Some of you know that I dream of having the wherewithal to escape the "Untied States" for some other less corrupt country. It's hard o imagine ever doing so, but various countries' strengths and weaknesses are an endlessly fascinating and useful study in themselves. Among other things, they show exactly what ameriKa used to be and, in the process, how far we've run from the sane, orderly, relatively more decent and stable life we once knew as a society.
Another real benefit -- not to say a pleasant one at all -- is finding out just how much trouble the USA is causing the rest of the world. Sure, they're smashing one country to smithereens vaguely east of the Mediterranean Sea these years. Even Somalia, which we've bludgeoned at least twice, fits this category -- perhaps as a decoy against accusations that they only care about Israel's near and less near neighbors?
And sure, ameriKa is the mainstay and host of the endlessly troublemaking UN, the IMF and other dogooder agencies that run around accidentally messing poor countries over "out of the best intentions". But how stunning it can be to find out how busy the USA is trying to totally ruin life in other "first-world" countries out of such blatant motivations as greed, envy, raw wantonness and stark perversity!
This is displayed never more clearly than via a look at the typically benign and goodly-sounding "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development" or OECD. It's actually headquartered in France, but -- surprise! -- it "was formed in 1948 to administer American and Canadian aid in the framework of the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II" (Wikipedia).
And everywhere you look, this rabble's true, ugly colors are seen: its main function seems to be destroying financial privacy and further forcing a "fishbowl" existence on citizens of "first world" countries! It strongarms countries like Uruguay to give up something miraculous for which they've long been celebrated: their status as a mecca for bank secrecy and financial privacy. Ever notice how leftists scream about a right to privacy for themselves but want to destroy it for everybody else?
An especially good "offshore" oriented group that's come my way is Prima Panama Blogs due to its frank, well-rounded reporting on that country's life and politics. Its "warts and all" approach to the subject is not shared by other organizations seeking to guide those in search ofreliefe from ameriKan decadence and rapacity -- indeed, as Panama and other countries have crumbled and truckled before OECD-style threats, other expat trainers have run for cover, giving up their previous politically-incorrect focuses for straight investment advising (ho hum), urging people to dutifully lay bare their entire financial life before the IRS etc.!
Couple of interesting things for our purposes in today's free Prima Panama email tableau. One, a video on the evils of the OECD which is short but jam-packed, shocking but professional and perfect for you to redeploy all over the place. In fact, if this brief show doesn't sum up the real thrust of the first-world political mafia, I don't know what does. A big Patriot Network tie-in: OECD is all about piling more, more, higher, more brazen TAXES on Americans.... and citizens of many other "have" countries!
http://primapanama.blogs.com/_panama_residential_devel/2011/01/gop-proposal-to-eliminate-oecd-funding.html
As to the pges GOP headline, we don't advise holding your breath.
Next, Prima Panama takes a look at The Nerve's report on a rather odd mission undertaken by some South Carolina notables:
http://primapanama.blogs.com/_panama_residential_devel/2011/01/sc-port-authority-in-hot-water-over-panama-trip.html
It's no surprise that politicians find reasons to take official jaunts to tropical getaways. And we have known at least two folks on this one -- Rep. Harry Cato and Sen. Larry Grooms -- to have done some first-rate work as legislators.
We don't doubt their integrity re the Panama trip (notably, Sen. Grooms is the only one mentioned as reimbursing the state for his expenses). What is dismaying is that a high Chamber of Commerce official went along, apparently at state expense. I call them Chambers of Communism and pray for the day the public awakes to these bodies' real nature.
Also in Prima's news roundup today were a commentary by respected Panama attorney Eduardo Morgan casting doubt on Wikileaks' accusations about drug-running in his country, and a feature aimed at Panama-based expats titled "What the IRS wants to know about you". It's always good to see people trying to connect the politically and economically oppressed with relief they richly deserve, especially outside the USA, traditional home of freedom seekers and strategists.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
A major learning opportunity? TUESDAY, FEB. 3
The following message just in. Everyone who is not coming with us to the Charlotte PN meeting, why not consider going to the Tea Party dinner/lecture session in Greenville? We don't know Calvin Cowen and make no guarantees, but it could be good.
From: calvin@congressofhope.com
To: Feb_3rd_invite@app01.sm.onr.chicago.hostway
Subject: Learn about Precinct Reorganization
From: calvin@congressofhope.com
To: Feb_3rd_invite@app01.sm.onr.chicago.hostway
Subject: Learn about Precinct Reorganization
Precinct Reorganization is happening soon. If we miss this opportunity we will
have to wait two more years. For this reason Tony Dale has been rescheduled for the March meeting of the
Greenville Tea Party. Please do not miss Tony Dale. He is a very entertaining speaker with good information.
I will be explaining many of the ins and outs of the upcoming Republican Party
Precinct Reorganization. I went through this two years ago and have been Chairman of my precinct ever since.
This only happens once every two years and, as I will explain to you, is something we NEED to be involved in. The
nice thing about it is that it takes so little effort to make a difference.
Next Meeting will be on Tuesday February 3rd, 2011, at 6:30 PM
Location:
Denny's Restaurant
2521 Wade Hampton Boulevard
Greenville, SC 29615
Thanks.
Calvin Cowen
This is admittedly a shot in the dark. The Tea Party is, like most other organizations, a mixture of brilliance and folly, energy and inertia. We certainly support their drive to shake up the political establishment and demand answers and action on the things that really matter -- most notable 18 to 24 months ago. (Yes, it's exactly two years since the movement's birth!) We are of course quite busy with our own organizational responsibilities but would love to know what's new with the Party, whether it be good or ill. If you attend, please report to blog editor Nelson Waller at torpenhow@charter.net.
Precinct reorganization is a crucial, very local, often simple and enjoyable process that imports real power to citizens -- any registered to vote! In some recent cases, precinct meetings have had no attendees besides the intrepid politically-incorrect Constitutional patriot, who then simply elects himself candidate for whatever public political office is up for grabs. A nascent related discussion forum just arrived:
http://www.delegatetraining.com/
Friday, January 28, 2011
Latest from the SC doers and reporters
I can't remember a time when more forces were at work monitoring and actively addressing legislative problems in South Carolina. We are truly blessed to have so many concerned citizens notably right of center at work on issues, often doing so in the halls of power in Columbia.
These two from TheNerve.org via the PN Executive Director:
Legislators Travel to Panama; Guess Who Pays?
Several legislators, all members of a commission that oversees the S.C. State Ports Authority, were took part in a $29,000 trip to Central America last fall. The excursion, which sought to promote South Carolina ports to Panama Canal officials, included five S.C. lawmakers, along with a representative of a Washington lobbying firm and a Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce official. Read Investigative Reporter Rick Brundrett's story here to see who picked up the tab.
'Repeal Amendment' a Priority for House GOP Caucus
Among priorities for the House GOP Caucus this session is the passage of the "Repeal Amendment," according to House Speaker Bobby Harrell. During a Jan. 6 press conference, Harrell said under the Repeal Amendment, if two-thirds of all state legislatures voted to repeal an overreaching federal law, the law would be struck down. See the video here.
These from Talbert Black -- have archived some in the Nationalist Times' discussion forum:
H3045 new contact info
*** IMPORTANT NOTE: The SC General Assembly changed from a direct email system to a submission form on the individual webpage of each lawmaker. The links below will open each lawmaker's page where you must click "Send a message to Representative" then paste in your message.I saw this coming last year when they put the forms up and took the e-mail addresses down. I guess they felt like they were getting to many e-mails. I talked to an aide and she told me her job was to delete any message that does not come from a constituent.
(A few days later:)
Following is some additional information from our friends at GrassRoots GunRights of South Carolina (www.scfirearms.org). Please read and ACT! January 25, 2011 Some elected representatives are finally seeing the prohibited carry restrictions placed upon concealed weapon permit (CWP) holders are unreasonable and need to be abolished - but not for you. Unfortunately, the only gun related legislation moving forward in the SC General Assembly is a bill - H. 3405 - to make politicians more equal than the rest of us. H. 3405 would let “any other elected or appointed public official” - that means politicians - who possesses a CWP to carry a self-defense firearm anywhere in the state. But, this bill will NOT allow YOU same freedom! H. 3405 is nothing more than a self serving bill that proves that politicians think their lives are more important than your life or the lives of your family! H. 3405 will allow politicians to carry in schools, restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages, churches, day care facilities, high school and college football games, publicly owned buildings, court houses and court rooms, private residences without permission, and even into posted businesses! But, H. 3405 will do NOTHING for you! H. 3405 is another example of how politicians seem to forget the fact that they are public servants, not our lords and masters. Why should public servants have greater privileges than you? Isn’t your life and your family’s life just as important as the life of a politician? GrassRoots GunRights strongly opposes H. 3405, just as we did similar proposed legislation last session and the session before that. GrassRoots still believes the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Evidently, some SC politicians do not believe SC citizens should be treated as their equals. Unfortunately, some politicians think like the pigs from George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” where the ruling pigs said “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”..........
