A few days ago millions of people in hundreds of cities worldwide participated in protest marches against the Monsanto corporation. Were you aware of that? If you're reading this then chances are you were, for most people that read blogs like mine are already aware of the freedom agenda that the powers that be are trying to keep hidden. But there's a problem in that there are still far too many people who insist on getting their news and information from the so called mainstream media. These people have no idea what reality is, for they actually continue to believe the propaganda they see on CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and all the networks and that they read in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, and all the other so called trusted mainstream media newspapers.
The so called mainstream media, the media owned by the same corporate elite who own the political elite who deign to rule over you, have refused to report on the March against Monsanto. I guess they don't consider this event important enough to report on. Funny, it was important enough for millions of people to participate in, but they felt it wasn't important enough to inform their viewers that this was going on. They want to keep as many people as ignorant as possible about what is really happening. They want to create the reality you see. They want to control your mind so that their masters can control your wealth. They don't like to see the masses waking up and doing something about the reality we live in, and so they do all they can to keep as many people as possible asleep.
This is just further evidence of who really owns the media. If they don't make the news, they don't report it. If the news sheds bad light on one of their corporate masters, they don't report it. It kind of makes one wonder about the validity of the news they do report. It kind of makes one wonder about what they're not telling us.
It's no secret that I was a big supporter of Ron Paul and an advocate of his run for the presidency. As such, I noticed a similar phenomenon when he was campaigning. The same mainstream media that now refuses to report on the March against Monsanto refused to accurately report on him. They refused to show his true popularity. They refused to report on the wins he had. They refused to investigate the reported cheating done by the GOP hierarchy to minimize his impact. This has apparently become a syndrome. When the media doesn't want the people to know how popular something has become with the masses, minimize it by not reporting on it, or by spinning it. It's dishonesty at its most disgusting level.
Why would they do this? I believe it's because something like this is a uniting issue. No one wants to be a guinea pig in an experiment involving the very food we eat. Just about everyone wants to know that the food they're eating is safe. Just about everyone wants to be able to decide for themselves what is safe to eat and what is not by knowing what their food honestly contains. Just about everyone can see the inherent evil in allowing a company to patent natural processes. It doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, a tea partier or an occupier, when it comes to food and its consumption there is much we can all agree on.
The message of freedom is just as unifying, and Ron Paul was all about the freedom message. But it seems the mainstream media doesn't want a unified electorate. Or, rather, the powers that be don't want a unified populace. They want to keep us divided, that way we're easy to control. They want to keep us fighting amongst ourselves so we won't unify to fight against them. That's why they don't want to report on Monsanto. They are Monsanto. They are the corporate elite, the corporate cartels. They don't care how many people are getting sick or dying because of their products, they just want your wealth and they don't want to honestly compete and provide a healthy product to get it. And if you get sick eating their GMO foods, well then you'll just have to spend more of your wealth going to their corporate controlled medical cartel who will prescribe drugs from the corporate controlled pharmaceutical cartel which will be paid for in part by the corporate controlled insurance cartel that you were forced to buy into by law. The mainstream media sources don't want you knowing about this, they certainly don't want you investigating it and they're most definitely not going to do that investigating for you.
Just about everyone would be able to see the inherent flaw in the thinking that organically grown plants contaminated with GMOs somehow violate the patent holder's property. And yet there's already been many family farms that have gone out of business because Monsanto sued them when the GMOs have contaminated the natural crops. Were you aware of that? And the courts have sided with Monsanto! The courts, which you may have thought were there to protect the individual, are protecting the corporate interests! The corruption, the evil of this is unfathomable. That's become the mainstream media's job these days, to make sure the evil goes unreported and that those who perpetrate evil are left unaccountable.
It's great that millions of people are trying to hold Monsanto accountable for their crimes against nature. It's wonderful that so many are waking up to this issue and are doing something about it. But it's not enough to just march against Monsanto. We need to also hold accountable those who enable Monsanto. We need to hold accountable the media. Stop watching corporate news. Stop reading corporate newspapers. Tell everyone you know to stop doing so, and tell them why. Keep up the social networking posts and tell everyone you know how you feel about this issue. It is an important issue. Point out the politicians who enable Monsanto, including Barack Obama who in March of this year signed into law what has come to be known as the "Monsanto Protection Act." No more excuses. The corporate influence in politics has become too dangerous to be ignored. It is up to you, now. You are the new media.
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Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Hard Work and Savings or Financial Thievery
I work hard for a living. I've worked hard all my life. I think most
of us have. When I've had work, I've done my best to become the best at
the job I've done. When I haven't had work, I've done my best to keep
busy and tried to make the most of my time by writing, doing odd jobs,
and trying to get along as best I could. I used to make a lot less
money, but then a dollar bought a lot more back then. I was taught that
hard work led to great reward. I was lied to.
Don't get me wrong, I believe hard work can lead to great reward. Sometimes hard work is reward in and of itself. In fact, I think that hard work should be the way one becomes successful. Unfortunately, that's not the reality of this world. I also believe that hard work can lead to poverty when that hard work gains one nothing except a currency that loses its buying power over time. This is what happens when a criminal element gains a monopoly on the creation of currency in a society, whether that society is local or worldwide. It's called fraud, and when an extremely small faction of the world's population is able to dictate to the rest of us what medium of exchange to use for our transactions that small faction will garner immense wealth and power, enough to put itself above the law.
Herein lies the problem. Hard work and savings are not rewarded in our society mostly because we operate on a fractional reserve fiat currency that has lost much of its value over time. Fraud and corruption are rewarded, however, as those responsible for issuing and distributing that currency are not held accountable for their errors or their criminal behavior. They are rewarded because they are able to legally steal the wealth that you and I have worked hard to obtain. This is done through taxation. This is done through inflation, which is inflating the money supply. This is done through indebtedness and artificially keeping the price of things so high that it becomes prohibitive to save for most large purchases and so one is forced to borrow.
You own nothing. Your family is not secure. So long as you have debt, your property is in jeopardy. So long as you are forced to pay taxes you are the property of the system, of the government, of an elite ruling class answerable to no one except the corporations that pay for them. The second you can no longer afford to pay for their excessive policies and social programs they will swoop in and take everything you thought you owned in order to satisfy back taxes. The courts are not there to protect you, they are there to take everything you own from you and give it to the banksters and politically connected the second you trip up, get sick, make bad financial decisions, or otherwise find yourself unable to keep up with the mortgage, or the car payments, or the business expenses, despite the fact that you may have already paid off the original value of the property two, three, four or more times. People worry so much about those who might go bankrupt due to medical expenses, and yet they just seem to shrug their shoulders and not care about those in danger of going bankrupt due to excessive interest rates or property taxes.
What's it like to find yourself in your later years with nothing to show for it? Perhaps you know, perhaps you don't. Perhaps you realize the precarious position the vast majority of us seem to be in, perhaps you think you're doing well for yourself and your wealth is secure. Don't be fooled. No one is untouchable. The criminal class at the top want control of all the wealth. Laws can be changed at any moment. Taxes can be raised. The economy can be trashed. So long as the politically powerful remain unaccountable for their actions, can garner support from the masses, can use the force of law to condone what would otherwise be obvious criminality, and command an army of mindless, unquestioning enforcers to silence any opposition or questioning of their authority, your wealth, your property, your life and liberty are in severe jeopardy. Remaining silent now will not help you in the future should they decide to come after you and yours.
And yet, maybe we're all just a little greedy. Maybe we tolerate financial thievery because as a society the vast majority of us engage in it at least a little bit. Many want a little something from the government. Everyone wants their subsidies. We let them take money from everyone so we can pay for our military, our roads, our schools, our trains, our buses, our courts, our hospitals, to help the poor, to help the farmers, to go into space, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Whatever your favorite government program, no one considers that you are forcing others to pay not through a legitimate charge for usage, but through force of law, mostly tax law. You are forcing those who don't use the service to pay for those who do use it so that those who do use it can pay less. That's theft. No one asks for donations. No one tries running these services as businesses for profit. They just take your money and do as they want with it. How can you compete with an organization that claims the authority to take from everyone to service a few?
