Freedom, how long will it last?

Lecture by James Bovard presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference, the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, held annually at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. mises.org James Bovard is a bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, The American Conservative, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard “the roving inspector general of the modern state.” Washington Post columnist George Will called him a “one-man truth squad.” His 1994 book Lost Rights The Destruction of American Liberty received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard’s writings have been publicly denounced by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of …

The Republicans and Democrats play for the same team. It is all window dressing to keep us divided cheering for our ‘Red’ team or our ‘Blue’ team when in reality, they are of the same cloth. There is no change. It is the same basic message only it is now delivered with a new eloquence. If we are to put our wedge issues aside and listen to our conscience to what is just, what is right and if we are to judge a tree by the fruit it bears we can clearly see that our government is rotting on the branch. The players of each team will never enact any accountability on each other. The people of this country must demand it. Subscribe to our videos so that you are notified when ever we make a new video! Visit: www.puppetgov.com Music by Trillion/Jody Lloyd www.trillion.co.nz We encourage you to copy and repost this and any of our videos in the hope of educating more people. Every ripple counts.

War Racket, Please pass it on: tinyurl.com tinyurl.com tinyurl.com tinyurl.com representativepress.blogspot.com (Also see addition quote I added below) “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Those truths are well established. They are read in every page which records the progression from a less arbitrary to a more arbitrary government, or the transition from a popular government to an aristocracy or a monarchy.” –James Madison, Political Observations, Apr. 20, 1795 representativepress.blogspot.com Also see: “In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive …

America, your government was set up by the people, for the people, to serve the people. A small percentage of your society is immoral and violent, so the people set up a government to protect them from that small percentage. Today, that small percentage of immoral and violent people in your society are now in control of your government. Why would a government FOR the people keep secrets and lie TO the people? The only answer is that it is no longer FOR the people. We advice you to exercise what rights you still have: The freedom of speech. The freedom of Choice. The freedom to peaceful assembly. We are with you, and support you in taking back your country. We are your brothers and sisters. We are Your Family. We are You. We are Anonymous. We are ONE, divided by NONE. WE RUN THIS.

In her talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Dr. Sima Samar explains how 31 years of war and invasion has forced Afghan society to become very conservative and unfriendly toward human rights and especially the rights of women. Samar describes how before the war, when she was young, she was able to study in a co-educational school. In today’s Afghanistan, she says, such a thought is unimaginable. Samar tells us how after the Soviet invasion, many Afghans rallied around religious conservatives and began to follow their lead both militarily and socially. These religious conservatives gained control of Afghanistan’s schools, and in a region severely lacking public education, were able to indoctrinate many younger Afghans. There were more than 6 million refugees in the Afghan region in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and many of them were taught in madrasas that, according to Samar, spread a false, extreme, hateful, and aggressive Islam that encouraged hatred and discrimination against women. This led to an environment where under the Taliban government, uttering the words “human rights” or “women’s rights” was a crime. Samar now heads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; a group established after the downfall of the Taliban whose very existence is a success and a good omen. Now, at least, there is an Afghan institution that conducts field monitoring and reporting on human rights abuses and provides TV, radio, and written programs that promote human rights and …

Lecture by John V. Denson discussing how America’s interventionist foreign policies dangerously expands central government power and usurps individual rights and liberties on the home front. Presented at the Brown Bag Seminar, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Recorded February 15, 1995. mises.org John V. Denson serves as Circuit Court Judge in Opelika, Alabama and is a former vice chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is theauthor of the book A Century of War and is the editor of two other books, The Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency. In the latter work, he has chapters especially relevant for today, on how Lincoln and FDR lied us into war. Selected articles by John Denson The Crime Called WW I www.lewrockwell.com Defending the Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy of Our Founders www.lewrockwell.com The Hiroshima Myth www.lewrockwell.com FDR, Pearl Harbor and the UN www.lewrockwell.com American Mussolini www.lewrockwell.com Another Century of War? www.lewrockwell.com Soldiers Against War: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce www.lewrockwell.com Best-Ever Antiwar Novel and Movie www.lewrockwell.com Why Did Lincoln Invade the South? www.lewrockwell.com Related links: Read excerpted chapter from ‘A Century of War’ online: mises.org Lew Rockwell Podcast: Wilson’s War www.lewrockwell.com Lew Rockwell Podcast: Lincoln’s War www.lewrockwell.com DISCLAIMER: Owner of this media presentation, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has given permission …

US Army Trains to Take On Tea Party Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com April 29, 2010 On April 17, the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, reported on a military exercise dubbed Mangudai, named after the special forces of Genghis Khans Mongol army who could fight for days without food or sleep. The Kentucky newspaper portrayed the exercise as an effort to train soldiers to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan. Designed to test the limits of officers physical, mental and emotional endurance, the emerging Army exercise offered a revealing window onto modern combat training in the era of Iraq and Afghanistan, Chris Kenning wrote for the newspaper. Over three days last week, participants had to crawl on their bellies under real machine-gun fire, shimmy commando-style over a single rope high in the air and march for more than 22 miles through forests. But according to information received by The Patriot Post blog, there is another aspect to the military exercises not reported by local media. This week, I was contacted by a number of military personnel, enlisted and officer ranks, who expressed concern about a military exercise underway at Ft. Knox, the US Bullion Depository. As with most such exercises, the Ft. Knox alert occurred in stages, as if real time intelligence was being provided at various intervals, writes Mark Alexander. Alexander cites an intel advisory issued on Friday, April 23, 2010, that identifies terrorist threat adversaries as Local Militia Groups Anti …

The Ron Paul FREEDOM PRINCIPLES * Rights belong to individuals, not groups. * Property should be owned by people, not government. * All voluntary associations should be permissible — economic and social. * The government’s monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud. * Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges. * The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government’s. “Too often we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised. Too often we have supported those who turn on us, like the Kosovars who aid Islamic terrorists, or the Afghan jihadists themselves, and their friend Osama bin Laden. We armed and trained them, and now were paying the price.” www.youtube.com www.campaignforliberty.com

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Learn more – constitutionalrepublic.net To prevent the flu go to – constitutionalrepublic.net Ifyou want to stop abusive government join us at – constitutionalrepublic.net Vaccine Rights Rally was held at the State Capital Building – Albany NY 9-29-09 [Total parts 19] This rally was to protest the emergency New York State Health Department regulation that requires virtually all health care workers in the state to receive Influenza vaccinations, including the annual seasonal flu shot. It also requires them to receive the H1N1 vaccine this year. There is a great deal of discontent among health care workers over this regulation, which was announced just weeks before the deadline. A group of nurses from Poughkeepsie sponsored this rally. Time is short. The deadline for vaccinations is October 16th for Albany Med. A large number of people are upset about this and are fighting back. Its time to stand up America go to www.constitutionalrepublic.net and click on the primary challenge and learn what we the people can do to take back America. Contact your representatives regularly, give them a piece of your mind! Tell them to read the constitution and obey it. You can find your representatives here – constitutionalrepublic.net