Please take the time to go over to The Economic Collapse as there are many fine, and informative articles.

On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3 percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are hungry for some good news.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payrolls jumped by 243,000 during the month of January.  You can read the full employment report right here.  Based on this news, pundits all over the world were declaring that the U.S. economy is back.  Stocks continued to rise on Friday and the Dow is hovering near a 4 year high.  So does this mean that our economic problems are over?  Of course not.  A closer look at the numbers reveals just how fraudulent these employment statistics really are.  Between December 2011 and January 2012, the number of Americans “not in the labor force” increased by a whopping 1.2 million.  That was the largest increase ever in that category for a single month.  That is how the federal government is getting the unemployment rate to go down.  The government is simply pretending that huge numbers of unemployed Americans don’t want to be part of the labor force anymore.  As you will see below, the employment situation in America is not improving.  Yet everyone in the mainstream media is dancing around as if the economic crisis has been cancelled.  I can’t take it anymore!  It is beyond ridiculous that so many intelligent people continue to buy in to such fraudulent numbers.

The truth is that the labor force participation rate declined dramatically in January.  For those unfamiliar with this statistic, the labor force participation rate is the percentage of working age Americans that are either employed or that are unemployed and considered to be looking for a job.

As you can see from the chart posted below, the labor force participation rate rose steadily between 1970 and 2000.  That happened because large numbers of women were entering the labor force for the first time.

The labor force participation rate peaked at a little more then 67 percent in the late 90s.  Between 2000 and the start of the recent recession, it declined slightly to about 66 percent.

Since then, it has been dropping like a rock.  The chart below does not even include the latest data.  In January, the labor force participation rate was only 63.7 percent.  That is the lowest that is has been since May 1983.  So keep that in mind as you view the chart.

In reality, the percentage of men and women in the United States that would like to have jobs is almost certainly about the same as it was back in 2007 or 2008.  There has been no major social change that would cause large numbers of men or women to want to give up their careers.  So there is something very, very fishy with this chart….

The federal government has been pretending that millions of unemployed Americans have decided that they simply do not want jobs anymore.

This does not make sense at all.

The truth is that unemployment is not really declining at all.  The percentage of Americans that are working is not increasing.  The civilian employment-population ratio dropped like a rock during 2008 and 2009 and it has held very steady since that time.

In January, the civilian employment-population ratio once again held steady at 58.5 percent.  This is about where it has been for most of the last two years….

Does that chart look like an “economic recovery” to you?

Of course not.

If the percentage of people that are employed is about the same as it was two years ago, does that represent an improvement?

Of course not.

If the employment situation in America was getting better, the civilian employment-population ratio would be bouncing back.

We should be thankful that our economy is not free falling like it was during 2008 and 2009, but we also need to understand why things have stabilized.

The federal government is spending money like there is no tomorrow.  During 2011, the Obama administration stole an average of about 150 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren and pumped it into the economy.  Even though the Obama administration spent that money on a lot of frivolous things, it still got into the pockets of average Americans who in turn went out and spent it on food, gas, clothes and other things.

Without all of this reckless government spending, we would not be able to continue to live way above our means and our economic problems would be a lot worse.

But even with the federal government borrowing and spending unprecedented amount of money, and even with interest rates at record lows, our economy is still deeply struggling.  Just consider the following facts….

-New home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011.

-The average duration of unemployment in America is close to an all-time record high.

-The percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” is at an all-time high.

-The number of Americans on food stamps recently hit a new all-time high.

-According to the Census Bureau, an all-time record 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that gets direct monetary benefits from the federal government.  Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.

So let’s not get too excited about the economy.

Yes, things have somewhat stabilized.  The percentage of Americans that have jobs is about the same as it was two years ago.  Considering how rapidly jobs are being shipped out of the United States, that is a good thing.

Enjoy this false bubble of hope while you can.  Things are about to get a lot worse.

Do you remember how rapidly things fell apart after the financial crisis of 2008?

Well, another major financial crisis is on the way.  This time it is going to be centered in Europe initially, but it is going to spread all around the globe just like the last one did.

As the charts above show, we have never even come close to recovering from the last recession, and another one is on the way.

So how bad are things going to get after the next wave of the financial crisis hits us?

That is something that we should all be thinking about.

I have known about Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, for quite some time. He has done battle with the authorities before, and emerged from our court system victorious. But now in 2011, once again, the authorties are going after him again.

This is a clear cut case of Big Pharma, going after the little guy, who is a threat to the Billion dollar a year Chemo, and Chemo drug industry.