(Finally, from 1/26:)
From: Talbert Black Jr
Subject: Thank you!
H3405 was stopped dead in its tracks
Congratulations! You successfully stopped this bill in its tracks. Reports from the hearing say that the only person in favor of the bill was its sponsor. Because of your swift action, the legislators on the committee all agreed it was a bad bill. Legislators should not get special privileges over us. They are our servants! It is good to constantly remind them of that. So thanks to all those who made phone calls, sent messages, and showed up at the subcommittee hearing! We’ve stopped H3405, dead.
I confess I didn't do a thing on the above, but can assure you that despite the smashing outcome, there was never any guarantee of a victory here. Not with the present crowd in Columbia! The idea that it got out of committee once, much less several times, is stunning.
Last but not least, please keep up with the occasionally updated but very action-packed blog of our sister organization the South Carolina Conservative Action Council. They have a major event coming up Feb. 17 and may be re-activating the Columbia PN group as early as Feb. 3:
http://southernaction.blogspot.com/
.
These two from TheNerve.org via the PN Executive Director:
Legislators Travel to Panama; Guess Who Pays?
Several legislators, all members of a commission that oversees the S.C. State Ports Authority, were took part in a $29,000 trip to Central America last fall. The excursion, which sought to promote South Carolina ports to Panama Canal officials, included five S.C. lawmakers, along with a representative of a Washington lobbying firm and a Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce official. Read Investigative Reporter Rick Brundrett's story here to see who picked up the tab.
'Repeal Amendment' a Priority for House GOP Caucus
Among priorities for the House GOP Caucus this session is the passage of the "Repeal Amendment," according to House Speaker Bobby Harrell. During a Jan. 6 press conference, Harrell said under the Repeal Amendment, if two-thirds of all state legislatures voted to repeal an overreaching federal law, the law would be struck down. See the video here.
These from Talbert Black -- have archived some in the Nationalist Times' discussion forum:
H3045 new contact info
*** IMPORTANT NOTE: The SC General Assembly changed from a direct email system to a submission form on the individual webpage of each lawmaker. The links below will open each lawmaker's page where you must click "Send a message to Representative" then paste in your message.I saw this coming last year when they put the forms up and took the e-mail addresses down. I guess they felt like they were getting to many e-mails. I talked to an aide and she told me her job was to delete any message that does not come from a constituent.
(A few days later:)
Following is some additional information from our friends at GrassRoots GunRights of South Carolina (www.scfirearms.org). Please read and ACT! January 25, 2011 Some elected representatives are finally seeing the prohibited carry restrictions placed upon concealed weapon permit (CWP) holders are unreasonable and need to be abolished - but not for you. Unfortunately, the only gun related legislation moving forward in the SC General Assembly is a bill - H. 3405 - to make politicians more equal than the rest of us. H. 3405 would let “any other elected or appointed public official” - that means politicians - who possesses a CWP to carry a self-defense firearm anywhere in the state. But, this bill will NOT allow YOU same freedom! H. 3405 is nothing more than a self serving bill that proves that politicians think their lives are more important than your life or the lives of your family! H. 3405 will allow politicians to carry in schools, restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages, churches, day care facilities, high school and college football games, publicly owned buildings, court houses and court rooms, private residences without permission, and even into posted businesses! But, H. 3405 will do NOTHING for you! H. 3405 is another example of how politicians seem to forget the fact that they are public servants, not our lords and masters. Why should public servants have greater privileges than you? Isn’t your life and your family’s life just as important as the life of a politician? GrassRoots GunRights strongly opposes H. 3405, just as we did similar proposed legislation last session and the session before that. GrassRoots still believes the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Evidently, some SC politicians do not believe SC citizens should be treated as their equals. Unfortunately, some politicians think like the pigs from George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” where the ruling pigs said “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”..........
(Finally, from 1/26:)
From: Talbert Black Jr
Subject: Thank you!
H3405 was stopped dead in its tracks
Congratulations! You successfully stopped this bill in its tracks. Reports from the hearing say that the only person in favor of the bill was its sponsor. Because of your swift action, the legislators on the committee all agreed it was a bad bill. Legislators should not get special privileges over us. They are our servants! It is good to constantly remind them of that. So thanks to all those who made phone calls, sent messages, and showed up at the subcommittee hearing! We’ve stopped H3405, dead.
I confess I didn't do a thing on the above, but can assure you that despite the smashing outcome, there was never any guarantee of a victory here. Not with the present crowd in Columbia! The idea that it got out of committee once, much less several times, is stunning.
Last but not least, please keep up with the occasionally updated but very action-packed blog of our sister organization the South Carolina Conservative Action Council. They have a major event coming up Feb. 17 and may be re-activating the Columbia PN group as early as Feb. 3:
http://southernaction.blogspot.com/
.
EMERGENCY…. CALLING ALL SOUTHERN PATRIOTS
Come to the S.C. Capitol! Help send a message to the Governor, legislature, media & citizens that WE REMEMBER -- and they need to
WHAT: a Rally in remembrance of the Union’s savage burning of Columbia
WHERE: north side of the South Carolina State House
Gervais and Main Streets, Columbia, S.C.
WHEN: 12 noon, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011: THE 146th anniversary of the crime
We will proceed from the George Washington statue into the rotunda. All interested will meet for 10:30 AM dutch treat breakfast at the IHOP just west of the state house (1031 Assembly St.)
Come to the S.C. Capitol! Help send a message to the Governor, legislature, media & citizens that WE REMEMBER -- and they need to
WHAT: a Rally in remembrance of the Union’s savage burning of Columbia
WHERE: north side of the South Carolina State House
Gervais and Main Streets, Columbia, S.C.
WHEN: 12 noon, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011: THE 146th anniversary of the crime
We will proceed from the George Washington statue into the rotunda. All interested will meet for 10:30 AM dutch treat breakfast at the IHOP just west of the state house (1031 Assembly St.)
************************
OK, this just in!
The New Jersey Government Record Council ruled in December that the town of Somerset had overcharged Tom Coulter in 2008 by $4.04 on the $5 it collected for a compact disc of a council meeting and must issue a refund. The town estimates that it spent about $17,000 fighting Coulter's appeals (and paying his attorney's fees). [Courier News of Bridgewater, 12-22-2010]
Awfully good to see it happening in Joisey, where I first joined the struggle of man against System, and in a town that's given me many pleasant memories....and even reported in the paper I grew up reading the funnies in, which later published my letters and a short profile of my musical work.
Many were the battles my comrades had against petty bureaucrats like this -- really takes me back -- and doesn't it show how effective and meaningful a "small" fight can be?
He wanted his money. He knew it was due him. He didn't want local bureaucrats to be able to treat even "small" things callously. He fought to the end, even HIRING A LAWYER, and got total restitution.
About that Courier-News daily indoctrination sheet.... On moving to Anderson I was shocked to see its own daily indoctrination sheet had the exact same editor, the suspiciously-named extreme radical Socialist Fred L. Foster. Merely further proof that there's not a thing Southern about Southern daily indoctrination sheets!
The New Jersey Government Record Council ruled in December that the town of Somerset had overcharged Tom Coulter in 2008 by $4.04 on the $5 it collected for a compact disc of a council meeting and must issue a refund. The town estimates that it spent about $17,000 fighting Coulter's appeals (and paying his attorney's fees). [Courier News of Bridgewater, 12-22-2010]
Awfully good to see it happening in Joisey, where I first joined the struggle of man against System, and in a town that's given me many pleasant memories....and even reported in the paper I grew up reading the funnies in, which later published my letters and a short profile of my musical work.
Many were the battles my comrades had against petty bureaucrats like this -- really takes me back -- and doesn't it show how effective and meaningful a "small" fight can be?
He wanted his money. He knew it was due him. He didn't want local bureaucrats to be able to treat even "small" things callously. He fought to the end, even HIRING A LAWYER, and got total restitution.
About that Courier-News daily indoctrination sheet.... On moving to Anderson I was shocked to see its own daily indoctrination sheet had the exact same editor, the suspiciously-named extreme radical Socialist Fred L. Foster. Merely further proof that there's not a thing Southern about Southern daily indoctrination sheets!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Truth is busting out all over: Taxpayer Bill of Rights makes new headlines
I'm delighted to see this story among recent Freedom's Phoenix headlines even if I don't pretend to have figured out its particulars. It looks like another contingent of tax freedom seekers are using the procedural method in exciting ways. At the same time I think they need to check in with the Patriot Network, because we're the ones that have been honing this art and sciene for a third of a century, and everything we do is founded on our Founder's absolute dedication to his task his genius for it, and his long years of applying his law degree to liberating instead of enslaving them.
