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The Most Imminent And Paramount Question For Americans Today!
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,
Quite rightfully, there appears to be an increasing amount of debate around the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Ah yes ‘free trade’. If I had a nickel for every time I got into a free trade debate I’d be a very rich man. This is one of those great topics for which both sides can make a very strong academic case and so everyone walks away from the discussion feeling they won. This is why it’s such a popular debate amongst academics. But this particular free trade discussion needs to address not so much the deal itself but the delivery process. Allow me to explain.
The thing about free trade is that it really has nothing to do with free trade. It’s a regulatory maneuver pure and simple. We know the champions of free trade are corporations because they are the profiteers of reallocating working capital out of heavy US regulatory environments and into much lighter emerging market regulatory environments. This is very much a distinction that needs to be made.
What supporters of free trade argue is that it allows a free flow of trade to regions with competitive advantages and thus putting capital to use in the most efficient ways (if they don’t, that is the argument they should be using). However, the stark reality is emerging markets rarely have competitive advantages in any realm over developed industrial nations. For instance, the Chinese workers are less productive than American workers and so the cost advantage from labour is not due to higher productivity in China but to much softer wage regulations.
The result is that Americans are losing out on critical manufacturing sector jobs, which is where the American middle class was built. The free trade champions will argue that because we no longer have a competitive advantage in that type of work we should retrain workers into areas we still have that advantage. But again, this has nothing to do with competitive advantage. It’s a convenient argument because it sounds logical if the facts are true. But the fact that we don’t have a competitive advantage in manufacturing is just not true. What we have are large dislocations in regulation. For better or worse, American regulation require corporations to provide a much higher level of overall compensation for domestic employees than regulation does for foreign employees. And the free trade deals very clearly provide a mechanism by which US corporations can swap heavy i.e. costly US regulation for very light foreign regulation.
Now that’s a fairly standard style free trade debate but the current debate over TPP is more about the legality of the executive branch request to fast track this free trade deal hidden behind a wall of secrecy, i.e. the details are classified. I’m really at a loss on this one. If you read my work regularly you are familiar with my angst on American apathy toward our Constitutional rights. Every week another slew of Constitutional rights are being creatively and quietly withdrawn. This has been ongoing for decades but at an extraordinary pace over the past 15 years.
The fact that Americans have been so willing to part with their guaranteed Constitutional rights has really emboldened our legislature and executive branches of government to go full bore against the Constitution. We allow them to spy on us, to imprison us without due process and now to remove us completely from the legislative process. So in effect we are no longer a self-governed democracy in any way, shape or form. Somebody somewhere explain to me why that proposition is untrue. And please do not go down the road of well we vote for a representative and that is how we impose our will on the legislative process. Save that for whatever dumbshit, drunkass moron it worked on last night at the bar because that doesn’t meet the required standard of debate here sir.
In short we have yet another example of blatant disrespect and disregard for the very process that defines our nation as a self-governed democracy. Each time we allow the President or legislature to circumvent the will of the people without prosecuting them we place another set of chains around our necks. This nation has imprisoned millions of men and women for smoking marijuana, an activity that will be legal in all 50 states at some point in the near future. At the same time, we have not prosecuted one president, policymaker or legislator for breaking Constitutional laws that have now resulted in the unjustified deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers and innocent civilians and the immeasurable destruction of the very system promised us by those that created this once great nation.
That is heavy heavy stuff. Yet for some reason we apparently feel much more threatened by a guy smoking a joint in his house than we do by the most powerful men in the world tacitly rendering our Constitution a paper tiger.
Is it that we don’t care? Is it that we don’t see it? Is it that we are masochists? What is it about us that makes us so apathetic to the atrocities against our Constitutional rights? They are there for our protection and so, to we the people, they are assets that require maintenance but we are leaving them to be destroyed by the political elements. I am really at a loss on this one. It seems to go in the face of the basic instinct for self survival.
Now I get that inner cities are being supported by government hand outs and so they will be hesitant to rock the boat. Although that is becoming less and less the case isn’t it. But I mean even amongst well versed, well educated and very interested Americans there seems to be very little concern, judging by reaction, to the fact that our Constitutional rights are quite blatantly at this point, being taken away from us. Why is that not creating more of an agitated response??
This is the discussion, this is the debate that needs to happen over TPP. Corporations will always push for higher profits, that we know, but why does our government feel confident enough to blatantly negate our Constitutional rights so openly in America now? That is with certainty, the most imminent and paramount question we need to be working on as a free society today or soon we won’t have the right to discuss such things.
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It's because we're all being played.
Screw the state, even the one Madison sketched out.
Kudos to the Americans of 1776, but many of their assumptions were mistaken.
Fluoride in the water, electromagnetic overstimulation from smart phones/computers/TV?
The programming is working.
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson
Inflation and deflation were not terms in common usage back then but the sentiment is largely correct. The only change I would suggest is to add JOBLESS to HOMELESS...
"By the end of 2013, there were 26,894 high technology manufacturing enterprises above designated size in China, an increase of 1,077 compared with that in 2008
"http://takethenewsilkroad.com/files/52581560_4fe2b96e77.jpg (High tech facility)
These don't look like a backwards people that we will be able to compete on price with even if we dropped all the onerous regulations. Which we should.
