America: Freedom to Fascism

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared." Cicero, 42 B.C.

The only difference between communism and socialism is its method of imposition.

Communism is forced upon the people against their will. Socialism on the other hand is entered into voluntarily by the majority of voters.

Even though the goals are the same, socialism is much more dangerous because it gradually enslaves the people without the use of visible force, while artfully disguising its evil motives with a variety of so-called noble causes.

The evils of socialism and humanism cannot survive exposure unless "good men and women do nothing".

'Truth is treason in the empire of lies.'

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie could change America.

Video: FIAT EMPIRE - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution

This is a new video I discovered, although it has been around for some time. I have only one problem with these documentaries and books. A Central Bank is a Central Bank, no matter what name it goes by. The practices by The Federal Reserve is no more different than that of the European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan or the South-African Reserve Bank. Keep that in mind if you are not an American watching this video.

The problem is not exclusive to the U.S.A. Fortunately for us plebs, there are still Americans with a backbone and they are the only people exposing and addressing this issue, as far as I know.

This Award-winning documentary, which features presidential candidate Ron Paul, was inspired by the book, "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by author and FREEDOM FORCE founder, G. Edward Griffin.

To get the full documentary on DVD(with up to 120-minutes of additional uncut interviews of Ron Paul and the other experts) go to www.FiatEmpire.com/screener. To instantly download a DVD-quality version of FIAT EMPIRE, go to www.mecfilms.com/mid/orders/fiat4.htm.

Find out why some feel the Federal Reserve's practices are a violation of the U.S. Constitution and others feel it's simply "a bunch of organized crooks." Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits mainly bankers and their corporate clients as well as a Congress that would rather increase the National Debt to over $9 trillion than raise taxes. Find out how the corporate media facilitates the partnership between the Fed and Congress and why it fails to disclose what's going on. Lastly, find out how the Federal Reserve-member banks are owned and controlled by an elite group of insiders.

Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom' in Five Minutes

Here is a conundrum for you. Various titles are available for this video clip. Which one do you choose?

1) Clinton's "Road to Serfdom" in Five Minutes
2) McCain's "Road to Serfdom" in Five Minutes
3) Obama's "Road to Serfdom" in Five Minutes

Here's the catch. Doesn't matter which one you choose. The result will be the same.

In South-Africa's case there is no conundrum. The only drum beating is:

1) Zuma's "Road to Serfdom" in Five Minutes




Road to Serfdom, The Description

This spell-binding book is a classic in the history of liberal ideas. It was singularly responsible for launching an important debate on the relationship between political and economic freedom. It made the author a world-famous intellectual. It set a new standard for what it means to be a dissident intellectual. It warned of a new form of despotism enacted in the name of liberation. And though it appeared in 1944, it continues to have a remarkable impact. No one can consider himself well-schooled in modern political ideas without having absorbed its lessons.

What F.A. Hayek saw, and what most all his contemporaries missed, was that every step away from the free market and toward government planning represented a compromise of human freedom generally and a step toward a form of dictatorship--and this is true in all times and places. He demonstrated this against every claim that government control was really only a means of increasing social well-being. Hayek said that government planning would make society less liveable, more brutal, more despotic. Socialism in all its forms is contrary to freedom.

Nazism, he wrote, is not different in kind from Communism. Further, he showed that the very forms of government that England and America were supposedly fighting abroad were being enacted at home, if under a different guise. Further steps down this road, he said, can only end in the abolition of effective liberty for everyone.

Capitalism, he wrote, is the only system of economics compatible with human dignity, prosperity, and liberty. To the extent we move away from that system, we empower the worst people in society to manage what they do not understand.

The beauty of this book is not only in its analytics but in its style, which is unrelenting and passionate. Even today, the book remains a source of controversy. Socialists who imagine themselves to be against dictatorship cannot abide his argument, and they never stop attempting to refute it.

The Frightful Face of Stimulus

Among businesspeople, bankers, and investors, there is a growing fear that the economy is headed towards recession or already in one. But that alone is not the source of worry. After all, an economy if left alone to function in freedom can recover. The real problem has to do with the political response. There is every indication that no matter who comes to be in charge in November, we face a future of massive spending, inflating, and regulating.

And here is the real danger. One only needs to look at such preposterous measures as the "stimulus package" that congress passed to much fanfare. Dumping money into consumers' hands, drawn from wherever they can get it, is the only means these guys can dream up to shore up prosperity. That only proves that they don't know what brings about prosperity in the first place, which is not congress but free enterprise.

Economist Robert Higgs compares a "stimulus package" to getting water out of the deep end of the swimming pool and dumping in the shallow end – all with the expectation that the water level will rise. As he emphasizes, economists should never tire of asking where the money for stimulus is going to come from. Mankind has yet to invent a machine to create it out of nothing: it's either taxing, inflating, or going into debt that has to be paid later (and crowds out capital creation now). There is no other way.

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The Trouble With Child Labor Laws

Productive work imparts glorious lessons in life. What lesson do we impart with child-labor laws? We establish early on who is in charge: not individuals, not parents, but the state. We tell the youth that they are better off being mall rats than fruitful workers. We tell them that they have nothing to offer society until they are 18 or so.

We convey the impression that work is a form of exploitation from which they must be protected. We drive a huge social wedge between parents and children and lead kids to believe that they have nothing to learn from their parents' experience. We rob them of what might otherwise be the most valuable early experiences of their young adulthood.

In the end, the most compelling case for getting rid of child-labor laws comes down to one central issue: the freedom to make a choice.

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How Should a Patriot Act?

As Glenn Greenwald makes clear, Bush has applied his claim to be above the law far beyond the issue of wiretaps. Bush has acted on the belief that he may seize anyone, even an American citizen living within the United States, and hold him as he deems fit in a military prison, there to be subject to harsh treatment that does not fall short of torture. Greenwald has rendered an inestimable service by his clear and cogent analysis of gross presidential usurpation of power. More...

The Revolution: A Manifesto

'Truth is treason in the empire of lies.'



The people who pledged at RonPaulBookBomb.com today have caused Ron Paul's new Book, The Revolution: A Manifesto to rise to the Top 100 Bestsellers. It is now beating out both Obama and Colbert. This is just the beginning, of course. Look out for The Manifesto in the top 10! It's currently at #3!

I have just pre-ordered my copy. I can't make a donation, so I found another way to support the good man! :-)

Who Owns You ???

WARNING: Some rough language in this clip