Then we sit there and piss and moan about corruption and waste in the public sector. What do you expect? They don't have to tighten their belts when times get rough, they just raise taxes. Can't afford your property taxes? Too bad, they'll just take your house. Can't afford your income taxes? You'd better or they'll throw you in jail, and the law be damned! You don't like the wars, or the torture, or the drones? Too bad, so sad. That's their money, not yours, and just try to withhold taxes as a protest and see where that gets you. Complain all you want, as long as you pay your taxes they couldn't care less.
Of course the system is corrupt, the very concept is criminal in the first place. And so those who learn to play the system are financially rewarded. Free enterprise in this nation died nearly a hundred years ago when the federal government sold out the people of this country by implementing a privately owned, quasi-public, central bank known as The Federal Reserve System. From that point forward, only the corporate interests with the right connections were able to truly win the game.
How do we correct this problem? Well, clearly doing what we've been doing for the past century hasn't worked. Clearly trying to regulate this behemoth with corrupt and corruptible politicians is not working. Maybe we should try something different. Maybe we should allow a system based on competition where you decide what kind of currency you'd like to use for exchanging goods and services. I may be wrong, but I'd venture a guess that under such a system honest money, money exchangeable for some kind of commodity, like precious metals maybe, would soon be in greater use than all the debt based fractional reserve currencies in the world. Maybe that's why modern day central banks work so hard to prevent such a thing from happening. They know that if they were forced to actually compete against such honest money they would soon lose all their wealth and power.
We have a choice. We can continue to accept the Federal Reserve System and the theft and corruption it represents, or we can demand an end to the Fed and a return to a legalized, honest monetary system. We might have to give up some convenience, but the prosperity that would come from it would be well worth giving that up. Imagine a world where you worked and saved and when you bought something it became yours to keep. You wouldn't have to worry about losing it due to sickness, or injury, or some other unfortunate mishap. You could hide your money away for years and when you decided to spend it it would still have the same purchasing power. You could plan for your retirement using simple math instead of trying to guess how much you'd need your money to grow in order to survive. I'm not saying it would be perfect, but it would certainly be better than the uncertainty we have today.
The Federal Reserve with their monopoly on the creation of currency have their hands on the levers of power. These levers affect not only every American, but nearly every person on the face of this planet. By taking these levers away we take the economic fate of the many out of the hands of the few and give this power back to where it belongs, to the people that earn the money through hard work. And we should have that power, for we are the ones who produce. If you want to see growth, if you want to see more production, then it behooves us all to reward those who honestly produce reality rather than those who fraudulently create illusion.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Don't get me wrong, I believe hard work can lead to great reward. Sometimes hard work is reward in and of itself. In fact, I think that hard work should be the way one becomes successful. Unfortunately, that's not the reality of this world. I also believe that hard work can lead to poverty when that hard work gains one nothing except a currency that loses its buying power over time. This is what happens when a criminal element gains a monopoly on the creation of currency in a society, whether that society is local or worldwide. It's called fraud, and when an extremely small faction of the world's population is able to dictate to the rest of us what medium of exchange to use for our transactions that small faction will garner immense wealth and power, enough to put itself above the law.
Herein lies the problem. Hard work and savings are not rewarded in our society mostly because we operate on a fractional reserve fiat currency that has lost much of its value over time. Fraud and corruption are rewarded, however, as those responsible for issuing and distributing that currency are not held accountable for their errors or their criminal behavior. They are rewarded because they are able to legally steal the wealth that you and I have worked hard to obtain. This is done through taxation. This is done through inflation, which is inflating the money supply. This is done through indebtedness and artificially keeping the price of things so high that it becomes prohibitive to save for most large purchases and so one is forced to borrow.
You own nothing. Your family is not secure. So long as you have debt, your property is in jeopardy. So long as you are forced to pay taxes you are the property of the system, of the government, of an elite ruling class answerable to no one except the corporations that pay for them. The second you can no longer afford to pay for their excessive policies and social programs they will swoop in and take everything you thought you owned in order to satisfy back taxes. The courts are not there to protect you, they are there to take everything you own from you and give it to the banksters and politically connected the second you trip up, get sick, make bad financial decisions, or otherwise find yourself unable to keep up with the mortgage, or the car payments, or the business expenses, despite the fact that you may have already paid off the original value of the property two, three, four or more times. People worry so much about those who might go bankrupt due to medical expenses, and yet they just seem to shrug their shoulders and not care about those in danger of going bankrupt due to excessive interest rates or property taxes.
What's it like to find yourself in your later years with nothing to show for it? Perhaps you know, perhaps you don't. Perhaps you realize the precarious position the vast majority of us seem to be in, perhaps you think you're doing well for yourself and your wealth is secure. Don't be fooled. No one is untouchable. The criminal class at the top want control of all the wealth. Laws can be changed at any moment. Taxes can be raised. The economy can be trashed. So long as the politically powerful remain unaccountable for their actions, can garner support from the masses, can use the force of law to condone what would otherwise be obvious criminality, and command an army of mindless, unquestioning enforcers to silence any opposition or questioning of their authority, your wealth, your property, your life and liberty are in severe jeopardy. Remaining silent now will not help you in the future should they decide to come after you and yours.
And yet, maybe we're all just a little greedy. Maybe we tolerate financial thievery because as a society the vast majority of us engage in it at least a little bit. Many want a little something from the government. Everyone wants their subsidies. We let them take money from everyone so we can pay for our military, our roads, our schools, our trains, our buses, our courts, our hospitals, to help the poor, to help the farmers, to go into space, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Whatever your favorite government program, no one considers that you are forcing others to pay not through a legitimate charge for usage, but through force of law, mostly tax law. You are forcing those who don't use the service to pay for those who do use it so that those who do use it can pay less. That's theft. No one asks for donations. No one tries running these services as businesses for profit. They just take your money and do as they want with it. How can you compete with an organization that claims the authority to take from everyone to service a few?
Then we sit there and piss and moan about corruption and waste in the public sector. What do you expect? They don't have to tighten their belts when times get rough, they just raise taxes. Can't afford your property taxes? Too bad, they'll just take your house. Can't afford your income taxes? You'd better or they'll throw you in jail, and the law be damned! You don't like the wars, or the torture, or the drones? Too bad, so sad. That's their money, not yours, and just try to withhold taxes as a protest and see where that gets you. Complain all you want, as long as you pay your taxes they couldn't care less.
Of course the system is corrupt, the very concept is criminal in the first place. And so those who learn to play the system are financially rewarded. Free enterprise in this nation died nearly a hundred years ago when the federal government sold out the people of this country by implementing a privately owned, quasi-public, central bank known as The Federal Reserve System. From that point forward, only the corporate interests with the right connections were able to truly win the game.
How do we correct this problem? Well, clearly doing what we've been doing for the past century hasn't worked. Clearly trying to regulate this behemoth with corrupt and corruptible politicians is not working. Maybe we should try something different. Maybe we should allow a system based on competition where you decide what kind of currency you'd like to use for exchanging goods and services. I may be wrong, but I'd venture a guess that under such a system honest money, money exchangeable for some kind of commodity, like precious metals maybe, would soon be in greater use than all the debt based fractional reserve currencies in the world. Maybe that's why modern day central banks work so hard to prevent such a thing from happening. They know that if they were forced to actually compete against such honest money they would soon lose all their wealth and power.