I find it infuriating that the FDA, is harrasing Dr. Burzynski to no avail. Alternative forms of treatment should be left alone, period. Unless it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the alternative being administered is somehow harmful, or represents some type of danger, which in the case of Dr. Burzynski, this has already been determined. Dr. Burzynski has literally helped hundreds of patients, win theyre battle over various forms of cancer, with his gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970′s called Antineoplastons.

Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chose these medicines instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation – with full disclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery – as well as systematic (non-anecdotal) FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparing Antineoplastons to other available treatments—which is published within the peer-reviewed medical literature.

This is the full documentary of Dr. Burzynski’s battle with the FDA, US Government, and Texas health officials.

It  takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons. 

Please watch, and please pass it around. We can, as people make a difference. Contact officials and let them know what you think.

Contact The Texas Governor:
Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
1100 San Jacinto
Austin, Texas 78701

Or a full list or representatives is here:
https://www.burzynskimovie.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81PXHwjMAQ

The following are the top 100 statistics about the collapse of the economy that every American voter should know….

#100 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.

#99 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#98 Since Barack Obama was sworn in, the share of the national debt per household has increased by $35,835.

#97 The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration.

#96 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will hit 344% of GDP by the year 2050 if we continue on our current course.

#95 The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government debt held by the public will reach a staggering 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.

#94 In 2010, the U.S. government paid $413 billion in interest on the national debt. That is projected to at least double over the next decade.

#93 According to one new survey, one out of every three Americans would not be able to make a mortgage or rent payment next month if they suddenly lost their current job.

#92 State and local government debt has reached an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP.

#91 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for 18.4% of all income.

#90 U.S. households are now receiving more income from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#89 According to a new study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.

#88 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#87 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980. Today they account for approximately 16.3%.

#86 The cost of a health insurance policy for the average American family rose by a whopping 9 percent last year, and according to a report put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, the average family health insurance policy now costs over $15,000 a year.

#85 One study found that approximately 41 percent of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

#84 An all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all at this point, and the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.

#83 According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.

#82 Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to $27,293.

#81 The cost of college tuition in the United States has gone up by over 900 percent since 1978.

#80 In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans.

#79 In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day.

#78 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

#77 One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees.

#76 In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

#75 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

#74 In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees.

#73 It is being projected that for the first time ever, the OPEC nations are going to bring in over a trillion dollars from exporting oil this year. Their biggest customer is the United States.

#72 U.S. oil companies will bring in about $200 billion in pre-tax profits this year. They will also receive about $4.4 billion in specialized tax breaks from the U.S. government.

#71 The United States has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976, and since that time the United States has run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.

#70 The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#69 The U.S. trade deficit with China is now 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.

#68 Today, the United States spends more than 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.

#67 China has surpassed the United States and is now the largest PC market in the entire world.

#66 In 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in “advanced technology products” of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.

#65 In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China was “scrap and trash”.

#64 Do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.

#63 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#62 If you can believe it, more than 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.

#61 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

#60 Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.

#59 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.

#58 If you gathered together all of the workers that are “officially” unemployed in the United States today, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world.

#57 There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States right now than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.

#56 Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 had a job. In July, only 81.2 percent of men in that age group had a job.

#55 Only 55.3% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we have seen since World War II.

#54 Today, there are 5.9 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their parents.

#53 The economic downturn has been particularly tough on men. According to Census data, men are twice as likely to live with their parents as women are.

#52 According to one recent survey, only 14 percent of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their financial futures.

#51 Incredibly, less than 30 percent of all U.S. teens had a job this summer.

#50 According to one study, between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 dropped by 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#49 Since the year 2000, we have lost approximately 10% of our middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs.

#48 In 1980, 52 percent of all jobs in the United States were middle income jobs. Today, only 42 percent of all jobs are middle income jobs.

#47 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#46 According to Paul Osterman, a professor of economics at MIT, approximately 20 percent of all employed Americans are making $10.65 an hour or less.

#45 Half of all American workers now earn $505 or less per week.

#44 Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation.

#43 New home sales in the United States are now down 80% from the peak in July 2005.

#42 The all-time record for fewest number of new homes sold in the United States was broken in 2009. Then it was broken again in 2010. It is on pace to be broken once again in 2011.

#41 At one point this year, U.S. home prices had fallen a whopping 33% from where they were at during the peak of the housing bubble.

#40 U.S. home values have fallen approximately 6 trillion dollars since the housing crisis first began.

#39 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18 percent of all homes in the state of Florida are sitting vacant. That figure is 63 percent larger than it was just ten years ago.

#38 Historically, the percentage of residential mortgages in foreclosure in the United States has tended to hover between 1 and 1.5 percent. Today, it is up around 4.5 percent.

