A Bloody Revolution

February 25, 2010 | Founders, General, History

Humans, in the present state, are creatures of the raw and unbridled power of nature. We enter what appears to be a harsh world through a struggle that not more than one hundred years ago could end, many times, with the death of either the child or the mother.

We survive, and our instinct to survive is slapped across our face from the moment of inception. It is the nature of things for mankind to fight through life in order to maintain this fragile existence.

Every moment of life, whether we would like to believe it or not, is punctuated by the fact that this could be our last. The body is after all a machine with a limited life expectancy that does not come with a warranty from the manufacturer.

Survival of the fittest comes with the instruction booklet that is stuffed away in the back of our minds. That is the means by which we go from day to day, and live out this experience. It is neither good, nor bad, but simply a part of the being that you and I live as.

Of course there are many aspects to our personalities. There is goodness, as there is evil. There is kindness, as there is greed. We are loving creatures, but some of us could care less about our fellow man. We are sometimes apathetic to the plight of others. This is the one characteristic that will eventually lead us to our own destruction.

Apathy does not exist in the minds of the caring, or so they believe. In truth, those who have based their existence on ‘fighting the good fight’ can’t recognize that they are being apathetic for if they did it would destroy part of their idealism. I am fighting for you, but I can’t be bothered helping you because it’s not within my power to do so. In actuality, if you recognized the fight to begin with, there are more than enough resources.

America, and the world are on the verge of a great awakening, or so I’ve been told. Maybe I’m not speaking to the same people, but those I do cannot fathom the notion that the government is corrupt, or that questioning the government is the true action of a patriot. As Thomas Paine stated, “It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from its government.”

I was recently very shocked when someone told me that the government does not lie. I still don’t know if this person could possibly have been serious, but in the context of what came next I was convinced of his belief, or rather his indoctrination.

So, we are creatures of survival who are sometimes apathetic, sometimes caring, not all the time wary of our responsibility, and most assuredly not all that knowledgeable.

There are many groups out there that are participating in protests, and marches geared toward what they believe will be a peaceful revolution, something that has never been accomplished in known history. They will tell you, ‘We will never use violence’, which is of course a very noble stand.

The beatings, incarcerations, and the imprisonment of those who participate in protests, or just the innocents caught up in governments desire to maintain its power structure seems never to be thought of in terms of violence. Forgive my ignorance in the matter, but peaceful would denote a move that is debate, resolution, and conclusion without the acts of aggression on either side. Am I wrong in being such a purist? Should I turn my head when some young man, or woman is sentenced to years in prison because the government is fighting the fictitious ‘war on drugs’? Should I look away as the caskets come home from the battlefield? Should I shrug my shoulders, and laud the fact that we are peaceful as the thousands of young men we send off to foreign entanglements come home crippled and distraught?

What we are now engaged in is pacifism. We, that is to say those who claim they would never use violence, are willing to endure any type of physical pain, even death rather than to take up arms to defend. One of our biggest issues is that we do not understand the definition of our own course.

This is when you will understand the truth becomes clear because once you’ve had your head put upon by some rather large policeman wearing riot gear, who is looking to express his power, buddy you realize the you are on your own. Remember, we will never use violence, and we are not removing any of these people from public office because we simply are devoid of any power that remains from the origins of this nation.

The courts have given the police, prosecutors, judges, and the general government immunity. They have redefined police powers to mean the ability of the state to impose rules and regulations outside the rule of law, rather than its original definition of defending, and protecting the rights of the individual. As the judicial system erodes our rights, and ability to fight back we become weaker, and no amount of peaceful demonstration will deter those who seek unlimited power.

Patrick Henry stated, “They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

Are Mr. Henry’s words outdated, and unreasonable for an American who perceives that he/she is more civilized than our Founders? Are his words beyond the scope of what is taking place each and every day in this country?

The American people’s will to survive using the skills that were given to them have been supplanted in re-education facilities, by the smiling faces in the mainstream media, and to a certain extent by those who need to believe that they are true patriots with god-like ideals.

We are now a people devoid of logic, or common sense. We proclaim victories as the congress gives away Trillions of dollars to their friends on Wall Street, continue to give out Billions in foreign aid, and spend Billions on expanding the empire. We stand by as the IRS, and federal agencies that have absolutely no authority to operate within the states without the permission of the states executive, and the sheriff threaten and destroy the lives of the people within these sovereign states.

We rejoice as some states enact states rights proclamations when all that is needed is for the legislature to tell the governor to enforce the law and throw out the federal government. We almost all turn a blind eye to the revitalization of the Militia, which is not only a mandate of the Constitution, but is “necessary to the security of a free State…” The one true means we have of enforcing the law when our representatives, and courts ignore the law was given to us so that we could avoid a violent confrontation.