We have a choice. We can continue to accept the Federal Reserve System and the theft and corruption it represents, or we can demand an end to the Fed and a return to a legalized, honest monetary system. We might have to give up some convenience, but the prosperity that would come from it would be well worth giving that up. Imagine a world where you worked and saved and when you bought something it became yours to keep. You wouldn't have to worry about losing it due to sickness, or injury, or some other unfortunate mishap. You could hide your money away for years and when you decided to spend it it would still have the same purchasing power. You could plan for your retirement using simple math instead of trying to guess how much you'd need your money to grow in order to survive. I'm not saying it would be perfect, but it would certainly be better than the uncertainty we have today.
The Federal Reserve with their monopoly on the creation of currency have their hands on the levers of power. These levers affect not only every American, but nearly every person on the face of this planet. By taking these levers away we take the economic fate of the many out of the hands of the few and give this power back to where it belongs, to the people that earn the money through hard work. And we should have that power, for we are the ones who produce. If you want to see growth, if you want to see more production, then it behooves us all to reward those who honestly produce reality rather than those who fraudulently create illusion.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Incompetence Rewarded or Malicious Intent?
Ask yourself this, what would happen to you if you were incompetent at your job? What would happen to you if you were in management and people you supervised were constantly making poor decisions? What would your boss do to you? Would you still have your job? How many times would you be able to use the excuse that you just didn't know what some underling was doing? I bet it wouldn't take long before some disciplinary action was brought against you. It's likely that sooner or later you would be held accountable. If only it was that way in politics.
Back when W was president he used to like to use the incompetence excuse also. I spoke out against it. He told Brownie he was doing a helluva job even after the Katrina debacle. He claimed his intelligence agencies had no way of knowing about the 9/11 attacks even though several other intelligence agencies had sent warnings. He spoke of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when there were none. Time and again he claimed incompetence or no knowledge when handling events that they should have been better prepared to handle. I felt back then he should have been held accountable, and I feel now that Obama and his administration also ought to be held accountable for their incompetence and seeming inability to keep the president in the loop.
The thing is, you had the left running cover for the right and now you have the right running cover for the left. Back when Bush was president, I believe it was Nancy Polosi, one of leaders of the left, who said that impeachment was off the table. Why would someone on the left say that of Bush? Why would these supposedly staunch philosophical opponents remove their strongest weapon for keeping the powerful in check? The answer is simple. They already knew that one day their guy would be in power, this time sooner rather than later. When that happened, they wanted their guy to be able to get away with the same bullshit the other guy got away with. In the political game, they know it's power that matters, not principle.
I don't expect Obama to be held accountable for his administration's foibles, much as I'd like to see that happen. Of course, I would have liked to have seen the Bush administration held accountable for their misdeeds also. The fact that they weren't is one reason why I don't believe the Obama administration will be either. None of these people are ever held accountable, not unless you count Richard Nixon being forced to resign, and he hardly did anything as reprehensible as these past few administrations. But then, he did put an end to American involvement in the Vietnam conflict which had to anger the powers that be to no end.
In the world of politics and public bureaucracies, it seems that incompetence is almost always rewarded rather than punished. The incompetent don't get fired, they get more money for their department's budget as if throwing more money at them will make them more competent. Powerful representatives don't get booted out of office by the electorate, but the overwhelming majority of incumbents are re-elected even when they've been incompetent, usually because he or she seems or is portrayed as the least incompetent choice of those running for office. It's the devil you know versus the devil you don't syndrome. In such an environment, is it any surprise that the system breeds incompetence? In such an environment, is it any surprise that people seem to almost strive to be as incompetent as possible? Or is there some malicious intent behind the scenes that wishes to create an illusion of incompetence to see how much they can get away with, how much control they can command before the common folk sit up, take notice, and begin to deny their consent to be ruled.
Perhaps that's been the problem all along. Perhaps there really is a secret elite class that controls all the politicians. Perhaps this has been their plan all along. Perhaps there is a conspiracy to centralize all the power of human activity and commerce into the hands of a few people at the top who will be able to dictate to the rest of us what to do so that they can engineer a society based on their vision of what humanity should be rather than everyone else's. Perhaps they don't even care about building a consensus anymore, although they'd like you to think they do so that if you disagree you'll think you're in a minority and that you can change things simply by convincing others to accept your point of view.
If there is a cabal working behind the scenes than maybe the puppets they control aren't so incompetent after all, maybe they're just following orders. After all, Obama seems to be a fairly intelligent guy. Even Bush seemed quite intelligent and articulate before he became president when he suddenly became a caricature of a southern bumpkin. How can men who seem so intelligent suddenly become so incompetent after being elected president? Is it more likely that there is some sort of malicious intent at work here? Is it more likely that there is a secret agenda being implemented? Could there be forces at work trying to manipulate the masses of humanity into accepting some form of authoritarian world government? Or is our political system such a failure that we are destined to forever elect incompetents into the supposedly most powerful office in the world?
Whatever the case, incompetence, malicious intent, or both, the recent scandals have shown that the system is beyond broken. How can we continue to accept a president who consistently doesn't know what those under his supervision are doing? How can we accept a president who doesn't seem able to appoint high level staff who are capable of operating within the parameters set down for them by law? How can we continue to reward incompetence by giving those who prove incompetent even more power? How can we continue to give more trust those who consistently abuse or mishandle the trust they have already been given?
The time has come to reduce the power entrusted to the administrative branch of the federal government. The time has come to enforce the limits of power on the federal government as set down in the Constitution. The time has come to investigate the incompetence and to determine whether malfeasance is involved and where it has come from. It is not enough to simply accept that low level bureaucrats who take their marching orders from above were somehow so incompetent that they couldn't do their jobs correctly. Somehow, someone at the top was involved. It's long past time that those at the top were held accountable for what those below them do.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Back when W was president he used to like to use the incompetence excuse also. I spoke out against it. He told Brownie he was doing a helluva job even after the Katrina debacle. He claimed his intelligence agencies had no way of knowing about the 9/11 attacks even though several other intelligence agencies had sent warnings. He spoke of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when there were none. Time and again he claimed incompetence or no knowledge when handling events that they should have been better prepared to handle. I felt back then he should have been held accountable, and I feel now that Obama and his administration also ought to be held accountable for their incompetence and seeming inability to keep the president in the loop.
The thing is, you had the left running cover for the right and now you have the right running cover for the left. Back when Bush was president, I believe it was Nancy Polosi, one of leaders of the left, who said that impeachment was off the table. Why would someone on the left say that of Bush? Why would these supposedly staunch philosophical opponents remove their strongest weapon for keeping the powerful in check? The answer is simple. They already knew that one day their guy would be in power, this time sooner rather than later. When that happened, they wanted their guy to be able to get away with the same bullshit the other guy got away with. In the political game, they know it's power that matters, not principle.
I don't expect Obama to be held accountable for his administration's foibles, much as I'd like to see that happen. Of course, I would have liked to have seen the Bush administration held accountable for their misdeeds also. The fact that they weren't is one reason why I don't believe the Obama administration will be either. None of these people are ever held accountable, not unless you count Richard Nixon being forced to resign, and he hardly did anything as reprehensible as these past few administrations. But then, he did put an end to American involvement in the Vietnam conflict which had to anger the powers that be to no end.
In the world of politics and public bureaucracies, it seems that incompetence is almost always rewarded rather than punished. The incompetent don't get fired, they get more money for their department's budget as if throwing more money at them will make them more competent. Powerful representatives don't get booted out of office by the electorate, but the overwhelming majority of incumbents are re-elected even when they've been incompetent, usually because he or she seems or is portrayed as the least incompetent choice of those running for office. It's the devil you know versus the devil you don't syndrome. In such an environment, is it any surprise that the system breeds incompetence? In such an environment, is it any surprise that people seem to almost strive to be as incompetent as possible? Or is there some malicious intent behind the scenes that wishes to create an illusion of incompetence to see how much they can get away with, how much control they can command before the common folk sit up, take notice, and begin to deny their consent to be ruled.