#37 According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, at least 8 million Americans are currently at least one month behind on their mortgage payments.

#36 According to a Harris Interactive survey taken near the end of last year, 77 percent of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck. In 2007, the same survey found that only 43 percent of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.

#35 Starting on January 1st, 2011 the Baby Boomers began to hit retirement age. From now on, every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years.

#34 According to a new poll by Americans for Secure Retirement, 88 percent of all Americans are worried about “maintaining a comfortable standard of living in retirement”. Last year, that figure was at 73 percent.

#33 One out of every six elderly Americans now lives below the federal poverty line.

#32 In 1950, each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 U.S. workers. According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United States.

#31 According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security system paid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes in 2010. That was not supposed to happen until at least 2016.

#30 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run out five years faster than they were projecting just last year.

#29 According to one study, the 50 U.S. state governments are collectively 3.2 trillion dollars short of what they need to meet their pension obligations.

#28 A different study has shown that individual Americans are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

#27 Between 1991 and 2007 the number of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 that filed for bankruptcy rose by a staggering 178 percent.

#26 According to a shocking AARP survey of Baby Boomers that are still in the workforce, 40 percent of them plan to work “until they drop”.

#25 Last year, 2.6 million more Americans dropped into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#24 Back in the year 2000, 11.3% of all Americans were living in poverty. Today, 15.1% of all Americans are living in poverty.

#23 More than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid. Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#22 More than 45 million Americans are now on food stamps.

#21 The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007.

#20 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the state of Alabama is now on food stamps.

#19 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

#18 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

#17 The poverty rate for children living in the United States increased to 22% in 2010.

#16 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.

#15 In Washington D.C., the “child food insecurity rate” is 32.3%.

#14 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.

#13 It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.

#12 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.

#11 According to a recent report from the AFL-CIO, the average CEO made 343 times more money than the average American did last year.

#10 The wealthiest 1% of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the United States.

#9 The poorest 50% of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#8 The percentage of millionaires in Congress is more than 50 times higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population.

#7 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.

#6 According to one recent poll, 90 percent of the American people believe that economic conditions in the United States are “poor”. To put this in perspective, only 11 percent of Americans rated economic conditions in the U.S. as “poor” back in January of 1999.

#5 According to another recent poll, 80 percent of the American people believe that we are actually in a recession right now.

#4 Our dollar is being systematically destroyed by the Federal Reserve. An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you $116.78 today. An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you $457.67 today.

#3 The Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their friends during the last financial crisis.

#2 The Federal Reserve is a perpetual debt machine. Today, the U.S. national debt is more than 4700 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.

#1 According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, 27 percent of all Americans have never even heard of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

We need to educate America.

Please share this with as many people as you can. Time is running out for America, and 2012 is going to be an absolutely pivotal year in the history of this nation.

We are in the midst of a long-term economic decline that is rapidly accelerating. If dramatic changes are not made very quickly, we will soon witness a full-blown collapse of the economy.

Wake up as many people as you can.

We are running out of time.

The Economic Collapse

There was the housing bubble that began during the Clinton administration and erupted at the end of the Bush Administration.

There were the 911 attacks, and the WMD ruse under the Bush administration that resulted in a war that has lasted for 10 years despite the promises of Barak Obama that he would put an end to these wars of conquest.

There was the bailout, and the stimulus that resulted in tens of trillions of dollars that have been created, and dispersed throughout the Obama administration in order to keep the global economy from collapsing. They heaped trillions in debt upon the American citizen, and it appears, today, that the only thing keeping this economy afloat is the constant flow of Federal Reserve Notes into a dying economy.

There are the uncounted number of attacks by so-called ‘law enforcement’ that go unpunished, and in many cases have resulted in the courts adding to the insult by declaring new and unconstitutional authorities for the police.

There was the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that has shriveled into non-existence by the silence of the media.

There is the Japanese catastrophe that they have now been forced to admit is far worse than we’ve been led to believe. Another extremely important issue relegated to trivia by a corrupt media.

There is the horrific weather throughout our farm belt that will more than likely result in a very poor crop season. Some well known economic advisers, such as Jim Rogers and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, are not only advising people to build a storable food supply, but to arm themselves for what appears to be inevitable.

Throughout the growing unrest, the turbulence, the looming economic catastrophe, the wars, and the natural disasters there are certain things that will not change.

First, we will refuse to elect candidates that will adhere to the rule of law, hold them accountable for their unlawful actions, and send them to prison for violations of the oath of office.

Second, we will refuse to demand the impeachment of judges who continue to foster the centralization of power to the federal government, and the dismantling of our system of law.

Third, the mainstream media will not only avoid topics that enlighten the people on the subject of government abuse, but they will subsidize, and condone it for the “good of us all”, or more likely to line their pockets.