And of course we urge one course in response to any news of this nature -- check with the Patriot Network before trying or applying anything new in your own case!
http://www.theamericanrepublic.com/
Yes, You CAN Beat IRS
On January 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the dismissal of 2 (out of 21) counts in a lawsuit brought against “the” United States for IRS misconduct. This is the second time that the D.C. Circuit has reversed dismissal of a case brought under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (26 U.S.C. § 7433).
In the Opinion, D.C. Appeals Court Judge Janice K. Brown noted that the Plaintiffs “contend the district court erred because under Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199 (2007), exhaustion of statutory remedies is not a pleading requirement of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. We agree.”
Explaining how the Jones Court described the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s language authorizing dismissal of an action for “fail[ure] to state a claim upon which relief may be granted” as a “red herring,” id. at 215, the Court of Appeals found that “Nothing in the text of § 7433 “support[s] treating exhaustion as a pleading requirement rather than an affirmative defense.”
Further finding that exhaustion (of administrative remedies) is not a pleading requirement under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the Court held that the Plaintiffs “were not required to plead exhaustion pursuant to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in order to survive the Defendants’ motion to dismiss”; and “were free to omit exhaustion from their pleadings”, and that “a motion to dismiss may not compel full disclosure concerning efforts to exhaust”.
Perhaps inadvertently, the D.C. Circuit constrained IRS in one very important aspect, finding that “notice of assessment…” e.g., the “Notice and Demand” mandated in IRC § 6303, “…is a precursor to the filing of a lien and the execution of a levy”.......
..........Now, here's a story involving the embattled but valiant Graber family, respected members of the Atlanta PN club. They are among the recent victims of totalitarian foreclosure-mania but are not taking it sitting down.
Well, once again, a library computer won't let me paste anything. Google Petition Drive Launched for 90-Day Foreclosure Moratorium, please.
And of course we urge one course in response to any news of this nature -- check with the Patriot Network before trying or applying anything new in your own case!
http://www.theamericanrepublic.com/
Yes, You CAN Beat IRS
On January 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the dismissal of 2 (out of 21) counts in a lawsuit brought against “the” United States for IRS misconduct. This is the second time that the D.C. Circuit has reversed dismissal of a case brought under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (26 U.S.C. § 7433).
In the Opinion, D.C. Appeals Court Judge Janice K. Brown noted that the Plaintiffs “contend the district court erred because under Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199 (2007), exhaustion of statutory remedies is not a pleading requirement of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. We agree.”
Explaining how the Jones Court described the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s language authorizing dismissal of an action for “fail[ure] to state a claim upon which relief may be granted” as a “red herring,” id. at 215, the Court of Appeals found that “Nothing in the text of § 7433 “support[s] treating exhaustion as a pleading requirement rather than an affirmative defense.”
Further finding that exhaustion (of administrative remedies) is not a pleading requirement under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the Court held that the Plaintiffs “were not required to plead exhaustion pursuant to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in order to survive the Defendants’ motion to dismiss”; and “were free to omit exhaustion from their pleadings”, and that “a motion to dismiss may not compel full disclosure concerning efforts to exhaust”.
Perhaps inadvertently, the D.C. Circuit constrained IRS in one very important aspect, finding that “notice of assessment…” e.g., the “Notice and Demand” mandated in IRC § 6303, “…is a precursor to the filing of a lien and the execution of a levy”.......
..........Now, here's a story involving the embattled but valiant Graber family, respected members of the Atlanta PN club. They are among the recent victims of totalitarian foreclosure-mania but are not taking it sitting down.
Well, once again, a library computer won't let me paste anything. Google Petition Drive Launched for 90-Day Foreclosure Moratorium, please.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare
Americans For Tax Reform (or someone) has done a great job of percolating the disaster known as Obamacare down to a list of the many ways this wretched, rotten scheme will tax Americans and corporations. Share this freely e.g. with any liberals you know. Pretendent Oh!Bummer still seems A-OK with the Dummacrats I know, but to have a personal friend of co-worker (etc.) give them the straight dope on this new utopian drug may, who knows, make a difference. Note the three tons of comments added!
http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758#
From Ryan Ellis on Friday, January 14, 2011 6:00 AM
............Also much in the news in the "crazy mixed up age" of ameriKa in her 20th/21st-century dotage is the issue of what constitutes money, and whether what passes for it these days qualifies in any way. You're almost used to the idea that greenbacks have zero intrinsic value AND zero real assets backing them up (two different things!) -- now, behold the crazy matter of the value of our coins.
They've labored for years to rob us there too, bringing in "clad" or "sandwich" (glaringly counterfeit) coins for dimes and up, and pseudo-pennies made from zinc or something because it was cheaper. It supported the "Federal Reserve" fraud much better.
But what will they do now -- discontinue pennies entirely? The article below is another strange case of a headline being much more system-friendly than the content. The former speaks of the manufacturing process, the latter of COMMODITY PRICES.
http://gizmodo.com/5734677/did-you-know-it-costs-more-than-a-penny-to-make-a-penny
Below are other money stories currently jazzing up NuttyNewsToday.com and Freedom's Phoenix. Wish I had time to vet those and many more (oh, the ones that get away).
Most remarkable is the emergence of some kind of good news from Gerald Celente. I've come to respect his prophetic powers even as they ruin my day and hopes of a future in this country month after month, year after year. The Great One was often heard saying the great crash had already occurred -- but it was cushioned almost completely by the rapid advance of computer tech. In many important ways, he maintained, PCs and other miracle toys made life so much cheaper and easier that nobody felt the bump.
Unfortunately, we didn't continue to maximize that development (and let the prostiticians get away with murder on a massive, even cosmic scale) and now we find ourselves in a very real depression. Perhaps technology will save our economy again.... but there will be no real American rebirth without a wholesale return to the Faith of our father, and a vast improvement on what they knew of it.
Oh yes - those links:
Higher Taxes Wouldn’t End Some Deficits
01-19-2011 • NY Times
Feature Article • Wallet Voting
The "libertytrade.net" project - trade using sound money for a sound future
Tom Westbrook
Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
'Fear and Love Make Gold Strong'
News Link • Energy
Gerald Celente looks to 2011 free energy breakthroughs as the beginning of a new revolution
News Link • Secession
Our Choice: State Secession or Washington Debt Depression
01-19-2011 • Ron Holland via LewRockwell.com
News Link • Positive News
New Illinois Tax to Yield Higher Quality Corruption
01-19-2011 • RealityReport.TV
................Whoa! Stop the presses! A few days ago we brought you this rich headline
http://patriotcannon.blogspot.com/2011/01/ha-clever-site-name-and-sc-based.html
.....and now for the rest of the story: wrongful foreclosure action IS why the judge in deep yogurt. Read and enjoy the story of an intrepid South Carolina couple's pro-se legal progress. May they win it the rest of the way, busting wrongful (or shall we say sham) foreclosure wide open -- and maybe a few "too big to fail" banks with it!
www.judicial.state.sc.us/opinions/displayOpinion.cfm?caseNo=26753
http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/supreme/displayJustice.cfm?judgeID=1108
My ancestral uncle the Rev. John Waller was one of the preachers jailed and persecuted for preaching without a license in the epoch that gave us the First Amendment. He eventually left our native Virginia for South Carolina where his family became notable for generations, especially in Greenwood. The Confederate memorial there is topped by a statue of my cousin James Leonidas Waller -- a teenage casualty of the un-Civil War.
I believe Justice Waller was on the bench both times the S.C. Supreme Court declared Dr. Clarkson's heroic work legal.
/\/.\/\/.
http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758#
From Ryan Ellis on Friday, January 14, 2011 6:00 AM
............Also much in the news in the "crazy mixed up age" of ameriKa in her 20th/21st-century dotage is the issue of what constitutes money, and whether what passes for it these days qualifies in any way. You're almost used to the idea that greenbacks have zero intrinsic value AND zero real assets backing them up (two different things!) -- now, behold the crazy matter of the value of our coins.
They've labored for years to rob us there too, bringing in "clad" or "sandwich" (glaringly counterfeit) coins for dimes and up, and pseudo-pennies made from zinc or something because it was cheaper. It supported the "Federal Reserve" fraud much better.
But what will they do now -- discontinue pennies entirely? The article below is another strange case of a headline being much more system-friendly than the content. The former speaks of the manufacturing process, the latter of COMMODITY PRICES.
http://gizmodo.com/5734677/did-you-know-it-costs-more-than-a-penny-to-make-a-penny
Below are other money stories currently jazzing up NuttyNewsToday.com and Freedom's Phoenix. Wish I had time to vet those and many more (oh, the ones that get away).
Most remarkable is the emergence of some kind of good news from Gerald Celente. I've come to respect his prophetic powers even as they ruin my day and hopes of a future in this country month after month, year after year. The Great One was often heard saying the great crash had already occurred -- but it was cushioned almost completely by the rapid advance of computer tech. In many important ways, he maintained, PCs and other miracle toys made life so much cheaper and easier that nobody felt the bump.