"Is it that we don’t care? Is it that we don’t see it? Is it that we are masochists? What is it about us that makes us so apathetic to the atrocities against our Constitutional rights?"
Learned helplessness.
Of course our egos would never admit this is the case.
This is up your ally CD...
Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis techniques in His Speeches.\205) - Obama's_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf
0 Competition, 0 Market Opportunities, 0 Speculation, The War On Cash (& All Currnecies), The Brewing of World War 3, and the list just keeps going...
If you look back in history at how life was before WW2, you'll find it's all the same BS being played out all over again, except..... This time there are REAL FOOKING CONTENDERS on the other side, not Germany, but Russia & China....> DOH!
The elite can try to shift to India, but they would definitely be idiots to try...
(They will only end up with yet ANOTHER eastern country they've pissed off)
A good mix of chemtrails, fluoride, vaccines, facebook, smart meter radiation and dancing with the stars.
Constitution? Nah, we need state protections. You know, like the old days....
Ban All the Jews and Homos
If I wanted to take someones stuff or freedom I would simply distract them with PS4's, internet games, facebook apps, and counterstrike or battlefield or eve online.
If one can create a utopia in a persons mind you could have them live in animal cages.
Noone gives a shit about the constitution nor it's removal as long as the entertainment flows and they have their belly's full even if its garbage food.
As in Rome and the days of the circus maximus bread and circus
Normalicy bias - no one Wants any of it to be happening... so it isn't...
la la la !
I think the question should be something along the lines of....
"How long till they collapse the markets / banks / cash & mandate digital currency?"
Tick Tock Bitches.. :D
Do we care? Why is there no outrage?
Simple: there is nobody to complain to. The cops are thugs, the news media are paid shills, and the politicians are all chasing corporate $$. You can't vote for anybody better (at any office higher than dog catcher) because the parties won't allow "non-players" to run.
None of the previous statements nor those that follow get it right. WHAT IS IT?
It's is the fact that the system used to be somewhat self-policing along with the courts and our politicians. Then ... the media and all those in some form of position and control found out it really was all up to them and upon realizing it was all up to them began to game the system and the courts. It became not what you shouldn't do and what you should uphold but what you could do and get away with.
All in positions of some level of power became crooks ..... of various sizes and actions.
The public, the voters, the middle class never had anything to do with keeping the system fair or ethical and still don't. The ones that did have something to do with it all turned.
You are correct Zer0head. I should check footnotes and references before posting something as fact.
Thanks for reminding me.
First shocker...
YOU HAVE NO, ABSOLUTELY NO, CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. The US Constitution NEVER, NOT ONCE, granted you ANY RIGHT.
HOWEVER...
You have INALIENABLE RIGHTS. The Constitution was written to RESTRICT GOVERNMENT from impugning those rights, from passing laws to restrict those rights...IN ANY FASHION.
Until this is understood, as this is BASIC, then there is no hope.
Tom, you are half-correct.
If you claim the (en)title(ment) of "CITIZEN," the CONstitution does not start applying to you until Article 14.
The document was written for the benefit of those that wrote it. Deception by omission. We simply assume that it applies to us, because, hey, "we're people, right?"
No. You're not. Capitalization matters. Words matter. You cannot simultaneously be a "Citizen" and one of "The People."
Remember, after the War of DC vs. Everyone Else, Congress made everyone "equal." Note they did not say they were freeing the slaves. They have no power to free, only to place into bondage. They simply made everyone chattel. Slick move, eh?
Sure, they said that "involuntary servitude was illegal." But not the voluntary kind. If you claim, vociferously, that YOU ARE A SLAVE, DAMMIT, who are they to argue? If you demand, with extreme prejudice, to be administered by the State, well, clean hands doctrine, you asked for it. If you simply can't wait to give your children up as foundlings to the State, and accept that you are simply a custodian for the State, well shucks, if you insist.
The CONstitution does not restrict the OwnerLords from doing as they wish to the Subjects ("City-Denizens" or "Citizens" for short) of the City-State of D.C. Benefits and privileges are GRANTED, and may be taken away at whim. If you claim the title, there are exactions that must be paid to your feudal lords.
If you claim the privilege of being a taxpayer, you have the privilege of paying the Federal Government revenues (One of their forms of income, hence, Federal Income Tax).
If you claim the privilege of registering your vote, you have the privilege of pledging to the King ("Regis Tare"). A registered voter has voted "YES" to the system. They vote once, and only once, writing a blank check of approval for whatever their betters decide. Going to the polls is the same as pushing the button at the crosswalk, a dummy-load (double-entendre fully intended).
If you claim the privilege of the title "Citizen," you claim the benefit of being administered by your Lords, for your own good.
We are not "The People." Note the capitalization.
I agree, though. Until We The Public stop worshipping, "a goddamned piece of paper," nothing will change.
Damn N3, that was good.
No I am totally confused, but willing to listen.
Your arguments are pretty weak. Do a search. The word citizen is peppered all over the original document, before the amendments. Citizens can become members of congress or the president, but citizen is never defined. The 14th amendment makes it clear that "people" and "citizen" are meant as synonyms.