Fourth, no matter how abusive the system becomes, how obvious the lawlessness, how utterly ridiculous are the actions of the police, prosecutors, and judges, the jury’s will more than likely convict people who are clearly innocent of wrong doing.

Fifth, and certainly not the end; through all our tribulations, the need to see clearly, and understand the difference between good and evil, there will always be a large contingent of the people who would prefer to throw the rest into the depths of hell rather than to stand up for good.

I have watched for decades as the American dream began to wane, shrivel, turn to war, depravity, and economic disaster while all the time being told that I was wrong, and that this whole nightmare is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

The majority seems always to be of the condition that to see the obvious, to take action, and to live in an illusion of peace is far more digestible than to partake in the discomfort of the dynamic fight for freedom.

Let us remember that our fantasy of peace, and security has come at a very expensive price tag, both in dollars and human casualties. Most will tune into the TV, and buy up the propaganda about terrorist activities, Taliban, al Quida, and whoever else is out there that we wish to demonize. Others will question the veracity of the subject matter, but few will take any quantifiable actions.

In these few paragraphs are enough reasons to take action, some positive action. I don’t mean standing in front of a politician and screaming that you are aware of how crooked he or she might be. I don’t mean telling everyone that the media is corrupt, and that there are people who control the world agenda; you’re a day late for that. My father was telling people about the criminal acts, and plots long before the alternative media came into existence on the Internet. As a matter of fact most would not have dreamed of the Internet when he started his rants.

Each day, think of your children, your grandchildren, or any child that might be dear to you, and repeat to yourself they will have to pay for my ambivalence and inaction.

Remember that ‘death cares not who deals the cards’. Don’t dwell on who is in the background, but rather what must be done to stop the current trend.

Organize a core group of people; the neighbor, brother, sister, or whoever else might realize that something needs to be done.

Produce a game plan that your core group can adhere to, and stick with the plan.

Although I have placed suggestions about what needs to be done, other than telling your neighbor that there are bad people in the world, I still receive comments that I haven’t defined a course of action. So here are some thoughts by the numbers.

1. Start with the person who can actually make an immediate change. That person is the sheriff.
2. The sheriff is the highest elected official in the county, the only true constitutional law enforcement agent, and the person responsible for keeping the courts open to the people so that they may obtain redress of grievance.
3. Start with a letter that explains to the sheriff his real job, not that which has been promoted by the judicial system.
4. Make it clear that you expect an answer based on the oath of office not on what the illegitimate judiciary has contrived.
5. Enlighten the sheriff to the fact that it has been proven that police frame people that are known to be innocent.
6. Tell the sheriff that your group will be monitoring police and prosecutor activity and if improprieties arise that you will demand an investigation by a grand jury of the people.
7. Explain to the sheriff that if he/she does not want to perform the job properly that your group will do whatever it takes to remove him/her from office.
8. Copy each letter to your state representatives and the states highest court.
9. Inform both the representative and the court that you will no longer tolerate the tyranny.
10. Demand access to a Grand Jury of the People.
11. Inform the legislature those instructions to the jury that deprive them of their primary function, to judge the law and keep the government in check, will not be tolerated.
12. Inform the legislature that you will demand the impeachment of any judge who improperly instructs the jury.
13. Inform the legislature that ‘we the people’ are the final arbiters of the law, not the courts, not the state, not the policeman.
14. Learn about the Committees of Safety.
15. Find out if your state has an active Militia Act.
16. Begin a campaign to your state representatives and the governor to revitalize the Militia.

Remember that you are the sovereign not subject to the whims of the bureaucrat.

Remember that if you believe on any level that government has the authority to prosecute the sovereign for some fictional crime against the state then you have lost the battle.

Remember that the judiciary has done exactly what the Anti-Federalists foretold. They have corrupted the rule of law, and taken the authority of the people and given it to the state.

Remember that if you fail to resist, your children will pay for your ambivalence, fear, or whatever else it is that holds you back from fighting for our freedom.

‘Nick’

RTR is proud to back the man Dr. Ron Paul this coming election. Come on America! Restore The Republic. Vote for Ron Paul 2012.

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Yes, some of them were slave owners. Some succumbed to the foibles that we all do from time to time. Be that as it may, they swore their allegiance to a cause that would create one of the most wonderful, and exhilarating experiments of liberty in the course of history. They did it with full knowledge that they might very well come to their demise at the end of a rope. They did it despite the fact that they were mere mortals who erred from time to time.