Do I want a Bloody Revolution? Who in their right mind would want to see their country torn apart, and crumble in warfare? Do I think it is inevitable? Yes, without a doubt.

Our economic system has been destroyed. Our entire structure has been bastardized way beyond the scope of its original design. Bureaucrats continue to assume powers that were never granted to the government, and the courts affirm those abuses.

Patrick Henry also stated in his famous Give Me Liberty speech, “We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?” But our eyes are closed, and our minds are clouded by high ideals to which the opposition does not subscribe.

A peaceful victory may come when the IRS goes into court, and the juries acquit at every instance. It might come when the people of the many counties demand that prosecutors are dismissed, and courts are open to the public as they were intended. It may come when the Grand Jury is returned to the People, but it will more than likely return when we call forth “the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union…”

The Laws of the Union are simple in scope. We have a Republican form of government “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…”

That the primary principles of freedom are of limited government with few enumerated powers, resting all others in the hands of the people, and those people will not infringe upon the rights of their fellow citizens, but to that end the separate and sovereign states are given the duty to protect our rights. That the states themselves have agreed to a Republican form of government so that this nation bound together may secure peace and prosperity for all.

Until we learn that it is our duty to come to the aid of our fellow citizen when rights have been abused, and either the government or some self-serving interest group perpetrates those crimes we will live on the edge of violence.

Until we learn that it is the people who must stand together and enforce the law we will leave ourselves little choice but to take up arms at the point when we are too weak for any chance of victory.

I’m sure that those who shout that we will never use violence are sincere in their proclamations. I am also sure that government takes this to heart and continues to infringe based on our illogical, and tepid actions. We fight to pass legislation that was originally interned in our Founding Documents, and do nothing to enforce the Laws of the Land.

More importantly we should look into the faces that have been destroyed by the system, of which there are many, and know that at least some of them will not be so forgiving even to those of us who shouted that we would not use violence to rescue them when we knew full well that the law had abandoned them.

May God have pity on our children and grandchildren because it is our actions that will either cause them to live as slaves, or force them to take up the battle that we failed to recognize.

‘Nick’

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NY Fed Conspired to Hide Details of AIG Bailouts from Public and Congress

January 31, 2010 | Banking, Congress, Federal Reserve

Jesse’s Cafe Americain

“I have to think this train is probably going to leave the station soon and we need to focus our efforts on explaining the story as best we can. There were too many people involved in the deals — too many counterparties, too many lawyers and advisors, too many people from AIG — to keep a determined Congress from the information.”

James P. Bergin, NY Fed, in an email to his Fed colleagues

‘Though it is hard to divine much understanding from the unredacted filing, it has become clear that Goldman had more involvement than previously believed: In addition to the credit default swaps it bought from AIG, the filing shows that Goldman Sachs also originated many of the underlying assets that AIG and the New York Fed bought back from Société Générale.

The American people have the right to know how their tax dollars were spent and who benefited most from this back-door bailout,” said Kurt Bardella, spokesman for Issa. “Now that it’s public, let’s see if the sky really does fall as the New York Fed said it would to justify its coverup.”

Other lawmakers believed that the New York Fed was trying to hide its ties to Goldman Sachs.’ AIG Reveals the Story – CNN

“Wednesday’s hearing described a secretive group deploying billions of dollars to favored banks, operating with little oversight by the public or elected officials.

We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system — apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout — deserves further congressional scrutiny…

By pursuing this line of inquiry, the hearing revealed some of the inner workings of the New York Fed and the outsized role it plays in banking. This insight is especially valuable given that the New York Fed is a quasi-governmental institution that isn’t subject to citizen intrusions such as freedom of information requests, unlike the Federal Reserve.

This impenetrability comes in handy since the bank is the preferred vehicle for many of the Fed’s bailout programs. It’s as though the New York Fed was a black-ops outfit for the nation’s central bank…

New York Fed staff and outside lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardell edited AIG communications to investors and intervened with the Securities and Exchange Commission to shield details about the buyout transactions, according to a report by Issa.

That the New York Fed, a quasi-governmental body, was able to push around the SEC, an executive-branch agency, deserves a congressional hearing all by itself.” Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows – Reilly – Bloomberg

And this is the same Federal Reserve that was proposed by the Obama economic team to be the ’super regulator’ with broad powers and consumer protection responsibilities over the entire financial system.

The Fed is a private agency, quasi-governmental, but not subject to discretionary audit or review by the government, except at arms length, through managed testimony. They make a point of demanding secrecy and independence at their own discretion, oversight on their terms.