Your argument appears to be that we the "people" only refers to the signators of the document. Silly.
There are two Constitution's so which oneare you talking about.
The second.
Jefferson did sort of say some of that. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation
< You are sounding smarter already
< The damage has already been done. Go back to eating the stuff that tastes good.
I've been fluoride free (except for the showers) for a couple of weeks now. Also I am eating stuff that comes directly out of the ground with no processing and tastes perfectly terrible mostly. Since it is difficult to gauge ones own progress I am in need of some crowd sourced input...
If processing includes cooking, I can't help you.
Try infused olive oil as additive, bake/broil/steam/fry.
ZerOhead you will not notice the fluoride at all , and eating real food ,well it does take a while for you to get over the fast food taste. I have been off fluoride for eight years you do not change but everyonbe around you does seem to be a whole lot dummer.
I'm noticing that myself... Thanks!
Fluoride was the first thing that came to mind for me too. Hey - it worked in Nazi concentration camps...
The use of it was earlier than I had ever thought. No real studies had even been done on sodium fluoride except in it's use as a potent neurotoxin/rodent killer. It accumulates and calcifies in the pineal gland inside the brain. I'm sure the pineal gland can't be important or they would have stopped it's use.
It looks like this when an autopsy is performed...
https://usahitman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/calc_pineal_500.jpg
It holds the EU classifications of "Xi" for Irritant, and "T" for Toxic. Sodium fluoride is a pickling (preservative) agent and inorganic poison and therefore commonly used in pesticides, fungicides and insecticides (this is because sodium fluoride prevents the growth of fungi, bacteria and mold).
They do not put sodium fluoride in the water any more that was so 80's now they use "hydroflorosasilic acid" .
"Fluoride in the water, electromagnetic overstimulation from smart phones/computers/TV?"
Why make excuses for the stupidity, ignorance, and laziness of Americans in general? I drank fluorinated water as a kid. I still won't vote for a democrat or republican.
Is that the sound of something boiling over ?
Plop plop fiz fiz, oh what a fooking headache!!!
splain yourself
as long as people are eating (as much as they want) they will be apathetic. there is a threshold though. when the cost of food goes over 40% of people's income, that is when they take to the streets. it is happening all over the world now, except in white america, but our time is coming. however, I could see the average american blaming and taking from their own neighbors sooner than rising up against the government.
Finally a sensible comment.
Nobody's up in arms simply because THINGS ARE NOT BAD ENOUGH yet. No matter how poor you are, you still have EBT/welfare, and your life would be much worse if you attacked the cops or other authorities.
People who are worried about fluoride and chem trails are the well-off middle class, with too much time on their hands. TV will be the next welfare entitlement, because the constant propaganda is the main control mechanism.
It comes down to two problems:
1. We are constantly bombarded with propaganda.
2. Most people are unaware it exists.
1. People are ignorant
2. People choose to be ignorant and are happy with their decision.
Both 1 & 2 are correct, but there needs to be an option 3...
It's simple really. The reason nobody is agitating is.....
# 1: We're all too busy working for the Fascist State. Le't get real. I mean REALLY real. There is NO seperation between a Government Worker and the Corporations. We are ALL working for the CORPORATE STATE. How many more times do we need to see an article on ZeroHedge and elsewhere where some ex-Gov/Military official got a cushy corporate or Wall Street job and / or vice versa. Club of Rome, the E.U., The Trilateral Commission, GATT, NAFTA, and now the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement. Big Government is Big Corp and Big Corp is Big Government. And all of us from the CEO to the dumb schmuck fucking up your order of fries at McDonald's are just trying to survive.
#2: In the back of our minds....deep in our hearts....we all know it's over and we're fucked. So why fight? Why bother?
That's it. End of story.
BTW.....America died the moment they ratified the Second Constitution.
The First Constitution were the Articles of Confederation. The Confederacy didn't die during the Civil War. It died after the Revolution.....and when the Elites ratified the Constitution.
Remember everyone.......there was a GOOD reason there is a Bill of Rights. Because the Constitution didn't guarentee those items in the Bill of Rights. The Articles of Confederation gave each state the flexibility to call bullshit on Federalism and to keep encrochments of rights as enumerated in the Bill of Rights from becoming widespread through Federalism.
America was practically stillborn.
Yes, but you wanna know what the real bitch is?
America will pay for the BS the elite have perpetuated upon the world... (Coming soon?)
Hell, look at how much they play the scape goat on America in the media, knowing full well America is NOT calling the shots...
You get full marks for realizing the AoC was the initial Organic Law document.
However, remember that the Bill of Rights does not apply to Citizens. It only applies to "The People." Every comma, period, and letter in the CONstitution has a purpose.
Differentiating between "The People" and "Citizens" (as CREATED by Article 14) is done very specifically. Citizens are SUBJECTS (Subject to the City-State of DC, also known as "The United States"), while "The People" are those that do not claim the inferior Title. En-title-ment is simply the action of bestowing or seeking titles.
Titles come with very specific obligations and privileges. And "privilege" does not imply a positive attribute.