Centuries later, men and women of much lesser quality have maligned, accused, defamed, and corrupted the memory of those brave souls. It has been done behind their backs, so to speak, because they are not here to defend their logic, and reasoning. Their record speaks for itself; the United States became a beacon of liberty, progress, and prosperity for the world. While they left us with problems to be resolved, they also left us with the tools to overcome.

The same people who have made careers out of blasting our Founders are the very same people who would use every underhanded tactic available to end the freedom that Americans enjoyed from the blood of those who went before us. Under the guise that the Founders were flawed, people of much lesser quality and courage, these detractors, make the hollow claim that the ideas and actions were imperfect. Yes, they certainly were not perfect, but the genius of what our Founders created was the ability of the people to be free to not only question the flaws, but to rectify the errors, and build on the concept of a free and sovereign citizen.

The failure of the men and women who founded this nation was that they were products of their own time. Although they were forward thinking people with an in-depth ability to understand the character and shortfalls of men, they lived in a time when certain ideas were the norm. However, they recognized the need to create a nation that could thrive, and correct the inconsistencies. They disagreed on a number of issues, but recognized that certain compromise was necessary to form the union.

Two Hundred Thirty Five years ago this land was open, and while there was an oppressive king, there was still the concept for which the Pilgrims migrated; freedom. Freedom is what made this country great. Freedom to build, thrive, defend your family, and defend your rights against government oppression.

The land was as robust as the spirit of men and women who sailed thousands of miles in small ships to obtain the desires of the soul. Tired of the abuses that were struck by tyrants, Pilgrims were willing to risk it all to bask in the sunshine, unencumbered by rules that were petty, and abusive.

What founded this country was a desire to live free without interference from not only the government, but every busy-body who believed that they had a cause that required state intervention. Ben Franklin warned us that “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

Two Hundred Thirty Five years later I venture to say that given all the facts of today’s political climate, the Pilgrims would not have made that journey.

So ladies and gentlemen, the burden of a dying nation rests clearly on our shoulders. It is the product of our willingness to be led astray; our ambivalence, our ignorance, our naivety. Combine these flaws with the illogical act of repeatedly sending the most irresponsible, corrupt, and disrespectful of candidates back to the legislatures, and we have a country on the verge of destruction.

We have allowed the courts to take away the Grand Jury and the Petit Jury. We have allowed the state to infringe on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and then allowed that same entity to claim that we cannot fight back when it raises its fist to beat us down.

We have allowed the state to tax, and tax again so that it may keep its boot on the back of our necks. We have allowed it to take our children’s bodies and minds for whatever purpose. We have allowed the state to enforce acts that are repugnant to the rule of law. We have allowed it to arrest when there was no authority to arrest, condoned its actions in the courtroom, and justified our approval with notions just as ludicrous as allowing the judiciary to interpret law against our sovereignty.

We can no longer sit idly by while our bombs drop across the globe. We can no longer sit idly by while our legislature robs our wealth and passes it along to those who should be incarcerated for their deeds rather than rewarded.

We can no longer sit idly by while our prisons are packed, and the state ravishes those who do nothing more than raise a voice against intolerable assaults by the police state.

This Fourth of July, our freedom wanes, our liberty passes, our spirit dies, and our common sense vanishes.

This Fourth of July we should be shouting “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

There can be no other way.

‘Nick’

At one time we the people understood our duty to the law, and to our fellow citizen. Now we simply rubber stamp a criminal system that has gone berserk. As Thomas Jefferson stated, “I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

Decades ago the jury would be called upon to not only judge the facts of the case, but to judge the law. The legal system has taken that away by allowing judges to instruct the jury that they must judge the case based on how he/she gives them, the jury, the law.

It is not only the judges, but also the prosecutors and the police. Funds are distributed on every level to insure that the private prison system is fed, much the same as we have done with the banking system.

How do we stop it? Where do we go from here?

It is certain that if parents are helping the state to prosecute their children, or just standing by while the system consumes more and more of our rights and humanity we will come to a tragic conclusion.

That conclusion might look something like ‘1984’, or at least something as diabolical.

When did we loose our sense of dignity? When did we loose the spirit that made politicians heed our will, and bow to our authority? When did we loose the backbone that made America great?

Corruption now rules on every level in our system, and it is because we refuse to stand up and make the system take notice. Some will say that by confronting politicians on the street and yelling at them we are achieving victory. I say non-sense because as long as our voting system is controlled by rules set by the politicians, and yes it appears that it is also rigged, we accomplish nothing except maybe a sore throat.

This is about who we are, what we once were; a nation of farmers, clerks, and tradesmen willing to sacrifice everything by taking on the British army when the King imposed unjust, and intrusive acts upon the citizenry.