Perhaps that's been the problem all along. Perhaps there really is a secret elite class that controls all the politicians. Perhaps this has been their plan all along. Perhaps there is a conspiracy to centralize all the power of human activity and commerce into the hands of a few people at the top who will be able to dictate to the rest of us what to do so that they can engineer a society based on their vision of what humanity should be rather than everyone else's. Perhaps they don't even care about building a consensus anymore, although they'd like you to think they do so that if you disagree you'll think you're in a minority and that you can change things simply by convincing others to accept your point of view.
If there is a cabal working behind the scenes than maybe the puppets they control aren't so incompetent after all, maybe they're just following orders. After all, Obama seems to be a fairly intelligent guy. Even Bush seemed quite intelligent and articulate before he became president when he suddenly became a caricature of a southern bumpkin. How can men who seem so intelligent suddenly become so incompetent after being elected president? Is it more likely that there is some sort of malicious intent at work here? Is it more likely that there is a secret agenda being implemented? Could there be forces at work trying to manipulate the masses of humanity into accepting some form of authoritarian world government? Or is our political system such a failure that we are destined to forever elect incompetents into the supposedly most powerful office in the world?
Whatever the case, incompetence, malicious intent, or both, the recent scandals have shown that the system is beyond broken. How can we continue to accept a president who consistently doesn't know what those under his supervision are doing? How can we accept a president who doesn't seem able to appoint high level staff who are capable of operating within the parameters set down for them by law? How can we continue to reward incompetence by giving those who prove incompetent even more power? How can we continue to give more trust those who consistently abuse or mishandle the trust they have already been given?
The time has come to reduce the power entrusted to the administrative branch of the federal government. The time has come to enforce the limits of power on the federal government as set down in the Constitution. The time has come to investigate the incompetence and to determine whether malfeasance is involved and where it has come from. It is not enough to simply accept that low level bureaucrats who take their marching orders from above were somehow so incompetent that they couldn't do their jobs correctly. Somehow, someone at the top was involved. It's long past time that those at the top were held accountable for what those below them do.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Fed and the War on You and Private Property
The word "war" has changed over the decades. It used to mean the
militaries of different nation states battling each other for dominance
over certain territorial claims and the peoples living in those
territories. Nowadays, because of the complete bastardization of the
English language, it has come to mean a battle against anything the
state wants to control but can't. It's come to mean the attempt of an
elite ruling class to gain control of all the wealth, property and power
in the world versus rising middle and lower classes who wish only a
small portion so that they can live their lives and raise their children
in relative comfort. It is a war of those who would be lords of all
versus those they wish to make into serfs.
This war is being fought in secret and without the shooting, the explosions, the mayhem and the gore of past conflicts. In order to win, the lords need to keep the serfs from realizing that a war wages all around them. They need to prevent the masses from understanding who the real enemy is. They need to keep their serfs from realizing that they are slaves and maybe even get them to love their servitude. They need to get people to believe that they are free even as they become more and more indebted to their masters, and to do all this they need to redefine what freedom is. They may even try to redefine what it means to be human in the process.
They need weapons to carry out their plans. I would call these weapons of mass mind destruction. They own the government. They own the education system. They own the major media outlets. They use these to infuse their ideals, their vision of what the world should be, into the population. It is a vision where they are in complete control and you are nothing but their livestock, something they own and so can do with as they will, when they will it. The casualties of these weapons aren't broken, dead bodies and human beings dismembered and maimed to the point of helplessness, they are those who have lost the ability to think critically, who accept as gospel what they are told by mainstream media or government sources, parrot what those sources tell them, argue for government violation of natural rights and are unable to imagine a world where solutions are developed from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
I have come to believe that the head of this war machine is the owners of the central banks across the planet, the most powerful of which is the Federal Reserve System of The United Stares of America. Even if I'm wrong and some higher power controls the central banks, they are at least the heart of the operation.These people, for all their talk and propaganda about providing jobs, growth and prosperity, have done everything they've done not for the benefit of mankind, but for their own damn benefit and for the benefit of their friends and allies who would help them grow and maintain their power, wealth and control. They have created a monopoly, debt based currency system not to help grow and stabilize the economy, but to help solidify the control they have over all of us. They control us through controlling the issuance of currency, expanding and contracting it as they see fit.
They can use this power to manipulate the markets however they please. They pump their funny money into the areas of the economy they wish to inflate, wait for the mice to come after the cheese, and then remove their funds when their profits are high enough bursting the bubbles and leaving the small investors wondering WTF happened? If you think you can see where market demand is going to be and make investments based on this analysis, you'd better factor in whether or not such demand is going to benefit the elite. Guess right and align yourself with the elite and you'll benefit along with them, but guess wrong and you'll be left holding an empty bag as they run off with all your money, laughing. Markets have become big gamboling casinos where the house always wins in the end. This is how they wage war, by cheating your ability to evaluate, cheating your ability to prosper, and hence making it more unlikely that you will ever be able to challenge their economic hegemony.
So how can we win? How can mankind become free from these seemingly all powerful masters of manipulation who hold all the cards? Well, I don't know for certain, but there are some things I know. It won't happen through apathy. It won't happen through blissful ignorance. It won't happen if we all give up. And it won't happen through violence. It can happen when enough of us realize that we have been played, that we are really just serfs working for the benefit of the elite, and then we begin to take steps to dismantle the institutions that have helped ensnare us into this web of indebtedness. It can happen when we begin to unlearn what the elite have taught us through their public schools and relearn what it means to be free and independent people and how that can lead to prosperity.
This last step comes through certain realizations. The first is that you own yourself. God does not own you, for he gave you the gift of freewill. The government does not own you. Everybody does not own you. Nobody does not own you. You own yourself. The energy inside you that animates your flesh owns that flesh. Anyone that tries to convince you otherwise is trying to sell you on some collectivist scheme that is a direct path to some type of slavery. Your body. Your decisions on what to do to that body. It is wrong for someone to force you to do something with your body that you don't want to do of your own volition.
The second is that everyone else owns their own selves. You do not own them. It is wrong for you to force them to do something with their body that they don't want to do of their own volition. It is wrong for you to hire someone else to force them to do something with their body that they don't want to do of their own volition. All interactions with each other need to be voluntary. This includes business interactions as well as personal interactions. Of course, there is the caveat that one not harm nor defraud another.
The third realization is that, if each one of us owns our own bodies, then it comes to reason that we also own the product of what we decide to do with those bodies. We own the fruits of our labor. It is wrong for anyone to force anyone else to give up any portion of those fruits in an involuntary or coercive manner. It is wrong for anyone to lay claim to another's property when that property has been bought and paid for by voluntarily exchanging those fruits for said property. It doesn't matter whether it is a single person doing these things, or a group of people calling themselves a corporation, or a group of people calling themselves government, or a majority of people voting to take away someone else's property. Theft is theft even when it's called by another name, like taxes. Coercion is coercion even when those issuing the threats were voted into office by a majority of voters. Force is force even when those carrying out the force wear uniforms and claim to be simply upholding a law or simply following lawful orders. As long as one has not harmed another and has obtained his property through honest means by providing a voluntarily paid for product or service, one should not have to worry about losing his property, or his freedom.