For example, as a Citizen, you have the "privilege" of paying revenues to the Federal Government to supplement their Income.
You have the "privilege" of being stopped by Privateers bearing Letters of Marque (Badges), and having your vessel impounded and its cargo seized, with no recourse.
It would require quite a bit more space to delve into all the details, but essentially the notion of "America," at least that which we are all conditioned to believe in, never existed at all.
Suffice to say, it was simply a corporate fission, with the CONstitution forming a semi-independent franchise from the Crown/City of London. Any notion that America was ever the "land of the free, home of the brave" would shatter under even a cursory examination of Shays' Rebellion.
"Suffice to say, it was simply a corporate fission, with the CONstitution forming a semi-independent franchise from the Crown/City of London. Any notion that America was ever the "land of the free, home of the brave" would shatter under even a cursory examination of Shays' Rebellion."
Bravo. And I would add to that The Whiskey Rebellion as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
You need to explain how the commas, periods and letters prove your point. You just can't make broad statements and expect anyone to listen.
Citizen, as defined by the 14th ammendment, is everyone born or naturalized here. So how do you get a differentiation between people and citizen with one being superior to the other? I call bullshit.
Have you researched Admiralty and Maritime Law?
If not, you should:
http://www.barefootsworld.net/admiralty.html
Have you researched how to make an argument? Discuss specifics or shut the fuck up.
Ah! I see. You're looking to be spoonfed.
Those who won't search for treasure, won't find it.
Keep takin' that blue pill ;-)
Sorry dipshit. Just making nebulous claims is not an argument. State facts and be able to back them up, or shut the fuck up. That is what fight club is all about.
Oh wait... your mommy is calling. Time to change those diapers.
Obscenity - the crutch of inarticulate.
Great point. /s
I did not care about reading this article.
"the cost advantage from labour is not due to higher productivity in China but to much softer wage regulations."
Thank you. Exactly. And "wage regulations" aren't the only ones that are softer.
If the US was the cheap and easy place to make shit do you think Chinese government would be running headlong to sign a free trade agreement with us? Not damned likely. We're the only idiots that would do that.
"the Chinese workers are less productive than American workers..."
What evidence can be cited for this assertion? Perhaps the cost advantage is a combination of high productivity and low wages.
The idea that Americans are more productive than the rest of the world is nationalistic bullshit, akin to claiming non-union laborers do shoddy work.
"it's just a piece of paper." ~ G. Bush teh Lesser
That's absolutely correct.
It is the minds, bodies and souls of men that bring The Constitution to life.
Warning: The corollary is that the lack of brains or will ensures that it does not come to life, and remains "just a piece of paper".
Moral: Freedom and Democracy are NOT for the Dumb, Lazy, Scared, Disorganized or lacking in Perseverance. TPTB know this ("W" did), but the Sheeple do not, it seems.
Hence, it comes down to the actual application of the 2nd Amendment, where Freedom of Speech/Blogging is NOT a substitute for the 2nd Amendment. Put another way...
Buying endless amounts of G&A means nothing, if their owners aren't willing to use them in an organized and persistent manner. But it can (and often does) act as a feel-good and safe substitute for action. Modern arms marketing experts know that periodic bouts of fear or rage will lead to shopping sprees, but not to action. For Action to occur, the Threshold level would have to be raised to a much higher level.
"The fact that Americans have been so willing to part with their guaranteed Constitutional rights...."
Can someone please tell me exactly how constitutional rights are guaranteed? It isn't a contract it it? I cannot find a record anywhere that I consented to it. Sure, people have told me that said consent is 'implicit' because I happen to have been born in a certain geographic territory. But is that really consent?
Everyone should do this simple little exercise - copy and paste a text version of the constitution into a word processor. Then highlight the words dedicated to what the government can, shall and must do. Now add them up. You'll find that 95% of the words in the document grant government power. A mere 5% relate to the individual and his/her rights. People have to stop adoring this useless screed. It has done nothing but empower tyranny.
Constitutional rights are guaranteed on an individual basis, by each individual. YOU exercise them. When you don't they are lost. Yes, it's really that simple....
You are describing natural rights which existed long before 1789. The dude is right about the fact that none of us consented to the terms of the Constitution which, if anything, limit our natural rights rather than enhance them.
Natural rights supersede the Constitution. Constitutional rights supersede the Government. It is beyond the scope of the government to uphold the Bill of Rights, as it is strictly off limits to government authority. It is THE JOB OF THE INDIVIDUAL to protect and exercise those rights; which has nothing at all to do with consent, contracts, or outside influence.....
"Constitutional rights supersede the Government. It is beyond the scope of the government to uphold the Bill of Rights, as it is strictly off limits to government authority."
The Constitution IS the Government. The govt is supposed to ensure the Bill of Rights is enforced. .gov, particularly the SCOTUS, has failed miserably and is allowed to, per the Constitution.
Splitting hairs. Regardless, the whole intent and purpose of the Constitution is either a completely failed experiment or a total success, depending upon which school of thought one subscribes to; not that it makes a damned bit of difference to either you and I, or those working behind the scenes of this shit show. The bottom line is, the wrong people have control due to a variety of mechanisms; some built into the original framework, and some built into humanity itself. Keep your powder dry......