Unfortunately, we didn't continue to maximize that development (and let the prostiticians get away with murder on a massive, even cosmic scale) and now we find ourselves in a very real depression. Perhaps technology will save our economy again.... but there will be no real American rebirth without a wholesale return to the Faith of our father, and a vast improvement on what they knew of it.
Oh yes - those links:
God as guard: Bank opens branch with no locks
Student Pays $14,000 Tuition In $1 Bills
Ben Franklin arrested for passing fake $10 bills
Man sentenced to life for evading road tolls
ATMs dirtier than public toilets
Woman, 85, in hospital, misses [final] $484 house payment
Pay your dog tax or Fido gets the death penalty
6-pound, 4-ounce gold nugget to be sold
Where did all of the money donated to Haiti go?
News Link • TAXES: StateHigher Taxes Wouldn’t End Some Deficits
01-19-2011 • NY Times
Feature Article • Wallet Voting
The "libertytrade.net" project - trade using sound money for a sound future
Tom Westbrook
Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
'Fear and Love Make Gold Strong'
News Link • Energy
Gerald Celente looks to 2011 free energy breakthroughs as the beginning of a new revolution
News Link • Secession
Our Choice: State Secession or Washington Debt Depression
01-19-2011 • Ron Holland via LewRockwell.com
News Link • Positive News
New Illinois Tax to Yield Higher Quality Corruption
01-19-2011 • RealityReport.TV
................Whoa! Stop the presses! A few days ago we brought you this rich headline
http://patriotcannon.blogspot.com/2011/01/ha-clever-site-name-and-sc-based.html
.....and now for the rest of the story: wrongful foreclosure action IS why the judge in deep yogurt. Read and enjoy the story of an intrepid South Carolina couple's pro-se legal progress. May they win it the rest of the way, busting wrongful (or shall we say sham) foreclosure wide open -- and maybe a few "too big to fail" banks with it!
www.judicial.state.sc.us/opinions/displayOpinion.cfm?caseNo=26753
Appeal from Dorchester County
Patrick R. Watts, Master-in-Equity
Opinion No. 26753
Heard October 6, 2009 – Filed December 21, 2009
VACATED AND REMANDED
In case anybody's wondering, the Justice John H. Waller, Jr. recorded as concurring in this historic decision is almost certainly kin of mine if you go back a couple of centuries.http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/supreme/displayJustice.cfm?judgeID=1108
My ancestral uncle the Rev. John Waller was one of the preachers jailed and persecuted for preaching without a license in the epoch that gave us the First Amendment. He eventually left our native Virginia for South Carolina where his family became notable for generations, especially in Greenwood. The Confederate memorial there is topped by a statue of my cousin James Leonidas Waller -- a teenage casualty of the un-Civil War.
I believe Justice Waller was on the bench both times the S.C. Supreme Court declared Dr. Clarkson's heroic work legal.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Music to my eyes: Headline straight from heaven
One out of five states have done what would never have been necessary in an America that still actually educated its youth in what matters: they have discussed the possibility of going back to gold and silver as the basis of finance and commerce. In SC (as I write) to get the politicians to at least rule that state business can be so conducted. Toward that end, we've formed the South Carolina Sound Money Coalition and will be holding an Economic Summit for (among other things) legislators to be able to sit under the brilliant teaching of Dr. Edwin Viera (of America: From Freedom To Fascism fame). A leader of the SCSMS actually sent me this news tip.
This development could be fantastic, liberating, and the salvation of the people from tyranny and total, irrevocable catastrophe... which, unfortunately, has a good chance of getting here before the poky, perennially distracted politicians see the light. Another good sign: the group monitoring the progress of real-money legislation seems Southern-based.
You can help. Please contact your state legislators and urge they help your state kick the Federal Reserve Note habit. These so-called notes are a dangerous drug which, having helped wreck the economies of this and many other countries, is about to go >poof<>.
Legislators in at least ten states have introduced bills in the past few years to allow state commerce to be conducted with gold and silver.
As we reported, Georgia state Rep. Bobby Franklin (R) recently reintroduced legislation to force his state to conduct all monetary transactions with U.S. gold or silver coins -- including the payment of taxes.
The Georgia bill has a long way to go before become law -- but it's by no means the only state that's considering a future in gold. Lawmakers in Montana, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington have proposed legislation, mostly in 2009, to include gold and silver in its accepted currency forms. Constitutionaltender.com, a site dedicated to tracking and promoting these bills, explains:
The United States Constitution declares, in Article I, Section 10, "No State shall... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts". But, in fact, EVERY state in the United States of America DOES make some other "Thing" besides gold and silver coin a "Tender in Payment of Debts" -- some "Thing" called "Federal Reserve Notes." Thus the need for the "Constitutional Tender Act" -- a bill template that can be introduced in every state legislature in the nation, returning each of them to adherence to the United States Constitution's actual legal tender provisions.
The site's Facebook page says all donations to the group go to RightMarch, a conservative 501(c)(4) that describes its goal as to "counter the well-financed antics of radical left-wing groups like MoveOn.org, by appealing to the grassroots "silent majority" to take action." RightMarch is run by Bill Greene, who ran for Congress in Georgia in 2008.
This idea of using gold and silver as currency has recently enjoyed a bit of a renaissance -- Fox Business' Stuart Varney and Andrew Napolitano, for example, recently debated whether the country should return to using gold as everyday currency. Gold vending machines had already been operating in some European countries and the United Arab Emirates before one recently opened in a Florida mall. And, of course, there's Glenn Beck's consistent touting of the gold seller Goldline on his radio show........
This development could be fantastic, liberating, and the salvation of the people from tyranny and total, irrevocable catastrophe... which, unfortunately, has a good chance of getting here before the poky, perennially distracted politicians see the light. Another good sign: the group monitoring the progress of real-money legislation seems Southern-based.
You can help. Please contact your state legislators and urge they help your state kick the Federal Reserve Note habit. These so-called notes are a dangerous drug which, having helped wreck the economies of this and many other countries, is about to go >poof<>.
At Least 10 States Have Introduced Gold Coins-As-Currency Bills
Jillian Rayfield January 5, 2011, 8:59AMLegislators in at least ten states have introduced bills in the past few years to allow state commerce to be conducted with gold and silver.
As we reported, Georgia state Rep. Bobby Franklin (R) recently reintroduced legislation to force his state to conduct all monetary transactions with U.S. gold or silver coins -- including the payment of taxes.
The Georgia bill has a long way to go before become law -- but it's by no means the only state that's considering a future in gold. Lawmakers in Montana, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington have proposed legislation, mostly in 2009, to include gold and silver in its accepted currency forms. Constitutionaltender.com, a site dedicated to tracking and promoting these bills, explains:
The United States Constitution declares, in Article I, Section 10, "No State shall... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts". But, in fact, EVERY state in the United States of America DOES make some other "Thing" besides gold and silver coin a "Tender in Payment of Debts" -- some "Thing" called "Federal Reserve Notes." Thus the need for the "Constitutional Tender Act" -- a bill template that can be introduced in every state legislature in the nation, returning each of them to adherence to the United States Constitution's actual legal tender provisions.
The site's Facebook page says all donations to the group go to RightMarch, a conservative 501(c)(4) that describes its goal as to "counter the well-financed antics of radical left-wing groups like MoveOn.org, by appealing to the grassroots "silent majority" to take action." RightMarch is run by Bill Greene, who ran for Congress in Georgia in 2008.
This idea of using gold and silver as currency has recently enjoyed a bit of a renaissance -- Fox Business' Stuart Varney and Andrew Napolitano, for example, recently debated whether the country should return to using gold as everyday currency. Gold vending machines had already been operating in some European countries and the United Arab Emirates before one recently opened in a Florida mall. And, of course, there's Glenn Beck's consistent touting of the gold seller Goldline on his radio show........
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Ha -- clever site name! And SC-based foreclosure news
No time to parse this from our point of view (and seek out the nature of the foreclosure issue at hand in the dense text) and this story is only being originally reported in the version below, but it looks from here like a slob (or tyrant) in a black robe has been rightly thrown off a bench. Where there's smoke, there's fire....
Controversial Judge Patrick Watts Resigns
The Nerve reported months ago about Judge Patrick Watts, the Dorchester County master-in-equity who faced accusations stemming from his handling of foreclosure cases. Watts has decided to step down, but did he receive any real punishment? The Nerve's Senior Investigative Reporter Rick Brundrett, who has been following this case, has all the answers in this story. =
http://www.thenerve.org/Comments/11-01-13/Controversial_Judge_Patrick_Watts_Resigns.aspx?searchid=b4092d0c-a3dd-4f1f-9544-4e6a9bc1e204&nocomments=true?utm_source=constantcontact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thenerve
This item just in via email. Many of you will find of keen interest. We don't want to scare you, but yes, the fedgov throws some movement leaders and heroic risk-takers into the gulag -- and our valiant western Carolinas friend (and my fellow music instructor!) Kevin I. is one example. Note that the author below is Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus himself. RBC, Bernard and I enjoyed a lunch with some League of the South people at Ryan's in Anderson a few years ago.