This is a choice promoted by Geithner and Summers, who are creatures of the Fed and the banking system, almost sure to return to sinecures there after leaving government. And it is tempting choice for a president and congressmen of a weak character. If the Fed bears the responsibility they do not have to budget money and manage the process, and they can point fingers at its every failure. It is a formula for conflicts of interest, soft bribery and corruption. Confidence does matter.

The Fed and Blackrock are becoming to the Obama Administration what Halliburton and KBR were to Bush and Cheney, and the banking crisis — the new Iraq. Can the handling of it be so inept that it becomes Obama’s Watergate as well?

The Fed must be audited, and its power to disburse public money to private banks, except in the normal course of open market operations, curtailed. Only the Congress has the right to tax the people, and the Fed’s ability to disburse billions of funds at its own discretion to domestic and foreign banks is a de facto form of taxation, since the Fed operates on a cost plus basis, without budgetary allotment from the Congress. The obligations of the Federal Reserve flow directly from its balance sheet, which is the basis for the national currency.

And despite the arguments from the Financial Times to ’stop snooping’ the press and the Congress should delve deeply into the AIG bailout, because enough has already been exposed that it smells to high heaven.

It is remniscent of Watergate and Enron to see Timmy, Ben, and Hank falling all overthemselves in establishing that they had no knowledge or involvement in the payments of billions to AIG.

The truth must come out.

My own suspicion is that Goldman ’set up’ AIG for a proper face ripping with its financial arrangements, playing both sides of the deal. There is further evidence of money flowing from Goldman to AIG executives before the bailout occurred. And at the least the major players saw what was happening and turned a blind eye to it, busying themselves with other things and establishing their plausible deniability.

A proper investigation can establish any specific guilt. It is a shocking scandal that the FBI and Justice Department are still not more actively involved in real investigation rather than these staged hearings.

But this incident should make it absolutely clear why the Fed cannot enjoy the expansion of its role as the regulator of the system. It is too conflicted in its mission of monetary independence, and at the same time the creature of the banks, to be a true civil servant fully answerable to the Congress.

Yes I understand the distinctions between the Fed Board of Governors and the NY Fed with regard to FOIA requests, and the appointmet process. What I am saying is that the distinctions obviously do not hold, do not work. The Fed is one organization. These distinctions are remniscent of the banking scandals exposed by then AG Elliot Spitzer. They simply do not work. They are a thin facade.

As Representative Marcy Kaptur told Geithner at the hearing: “A lot of people think that the president of the New York Fed works for the U.S. government. But in fact you work for the private banks that elected you.”

One difference I have noted, compared to the English and the Japanese, is that the American officials and CEO’s never hesitate to hide behind the incompetency defense, but rarely have the dignity to resign when they do so. This is because they have no shame, no real loyalty to anyone but themselves.

And at the very least Geithner should be fired, if not for complicity, then for sheer inability to do the job.

Timeline of NY Fed Payments and Cover-Up: BusinessWeek

Financial Crisis Ahead - Thomas Donlan – Barron’s

Paulson’s People Colluded with Goldman to Destroy AIG and Get a Backdoor Bailout – Fiderer – Huffington

Sham Transactions That Led to AIG’s Downfall – Fiderer – Huffington

Read more at : Jesse’s Cafe Americain

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Ron Paul on Wall Streets Bailout FRAUD

January 24, 2010 | Banking, Congress, Constitution, Economy, Federal Reserve

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” – John Maynard Keynes, 1919

Part I

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action, a Treatise on Economics, (Fox & Wilkes, 4th rev. ed., 1963)

Part II

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Where Are You Going Papa?

January 21, 2010 | Congress, Foreign Policy, History

Where are you going Papa?

Where are you going Pa?

I’m going off to war son.

I’m going off to war.

There’s nothing can be done son.

Our country has gone to war.

The cannon’s are calling.

The battlefield is red.

The flag is unfurling,

And soon I may be dead.

War is repugnant to the human character. It is due to greed, avarice, and a host of sins that have plagued us since Cain slew Abel.

Century after century armies have marched to the beat of bloodshed imposing some sort of tyranny on an often unsuspecting foe. Few times are we justified in bearing arms against our fellow man.

All war cannot be avoided from the prospective of those who wish to maintain their national sovereignty, and freedom. Typically civilian casualties are high, infrastructure destroyed, and some form of slavery ensues.

America was founded on a war for Independence. I am not going to justify the Revolution to you because it would simply be an exercise in futility to those who learned their history in modern government schools, and it needs no explanation for the rest who were willing to dig into the conflict that began years before the Declaration of Independence was signed on that hot July day.

Today, contrary to our stated goals as a country, America imposes its will around the world. It is not without descent that we do so, but rather an ongoing struggle by those who realize the essence of what lies under this tragic agenda.

