care of their commitments. On the other hand, there are many people who would try to weasel out of taking care of the commitments they should be able to handle. This is why having an objective, unbiased dispute resolution system is so important. Our current system has proven itself to be quite lacking in these respects. Each case should be handled separately and uniquely, not shuffled through a one size fits all court system which leaves out enumerable personal circumstances.
A dispute resolution system, or an arbitration system, should be subject to reputation awareness. The reputation of the current system is poor, just ask anyone who has been involved in some kind of dispute. This has much to do with the corruption of the system. Not only can individual judges be corrupted, which probably won't be the case, but the politicians who dictate to the judges what they can and can't do can easily be corrupted, usually with plausible deniability. They create the laws and regulations that tie the hands of the judges. They do so to help their biggest contributors, who are those that have the spare money to contribute, like big banks and corporate financial institutions. The average guy on the street who is getting student loans for himself or his kids doesn't have that kind of spare change. These laws and regulations tend to help those with money and power and to screw those who are struggling to make a better life for themselves in a depressed economy that favors the corrupt. In many cases judges are forced to make a decision between two bad choices, much like we all must many times when we go to the voting polls.
In the book, Patrick gets lucky and is able to overcome his indebtedness to obtain his own opportunity. His master is quite understanding and permissive. He becomes a pirate. He gets revenge on those who done him wrong. In real life the carriers of student loans are not so lucky. Many will have to live with that burden the rest of their lives. That monkey on their backs will remove many opportunity they might otherwise have had. They cannot so easily take to the seas and target those who have used the system unfairly to their advantage. Even as they struggle to get by, even as the most their education can do is get them a minimum wage job, even as forces they cannot control topple the economy around their ears, powerful corporate forces teamed up with an intrusive surveillance state will squeeze what blood they can from the poor souls who fell for the scam and remove opportunity while doing so. It can all make a thinking man wonder who the pirates really are.
My best advice for the moment is to avoid student loans. Stop empowering the system by not using it. Find another way to fund your education, like working through school, or simply don't go and find another way to get through life. Start a business. Many millionaires never went to college. If you have a loan and you can, pay it off as quickly as possible. If you took one out and are one of the many having problems finding work or a decent paying job, start asking for the simple protections that all borrowers should have against predatory lenders. Just because one uses the money to buy an education doesn't mean that those protections should be removed. Just because one uses the money to go to school doesn't mean they should be forced into some sort of servitude they didn't foresee.
Risk should fall equally on lenders and borrowers. Do not ask for forgiveness for all student loans or ask for government to give you something for nothing. Simply ask for the opportunity to present your case in front of an arbitrator. Simply ask for the same type of bankruptcy protections that failed businesses receive. After all, are you a business trying to sell your skills in a free marketplace, or are you a slave trying to find a better master that will have you? A man can only be truly free when he is indebted to no one.
My archives can be found at my website szandorblestman.com. Please visit there to read more and support me by making a donation.
For a time my books will be available exclusively at Amazon.com from Kindle Direct Publishing. Keep an eye out for special offers. In the meantime, I do need sales in order to support my habit of eating. These are great, well written books that I'm sure you'll find enjoyable. Here are the links to all my ebooks so you can purchase and enjoy them:
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy
The Edge of Sanity (a Matthew Wayne novel)
The Ouijiers (a Matthew Wayne novel)
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