Will silver and gold ever be unleashed? Will Kevin, Bernard, and Liberty Dollar ever enjoy the vindication and restitution they so richly deserve? ure that they do!
Controversial Judge Patrick Watts Resigns
The Nerve reported months ago about Judge Patrick Watts, the Dorchester County master-in-equity who faced accusations stemming from his handling of foreclosure cases. Watts has decided to step down, but did he receive any real punishment? The Nerve's Senior Investigative Reporter Rick Brundrett, who has been following this case, has all the answers in this story. =
http://www.thenerve.org/Comments/11-01-13/Controversial_Judge_Patrick_Watts_Resigns.aspx?searchid=b4092d0c-a3dd-4f1f-9544-4e6a9bc1e204&nocomments=true?utm_source=constantcontact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thenerve
This item just in via email. Many of you will find of keen interest. We don't want to scare you, but yes, the fedgov throws some movement leaders and heroic risk-takers into the gulag -- and our valiant western Carolinas friend (and my fellow music instructor!) Kevin I. is one example. Note that the author below is Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus himself. RBC, Bernard and I enjoyed a lunch with some League of the South people at Ryan's in Anderson a few years ago.
Will silver and gold ever be unleashed? Will Kevin, Bernard, and Liberty Dollar ever enjoy the vindication and restitution they so richly deserve? ure that they do!
LD4 CASE NEWS:
December 2010 Vol. 12 No. 12
Ron Paul and the Liberty Dollar!
I am very pleased to announce that a record amount of money was donated for Kevin.
On behalf of Kevin, this is a wonderful sign of support for the Liberty Dollar Four and the lone defendant who is still in county jail after 19 MONTHS! It would be wonderful to raise a bit more to see Kevin through to his trial that will not happen until the Spring and maybe even later as the gov stonewalls defense Motions for exculpatory evidence that the DOJ must deliver for our defense as I exposed in the November newsletter. Please consider sending $10 or $20 to Kevin via his wife: Julia Gaunt, 16 Norman Austin Dr., Asheville, NC 28804.
Table of Contents:
1. Ron Paul and the Liberty Dollar
2. Father and Son in 2012?
3. End the Fed
4. NORFED Lives!!
5. Why Did the Liberty Dollar Fail?
6. WOW!!! Thanks for the $$$
7. Good Inflation Article
8. Why We Can't Fill Orders?
9. Numismatic Values
10. Link to unsubscribe is now working
Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters!
1. Ron Paul and the Liberty Dollar
Now that Congressman Ron Paul has been named the Chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee and the press is full of intrigue as to what Paul will do, it is time to tell the whole story of "Ron Paul and the Liberty Dollar."
In case you missed the news, here are two of the best articles:
Ron Paul Appears Poised to Irk the Fed Chief
"Ron Paul: Fed 'monopoly' could be broken if Americans use gold, silver as currency"
The "Fed monopoly" article mentions the Liberty Dollar:
An Indiana-based firm called Liberty Dollar -- which produced "Ron Paul dollar" coins during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination -- was raided by federal authorities in 2007 and the company was shut down. The coins, sold for $25 apiece, were made of silver, and part of the proceeds from their sales was donated to Paul's campaign.
"We should start ending the Fed by allowing competition," Ron Paul said. "I don't like the fact that they have monopoly control. It's a cartel: they print the money. The Constitution really doesn't give them that authority. The Constitution said that only gold and silver can be legal tender."
I don't know if this is a mis-quote or not, but the Constitution does NOT specify that only gold and silver can be legal tender! In fact, the Constitution never uses the words, "legal tender." FYI: "Legal tender"as we know it today, was approved by Solomon Chase when he was the Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln in 1862. And seven years later he ruled his Greenbacks were unconstitutional when he was the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court!
And just recently, Paul had this to say about WikiLeaks.
Search of Ron Paul's site of dailypaul.com yielded an article that featured the Liberty Dollar from WND that said the raid was "political."
In fact, Ron Paul has a very long history of speaking his own mind in support of honesty and honest money. On Sept. 23, 1974, Paul was one of only 120 people to visit the US Gold Depository at Fort Knox. Two other media people in this very select group were Clifford Mishler, current President of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) and David L. Ganz, the country's top numismatic and currency attorney and former president of ANA. Both have agreed to testify at the LD4 trial. I quote from the Ganz article about the uniqueness of their visit to Fort Knox:
Even for the jaded, the experience was nothing short of amazing.
Visiting Ft. Knox, then as today, is virtually unheard of. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve, both of whom serve as co-administrators of the facility, have a strong policy against it. Dozens of requests are turned down annually. Even former Presidents are denied entry.
Visit turndowns were efficient and specific: "The Depository is a classified facility. No visitors are permitted, and no exceptions are made."
No one from the public other than President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who made an inspection trip in 1943, has been inside before or since, the 1974 occasion.
Reversal of this policy on a one time only basis came as a result of a series of peculiar events that resulted in a congressional demand for an audit of the bullion depository, and a first-hand viewing of the gold deposited there.
Please click HERE for the complete amazing article.
Personally I find the inspection of Fort Knox on September 23, 1974, of special interest because it is so close to September 11, 1974, the day I wrote my Economic Research Paper - To Know Value that catapulted me into my life's work and ultimately to issue the Liberty Dollar.
Ron Paul has been an inspiration and mentor during much of those 24 years. Starting in the early 1980s, while I was researching gold for my new model currency that began with the To Know Value paper, I discovered, The Case for Gold by Ron Paul. I was thrilled as I read his work. I still get thrilled. It's one of the reasons why I jumped at the opportunity to issue a Ron Paul Dollar some 25 years later.
The Case for Gold, Minority Report for the U.S. Gold Commission by Ron Paul and Lewis E. Lehrman was a treasure-trove of info that I took as a personal call to action in 1982. From the Forward, Paul cries out for "an honest money system" and co-author Lehrman says, "We can achieve financial order, but only with real leadership and real money." Through many, well proven astute passages, The Case for Gold, concludes with, "Congress must have the courage to move forward to a modern gold standard."
I loved it! But lack of trust that Congress would actually do anything lead me to look elsewhere and I soon discovered the Mises Institute, Llewellyn (Lew) Rockwell's Gold Standard in 1992, and a special interest in Murray Rothbard's trilogy: The Case against the Fed, What Has Government Done to Our Money? and the Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar greatly added to the creation process that produced the Liberty Dollar.
Of course there were many influences including Carl Menger (1840 - 1921). As a student of political economics he wrote the Principles of Economics in 1871 and founded the Austrian School of economic that challenged the established school of cost-based economics with his theory of marginality.
Another important work by Ron Paul was Gold, Peace and Prosperity - The Birth of a New Currency in 1981. And while it never detailed a "new currency" it was significant that a Congressman was even mentioning a new currency. Wasn't this exactly what I was working on?!
And so began a long, arduous and difficult relationship between Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell and myself.
When I officially issued the Liberty Dollar on October 1, 1998, I was still living in Hawaii and the Mintmaster at the Royal Hawaiian Mint. After Jim Thomas, note his obituary in my closing remarks, the editor of Media Bypass featured the Liberty Dollar on the cover of the November, 1998 issue, the idea of a real value based currency attracted a lot of attention.
Sometime in the first part of 1999 I received a phone call from Ron Paul's office. WOW, my favorite Congressman called! I was surprised and very pleased that somebody was interested in my personal mission to issue "real money." And it was not just any congressman, it was The Congressman that had fired me up with his call for a new gold standard! I returned the call and a young staffer explained that the Congressman wanted to hold a Congressional Hearing on the Liberty Dollar and wondered if I would be willing to come to Washington and testify before Congress!? I told the staffer that I was preparing to move to mainland and would be available. The staffer was noticeably pleased and told me that he would call back to discuss the schedule. Double WOW! I just couldn't believe it. Called to testify before Congress! WOW how cool!?
After a couple of weeks and no call from Ron Paul's office I called. After the usual delays I was finally connected to the young staffer. He was noticeable uneasy and after a couple false starts, explained that it was not possible to have me testify because the Congressman cannot endorse any product. I pointed out that that they had called me and that I was not seeking any endorsement. That did not seem to satisfy the staffer who then blurted out that the Congressman couldn't have any for-profit companies testify. Of course, this was a clear signal that he was trying to cancel my invitation to appear at the Congressional Hearing because most of the people who testify are from for-profit companies. But I did not let that bother me and coolly informed the staffer that NORFED was a philanthropic non-profit. That stopped the staffer cold. The line went silent and finally he returned with a brisk, "I will have to call you back." Unfortunately for the Liberty Dollar and our country, that never happened.
Quickly, I turned my attention to finishing my first book, Y2K Money - Your Survival Currency, answered my call-to-action and left for the mainland with plans to follow up with the Ron Paul's office. I left Hawaii at the end of February 1999 and released the Y2K book in Los Angeles on April 1 at a reception of friends that included Ed Griffin and his wife Pat.