Let me qualify my objections to our current platform of bringing democracy to the rest of the world. First, I would not hesitate to take up arms against anyone who would endanger the sanctity of our free state. I would further qualify that by stating that I have not done so at this point because we are either ill prepared for an internal war, or the balance of the citizenry would much rather languish under the failed, and unlawful acts of the current government.

Second, as we have never failed to point out here, this country is not a democracy, but rather a Constitutional Federal Republic. A country formed by a union of states, each sovereign in its own right, which contains a free and independent people never beholding to the majority rule in so much as we do not violate or abuse the rights of our fellow citizens. For America to be so hypocritical as to promote an obviously flawed, and failed form of government speaks volumes of who we have become, and what path we now walk.

There is no America for the many who serve us now in more than One-Hundred other nations across the globe. We are the policemen of the world, tearing fathers and mothers from their homes, and planting the seeds of strife, and despotism as we march ourselves deeper into an untenable position.

Ron Paul talked about blow-back from our meddling into the affairs of other nations. Those who would have us believe that we have the right to change the structure of other countries laughed at him. The media joined in the fray as the braying sheep they are, willing to sell out their fellow countrymen for the well paid positions of propagandists.

This article is not about our agenda, but the underlying tragedy it inflicts upon the few who are willing to serve their nation. I say few because at any given time it is only a very small percentage of the population that is willing to take up arms, even when it is apparent that a call to arms is necessary to maintain a free state.

Our military is voluntary. Many of the people who serve have been to Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Indeed some have been there four or five times, and that my fellow citizen is well beyond the term of abuse.

What impact does that have on the lives of a little boy, or girl who is without that one parent upon which they derive an essential part of their character? I suppose in a nation with a divorce rate of over fifty-percent we are want to even recognize the damage of the position. But, let me tell you that I would bet that those good people who are willing to serve their country are the ones who would create the most stable of environments for a sound family life.

I oppose the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and what ever else may come from these expeditions, but I laud the men and women of our armed forces as courageous despite any political difference. In the long run, as many of our Vietnam Vets realize today, we have entered into a war without justification that will ruin the lives of many.

The death toll to the American service is enough to make us ill at the notion of those who will not return to their loved ones, or those who have been, and will be burned with permanent disabilities. The death toll in the civilian population of Iraq alone should beat upon our hearts as an injustice so great that we should scream through every legislature for their explanation as to why they lay silent.

The civilian death toll in Iraq passed 1.5 million people more than a year ago, and the abomination of injuries caused by depleted uranium core munitions is a scar this country will not readily be able to reconcile in the long run. Blow-Back from this may be the position from which our government builds upon its already obvious assault on liberty. It may also be the battleground of our children who will construct their bunkers against attack, after attack from those who have seen the horrors of war brought about by our nation building paradigm.

Cindy Sheehan, while I could not initially agree with her, has come to see that this war is not a matter of democrats versus republicans, but rather it is the vilest aspect of a nation that has been captured by a one party system, indifferent to the rule of law, and captive to greed, and power. Today I can see we, both Ms. Sheehan and myself, understand this from its most base cruelty toward human life.

What do we do? We, that is this country is given two choices from its inception. The first is from the ballot box by which we may throw out those who have no regard for the oath of office they must take. If you are unwilling to do that, and there are members of congress and state legislatures that will tell you that they are not bound by their oath or the principles of a limited government, then you may petition the courts. The courts are simply an image of the destruction of the republic paraphrased in legal jargon designed to eliminate freedom.

So, the Founders in no uncertain terms, gave us the Militia, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, as the necessary means to maintain a free state. Our misunderstanding of this critical tool is just another aspect of our ambivalence towards freedom. It is a law enforcement tool by which the People may arrest those in government who fail to abide their oath. There is no immunity for such a position, and if we wish to come through this without degenerating into a third revolution, we had better grasp the concept of We the People as the final word on law.

I do not have hope that there will be a resolution to our situation in the near future. As we wait, the bonds of tyranny grow stronger as the central government monopolizes power, and tightens the noose around our necks. They do so with the help of many of our citizens, and with willing accomplices in the media, and local government. Greed and power know no bounds.

So if I may end this article by planting a visual picture of a young soldier, tired and hungry, wearing tattered clothes, and shivering from the cold. He holds his weapon in his hands as he crouches down behind the hulk of a destroyed vehicle. He ponders his position as he looks to his comrades scattered about him. He listens to the directive of his appointed sergeant who hollers the orders to start the move towards Thirty-Second and Lexington as they fall back through the Lincoln Tunnel. He wonders what his parents and grandparents must have been thinking as they gave away their freedom and his.

‘Nick’

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