FunkBuddha
10-02-2008, 04:44 PM
The people I ride the bus with probably think I'm crazy, but I don't really give a f@#$. I guess that's what I get for riding the bus, huh? I've got a couple of people on there that I'm working on and they were mainly who this email was for. One of them cheered me when he got on the bus this afternoon.
We ride an express bus and we have a google group that we use for communicating. It's usually a bunch a Barry O crap but something was sent today comparing the US to France that got my nerve. Say what you want about the French, but it ain't nothing to them to have a revolution.
Anyhow, enjoy.
If there is any regulation that could have prevented this mess it
would be more regulation of the Federal Reserve by Congress. According
to Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution it is Congress that has the
power to borrow and coin money as well as punish the counterfeiting
thereof, yet there is zero oversight of the current central bank.
Here's a well known quote by Woodrow Wilson after signing the Federal
Reserve act into existence.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A
great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore,
and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to
be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and
dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by
free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group
of dominant men."
We killed two central banks in this country prior to this one. I say
we go for a third.
Remember, this country was born in revolution. The Revolutionary War
wasn't US citizens fighting against the British Empire. It was British
citizens who refused to lie supinely on their backs, as we do today,
while their overlords taxed and abused them. In order to end this
"long train of abuses" we need look no further for advice than our
Declaration of Independence.
"... 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security."
Does that not bring a tear to your eye? Does it not give you a strange
sensation in your gut? That's the Fire of Liberty, the Revolutionary
Spirit that burns inside each and every person. Granted it burns much
hotter in some than others, but it's there all you have to do is fan
the flames.
Everyone has a line that, when crossed, will turn that flame into a
roaring brushfire. Once crossed, the truth about our political system
and our corrupted politicians becomes plain to see. Our government
exists only to perpetuate itself and grow larger, platform issues only
exist so that politicians can get and stay elected. They only see you
as a peasant whose labor can be taxed to pay for the almighty
government.
My line was crossed a long time ago. Where's yours?
We ride an express bus and we have a google group that we use for communicating. It's usually a bunch a Barry O crap but something was sent today comparing the US to France that got my nerve. Say what you want about the French, but it ain't nothing to them to have a revolution.
Anyhow, enjoy.
If there is any regulation that could have prevented this mess it
would be more regulation of the Federal Reserve by Congress. According
to Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution it is Congress that has the
power to borrow and coin money as well as punish the counterfeiting
thereof, yet there is zero oversight of the current central bank.
Here's a well known quote by Woodrow Wilson after signing the Federal
Reserve act into existence.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A
great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore,
and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to
be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and
dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by
free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group
of dominant men."
We killed two central banks in this country prior to this one. I say
we go for a third.
Remember, this country was born in revolution. The Revolutionary War
wasn't US citizens fighting against the British Empire. It was British
citizens who refused to lie supinely on their backs, as we do today,
while their overlords taxed and abused them. In order to end this
"long train of abuses" we need look no further for advice than our
Declaration of Independence.
"... 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security."
Does that not bring a tear to your eye? Does it not give you a strange
sensation in your gut? That's the Fire of Liberty, the Revolutionary
Spirit that burns inside each and every person. Granted it burns much
hotter in some than others, but it's there all you have to do is fan
the flames.
Everyone has a line that, when crossed, will turn that flame into a
roaring brushfire. Once crossed, the truth about our political system
and our corrupted politicians becomes plain to see. Our government
exists only to perpetuate itself and grow larger, platform issues only
exist so that politicians can get and stay elected. They only see you
as a peasant whose labor can be taxed to pay for the almighty
government.
My line was crossed a long time ago. Where's yours?