After I picked up a motor home in Florida, I laid out the plans to mass market the American Liberty Currency (the original name that was later branded Liberty Dollar) and save the country from the dreaded depreciating fiat FXRX notes. I also made a list of all the important people who had written about a value based currency and I thought would be interested in the Liberty Dollar. Unfortunately, it never occurred to me that these VIPs would not be interested in the very item that they written about.
So, single-mindedly I make a list of the VIPs whose writings had inadvertently contributed to my design, develop and funding of the Liberty Dollar that I would eventually devote my life to.
The list included: Ed Crane at Cato, Congressman Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell at Mises Institute who published Murray Rothbard's work and home of Austrian Economics, somebody at Human Events, John Berthoud at the National Taxpayers Union, John McManus president of the John Birch Society and many others who I don't recall.
I was successful making appointments with everyone on my list. But in rapid succession, all appointments failed to materialize. Crane's office told me he was not in and then showed two un-appointed guests in as I stood near by. John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union, was a straight up guy but his 350,000 members dribbled to less than 50,000 when I inquired to rent their mailing list and offer the Liberty Dollar to the NTU members.
My appointment with John McManus was nothing short of a bad joke as they ran me around the building, through the tunnel and panned me off to the lowest personnel available. All this so McManus could duck out of the building and stand me up. I still have nothing but contempt for McManus and gang.
My appointment with Rockwell was the worst. My family dropped me at the Mises Institute for the early morning appointment and went to the shopping center. I identified myself to the receptionist and informed her that I had an appointment with "Lew" at 9:00. She acknowledged. I mentioned I wanted to do some research in the library and she pointed towards the library. Well after 9:00 I received a call on my cell from Ed Griffin. As the only other person in the back of the library had been on his cell phone and had since left the library, I took Ed's call in the library.
As soon as I hung up from Ed's call the receptionist scolded me for talking in the library. I briefly explained that nobody was there and that the other gentleman had also been on his phone. It didn't matter and she abruptly left. Shortly, I walked over to her desk and inquired about my appointment with Mr. Rockwell. She immediately told me the meeting has been cancelled. What, I asked? She then asked had I not gotten an email? Email? This was in 1999 and emails were not as common then as they are now. Plus I was traveling in a motor home and email was very difficult. Had she tried to call me? No, she had not tried to call me. I was pissed and told her so. She treated me with utter indifference. I yelled at her. She called "Tucker" who physically threw me out of the building and into a raging thunderstorm without shelter or a car.
I admit to behaving badly. I had come to meet one of my most important contacts and worship at the altar of Austrian Economics and Murray Rothbard. I was very upset that I was denied even that common courtesy. Instead of finding an altar, it was more like finding a gang's hideout and not being welcome. It seemed that I was despised for having done what the gang were unable, unwilling or simply afraid to do - and now dare me that I would not just shut the F*** U* and go away.
Of course that attitude just spurred me on to reach out to the people who really wanted to do something about our country's money. And you responded! In the three days prior to the Liberty Dollar move up to the $20 Silver base in 2005, the Liberty Dollar exchanged over half a million US dollars into Liberty Dollars! And that was over five years ago!
Years later Rockwell barred me from ever visiting the Mises Institute. So I appealed to mutual friend who knew Rockwell so I could make amends. My friendly PhD economist, who was associated with the Mises Institute acknowledged that Lew was "problematic" but promised he would resolve the matter. Some time later, when I asked the economist about my situation with Rockwell and the Mises Institute, he growled, "Prickwell was simply unreasonable!" Many years later, I sent a letter of apology to Rockwell for my misbehavior. But to no avail.
Such action is a concern to me and should be to you. Recently Rockwell posted "What is the matter with Rockwell?" I think it is dishonest, i.e. wrong for Mises, Cato and all the others do-nothing organizations to misrepresent themselves! Still later when I tried again to resolve the situation with Rockwell, I couldn't find anybody who was not on the outs with him. It seems like everybody tolerates him but he is a sick human being with no personal relationships, except Ron Paul.
My long awaited meeting with Congressman Ron Paul was not much better. After months of efforts, I finally had an appointment with Paul. He kept me waiting two hours without anyone entering or leaving his office. He probably had lots of calls, so I sat patiently. Finally I was showed in. After a brief introduction, Paul launched into a long discourse about taxes on farm commodities. Diplomatically, I tried to steer the conversation towards the Federal Reserve. NO! He refused to talk about the FXRX. I tried to bring up the Liberty Dollar and he said that he can't talk about anything that is not pending in Congress. This is in the Congressman's own office and he can't talk about anything?! After 30 or 40 minutes of meaningless farm tax rhetoric and never a word about the FXRX, gold and silver, fiat currency or the Liberty Dollar currency, Paul concluded the meeting as if he was ordered to do so and I was ushered out of his office.
I was pissed but said nothing until I exited Paul's office. Outside, I slammed my attaché case down on the floor and turned to Bradley Jansen, Paul's legislative staffer from 1997-2001 and asked, "What the hell was that all about?" He just shook his head. Much later I discovered that Paul and Rockwell were close friends. Apparently, I had been blackballed by the keepers of the altar.
But that was not the last time the Congressman and I would cross paths. Over the years, Paul and I dined together three times between the founding of the Liberty Dollar in 1998 until the mid 2006. On two occasions the dinner organizers had Paul and I sit next to each other because they really liked Paul and the Liberty Dollar. They thought we should be working together and refused to hear my pleas.
Paul had numerous opportunities to participate in the Liberty Dollar but seemingly could not fathom that a sole individual or me in particular could launch a major private currency. Well, regardless of Paul's wrong-headedness, Rockwell's stubbornness and the many do-nothing BS organizations, the politically active NORFED organization of dedicated individuals issued over $50 million Liberty Dollars to approx 250,000 supporters by the time of the raid. All without any gov or VIP help and quite a bit of disservice by many who should have participated.
Along the way, Paul posed with many Liberty Dollar supporters. Just before he appeared on the Jay Leno Show in New York, the Congressman posed with Nic Leobold who commissioned Liberty Dollar to design and distribute the Ron Paul Dollar. Who was waiting for Paul when he walked off the stage? Lew Rockwell. Please click HERE for Ron Paul with Nic Leobold holding a Liberty Dollar.
On January 4, 2008 I gave the keynote speech at the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, as Captain Liberty dressed in Revolutionary War Officer uniform. Again Ron Paul attended and we met yet again and posed for a photo. Click HERE for photo.
Then on February 13, 2008 Congressman Ron Paul uttered the words "Liberty Dollar" on the floor of the US House of Representatives when he introduced his Bill to legalize competing currencies ala the Liberty Dollar. And while LD was honored to be mentioned, this was a grave disservice because as I uttered to Paul, the Liberty Dollar was already legal and such a bill hinted that it was not. Plus we don't need the damn government involved with a private currency! What people do in private is their business. We don't need the damn government in our bedrooms or boardrooms. Thanks but NO thanks Mr. Congressman for another law! Regardless of your good intentions they just pave the road to hell!
Year after year I have endorsed and supported the stubborn Congressman from Texas. I appeared on a DVD in support of Ron Paul and made other efforts. Of course, the biggest effort was the Ron Paul Dollar. Initially a one ounce $20 Silver was issued. That issue was quickly followed by a one ounce $1000 Gold Ron Paul Dollar. And as soon as the Gold Ron Paul Dollar was minted, I made a $2300 donation to the Ron Paul campaign in the form of Set #001 with a Gold, Silver and a Platinum Ron Paul Dollar and receive a brief form letter of thanks. Because of the raid only fifty-five $2000 Platinum Ron Paul Dollars were minted. Interestingly, the highest price ever paid for one Platinum Ron Paul Dollar was $10,000 when platinum was much less than it is now. No word or refund as my campaign donation has appreciated or violation of campaign laws yet.
Click HERE for Ron Paul Dollar image.
The most ambitious Ron Paul issue was the one ounce $1 copper dollar. 60,000 $1 Ron Paul medallions arrived at the Liberty Dollar fulfillment office just two workdays before the office was raided by the FBI. Over one and half tons of political medallions were confiscated by the gov at the height of a presidential campaign! Do you see any First Amendment issue here?! What constitutes freedom of speech and freedom of expression and how do you think the gov can justify such a boneheaded raid on a political organization and the confiscation of your order for presidential medallions?! Unfortunately the thousands of Ron Paul supporters have never received their order. And a presidential candidate was denied that support… by the damn government!
The raid landed the Ron Paul Dollar on the front page of the Washington Post and dozens of other newspapers across American. Paul got a lot of good PR from the raid and the Liberty Dollar Four got arrested.
And it is not just the elected officials who do bad things. Often, it is the bad people around them like Paul's communications director, Jesse Benton, who ego-out, and are the real dangers to this country because they often MIS-USE the power that they are entrusted to yield properly!!!