We have not had a Gov't in this country since 1871 , so why does everyone keep calling them the Gov't are they just stupid.
Try arguing the CONstitution in court. You will have an object lesson that the CONstitution DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU.
More bullshit. Explain or shut the fuck up.
The Constitution spells out what our public servants can't do to us, no matter what.
It is guaranteed by you if you are willing to excercise your 2nd amendment right to fight, if you must, to maintain it. The other side is willing to kill you to make it go away. There is no gaurantee you will win, but you are guaranteed to lose if you are not willing to fight.
It is a limiting document. The point of the document is to specificcally say what powers the government have. "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
Have you read it at all?
Unfortunately, if you read it, you will find there is nothing left to be reserved to States or the people. And if there was, the States would leave nothing reserved to the people.
Per the Constitution, Federal courts get to interpret it. The SCOTUS didn't claim this power in Marbury v. Madison. It was the Founders' intent.
Read the Federalist Papers and, more importantly, the Anti-Federalist Papers.
If it empowerd tyranny so much, why are the tyrants in violation of it? Why do they twist its words so much? No, it does not empower tyranny, it simply does not, of itself, guarantee freedom. The citizens have to be willing to call the ruling class to account when they exceed the limits it prescribes. The breakdown is not so much the document, but the Rule of Law.
"If it empowerd tyranny so much, why are the tyrants in violation of it?"
Technically, they aren't. That's the problem.
Better yet, do a text search for the word "Citizen."
The first mention of the word is where it starts applying to the commoners.
We ain't "The People" people.
Its a parchment Judas Goat. It appeals to the genetically hard-wired Stockholm Syndrome humans seem to be cursed with.
I did a search. Stop fucking lying.
"Now I get that inner cities are being supported by government hand outs and so they will be hesitant to rock the boat."
Just the inner cities? I don't think so, the welfare disability plates are just more distilled, the welfare and SS checks get delivered out to the country folk too.
It's hard to believe how many 'low-income' buildings are owned by local governments. Much of their monthly operational budget's are paid by their Section 8 receipts from the federal cocksuckers.
Perseus has spoken.
Infowars ..... we have lost this war.
Gruber-populace..... he was spot on.
FUBAR ...... murica.
On the contrary, it is NOT "We" who have lost, it's the elite, and they DO NOT have the backing of their own people now, because if you oppress a people long enough, they will tell you to go ____ yourself when other nations want to wipe them off the map... (Coming Soon)
(PS, no they are NOT fooking around this time...)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2933765/Russian-nuclear-bombers-...
I don't know for sure but if I had a Russian Bear or a RAF jet I'd be trying to get some aerial recon on the new royal baby.
Cute. Cute. Little baby.
Little pee pee. Little toes.
Now he's comin' to me.
Crawl across. The kitchen floor.
Because we believe, and hope, that we can still change things using the existing system instead of through armed insurrection or military coup to take back our sovereignty and self government.
We are the government. The oath-breaking public servants are not the government. They are only there to administer the people's laws and they are illigitimate traitors. It is way past time for them to go.
Great comment, however, violence should not be we, the American people's, first step to Revolution against their criminality and tyranny, Rejection should be our first step, and is unexpectedly mightier than our firearms.
First off, all Revolutions begin with "no." Violence is often instigated against that "no" by tyranny. With that said, be aware that the American people are armed with a mighty weapon that no victim populace in the history of the world has ever had. That weapon is based on the precarious and vulnerable way that Zion and the DC US have built their empire on our backs in the form of fiat-debt.
That structure REQUIRES that we keep paying them in service of their fiat-debts. If we were to Stop paying, their whole ponzi and grift skyscraper of cards would collapse. Afterwards, we, the American people, can then Stop paying all levels (national, state, country, local, etc.) of the DC US government, which, when combined with the loss of fiat-loans from the banksters, will also collapse.
Tyranny's inevitable treasonous and violent response will then be that much more muted and weak.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The most powerful weapon the American people have is Rejection.
The system of fraud and theft that has been built up upon the backs of the American people is dependent upon our backs. Withdraw our backs, and the whole scheme collapses. This is our greatest weapon.
Stop Paying--Put it into food, and precious metals, etc. They stole whatever "debt money" they loaned you in the first place (fractional reserve banking) and soon you won't be able to pay them anyways, so Stop Paying.
Stop Playing--Stop being a tool for them to use, mock, and call "stupid." Stop Playing.
Stop Obeying--If they are in violation of the Constitution then they are not legitimate anyways, so Stop Obeying their unlawful dictates.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying, Stop Obeying, Stop Playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
The people cannot take the corporations on because they have the police backing them....
The corporations have everyone by the damn balls man... (Your Food & Water Supplies, not to mention Oil/Gas)
We are the government.
Not so fast. As government exists solely through a claim of moral authority to initiate violence against others I want no part of it. Take responsibility for yourself and don't try to do anyone else the favor of governing them in the guise of "we."
I think that is why they chose a republic for the form of government. Additionally a house of representatives was added as wel. None of it works if people stop caring and only want to go play and have fun. But the founders knew that too...