The Federal Reserve has endeavored to change how we think about freedom. They have endeavored to make people believe they are entitled to another's property. They have endeavored to make people believe they have the right to steal products and services from others so long as a majority says it's so. They have endeavored to remain hidden from view, to pull the strings of as many people as they can so that we remain divided amongst ourselves and pay no attention to them. They are in control. They are the manipulators. They are the men behind the curtains and if they have their way they will own you and all the property that exists in this world. They are the ones that are waging the wars. They are warring against you and your private property and until you realize this you will not know who to struggle against. When enough people gain this knowledge, however, and decide to do something about it, the struggle will become easier.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
This war is being fought in secret and without the shooting, the explosions, the mayhem and the gore of past conflicts. In order to win, the lords need to keep the serfs from realizing that a war wages all around them. They need to prevent the masses from understanding who the real enemy is. They need to keep their serfs from realizing that they are slaves and maybe even get them to love their servitude. They need to get people to believe that they are free even as they become more and more indebted to their masters, and to do all this they need to redefine what freedom is. They may even try to redefine what it means to be human in the process.
They need weapons to carry out their plans. I would call these weapons of mass mind destruction. They own the government. They own the education system. They own the major media outlets. They use these to infuse their ideals, their vision of what the world should be, into the population. It is a vision where they are in complete control and you are nothing but their livestock, something they own and so can do with as they will, when they will it. The casualties of these weapons aren't broken, dead bodies and human beings dismembered and maimed to the point of helplessness, they are those who have lost the ability to think critically, who accept as gospel what they are told by mainstream media or government sources, parrot what those sources tell them, argue for government violation of natural rights and are unable to imagine a world where solutions are developed from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
I have come to believe that the head of this war machine is the owners of the central banks across the planet, the most powerful of which is the Federal Reserve System of The United Stares of America. Even if I'm wrong and some higher power controls the central banks, they are at least the heart of the operation.These people, for all their talk and propaganda about providing jobs, growth and prosperity, have done everything they've done not for the benefit of mankind, but for their own damn benefit and for the benefit of their friends and allies who would help them grow and maintain their power, wealth and control. They have created a monopoly, debt based currency system not to help grow and stabilize the economy, but to help solidify the control they have over all of us. They control us through controlling the issuance of currency, expanding and contracting it as they see fit.
They can use this power to manipulate the markets however they please. They pump their funny money into the areas of the economy they wish to inflate, wait for the mice to come after the cheese, and then remove their funds when their profits are high enough bursting the bubbles and leaving the small investors wondering WTF happened? If you think you can see where market demand is going to be and make investments based on this analysis, you'd better factor in whether or not such demand is going to benefit the elite. Guess right and align yourself with the elite and you'll benefit along with them, but guess wrong and you'll be left holding an empty bag as they run off with all your money, laughing. Markets have become big gamboling casinos where the house always wins in the end. This is how they wage war, by cheating your ability to evaluate, cheating your ability to prosper, and hence making it more unlikely that you will ever be able to challenge their economic hegemony.
So how can we win? How can mankind become free from these seemingly all powerful masters of manipulation who hold all the cards? Well, I don't know for certain, but there are some things I know. It won't happen through apathy. It won't happen through blissful ignorance. It won't happen if we all give up. And it won't happen through violence. It can happen when enough of us realize that we have been played, that we are really just serfs working for the benefit of the elite, and then we begin to take steps to dismantle the institutions that have helped ensnare us into this web of indebtedness. It can happen when we begin to unlearn what the elite have taught us through their public schools and relearn what it means to be free and independent people and how that can lead to prosperity.
This last step comes through certain realizations. The first is that you own yourself. God does not own you, for he gave you the gift of freewill. The government does not own you. Everybody does not own you. Nobody does not own you. You own yourself. The energy inside you that animates your flesh owns that flesh. Anyone that tries to convince you otherwise is trying to sell you on some collectivist scheme that is a direct path to some type of slavery. Your body. Your decisions on what to do to that body. It is wrong for someone to force you to do something with your body that you don't want to do of your own volition.
The second is that everyone else owns their own selves. You do not own them. It is wrong for you to force them to do something with their body that they don't want to do of their own volition. It is wrong for you to hire someone else to force them to do something with their body that they don't want to do of their own volition. All interactions with each other need to be voluntary. This includes business interactions as well as personal interactions. Of course, there is the caveat that one not harm nor defraud another.
The third realization is that, if each one of us owns our own bodies, then it comes to reason that we also own the product of what we decide to do with those bodies. We own the fruits of our labor. It is wrong for anyone to force anyone else to give up any portion of those fruits in an involuntary or coercive manner. It is wrong for anyone to lay claim to another's property when that property has been bought and paid for by voluntarily exchanging those fruits for said property. It doesn't matter whether it is a single person doing these things, or a group of people calling themselves a corporation, or a group of people calling themselves government, or a majority of people voting to take away someone else's property. Theft is theft even when it's called by another name, like taxes. Coercion is coercion even when those issuing the threats were voted into office by a majority of voters. Force is force even when those carrying out the force wear uniforms and claim to be simply upholding a law or simply following lawful orders. As long as one has not harmed another and has obtained his property through honest means by providing a voluntarily paid for product or service, one should not have to worry about losing his property, or his freedom.
The Federal Reserve has endeavored to change how we think about freedom. They have endeavored to make people believe they are entitled to another's property. They have endeavored to make people believe they have the right to steal products and services from others so long as a majority says it's so. They have endeavored to remain hidden from view, to pull the strings of as many people as they can so that we remain divided amongst ourselves and pay no attention to them. They are in control. They are the manipulators. They are the men behind the curtains and if they have their way they will own you and all the property that exists in this world. They are the ones that are waging the wars. They are warring against you and your private property and until you realize this you will not know who to struggle against. When enough people gain this knowledge, however, and decide to do something about it, the struggle will become easier.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The Forgotten Reasons for Advocating Freedom
As I watched the beginning of the Boston Red Sox game, the first
baseball game played in Boston since the tragic events of 4/15/2013, I
was flabbergasted by the propaganda that was taking place before my
eyes. Thousands of people applauding the police who had shut down their
city in an attempt to find one unarmed, wounded 19 year old. Thousands
of people applauding the martial law that had come to their city.
Thousands of people applauding the disintegration of The Bill of Rights
and welcoming the armed men who could remove entire families from their
homes at gun point without warrant and without, in my humble opinion,
just cause. All for one lonely, isolated teen accused, not proven, of
doing something evil and already judged guilty by the masses.
The scene was surreal. It reminded me of those other collectivist nations of the past, where the populace lined the streets and joyously applauded as their so called leaders who had brought martial law down upon them paraded by. They welcomed the tyranny. They welcomed the evil. It was only years after the fact, when the truth was able to come out, that humanity understood the suffering that authoritarian collectivism causes. Are we in the United States of America to tread down that same path? Are we to wake up decades later to discover the mistakes we made, or are we to learn from others and forego the suffering they went through? Have we so easily forgotten what our ancestors knew? Is it so easy to disregard what the founding fathers taught us? Will history remember us as those who reached the pinnacle of human potential, or as just another society who forgot history and so repeated it?
Can we remember what it was like before mankind took the first tenuous steps toward a free society? It really wasn't that long ago that royal families ruled all of Europe. They lived in opulence while the common folks lived in squalor. While it is true that there are none alive today that experienced such tyranny, enough people of empathy left record of that time for us to imagine the horrors they saw and suffered through. At first those who would be free agreed to give authority to a few elite for their protection, but soon the elite were protecting them not from outsiders who threatened physical harm, but from those within who questioned the wisdom of the authorities. People feared the authorities because authority wants fear to spread. Authority feeds on fear. Those who question authority aren't a threat to the common folk, they are a threat to the power structure.
We have more to fear from those who would lead us than we do from those who would attack us from without. Those with power over us have more to gain from terrorizing us than the outsider with no influence over our society. When we are frightened we have a tendency to rally around our so called leaders and abdicate our rights without challenge in the vain hope that we will be protected. As this progresses it always ends the same. Secrecy and corruption grow as power is centralized and the ruling elite become greedier and more entrenched in their positions of power.