Part of our problem is in our education system wherein we are taught that our Founders were nothing more than rich slave owners who didn’t want to pay taxes, or that our rights come from a Constitution. It does no such thing, but rather endeavors to point out where granted government powers end, and our sovereignty takes hold.

But even at that, our Founders warned that it is up to us to rein in the government whenever we the people feel that it has run afoul of the law we have given to it.

Have we had enough? Have we reached the point of no return? Because as sure as my fingers now fly across this keyboard we are dooming ourselves, and our children to a life of servitude, and horribly a life of fear. Fear that one day a knock will come on the door, and they will be taken away for something as simple as noting that something is wrong, just as I note here.

‘Nick’

The truth is “that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” So we suffer, as will our children, their children, and so on until we have been backed into a corner from which there is no other way out.

This is the way of the world; lies, deceit, suffering, ambivalence, and cruelty. The lies, cruelty, and deceit are a form of government regulation through hatred, and intimidation. The suffering and ambivalence is all up to the individual who prostrates him or herself at the foot of some bureaucrat who was never lawfully given the power that they impose by force of arms.

We have been lied to so often that we can no longer reconcile what is truth, and what is fiction. In our struggle to discern what reality is we spin into a state of confusion mindlessly repeating some phrase that is continually broadcast from a talking head. This is our armor against a world that has been made hostile to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The problem with all those who profess the concept of a peaceful revolution is that they never truly understand what is taking place around them. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts recently stated that if the people in Libya succeed in overthrowing the government through arms, they will be more successful than the Egyptian’s.

Dr. Roberts understood what was actually taking place, and comments by Joel Skousen emphasized what Dr. Roberts realizes. Skousen makes the point that the Egyptian protests were theater, and that the U.S. has paid agents provocateurs throughout the Middle East. So, using the same propaganda that has become the religion of peace brought about by the Gandhi revolution, we work toward unachievable goals. To think that a few months down the road the people of Egypt will actually have freedom is just ‘rose colored glasses’.

Mahatma Gandhi said, “Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than to give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.” In my opinion, it takes a man of common intelligence to understand the need for peace, but it takes a man of fortitude, and courage to stand up for what is right, and that may mean the ability to deliver a blow before all is lost.

I had a friend who was a prisoner of war. The details of which are unimportant except to note that he received the most brutal of treatments. So barbaric was the torture that he would never speak of it except for one occasion.

On that occasion he spoke before the congressional committee hearing testimony on women serving in combat. He described the torture he was subjected to, I’m sure in excruciating detail, and then asked the members of the committee if they expected a man to stand by and watch a women be subjected to such torture.

The truth of the matter is that we men have been neutered. At one time boys would fight, someone would intervene, and then the boys would shake hands and nothing further was said. Even in the catholic grammar school I attended, the priests or nuns would pull the boys apart, and nothing further was done except to facilitate a handshake.

Most schools in New York City had rifle teams. You could actually go on public transportation with a firearm, and no one would freak out, and scream bloody murder. There were no swat teams to come along to execute a person for carrying a lawfully owned firearm. Crime rates were much lower, we were more civilized, and it would not be considered any sort of crime to defend your girlfriend. As a matter of fact you were looked down upon if you did not defend the girl to which you were attached. Today self-defense, protecting another or any sort of fight can carry substantial penalties dished out by the state.

A reasonable person might ask, what is the claim upon which the state makes a case for actions against those of us who choose self defense? And the answer is that we must be kept in line so that when we awake from this coma we will have given up our arms in the name of peace, and receive serfdom for our efforts.

In order to protect our self esteem we lie to ourselves. We have convinced ourselves that what actually was did not exist. We have changed reality so that begging for mercy is seen as something admirable. I can’t believe that Gandhi subscribed to such a notion.

Did Gandhi actually say that “It takes more courage to take a blow than to give one.”, or was it fabricated for the public? If he did make such a statement, I have to ask what type of man can stand by and watch as others are beaten and murdered? Would not any man have the same reaction as my old buddy who pointed out his sentiments to the congressional committee?

Gandhi was also credited with stating, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” This quote might lead one to believe that Gandhi was a realist, and understood in the final analysis that it was less likely for a tyrant to come to power if the people in general were armed, and willing to fight for that which they believed.

The truth of the Gandhi movement was not as glorious as has been preached. Tens of thousands of Gandhi’s countrymen were killed. The British raped the nation while the ‘peaceful’ protests were taking place, and the country was left in a desperate state for decades. Gandhi is not revered among many Indians who are aware of the actual history of the movement. I can go as far as to say that some despise him, and the notion that he was a great leader.