Why would I care about any institution which can only exist through an immoral and impractical initiation of violence?
There is only one law: No individual has a right to injure other individuals or their property. Any individual threatened in such a manner has the right to resist in proportion to the threat made against him.
Get outside those very simple boundaries and you're beating an unethical, inefficient and quite completely dead horse.
Billy, you are correct, with one minor correction:
You are immune unless you HARM another human being (restrictive principle of sovereign immunity).
Not INJURE. HARM.
IN-JURE means to place into law. HARM means to damage or cause trauma.
Now you have a new perspective on "Personal Injury Lawyers."
They tell you what they really do.
"We are the government"
Nope. Never have been.
And were that true, then logic dictates that you are the traitor. So I would re-think wild, unfounded assertions like that.
By the by, which oath, exactly, have they broken? The oath of both military service and public office is to protect the boundaries of the United States ("...to preserve protect and defend the Constitution -OF- The United States"). The Constitution OF refers to the BODY, or territory.
The constitution of a glass of milk is milk. The constitution of a human is their flesh. The Constitution OF The United States is...The United States. Ten square miles of City State.
"Constitute" is the physical make-up. "Of" in the sentence reinforces that grammatical construction.
And a single dude with a fixed bayonet and a box of lexan polycarb is sufficient to preserve, protect, and defend a piece of vellum, were it referring to the document (which it isn't).
If, however, the oath referred to the principles espoused by the document (confusingly similar word), it would necessarily read "I do solemnly swear and pledge to -SUPPORT- and -UPHOLD- THIS CONSTITUTION -FOR- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And, as stated in the document itself, it would be both an oral AND A WRITTEN OATH, as is required in article VI clause 3.
Also states that to be eligible for The OFFICE OF PRESIDENT (rather than either of the other two jobs, those of POTUS and POTUSA), they had to be 14 years a resident of the United States. This means the soonest those oaths could have been executed was...July 4th 1790.
NO ONE was 14 years a Resident of the United States until then.
Just refresh my memory...when did King George I take his oath for POTUS? (hint: it wasn't 1790).
And which of the two oaths mentioned in the CONstitution did he take? Where is his written oath? An oral oath alone is not binding.
Curiouser and curiouser...
The "union" traces back to 1774 -- the continental association and the continental congress. Prez washington was indeed a resident for 14 years, when sworn in 1789.
THE one and only question that any American should be asking themselves:
"Am I sovereign or slave?"
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Well armed pigs produce little to no bacon.
Well armed pigs are stealing everyone else's bacon dude...
If they claim, loudly and stridently, that they are Citizens (Subjects), the answer is clear.
Either you are a Free State, or a Slave.
I always chuckle when I hear the looney tunes calling themselves "Sovereign Citizens."
Hey, I'm a slutty virgin. A master slave. A wise fool.
Americans are slowly boiled frogs.
Seems like they are almost done. Well done.
The average American has an IQ of 97 - the balance Of those who have critical logic To create solutions are for the most part captured - the 60's will turn out to be a watershed moment in time for democracy
Never again to be
80% of Americans will disappear along with their DNA - thank God!
The average American has an IQ of 97 - the balance Of those who have critical logic To create solutions are for the most part captured - the 60's will turn out to be a watershed moment in time for democracy
Never again to be
80% of Americans will disappear along with their DNA - thank God!
Because too many among us value convenience over principle. Too many are so plugged into the matrix they have no clue about current events. For God sakes none of my Co workers even know who edward snowden is
You better read this, what's going on in China...oh yes we have this in the US too but we outsource it so companies can profit.
China To Use Big Data To Rate (aka score) Citizens In New 'Social Credit System"-Scary risk tactics, here's your new risk scoring..mining your data and by the way banks are now talking about wanting your meta data from your phone to determine your credit risk! Geez..it doesn't stop, you can Google that if you want.
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-use-big-data-rate-citizens-new-social-credit-system-1898711
This is why I started my campaign to index and license all data sellers, who in hell are they making this $180 billion a year!!
http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-preserve-our-privacy-/258776
So yes this big Trans-Pacific Partnership, will involve this ugly side too as the Chinese government has spoken and Alibaba and the rest will go along, adapt the US profit model of selling their citizens data and the abuse continues on that level too.
Hey everyone's going to have to have your "risk assessment" of invading every personal bit of data about you so they can share! WTF! Here's an example right now on how the CPFB sells us out, collecting all our credit card, scored, transactions..making a data base all about us and so yeah let's share this with China..you know that's the next BS coming.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/08/argus-analytics-produces-share-of.html
The whole world will be in a digital caste system on who's allowed to do and buy what you could say and it's all about control. Make up numbers so John or Jane Doe can't purchase, etc.
In the Charlie Brown cartoons. He should have kicked the girl hard instead of going for the ball. Its just as funny!
The USSA is done. Dead man walking. Talk about lipstick on a pig. Once reality kicks in it's gonna be real ugly ya'll. The shyte show may continue for a bit longer, but the end is approaching fast, yet the music is still playing. Good luck to all.