Freedom for all allows for more transparency. It allows for more accountability. It allows for more personal responsibility, even in the realm of security. It allows for a more open society. It allows for more closely knit communities based on love and trust rather than doubt and fear. In short, the principles of freedom and liberty allow for all that most of us dream about. It even allows for more security, or at least it allows for us all to choose the level of security we wish to have and the level of risk we wish to take. I think that the fear generated by recent events have clouded our thinking and caused us to forget the very things we should be most conscious of, the very things the people of the United States of America should hold most sacred.
We are supposed to be the land of the brave. We are not supposed to tremble and cower in our locked down homes in fear every time some mad bombers show up in our streets, let alone some misguided kids who, from what I've been able to gather from mainstream sources, cooked up some hair-brained scheme. The real terrorists are laughing at us. We are supposed to be a fiercely independent nation of rugged individualists. How did we come to be so dependent on the state for our security? How did we come to be a nation of meekly obedient sheep who so easily defer to the "authorities" whenever some small time troublemaker acts out? The real terrorists are taking advantage of us. We are supposed to be a nation of freedom loving people. How did we come to be a nation of livestock begging to be tyrannized simply because we have discovered that the world can be a dangerous place? How can we give up that which is most precious to us when we are supposedly afraid to lose it? The real terrorists will be happy to take it from us.
I feel for the people of Boston. I feel for those who lost their lives and limbs and innocence on April 15th. It was a terrible tragedy, a horrible thing to go through, but the reaction was worse. Will we go after those who failed? Will anyone from law enforcement be fired? Will anyone from law enforcement be implicated in the bombing and/or be held accountable for negligence? I doubt it. They never are. Perhaps a more important question is: why do these events always seem to take place when some drill is going on? Maybe it's time to take a look at how these drills are run. Maybe we should try to find out how terrorists seem to know when they're going to happen. In a society with a more open government the answers to these questions would more likely be forthcoming.
We, as a society, seem to have forgotten what it means to be free and independent. We have come to depend on the government power structure so much that we have forgotten what it takes to find our own way in life. We have forgotten the pride one gets from working hard to create a better life for one's self and one's family. We have forgotten the immense personal sense of satisfaction one gets from knowing that what you've accomplished you've accomplished through your own efforts, not through some government largess.
It's time we rediscovered what freedom is about. True freedom brings peace. True freedom brings brotherhood. True freedom brings about security. We have tried giving power to a few elite, and they have failed. We have tried their centralization schemes and they have proved catastrophic. It's time to decentralize. It's time to strip the federal government down to its constitutional size. It's time to demand they obey the law that is the Constitution of the United States. It's time to stop cowering, step out and show that martial law is unnecessary no matter the circumstances. If we don't honor freedom in the face of terrorism, then history will not remember us as a free and independent people, but the people of the future will instead shake their heads and ask how we could not see what was coming and how it was we let the evil grow.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
The scene was surreal. It reminded me of those other collectivist nations of the past, where the populace lined the streets and joyously applauded as their so called leaders who had brought martial law down upon them paraded by. They welcomed the tyranny. They welcomed the evil. It was only years after the fact, when the truth was able to come out, that humanity understood the suffering that authoritarian collectivism causes. Are we in the United States of America to tread down that same path? Are we to wake up decades later to discover the mistakes we made, or are we to learn from others and forego the suffering they went through? Have we so easily forgotten what our ancestors knew? Is it so easy to disregard what the founding fathers taught us? Will history remember us as those who reached the pinnacle of human potential, or as just another society who forgot history and so repeated it?
Can we remember what it was like before mankind took the first tenuous steps toward a free society? It really wasn't that long ago that royal families ruled all of Europe. They lived in opulence while the common folks lived in squalor. While it is true that there are none alive today that experienced such tyranny, enough people of empathy left record of that time for us to imagine the horrors they saw and suffered through. At first those who would be free agreed to give authority to a few elite for their protection, but soon the elite were protecting them not from outsiders who threatened physical harm, but from those within who questioned the wisdom of the authorities. People feared the authorities because authority wants fear to spread. Authority feeds on fear. Those who question authority aren't a threat to the common folk, they are a threat to the power structure.
We have more to fear from those who would lead us than we do from those who would attack us from without. Those with power over us have more to gain from terrorizing us than the outsider with no influence over our society. When we are frightened we have a tendency to rally around our so called leaders and abdicate our rights without challenge in the vain hope that we will be protected. As this progresses it always ends the same. Secrecy and corruption grow as power is centralized and the ruling elite become greedier and more entrenched in their positions of power.
Freedom for all allows for more transparency. It allows for more accountability. It allows for more personal responsibility, even in the realm of security. It allows for a more open society. It allows for more closely knit communities based on love and trust rather than doubt and fear. In short, the principles of freedom and liberty allow for all that most of us dream about. It even allows for more security, or at least it allows for us all to choose the level of security we wish to have and the level of risk we wish to take. I think that the fear generated by recent events have clouded our thinking and caused us to forget the very things we should be most conscious of, the very things the people of the United States of America should hold most sacred.
We are supposed to be the land of the brave. We are not supposed to tremble and cower in our locked down homes in fear every time some mad bombers show up in our streets, let alone some misguided kids who, from what I've been able to gather from mainstream sources, cooked up some hair-brained scheme. The real terrorists are laughing at us. We are supposed to be a fiercely independent nation of rugged individualists. How did we come to be so dependent on the state for our security? How did we come to be a nation of meekly obedient sheep who so easily defer to the "authorities" whenever some small time troublemaker acts out? The real terrorists are taking advantage of us. We are supposed to be a nation of freedom loving people. How did we come to be a nation of livestock begging to be tyrannized simply because we have discovered that the world can be a dangerous place? How can we give up that which is most precious to us when we are supposedly afraid to lose it? The real terrorists will be happy to take it from us.
I feel for the people of Boston. I feel for those who lost their lives and limbs and innocence on April 15th. It was a terrible tragedy, a horrible thing to go through, but the reaction was worse. Will we go after those who failed? Will anyone from law enforcement be fired? Will anyone from law enforcement be implicated in the bombing and/or be held accountable for negligence? I doubt it. They never are. Perhaps a more important question is: why do these events always seem to take place when some drill is going on? Maybe it's time to take a look at how these drills are run. Maybe we should try to find out how terrorists seem to know when they're going to happen. In a society with a more open government the answers to these questions would more likely be forthcoming.
We, as a society, seem to have forgotten what it means to be free and independent. We have come to depend on the government power structure so much that we have forgotten what it takes to find our own way in life. We have forgotten the pride one gets from working hard to create a better life for one's self and one's family. We have forgotten the immense personal sense of satisfaction one gets from knowing that what you've accomplished you've accomplished through your own efforts, not through some government largess.
It's time we rediscovered what freedom is about. True freedom brings peace. True freedom brings brotherhood. True freedom brings about security. We have tried giving power to a few elite, and they have failed. We have tried their centralization schemes and they have proved catastrophic. It's time to decentralize. It's time to strip the federal government down to its constitutional size. It's time to demand they obey the law that is the Constitution of the United States. It's time to stop cowering, step out and show that martial law is unnecessary no matter the circumstances. If we don't honor freedom in the face of terrorism, then history will not remember us as a free and independent people, but the people of the future will instead shake their heads and ask how we could not see what was coming and how it was we let the evil grow.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Friday, April 19, 2013
How Progressives Love and Support Corporations
I don't like to label people. I don't like to speak in generalities.
Unfortunately we live in a society where labels and generalities have
become quite acceptable, particularly when talking in terms of politics
and political beliefs. It is, in my opinion, because of this, at least
partially, that we often forget we live in an individualist society. It
is among the most unique societies in human history. As part of
Westernized culture we have romanticized the idea of freedom, but as
Americans we have squandered the ideals of the founding fathers and
allowed a tyrannical centralized government and their corporate backers
to gain too much power and influence over our personal lives. I believe
this is because we as human beings seem to have this tendency toward
wanting to collectivize. This likely has something to do with the human
desire to be loved and accepted by others. We worry that if we don't
share the same customs and beliefs as others that they will not accept
us for loving, caring human beings.