But I still like the reluctant Congressman, my fellow comrade in arms, for a value based currency and the abolishment of the non-Federal non-Reserve. Just imagine how different the Liberty Dollar would have been, and maybe even the country, if Paul had had me testify before Congress about the Liberty Dollar back in 1999, well before 911, and the gov tyranny that has followed. Just imagine the difference between a private voluntary barter currency and the gov fiat currency that enables the gov to lie and finance more war, war and war! Just imagine: Change the money / Change the country!
Now, I do not want to be the Secretary of the Treasury as Michael Badnarik suggested when he was the presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. But as I documented for Badnarik, the NORFED/Liberty Dollar monetary model is scaleable and the United States corporate entity could use it at a profit!!! In other words, the gov could work their way out of the monetary mess that they created at a PROFIT! But NO, that will not work for this gov because it is evil, created the fiat bubble deliberately and is dedicated to controlled tyranny.
The government don't give a damn about us! They don't care about right and wrong. The gov is nothing more than a gang of thugs dedicated to criminal activity backed by the might of the FBI, NSA, US military etc. And as such, there is little hope but to protect yourself because the gov can't and won't protect you or your property. In fact, they will steal everything you have, have given half a chance!
Since 1982 Ron Paul has interacted with my evolving efforts to offer a private voluntary barter currency. In fact, to Paul's credit, less than a month after NORFED was raided, the Congressman wrote to the US Mint with three very pertinent questions regarding the Liberty Dollar. And it was no surprise that the gov did not reply to the first two questions and their reply to the third question was simply a non-answer of BS that we citizens have come to expect. Click HERE for Paul's letter and the gov reply.
Now that my long time nemesis Rockwell has cowarded-out of testifying for the Liberty Dollar Four, it will be interesting to see how Ron Paul replies, given US District Court provides the Congressman an ideal opportunity to advance his long held monetary ideals.
Quite frankly, I don't think anybody needs to kiss my ass, and if you know me, this bulldog doesn't pucker-up too well either. In such a rich environment, I think the market of personalities is behaving properly. Remember that during the colonial days, lawsuits were very common. People stood their ground and if you crossed it, you were sued!!
I sincerely think that the time is becoming very ripe for a major change in the country's monetary system. I bet you feel the same way! The question is: Will our monetary system and cherished values of liberty crash and burn ala hyperinflation yielding a dictator via the German model or will it be the sound money American model adopted by our Founding Fathers who refused to allow the government to "emit bills of credit" in the US Constitution and reversed the post Revolutionary War curse of 5000% inflation that threatened America with only a gold and silver currency?
Now is the time for all good men and women to guide our beloved country towards a new value based system. And while, I don't know what that system will eventually be, I look around and I see no other viable monetary system that provides the market sensitivity and profitability to the user like the free market currency, Liberty Dollar. Hear me - the Liberty Dollar Four are going to be acquitted and the Liberty Dollar is going to be vindicated. What do YOU think the future holds for a private voluntary barter currency with balls during a raging metals explosion? The time for all the good forces to come together is growing very ripe Mr. Paul and Mr. Rockwell.
After all these problems and missed opportunities, I still respect Ron Paul for his sound money principles, legendary work and credit him for introducing me to Austrian Economics. Please email Ron Paul with "Support the Liberty Dollar" in the subject and encourage him to do just that via: ctc@cabanela.com.
PS: As if this rant was not long enough, please note that two daring independent monetarist have launched their own Ron Paul Dollar dated 2010 with half ounce silver and a $25 MSRP. More info is available at http://www.pauldollars.com/.
2. Father and Son in 2012?
Heard the story/rumor about Ron Paul and his newly elected Senator son, Rand Paul, running for President and Vice President? What a wild, interesting idea! And the fact that they are sharing a condo in DC is even more interesting and adds more fuel to the story. And while we just had a father/son president dumbo in recent history, my take is that a more likely scenario would be for Rand Paul to run for President with his father as VP. Easier to sell a younger John Kennedy image with an elderly VP and easier on an aging Ron Paul too.
3. End the Fed
It is amazing how the awareness of the Federal Reserve (FXRX) has changed since NORFED launched the Liberty Dollar in 1998. Back then, when we exposed the FXRX as a private owned bank that it was nothing more than a ponzi scheme, we were met with disbelief, doubt and NO that is impossible! Most everybody, except true believers and the early adopters, "knew" that the FXRX was a government institution. Now, some dozen years later, mainstream CNBC and FOX regularly refer to the FXRX as a private bank that is nothing more than a ponzi scheme!
During that time, new organizations have arisen, like EndTheFed.org. I was amazed when I attended one of their many FXRX protests and interviewed the participants. Only a couple people had ever heard about NORFED - National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve or The Creature from Jekyll Island, the bible on why the FXRX should be abolished by G. Edward Griffin.
Meanwhile, Ron Paul has labored to expose the truth about the FXRX and tried his best to abolish the private central bank. And in 2009 he published End The Fed, a great little book that even non-book readers can get into.
Now the latest poll finds that a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation's independent central bank, saying the U.S. Federal Reserve should either be brought under tighter political control or abolished outright. Of course, NORFED's position is NO FED! We sure as hell do not want the !@#$#@! politicians running the banks!! We want a free market currency that responds to the people who use it.
Click HERE for the article.
Click HERE for NORFED's position paper on a Free Market Currency.
Click HERE for NORFED's position paper on a Free Money Movement.
4. NORFED Lives!!!
NORFED, the political organization dedicated to repealing the Federal Reserve Act by bringing about mass awareness of its fraudulent fiat monetary scheme that steals your purchasing power by offering a positive, profitable solution to the country's monetary problem, has been enshrined in the new indictment. Amazingly, NORFED is mentioned in 40 of the 44 paragraphs of the new indictment, for a total of 54 times! Click HERE to read the new indictment.
5. Why Did the Liberty Dollar Fail?
So why did the Liberty Dollar fail? It didn't! Only in the eyes of the faux self-imposed intelligentsia establishment, did it fail. If Cato or any of the other large prominent government fronts had the balls or even the desire to really do something to save this country from a monetary collapse and protect its citizens from monetary tyranny, they would have done something. But they didn't. That is not their job. Their job is to jack you off, make you feel good and keep you donating to their $1000 a plate dinners!!
Worse, is the fact that when a new innovative genuine value based currency was offered to these do-nothing !@#$#@! organizations, they did NOTHING. Surprise! Surprise!! And the disjoined, bickering, back stabbing "patriot" community of petty egos was just as bad!
So, NORFED went mainstream, direct to the people and won. Just look at the stats at the time of the FBI raid on November 14, 2009: Over $50 million Liberty Dollars in circulation, approx 250,000 people holding Liberty Dollars, over 300 articles, dozens of videos, and over 9 tons of gold, silver and copper confiscated. It is no underestimation that the Liberty Dollar is "America's second most popular currency."
The Liberty Dollar never failed. Nor will the Liberty Dollar Four fail to end the government's current "misadventure" in North Carolina federal district court.
6. WOW!!! Thanks for the $$$
I am very pleased to announce that a record amount of money was donated for Kevin last month. On behalf of Kevin, this is a wonderful sign of support for the Liberty Dollar Four and the lone defendant who has been in a county jail for 19 MONTHS! It would be wonderful to raise a bit more to see Kevin through to his trial that will not happen until the spring and maybe even later as the gov stonewalls defense demands for exculpatory evidence that the DOJ is required to provide to defense. This whole sorry affair of the DOJ in collusion with dirty defense attorneys was aired in the November, 2010 newsletter.
7. Good Inflation Article
For inflation buffs, here is an excellent article:
The First Stage of Inflation Has Already Hit, Next Up Is the Currency Collapse. You certainly want to be invested in precious metals well before the Second Stage hits!
8. Why Can't We Fill Orders?
It seems every few months somebody wonders in from the cold and can't understand why we can't fill their order for Ron Paul Dollars or redeem their Silver Certificates for the silver that backs it. So for the umpteenth time: Liberty Dollar cannot fill any orders because 1) all the stock was confiscated in the wrong-headed FBI raid. 2) We cannot return your money because it was confiscated in the same raid. 3) We can't even inform you about your order because all the records and computers were confiscated in the same raid and 4) as if that is not enough, we are under court order not to distribute any Liberty Dollar and if I did or I would be thrown back in jail. Clear enough?! I hope so as nothing would make me happier than to fill all the outstanding orders and return all the confiscated material to its rightful owners. Trust me! The four defendants and our attorneys are doing everything possible to bring the government's "Misadventure in North Carolina" movie to a close ASAP.