I have to agree with the premise and more; we are a nation who is beng handed our heads and all are standing clapping our hands.
I have traveled quite a bit and concluded that 8-10 % of all people on this planet are, well idiots. I look around me and see how badly I underestimated the true numbers.
50 % is really much closer.
I am afraid for everyone's grand children. Milestones
"everyone's grand children"? How about 90% of our species should SHTF for good
Just remember, when the SHTF, and the masses begin to understand what true hunger and the prospect of starvation actually feels like, those 50% will gladly cut your head off with a dull rusty butter knife if they think you have some food.
I'd actually put the number higher. I'd say more like 90% of humanity will gladly kill you for a can of Spam and a small package of saltene crackers.
Remember, these types of people could easily be your neighbors.
Uh,...the greater majority are really dumb tv junkies!?.
Answer: No one wins.
Well thats my cycle at least
People, (and not just those in the U.S.) tend to follow the path of least resistance.
Really, it all comes down to that. The elite know this, that is why incrementalism is their favorite technique.
Look at hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry as just one example. He threw in the towel attempting to fight Central Bank policies. And I'm not singling him out, there are loads of examples through all levels of society across all nations.
The elite (the truly elite, well esconded at the top and in a position to think and operate long term) they know this and make their plans to consolidate control accordingly.
Thinking beyond today means one might have to forgo immediate gratification.
Not the hairless apes strongest suit.
The sheeple allow them to spy on them. The sheeple allow treaties to destroy their jobs and rights. The sheeple use trust as their opiate. The sheeple want to trust, so they needn't think.
The delusion is that the sheeple will finally reject their trust in their leaders. Trust provides the hope that the sheeple crave. To expect the addled ignorant to think is delusional.
The key to understanding the violence that the DC US will, is, unleashing against the American country, and people, is to realize that the basis of Liberty is, "Don't tread on me."
It is not, "Don't resist me treading on you," or, "Tread on me, but only just a little." No, it is, "Don't tread on me."--Stay back. Stay away. Or pay.
So while violence is unwelcome, it is tyranny that brings the violence that needs resisted with violence--"Violence comes for violence."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The first act of all Americans that embrace their freedom and Liberty is to build and erect a Liberty Pole in their front yard to stand as a reminder to self, and all other comers, that Liberty dwell there and within.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_pole
Incrementalism is a strategy that's been used against us for decades now. The frog is well on its way to being cooked, and the U.S.' best days are obviously in the mirror.
The Pig Trap comes to mind.
“Why is that not creating more of an agitated response?”
There are several reasons: lethargy induced by medication; ignorance, by indoctrination; moral corruption, by a mania for dope, foul language and perverted sex.
Under the second category, the ignorance is so complete that all but a handful of men, have no knowledge of the history, law and procedures of redress: the same law and procedures employed by American Founders to power their Revolution.
For example, Founders repeatedly declared that “no man is obligated to obey any law or pay any tax unless he has given consent to it”. Did they mean this literally? Of course they did. From the first English settlement to the Revolution this was how affairs of the colonies were managed. Every “law” and every “tax” had its origin in contracts between colonial assemblies and those who petitioned for redress of grievances. The terms of the contract were sometimes referred to as “laws” of the contract while its money payments were treated as “taxes”. And only petitioners were obligated to obey such “laws” and pay such “taxes”. When redress was completed, related “laws” and “taxes” expired.
We also have a constitutionally-protected right to withhold our taxes until the government redresses our grievances (but do not try it until you have studied my book, The Lost Right, edition 3.5; and well-positioned your assets).
These rights and powers – among many others unknown to current generations – were won with the Revolution… and who knows them?
There, in two paragraphs I conveyed to you more real history than you learned in 12 years of elementary and high schools, and 4-6 years of university indoctrination. You won’t learn this and other lessons from professors, or judges, or lawyers; the first two depend on continued grievances for their pensions, the third never learned such history, or law.
This is a very small thumbnail view of the answer you seek. If you’re inclined, see, Pawn or Fool?
If one can't form a wholly independent thought, then all so-called thought is merely parroting.
The inability to form an independent thought stems from lack of true education. Memorization is not education, it is programming. Who are the programmers and what is the program?
All media are heavily laden with programming.
Can you sit quietly in a room?
We must use “armed insurrection or military coup to take back our sovereignty and self-government.”
So says “gwar5”.
He’s probably employed by the Mossad… or CIA… or FBI.
His suggestion has no historical basis.
“Armed insurrection”? Yes, we will need arms to protect us from privileged assassins and thieves who now rule in this country. But it must not be mindless: it must be controlled and directed by First-Amendment assemblies. Otherwise we merely replace one tyrant with another.
The military is a group of men who have been trained in actions that constitute a concerted effort to destroy civilized society.
American history proves it.
World War I was the war to end war. So, what did we do at its end? “We” gave all of Russia to Judeo-Bolsheviks. WW2, the war to make the world safe for democracy. After it was over we gave three quarters of Europe and all China to Judeo-Bolsheviks. Korea? We gave half of it to Judeo-Bolsheviks. Vietnam? We built up the infrastructure of South Vietnam and gave it to Judeo-Bolsheviks. Persian Wars? Iraq is now ruled by death squads and Judeo-Bolsheviks control its oil and pipeline going to Israel.