Because we live in a world where generalizations are prevalent in the media, how we define the labels we use becomes distorted. For instance, progressives are supposed to hate corporations and love government regulations and intervention in the markets. Conservatives and libertarians, on the other hand, are supposed to love corporations by hating such government regulations and interventions and loving the idea of smaller government. But the opposite is true. While many progressives would be loathe to admit that they love and support huge corporate entities, in practice they do. In the real world it is actions that matter, not words. It is not so much what you say as what you do that really makes the difference.
Any so called progressive that is reading this is by now likely throwing a fit. Inside his head he is likely fuming as he thinks about how much he hates corporations. His sensibilities are likely quite insulted by my accusation that he loves and supports them. He may well wonder how it is that I can support such an accusation. Well, for one thing, in at least one way they are in complete agreement with one of the most infamous robber barons ever. Like John D. Rockefeller, they hate competition and love monopolies.
Why would I say this? Simple, they hate free markets and at the same time they support the most heinous monopoly of all, the government monopoly on legalized force. They are constantly bashing free market philosophies and blaming them for the economic problems we currently face, but the fact is that there has not been true free markets in this country for a very long time, if indeed there ever were. Government interventions in the markets have been going on since before the founding of the nation, but they've become more egregious in the past few decades with the most offensive intrusion being the introduction of the latest iteration of the central bank, the privately owned Federal Reserve System, a century ago. If anyone is to blame for our current financial fiasco it is big centralized government. They have proven they are either too incompetent, too inept, or too corrupt to trust when it comes to centralized planning of the economy.
Free markets are all about competition. They're all about a free flow of ideas to try to keep as many consumers as happy as possible by providing products and services that are demanded by the consuming public. John D. Rockefeller said that competition is a sin and apparently progressives agree for they seem to think that big government regulation is a better way than competition to keep corporations in check. They seem to think it's better to grant a monopoly on legitimized force to a small group of elites and then have them erect barriers that prevent competition from entering the market in an effort to contain corporate influence rather than eliminating barriers, letting competition bring choice to the marketplace and then letting the consumers decide which products and services they wish to purchase and which they wish to shun. In this manner, progressives and the robber barons are on the same page.
Let us not forget that corporations are government entities. The government defines what a corporation is and what the rules are to incorporate. Government allows for limitations to be placed on the liabilities corporations can be held accountable for, hence the LL in LLC. Big government decides the fate of these corporations, not the courts, not the consumers, and agents of big government are going to label their inept friends as "too big to fail" instead of letting the free marketplace do its job and force the inept to fail so that the competent can replace them.
What do the progressives do? Do they demand that incompetent, inept and corrupt government get out of the way so that competent, more innovative, more productive businesses can step in and replace corporations and give the consumer choice? Do they call for power to be removed from centralized federal government and placed in the hands of those who will compete for the trust of the common folk?
No. They call for more laws that increase the powers of the very people who caused the problem in the first place. They don't call for the break up of the cartels and monopolies that are labeled "too big to fail," they just call for better enforcement of regulations and more restrictions. They want to make it more difficult for competition to enter the marketplace. They don't call for the arrests of corrupt politicians who helped create policy that created this mess, they call for more taxation, as if throwing money at a problem involving people who create the money in the first place will do anything to solve the problem. In short, they want to give more money and more power to the elite who already have too much wealth and too much power. They want to grow the power of the central government which then grows the power of the mega corporations. It is a recipe that will lead to an even more spectacular failure than we saw in 2008.
Progressives like to think they're all about progress. It's just a trick of the language, at least when it comes to their policies on business and corporations. Their policies are really quite regressive, but not too many people would want to be labeled a regressive. If you really want to allow the people to have their say, then laws restricting choice need to be repealed. Laws making it difficult to enter the marketplace need to be repealed. The Affordable Healthcare Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, much lauded by so called progressives, needs to be repealed. A freer market where consumers can truly vote with their dollars needs to be established and then one day, hopefully, a truly free market which holds accountable the inept, incompetent and corrupt and exalts the competent and innovative will be allowed to flourish in our nation. Now that would be progress. When that happens we will all surely prosper as the high tide will raise all ships. When that happens the dream of freedom we keep in our hearts will be realized and we will understand why our forebears romanticized it so.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Because we live in a world where generalizations are prevalent in the media, how we define the labels we use becomes distorted. For instance, progressives are supposed to hate corporations and love government regulations and intervention in the markets. Conservatives and libertarians, on the other hand, are supposed to love corporations by hating such government regulations and interventions and loving the idea of smaller government. But the opposite is true. While many progressives would be loathe to admit that they love and support huge corporate entities, in practice they do. In the real world it is actions that matter, not words. It is not so much what you say as what you do that really makes the difference.
Any so called progressive that is reading this is by now likely throwing a fit. Inside his head he is likely fuming as he thinks about how much he hates corporations. His sensibilities are likely quite insulted by my accusation that he loves and supports them. He may well wonder how it is that I can support such an accusation. Well, for one thing, in at least one way they are in complete agreement with one of the most infamous robber barons ever. Like John D. Rockefeller, they hate competition and love monopolies.
Why would I say this? Simple, they hate free markets and at the same time they support the most heinous monopoly of all, the government monopoly on legalized force. They are constantly bashing free market philosophies and blaming them for the economic problems we currently face, but the fact is that there has not been true free markets in this country for a very long time, if indeed there ever were. Government interventions in the markets have been going on since before the founding of the nation, but they've become more egregious in the past few decades with the most offensive intrusion being the introduction of the latest iteration of the central bank, the privately owned Federal Reserve System, a century ago. If anyone is to blame for our current financial fiasco it is big centralized government. They have proven they are either too incompetent, too inept, or too corrupt to trust when it comes to centralized planning of the economy.
Free markets are all about competition. They're all about a free flow of ideas to try to keep as many consumers as happy as possible by providing products and services that are demanded by the consuming public. John D. Rockefeller said that competition is a sin and apparently progressives agree for they seem to think that big government regulation is a better way than competition to keep corporations in check. They seem to think it's better to grant a monopoly on legitimized force to a small group of elites and then have them erect barriers that prevent competition from entering the market in an effort to contain corporate influence rather than eliminating barriers, letting competition bring choice to the marketplace and then letting the consumers decide which products and services they wish to purchase and which they wish to shun. In this manner, progressives and the robber barons are on the same page.
Let us not forget that corporations are government entities. The government defines what a corporation is and what the rules are to incorporate. Government allows for limitations to be placed on the liabilities corporations can be held accountable for, hence the LL in LLC. Big government decides the fate of these corporations, not the courts, not the consumers, and agents of big government are going to label their inept friends as "too big to fail" instead of letting the free marketplace do its job and force the inept to fail so that the competent can replace them.
What do the progressives do? Do they demand that incompetent, inept and corrupt government get out of the way so that competent, more innovative, more productive businesses can step in and replace corporations and give the consumer choice? Do they call for power to be removed from centralized federal government and placed in the hands of those who will compete for the trust of the common folk?
No. They call for more laws that increase the powers of the very people who caused the problem in the first place. They don't call for the break up of the cartels and monopolies that are labeled "too big to fail," they just call for better enforcement of regulations and more restrictions. They want to make it more difficult for competition to enter the marketplace. They don't call for the arrests of corrupt politicians who helped create policy that created this mess, they call for more taxation, as if throwing money at a problem involving people who create the money in the first place will do anything to solve the problem. In short, they want to give more money and more power to the elite who already have too much wealth and too much power. They want to grow the power of the central government which then grows the power of the mega corporations. It is a recipe that will lead to an even more spectacular failure than we saw in 2008.