9. Numismatic Values
It is interesting to note that since NORFED/Liberty Dollar was raided THREE YEARS AGO that the winning bids on eBay have come down, but have never returned to the pre-raid prices. In fact, the current quotes and bids show that the prices for Liberty Dollar are astronomical compared to any other private modern issues. And all this while BVNH is still alive! The highest price paid for a 1998 Liberty Dollar was $825 and the 1999 Type I was an amazing $1000 in private treaty. And how much did NORFED get in exchange from FXRX notes for a 1998 or 1999 Liberty Dollar? How much did it rip off those poor early adopters? All of $7.50! Amazing! No private, modern collectible has enjoyed such appreciation. And while the peak may be off, right now, the underlying metals prices have increased 600%!!
Please click HERE for all your Liberty Dollar numismatic info from Ron Goodger's outstanding unofficial collectors site.
10. Link to unsubscribe is now working
My apology that after the November newsletter was posted, we discovered that there was an error in the link to unsubscribe. Please click HERE to unsubscribe or the link at the end of the newsletter. Thanks for your interest in the Liberty Dollar.
Closing Remarks:
I regret to announce that Jim Thomas, one of NORFED's great founding members, died on December 2, 2010. Jim published Media Bypass for ten years. And when I was looking for a National Coordinator to introduce NORFED's Liberty Dollar, Jim called and offered his services. He put the new Liberty Dollar on the cover of Media Bypass and did everything he could to support the new value based currency. When I finally arrived in Evansville, Indiana from Hawaii in 1999, Jim had leased an office space, bought the computers, retained Sarah Bledsoe as my assistant and handed me the bill. Nobody has done more for NORFED than Jim Thomas. He and his dedication to the values exemplified by the Liberty Dollar will be missed. Jim was a one-of-a-kind patriot and a very good friend.
And so ends another, rather long newsletter. I feel it is important to air all the hidden stories before the trial. For after the trial… things will be different. Many thanks for your continued support. For it is only by banding together and adopting a free and independent currency that provides us with "just weights and measures" will we be able to throw off the yoke of a manipulated monetary/tax system and generate a peaceful and prosperous society.
Thank you again for all your efforts to return America to value - one dollar at a time!
Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect/Editor
Editor@LibertyDollar.org
Friday, January 7, 2011
It's raining *damning* tax news! IRS AGENTS LITERAL CROOKS
In view of recent headlines, I fear I'm in danger of losing all respect for that noble army of public servants most often on our minds. "But IRS agent Albert Bront pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing false tax returns for himself and some of his relatives and obtaining thousands of dollars in fraudulent refunds"---? Hey, he might make a good patriot when he comes out of jail except for the "fraudulent" part, whose appearance in this context looks rather quiestionable.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/01/irs-agent-pleads-guilty-to-filing-false-tax-returns.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/01/irs-agent-pleads-guilty-to-filing-false-tax-returns.html
IRS agent pleads guilty to filing false tax returns
You'd think someone who works for the Internal Revenue Service would know how to cheat on his taxes without getting caught.But IRS agent Albert Bront pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing false tax returns for himself and some of his relatives and obtaining thousands of dollars in fraudulent refunds.
Bront, 51, admitted filing bogus returns for 2003 to 2007, claiming excessive deductions and failing to report some income. Among the false deductions, Bront declared that he had paid $12,000 in alimony that he had not paid, prosecutors said.
In addition, Bront admitted filing false returns for some relatives without their knowledge and keeping the refunds he received.
Bront, who has been on unpaid leave from the IRS since his arrest in 2009, worked as a revenue agent at an undisclosed office in Southern California. He will be jailed until his sentencing, scheduled for April 13 before U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II in Los Angeles, the U.S. attorney's office said in a news release.
As a result of the guilty pleas, Bront faces a maximum sentence of nine years in federal prison. He has agreed to pay $127,000 in restitution to the federal government.
Bront was initially indicted in 2009 on charges of threatening to harm agents who served a search warrant at his Santa Clarita home. As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors agreed to dismiss the threat charge.................
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Get a load of this: the Instant Robbery Squad is so tired of persecuting poor and working people that it's purportedly going after the rich. I say purportedly, because the pattern is that you can't believe a word of what public officials say, and hoo ha, when it's filtered through the government-kissing major media and their wannabees like HuffPost?
Perhaps the sender of this item to me said it right in two and a half words: "wealthiest my a__ ......"
You can bet your life they're not going after the super-ultra rich.... you know, the kind who meet in the top resorts of the world to plan each quarter's news developments out. The IRS is, after all, their creation and plaything. And since they're satanists, it's no surprise they're going after tax-exempt entities. Like maybe white folks' fundamentalist churches? I know of two presently under the gun.
Bottom line: isn't it great to be a NONTAXPAYER when news like this rolls around?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/irs-audits-jump-by-11-per_n_797707.html
IRS Audits Jump By 11 Percent; Wealthiest Targeted
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is making it a bit riskier to cheat on your taxes.
The tax agency increased the number of returns it audited by nearly 11 percent this year, statistics released Wednesday show. Wealthy taxpayers and big businesses were most likely to be targeted.
The IRS also stepped up audits of charities and other tax-exempt organizations.
In all, the IRS examined more than 1.58 million individual returns in the budget year that ended in September, up from 1.43 million the year before.
"We saw individual audits increase, reaching the highest rate in the past decade," said Steve Miller, IRS deputy commissioner for services and enforcement. "The bottom line shows enforcement revenue topped $57 billion, up almost 18 percent from last year".........
Get a load of this: the Instant Robbery Squad is so tired of persecuting poor and working people that it's purportedly going after the rich. I say purportedly, because the pattern is that you can't believe a word of what public officials say, and hoo ha, when it's filtered through the government-kissing major media and their wannabees like HuffPost?
Perhaps the sender of this item to me said it right in two and a half words: "wealthiest my a__ ......"
You can bet your life they're not going after the super-ultra rich.... you know, the kind who meet in the top resorts of the world to plan each quarter's news developments out. The IRS is, after all, their creation and plaything. And since they're satanists, it's no surprise they're going after tax-exempt entities. Like maybe white folks' fundamentalist churches? I know of two presently under the gun.
Bottom line: isn't it great to be a NONTAXPAYER when news like this rolls around?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/irs-audits-jump-by-11-per_n_797707.html
IRS Audits Jump By 11 Percent; Wealthiest Targeted
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is making it a bit riskier to cheat on your taxes.
The tax agency increased the number of returns it audited by nearly 11 percent this year, statistics released Wednesday show. Wealthy taxpayers and big businesses were most likely to be targeted.
The IRS also stepped up audits of charities and other tax-exempt organizations.
In all, the IRS examined more than 1.58 million individual returns in the budget year that ended in September, up from 1.43 million the year before.
"We saw individual audits increase, reaching the highest rate in the past decade," said Steve Miller, IRS deputy commissioner for services and enforcement. "The bottom line shows enforcement revenue topped $57 billion, up almost 18 percent from last year".........
Top Massachusetts court voids foreclosures on two homes
NEW YORK — In a decision that may affect foreclosures nationwide, Massachusetts' highest court voided the seizure of two homes by Wells Fargo & Co and US Bancorp after the banks failed to show they held the mortgages at the time they foreclosed.Bank shares fell, dragging down the broader U.S. stock market, after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on Friday issued its decision, which upheld a lower court ruling.
The unanimous decision is among the earliest to address the validity of foreclosures done without proper documentation. That issue last year prompted an uproar that led lenders such as Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Ally Financial Inc to temporarily stop seizing homes.
"A ruling like this will slow down the foreclosure process" for banks, said Marty Mosby, an analyst at Guggenheim Securities. "They're going to have to be really precise and get everything in order. It doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room."Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp lacked authority to foreclose after having "failed to make the required showing that they were the holders of the mortgages at the time of foreclosure," Justice Ralph Gants wrote for the Massachusetts court.........
the above viaThursday, January 6, 2011
NBC registers as anti-government extremist
Well, that's the way we're supposed to think of anybody who draws attention to government or IRS barbarity, isn't it? Above all, since we are calling for government and IRS to operate within their proper legal bounds, they want us to hate ourselves in those terms.
Do you think the $PLC will be classing MSNBC as a hate group for this big beautiful page of uncut reality?
And can you think of anything more purely counterproductive than an IRS "increased use of liens" when it comes to saving what's left of the national economy?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40929461/ns/business-us_business/
Do you think the $PLC will be classing MSNBC as a hate group for this big beautiful page of uncut reality?
And can you think of anything more purely counterproductive than an IRS "increased use of liens" when it comes to saving what's left of the national economy?
Watchdog: IRS tormenting struggling taxpayers
Calls increased use of liens during tough economic times unnecessary
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40929461/ns/business-us_business/
WASHINGTON — A government watchdog says the Internal Revenue Service is tormenting struggling taxpayers in the midst of a slumping economy by increasing the number of liens the agency has filed against people who owe back taxes.
The IRS filed nearly 1.1 million liens in the budget year that ended in September, a 14 percent jump over the previous year. Liens punish taxpayers and often hurt their ability to pay back taxes, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson said Wednesday in her annual report to Congress...........
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