My point is not to destroy Gandhi’s credibility, but to bring to light the fact that nothing is at it seems, and history can be manipulated for the benefit of those who wish to control. Obviously if we are imbued with the false hope of peaceful change then we will aspire to that goal even to our own demise.

In reality there is no record of a truly peaceful revolution. Our Founders were well aware of this and so they created a system of checks and balances in order to impede a tyrannical aspirant. The Founders created a central government with very limited powers. The states were given the duty to protect the rights of the people, who themselves are sovereign to the state, and well within their right to dismantle the government by force.

Our system, though not infallible, is designed to be the best effort against the state becoming abusive. While we slept and became re-educated by the controllers of the system each and every one of our checks has either been removed, or is in the process of being terminated.

Now, using tactics that we should abhor, such as the BATF facilitating gun sales to drug cartels, the Obama administration is seeking stricter gun regulation of American citizens. What he should be doing, if he at all had an ounce of honesty in his body, is asking why we have an agency that conducts such operations.

We must understand that some of us have to be educated to the truth, and those of us who know the nature of our problems must help in the education process. It is of paramount import that we enlighten others to the fact that what they believe is a free country was long ago taken away, and our ignorance has placed us on the path to violent revolution, or wretched slavery.

In order to accomplish a peaceful revolution we must first grasp that if we are even having this discussion then there is no chance of success. We must also understand that in this universe one thing that is certainly impossible is a ‘peaceful revolution’ as the words are in direct conflict with each other. Our Founders realized this after years of pleading for justice. “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.”

If both parties were resolute in the idea of peace, we would have abolished the tools of government determined to cower the people; the police, prosecutors, and judges that have corrupted our system of law would have been gone long before the idea that a revolution was needed.

Peace is not a one way affair. It is not that moment when the vanquished surrenders and the victor is appeased. That is simply the end of a violent confrontation.

Peace is not the activist who is pummeled on the street at the hands of a government agent. That is what it is, a tyrant exhibiting his power over the hapless subject.

Peace is not you and I debating what move is needed next to wrest power from those who have ignored our Redress of Grievance, and given themselves immunity from our prosecutions.

Peace is, however, the coming together of like minds for the benefit of all. It is a lifting of all the minds and hearts of the people to harmony, and tranquility.

In the absence of peace we are left with the choice to surrender to the abuse of the other side, or to take a stand. To that end our Forefathers warned that “the security of a free State” was, and still is today “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.”

In order to affect change in a manner that is least likely to cause further harm to the Republic, we must engage and enlighten the sheriff as to his/her true responsibility to protect our inalienable rights. That includes arresting a judge if a juror complains about the conduct of the black robbed administrator.

It would also include the questioning of any indictment handed down by a grand jury controlled by a state prosecutor, and not in the hands of the people.

It must include the decommissioning of the current legal system to leave way for that of the common law. It must certainly include the power of the jury to stand in the way of government abuse, and to be backed by force of arms before arms are our only recourse.

There can be no peace until the people are on level ground with those who have been entrusted with the duty to protect, and defend the rule of law for the sake of us all.

‘Nick’

On December 14, 2010, Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry was shot as he tried to capture heavily armed “bandits” targeting illegal immigrants trying to get across the border near Rio Rico, Arizona. He died the next morning.

It was a tragic incident that occurs frequently on our southern border, made all the more tragic because THE SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE THAT WAS USED TO KILL AGENT TERRY WAS BOUGHT BY A CRIMINAL AND SMUGGLED INTO MEXICO UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS (ATF).

“The gun used to kill Agent Brian Terry has been sourced, not to Mexico, but to a gun store in Phoenix that was actually part—and cooperating—with a federal investigation into arms trafficking. However, U.S. agents did not stop the sale or the transfer of that gun to the cartels that killed Terry.” – William Lajeunesse, Fox News broadcast (February 22, 2011).

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) is now demanding answers on ATF’s “Project Gunrunner.” Hundreds of guns were allowed to be purchased along the border by alleged straw buyers, while ATF conducted its investigation and DID NOTHING. The ATF looked the other way while these guns slipped into Mexico into the hands of drug cartels, and then they blamed gun laws in the United States for the transactions.

The CCRKBA calls on Congress to support Senator Grassley’s investigation into “Project Gunrunner,” and to cut funding to the corrupt ATF immediately. Please, CLICK HERE TO help us FAX every member of the U.S. Congress and demand that they do their job and protect the Second Amendment! This is a fight America cannot afford to lose. I also ask for your very serious donation to the CCRKBA so we can continue to defend your Second Amendment rights—because President Obama’s administration and a powerful anti-gun lobby ares determined to take away our firearms by whatever means possible. We desperately need your support to make sure the next two years don’t end in tragedy for the Second Amendment, and for more of our brave agents on the border!