Progressives like to think they're all about progress. It's just a trick of the language, at least when it comes to their policies on business and corporations. Their policies are really quite regressive, but not too many people would want to be labeled a regressive. If you really want to allow the people to have their say, then laws restricting choice need to be repealed. Laws making it difficult to enter the marketplace need to be repealed. The Affordable Healthcare Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, much lauded by so called progressives, needs to be repealed. A freer market where consumers can truly vote with their dollars needs to be established and then one day, hopefully, a truly free market which holds accountable the inept, incompetent and corrupt and exalts the competent and innovative will be allowed to flourish in our nation. Now that would be progress. When that happens we will all surely prosper as the high tide will raise all ships. When that happens the dream of freedom we keep in our hearts will be realized and we will understand why our forebears romanticized it so.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Innocents Suffer, the Powerful Profit
I have said this before and I will continue to say it, I do not condone
violence. I particularly abhor random acts of violence such as the one
that occurred in Boston on April 15th, 2013 during the Boston marathon. I
say it was a random act of violence because as of this moment, as I
write this, no one has taken responsibility for it and no suspects have
been arrested nor any reason given for this act. This is only
speculation, but I would bet that there's some political agenda or
another behind it. For some reason those who seek power over others seem
to think that the way to go about gaining such power is through force
and coercion.
Since I don't trust what I hear in the mainstream media, I haven't in some time now, I listen a lot to the alternative media. I don't necessarily trust what they have to say either, but I think what they have to say makes a whole lot more sense most of the time than what you hear in the state run corporate media that is supposed to be a free press. But I like to keep an open mind. Right now there are many who are trying to figure out whether this is a false flag event or not. They are trying to examine the facts and see who will benefit from this and what the agenda will be. As of now, the answers are not forthcoming and there is much speculation going on. This has been an unusual situation in that there is no boogeyman to blame as of this moment, no clear agenda to point at.
Usually in these types of bombings, some group or terrorist organization is all too happy to take responsibility for such a heinous act. They want people to know why innocent blood has been shed and so many have to suffer. Not in this case. On that front, information is slow to be leaked to the public. If some terrorist group has taken responsibility, the authorities aren't telling the public.
One thing I can say for certain, politicians will use this event to push some agenda or another. If it's some foreign terrorist organization who has done this, they'll push for more war and aggression against whatever nation they feel needs to be suppressed. If it's a domestic terrorist organization, they'll use it as an excuse to ban or tax or otherwise restrict the sale of something, perhaps ammunition or something that can used to make explosives. If it was a lone nutjob, which would be the hardest scenario to figure out, they'll use it to try to take what's left of our privacy and to violate our rights even further than they've already done. They might even use it as an excuse to roll out some kind of new surveillance gizmo, or grid, or program. No matter what, they will try to grow their own power. That seems to be their answer to everything.
Another thing I know for certain, whoever did this harmed innocent people. Events like this never hurt those who might deserve it. Like the wars we wage, bombs don't just target bad people who have caused harm to others, they harm innocents. They cause collateral damage. They harm people who are just trying to go about their day to day business. They harm children who have not even learned to hate yet. They harm women and the elderly. They harm whoever happens to be in the blast zone, no matter how evil or how kind and gentle those people may have been during the course of their lives. Innocent people suffer because someone, somewhere has some agenda to push, some quest for power to pursue.
Initiating violence doesn't work. No matter who initiates it and for what purpose, violence only begets more violence. The innocent suffer while the powerful profit, which is another reason why I often feel events like this are initiated by the powerful. It is they who feel they can gain from such violence. Yet even they have to pay a price. The price they'll pay is their humanity. That is the price for anyone who uses or condones such violence, whether that violence happens in Boston or Damascus, in Europe or in Asia, on the East Coast or in the West Bank. It is the price one pays whether they are initiating such violence for personal reasons, under orders from some terrorist group, or under orders from some state run military. Unfortunately for us, there seems to be far too many people in this world who couldn't care less for their own humanity. Until we learn to put love in front of hate, until we learn to crave peace more than power, and until we learn to respect and honor the choices of others as we would want them to respect and honor the choices we make for ourselves, we will continue to see such tragedies as occurred in Boston on April 15th, 2013.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
Since I don't trust what I hear in the mainstream media, I haven't in some time now, I listen a lot to the alternative media. I don't necessarily trust what they have to say either, but I think what they have to say makes a whole lot more sense most of the time than what you hear in the state run corporate media that is supposed to be a free press. But I like to keep an open mind. Right now there are many who are trying to figure out whether this is a false flag event or not. They are trying to examine the facts and see who will benefit from this and what the agenda will be. As of now, the answers are not forthcoming and there is much speculation going on. This has been an unusual situation in that there is no boogeyman to blame as of this moment, no clear agenda to point at.
Usually in these types of bombings, some group or terrorist organization is all too happy to take responsibility for such a heinous act. They want people to know why innocent blood has been shed and so many have to suffer. Not in this case. On that front, information is slow to be leaked to the public. If some terrorist group has taken responsibility, the authorities aren't telling the public.
One thing I can say for certain, politicians will use this event to push some agenda or another. If it's some foreign terrorist organization who has done this, they'll push for more war and aggression against whatever nation they feel needs to be suppressed. If it's a domestic terrorist organization, they'll use it as an excuse to ban or tax or otherwise restrict the sale of something, perhaps ammunition or something that can used to make explosives. If it was a lone nutjob, which would be the hardest scenario to figure out, they'll use it to try to take what's left of our privacy and to violate our rights even further than they've already done. They might even use it as an excuse to roll out some kind of new surveillance gizmo, or grid, or program. No matter what, they will try to grow their own power. That seems to be their answer to everything.
Another thing I know for certain, whoever did this harmed innocent people. Events like this never hurt those who might deserve it. Like the wars we wage, bombs don't just target bad people who have caused harm to others, they harm innocents. They cause collateral damage. They harm people who are just trying to go about their day to day business. They harm children who have not even learned to hate yet. They harm women and the elderly. They harm whoever happens to be in the blast zone, no matter how evil or how kind and gentle those people may have been during the course of their lives. Innocent people suffer because someone, somewhere has some agenda to push, some quest for power to pursue.
Initiating violence doesn't work. No matter who initiates it and for what purpose, violence only begets more violence. The innocent suffer while the powerful profit, which is another reason why I often feel events like this are initiated by the powerful. It is they who feel they can gain from such violence. Yet even they have to pay a price. The price they'll pay is their humanity. That is the price for anyone who uses or condones such violence, whether that violence happens in Boston or Damascus, in Europe or in Asia, on the East Coast or in the West Bank. It is the price one pays whether they are initiating such violence for personal reasons, under orders from some terrorist group, or under orders from some state run military. Unfortunately for us, there seems to be far too many people in this world who couldn't care less for their own humanity. Until we learn to put love in front of hate, until we learn to crave peace more than power, and until we learn to respect and honor the choices of others as we would want them to respect and honor the choices we make for ourselves, we will continue to see such tragedies as occurred in Boston on April 15th, 2013.
If you enjoy my writings, please visit szandorblestman.com to make a donation.
Below is a list of all my works available at smashwords.com. Please help me by purchasing one or more of my ebooks and writing favorable reviews if you like them so that others might also find and enjoy them.
Caged in America: A Collection of Essays Celebrating Freedom. By Szandor Blestman
Ron Paul's Wisdom, A Layman's Perspective. A Collection of Opinion Editorials. By Szandor Blestman
Galaxium. A screenplay By Matthew Ballotti
The Colors of Elberia; book 1 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Legacy of the Tareks; book 2 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Power of the Tech; book 3 of The Black Blade Trilogy. By Matthew Ballotti
The Edge of Sanity. By Matthew Ballotti
The Ouijiers By Matthew Ballotti
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