Is this what you call “protecting America’s freedoms”?
Until those who suggest can support their proposals with historical examples, they only mislead… and make the work of Judeo-Bolsheviks immeasurably easier. See the account of their Exodus from Russia, as related by the Los Angeles Times.
Corporate Media and Public Education! These two tools of the corporate, military and banker elites are used with vigor to brainwash Americans from an early age. The CNN and FOX mind warp has taken hold of a good 60% of every human in America. Asked any question on war, economy, taxes, civil rights, jobs etc. etc. The answer you get will be the answer media and schools have instilled in them. While 40% may read and use the internet, only a fraction do that other than to feed their already warped minds, instead of using books and internet to chart an open and free path to other ideas and opinions, or even gain facts. Schools and media are great at hiding or ignoring fact based opinion making.
America, no nation on earth has so many people with such stong opinions, and such total lack of knowledge about that which they have a strong opinon! Don't believe me! Challange someone who has just expressed their strong opinon, ask them to back it up with facts and reasoned argument. It is that point that they experience an epic fail, melt down, resulting in their anger at you for questioning their factless opinions.
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no. the question is are you gonna get a gun and turn it on the tyrants - or not?
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What's wrong?
Read the comments. Everything in the spectrum from right to left to up to down. To be a nation there must be some unifying underlining principles.
We have none.
RIP America. All hail Amerika.
Americans don't seem to care because the water temperature is being raised very slowly and when they do squirm they are told by the real perps that its someone elses fault other than the real perps. So being misled and not being smart enough to question authority makes for an acquiescent populous who generally have their heads down trying to make a living and only look up to view mass produced culture.
Citizens have little power. That's why we have a representative Republic. We supposedly elect people who are supposed to protect the Constitution.
The people who hold office and have taken an oath and have a duty to protect the constitution have turned into lilly livered cowards.
So we are pretty much stuck.
Then we the people need to put the politicians feet to REAL FIRE starting at the local level and then moving promptly to the state level. Once the state level politicians "get it" there will be far fewer willing to mess with the people on a national level. It's time for very real action and accountability. Sadly, it won't happen...the nation has been so polarized by the traitors that meaningful movement won't happen. A civil war is much more likely than a rebellion against treason.
Is it that we don’t care? Is it that we don’t see it? Is it that we are masochists? What is it about us that makes us so apathetic to the atrocities against our Constitutional rights?
You want the truth? here it is...
YouTube video "Trans-Pacfic Partnership" or TPP - 3 at 59,000, and 1 (the ultra leftie propaganda addiction chanenel MoveOn.org with Robert Reich narrating) - 222,517 views.
YouTube video -"Bruce Jenner" talks to Diane Sawyer - 2,321,249 views.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”Aldous Huxley, U.C. Berkeley in 1962
Is it that we don’t care? Is it that we don’t see it? Is it that we are masochists? What is it about us that makes us so apathetic to the atrocities against our Constitutional rights?
You have to know the answer for:
- every government worker
- virtually all professionals
- the free stuff legions
The answer is this. So many folks, and virtually every single well-off to semi-wealthy individual is very clear their income and wealth has been artifically but massively boosted by government laws, acts, statutes, mandates, regulations, etc.
Want to dispense pills? You need government sanction (pharmacist), which massively restricts competition and greatly boosts your pay.
Want to give health advise? You need government sanction (doctor), which massively restricts competition and greatly boosts your pay.
Want to teach kids in 99% of schools? You need government sanction (teacher degree), which massively restricts competition and greatly boosts your pay.
Want to participate in any of thousands of jobs that are substantially unionized? Once you get in the union, the union-mafia and government greatly restricts competition and thus boosts your pay.
Want to go kill people? You need government sanction (cops, FBI, CIA, military, etc), which makes these jobs possible in the first-place, and much safer than being a self-styled mass murderer.
Want to enslave people and get paid twice the going rate for your job description in the process? You need to be employed by government or one of their sanctioned and protected contractors.
Shall I go on?
The answer is, too many people have a LARGE vested interest in keeping the system in place. Many of these people may HATE government, but at the same time, they absolutely understand their massive advantage over others is a direct consequence of government.
And in case you might not recognize this, the same phenomenon applies to people not favored by "special government sanctions". I refer to everyone who wants to receive food stamps... or welfare... or disability payments... or unemployment pay... or any of hundreds of other niche schemes created to buy approval in the system.
Even when most people HATE the system, they are unwilling to fight the system, because they know damn well they receive more than they produce, and they are too uncertain how they'd fare in a fully free system (if they can even visualize one) to support freedom and abolition of government.
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Not really.
We remain good and non-violent until forced to change by the evil that uses violence and the threat of violence as its main tool (government).
Most people will allow themselves to be impoverished and killed rather than become evil themselves. By this, evil thinks that good is stupid ... when in fact good is simply not evil.
A real free trade agreement would take less than a page to fill. The fact that it does not means that this is not a free trade agreement.
Historically, free trade works even with those markets which are not free. In fact, a real free trade agreement would harm controlled markets.