Anti-gun activists, led by the Obama administration, are doing all they can to make the connection between law-abiding citizens and deranged criminals—even standing by while known drug dealers purchase guns on our soil and take them back to Mexico… and then use them to take the lives of our brave border agents!

The ATF is under threat of a 13% budget cut. They claim cuts will hurt their efforts to prevent firearms trafficking on the Mexican border—but the death of Agent Terry exposed how corrupt and inadequate this initiative has been.

What lengths will the ATF go to in order to keep their funding?

James Cavanaugh, a retired ATF official says losing 13% of their budget “would really handicap the ATF. It’s a small agency and it’s a lean machine. With ATF, it would be an amputation.”

I say we amputate!

The CCRKBA calls on Congress to support Senator Grassley’s investigation into “Project Gunrunner,” and to cut funding to the corrupt ATF immediately. Please, CLICK HERE TO help us FAX every member of the U.S. Congress and demand that they do their job and protect the Second Amendment! This is a fight America cannot afford to lose. I also ask for your very serious donation to the CCRKBA so we can continue to defend your Second Amendment rights—because President Obama’s administration and a powerful anti-gun lobby ares determined to take away our firearms by whatever means possible. We desperately need your support to make sure the next two years don’t end in tragedy for the Second Amendment, and for more of our brave agents on the border!

ATF’s own agents say that sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, the Phoenix office of ATF began to implement a policy of “walking” semi-automatic rifles south of the border. One agent says, “The agency was not only looking the other way but actually facilitating trafficking, threatening and punishing agents who voiced objections, covering up trace information, the truth about the gun that killed BPA Terry, what I.C.E. knew, it goes on and on.”

The accusations against ATF and DOJ officials include:

1. They intentionally allowed perhaps as many as 3,000 firearms to “walk” across the U.S. border into Mexico.

2. They instructed U.S. gun dealers to proceed with questionable and illegal sales of firearms to suspected gunrunners.

3. They intentionally withheld information about U.S.-sanctioned gun smuggling from the Mexican government.

4. One of the guns ATF allowed or helped to be smuggled into Mexico was involved in the death of CBP Agent Brian Terry.

For two years, we’ve been hearing from Holder and others in the Obama administration about a so-called ‘iron pipeline’ of American guns across the border, and federal officials have been working to strip you of your rights.

Wouldn’t it be ironic to learn that while the Obama administration was blaming our gun rights for the drug war violence in Mexico, its own gun sting operation was a major source of illicit firearms?

The CCRKBA calls on Congress to support Senator Grassley’s investigation into “Project Gunrunner,” and to cut funding to the corrupt ATF immediately. Please, CLICK HERE TO help us FAX every member of the U.S. Congress and demand that they do their job and protect the Second Amendment! This is a fight America cannot afford to lose. I also ask for your very serious donation to the CCRKBA so we can continue to defend your Second Amendment rights—because President Obama’s administration and a powerful anti-gun lobby ares determined to take away our firearms by whatever means possible. We desperately need your support to make sure the next two years don’t end in tragedy for the Second Amendment, and for more of our brave agents on the border!

Obama nominated anti-gun zealot Andrew Traver to head up the ATF prior to Congressional recess last year, and reappointed him in the 112th Congress—but the Senate Judiciary Committee has yet to hold hearings. Rumors are that this Gunrunner issue is causing problems, because the ATF doesn’t want questions about this case to come up.

What does the ATF not want us to know?

This is a cover-up at the highest levels of our government.

Please, CLICK HERE TO help us FAX every member of the U.S. Congress and demand that they do their job and protect the Second Amendment! This is a fight America cannot afford to lose. I also ask for your very serious donation to the CCRKBA so we can continue to defend your Second Amendment rights—because President Obama’s administration and a powerful anti-gun lobby ares determined to take away our firearms by whatever means possible. We desperately need your support to make sure the next two years don’t end in tragedy for the Second Amendment, and for more of our brave agents on the border!

The Second Amendment guarantees us the right to bear arms. There is no language in the Constitution that allows for restricting this freedom.

But the Obama administration and Members of Congress are still trying to take away that freedom, especially in the wake of the Tucson shootings.

Those of us who have a strong desire to protect our rights to own a gun need to put our money where our passion is. Don’t wake up tomorrow and find out it’s too late. Please give the largest gift that you possibly can to CCRKBA as we FIGHT the corrupt ATF and the Obama/Democrat agenda to take away our Second Amendment rights.

I agree with Senator Grassley, who tells Attorney General Eric Holder it’s time to “come clean.”

This tyranny will not prevail on our watch! Thank you for your help.

Respectfully,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms