Showing posts with label Bastiat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bastiat. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

"It Literally Went Down The Second They Announced It"!

"The State is great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
-- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

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"PandaLabs, the malware detection laboratory for computer security firm Panda Security, said the prosecutor's website, aklagare.se, was brought down by members of the loose "cyber hacktivist" group called Anonymous. As of 6.30am Wednesday morning, the prosecutor's website remained inaccessible."
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Keep it up, boys. Palin, you are no friend to freedom or liberty, so Ron Paul, a true Libertarian, All The Way, Sir!

Via The Bonnie Blue Blog

Monday, November 22, 2010

GOA Letter

After Big Wins In Elections, It's Time For GOA Membership To Grow

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm


Monday, November 22, 2010

Gun Owners of America was able to help elect 5 new pro-gun members to the United States Senate and more than 40 pro-gunners to the House of Representatives!

AND YOU MADE IT POSSIBLE. Thank you.

In an election where we were the ONLY NATIONAL GUN GROUP to help many of these candidates, it highlights just how critical the gun issue is to Americans, and how important you were to those victories.

GOA could not have done the work without the support of our members -- and now, more than ever, we need your help to double or even triple our membership before 2012!!!

Why? Because 2012 will be a presidential election year and the radical left wing in America will once again be "all in" for Barack Obama.

If they turn out their forces to help Obama win re-election, those voters will translate down to votes for anti-gun members of Congress again, just as they did in 2008.

We can't let that happen without a fight.

Gun Owners of America and GOA Political Victory Fund used limited resources this year to make great gains to protect the Second Amendment. If you can help us grow now, by alerting your family, friends and neighbors, to the work of GOA and the need for them to become members, we will be able to win additional races in 2012!

Believe me, the anti-gun left in this nation has not given up. They see the 2010 election as a hiccup, not the end of the battle or the war. And we can't look at it that way either.

The bottom line in elections is that there is strength in numbers, and if GOA doubles in size NOW, we can multiply what we did this year by several times. That is real "bang for the buck."

With our limited resources this year, we were able to travel around the country giving the voting records of the pro-gun and anti-gun candidates to their voters. We were able to make thousands of phone calls directly to pro-gun voters in the target districts. We were able to send mailings and e-mail alerts to our members to ask them to volunteer in key races.

And the payoff is those 5 new Senators and over 40 members of the House I mentioned above.

But our work is far from over!

Anti-gun Harry Reid is still in control as the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. Nancy Pelosi still wields her power in the House.

AND BARACK OBAMA IS STILL PRESIDENT!

As I said, we cannot sit back now and think we won the war. We won the first battle over the Obama Administration and the radical left who still hold the leadership in the Senate.

That's why Gun Owners of America needs you.

There is a reason why Congressman Ron Paul calls GOA the only "no compromise gun lobby in Washington."

There is a reason why Senator Tom Coburn calls GOA the "real gun lobby in Washington D.C."

And that reason is YOU!

Our members help put pressure on Congress every time we send one of our alerts asking you to contact your representatives about gun legislation.

When our lobbyists hit the halls of Congress and tell members we are opposed or supportive of a bill, they know our membership will also let them know WE ARE ALL WATCHING HOW THEY VOTE.

Just think how much more effective we can be if we double or triple our membership in the next 12 months!

2010 has been the "easy year" when it comes to election gains. We went out and picked the "low-hanging fruit."

The races in 2012 will be for tougher districts, tougher candidates and we'll also be fighting the Obama factor -- where the radical left-wing will be pouring huge amounts of money and manpower to help make him a two-term president.

So, if you've just sat back to enjoy the many victories of November 2nd, DON'T!

WE NEED YOU!

You are our best salesperson to tell our story to your friends, neighbors and everyone you communicate with around the country.

Tell them that for a small membership donation of $20 or $30, they can be a major factor in not only stopping anti-gun laws... they can be part of the organization that is fighting to repeal the anti-gun laws already on the books.

I don't care if they are hunters, shooters, collectors or just people who understand that the Second Amendment is critical to all our other freedoms, we need them as members of GOA.

And if they sign up to receive our GOA e-mail alerts, they can be part of our lobbying team of people all over the country who call, write and e-mail our elected leaders on important gun issues.

GOA and our members have stood alone many times when others compromised, or said legislation or Presidential appointments could not be stopped -- and we have proved the naysayers wrong.

WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE -- your rights are not "bargaining chips" to be used at the negotiating table, and we will never treat them as such.

Don't read this Alert and do nothing. Pass it on to everyone you know and ask them to join Gun Owners of America now by going to:

http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm

It will make a huge difference in the outcome of the 2012 elections and the future of this nation. Thank you.

Tim Macy
Vice-Chairman
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Friday, November 12, 2010

A Refresher Course On Firearms

HERE.

Via Rob

Safe!

Oleg Volk


"Some look not dissimilar to my own graphics, though I generally don't mention specific brands. The cultural expectations back then did not include being soft on perpetrators of interpersonal crimes, hopefully the views would swing back that way to the point of making such direct ads possible again."
2nd Amendment, Self Defense, Natural Right, TheLaw, Bastiat, Family, Children

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

GOA's Larry Pratt Will Speak At 3rd Southern National Congress

Weekly Commentary & News Analysis from the SouthernNational Congress Southern National Congress
We Hold These Truths: Weekly Commentary & News Analysis from the Southern National Congress

National Gun Rights Champion Larry Pratt to Address the Third Southern National Congress

Floyd, Virginia – Thomas Moore, Chairman of the Southern National Congress, announced today that Mr. Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, will be the keynote speaker at the Third Southern National Congress (SNC), which will convene November 12-14, 2010, at Montgomery Bell State Park near Dickson, Tennessee. His address to the SNC Delegates will be “America in Crisis: a Southern Solution.” He will focus the traditional Southern principles of state sovereignty, nullification, and interposition as the only practical and peaceful solution to Federal encroachments on our liberties.

Thomas Moore said, “We’re deeply honored to have Larry Pratt as our keynote speaker at theLarry Pratt - Third Congress speaker Third Congress. He has made Gun Owners of America into the most effective and steadfast protector of the Second Amendment rights of Americans, which is the one right that guarantees all the others. GOA is highly respected for its principled and uncompromising defense of the right to keep and bear arms. GOA is smaller than some better-known gun rights groups, but thanks to Larry Pratt it is a hundred times more effective. However, Larry Pratt is much more than an expert on gun freedoms. He is a nationally respected leader in the growing effort to restore limited government and the rule of law, which, along with our firearms, safeguards all our freedoms.”

GOA is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue and is not satisfied with defending the status quo. Americans have lost many gun rights, and the GOA has taken on the mission to win them back. This is why GOA is considered the "no compromise" gun lobby. From state legislatures and city councils to the United States Congress and the White House, GOA represents the views of gun owners whenever their rights are threatened.

The Southern National Congress is the only representative assembly of Southern citizens that provides an alternative forum to voice their grievances and to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity in the Southern states. It offers Southerners a platform to act in their interests in ways no longer possible in today’s corrupt political process. The SNC seeks to reclaim the great Southern principles of individual liberty and a small central government limited to its enumerated powers, and which is the servant, not the master, of the sovereign people acting through their respective states. These principles have been consistently violated by the Federal Government. Decent, honorable people who love liberty must exercise their sovereignty and create alternative institutions which speak and act for them. This is the principle behind the SNC.

The First Congress, the “Seed Corn Congress,” met in North Carolina in December 2008 with 100 Delegates. The Second Congress, the “Congress of the Covenant,” met in Alabama in September 2009 with 150 Delegates.

Chairman Moore noted, “New Delegate applications are pouring in daily, and we expect 300 Delegates at the Third Congress in Dickson, Tennessee. We also expect a number of non-Delegate guests to the banquet to hear Larry Pratt, including legislators who sponsored Tennessee’s recent state sovereignty resolution, leaders of various pro-freedom groups like the Campaign for Liberty and Tea Party, local gun-owners, and news media representatives.”

Represented States are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Residents of these States who possess good character are invited to apply to become Delegates, without regard to race, sex, or creed. Potential applicants may apply online via this link: http://southernnationalcongress.org/delegateapplication.php .

Those interested in learning more about the SNC should visit the website at www.southernnationalcongress.org . There they will find the various resolutions adopted at the two previous sessions, the Southern National Covenant, and the SNC’s powerful new film, “America in Crisis: a Southern Solution.” http://sncspan.tv/AIC_video_fp.php

News media representatives wishing to cover the event should contact Mr. D.R. “Doc” Smith of Tennessee at pr@southernnationalcongress.org . Other queries about the SNC may be directed to Chairman Thomas Moore at: chairman@southernnationalcongress.org .

Tom Moore

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Washington - An Organized Criminal Enterprise


23 October 2010

In the wake of the League’s 17th annual national conference, we believe it is time to restate the obvious for those who still don’t “get it” yet: the US government in DC is an organized criminal enterprise. Despite being founded on the “principle” of limited government, it has its tentacles in virtually every aspect of our lives all over our beloved Southland. It has become Godless and is rapidly approaching bankruptcy. Something must be done quickly to free us from this monster.

Don’t tell us to wait until the November elections—the GOP is not our savior. Rather, it is only the other side of a counterfeit coin. After all, who started this corrupt bailout business in September 2008 in the first place? Obama was merely a candidate at the time, though he has certainly continued to advance the Bush policies of allowing the banksters to continue their crime spree unabated.

The "Tea Party", while showing some promise in the beginning, is now being predictably absorbed by status quo Republican politicians. These are people who think reducing government spending by a meager 1-3% is acceptable, but they aren’t even serious about accomplishing that much. It is all a ruse to get re-elected, and unfortunately the bulk of “conservative” America will fall for it yet again.

The Republican Party’s “Pledge to America” is another fraud that is carefully written not to set measurable goals or bind the Republicans to any sort of consequences if (or more accurately, when) they fail to fulfill their promises. A major GOP victory in November will be a devastating setback because conservative voters will think they have “won.” Consequently, they will continue to serve the Federal regime while they wait in vain for their anointed Republicans to bring some kind of meaningful reform to Washington, D.C. Even if today’s Republicans were to faithfully deliver on every single principle mentioned in their “pledge," it would only be a fraction of what needs to done. It would take many decades of sweeping electoral victories in both houses of Congress and the presidency to undo the monstrosity that has been created over a period of 150 years in D.C. Oh, and let’s not forget that all of this will also require the blessing of the US Supreme Court. These are events, of course, that will never occur in the current political system.

Finally, the mainstream Republican Party has no interest whatsoever in curbing the insatiable appetite of the United States government to occupy and control other nations. Irrational fear of the Islamic terror threat has prompted far too many Americans to endorse a perpetual military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, with the prospect of war with Iran and possibly Pakistan on the horizon as well. The magnitude of resources consumed by the war machine that is the US military will continue to drag down our economy; yet among all the outrage within the Tea Party and its supporters about government spending, we hear very little about reducing the US military presence in foreign lands.

We at the League of the South believe all peoples are entitled to the right of self-determination even those who do not share our Southern cultural values. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan should be free to decide for themselves what government they will have, just as the people in Dixie have the same God-given right. This is why we advocate peaceful separation from the United States government. In a free and independent South, although we would pity other Americans who remained subjects of the United States government, we would not set out to make enemies of them.

If we don’t begin thinking and acting “outside the box,” the establishment elite will continue to loot us with impunity and violate our rights at every turn. Indeed, their greed (with the assistance of our inaction and even complicity) has essentially destroyed our economy. Instead of trying once again to reform that which cannot be reformed (those who most need reforming control all meaningful avenues of reform), we need simply to leave DC behind. There is even less reason to “save the Union” today than there was 150 years ago when our ancestors fought to be free from it.

Yes, we’re talking about Southern independence NOW! The sooner we get off this sinking ship, the better. The policies conducted by the ruling elite in Washington, D.C. can only end in utter collapse, chaos, and extreme hardship on our future generations. Independence achieved now, although sure to be challenging and not without sacrifices, is infinitely preferable to the chaos that will ensue as the US inevitably self-destructs. We are confident that another bid for Southern independence in our own day will be more widely supported by other nations than it was in 1861. This international support will make it much more difficult for the United States to use military force to thwart our independence. The League of the South does not seek to exact revenge on the United States government in any way, and we seek independence that is free of bloodshed. Just like President Jefferson Davis said in 1861, “All we ask is to be let alone”.

If Southern independence sounds like a good idea to you, then help us. You can start by going to our website, and signing the online petition entitled “States Rights, Secession, and Big Government.” Leave your address so we can contact you. Also, we are preparing another petition that will be presented to the people of the Southern States face-to-face. It calls for immediate secession and independence by our various State governments. We will have it available soon, and it will be announced (and probably downloadable) on the website. We will need your help in acquiring signatures.

Moreover, we need you to join the League of the South. If you’re reading this and are not already a member, please join today. If you were once a member but let your membership slide, please re-join. If you are a member in good standing, then recruit your family and friends into our organization. We need numbers along with hardworking hands and minds.

We also need people who are not afraid to hear the truth and to proclaim it; that Southern independence is the only way short of a direct miracle from the Lord that we can save the South for future generations. I want my children and grandchildren to live free and prosperous in a free South. I’ll bet you feel the same way about yours. Let’s make it happen together right now! Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Last Year Of The War In North Carolina

The revolution of 1861 occurred in the North as a new radical interpretation of the Constitution gave impetus to an invasion of the American South to prevent its independence. As explained below, this new interpretation marginalized Jefferson’s words and founding intent, and erected a new centralized government that drew its authority from military force, not the republican States which created it. For more on Alfred Moore Waddell, see www.cfhi.net. “Historical Essays.”

Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute

Jefferson’s Vague Phrases:

“No man volunteered to fight for the Confederacy who was not prompted to do so by the most natural and the most powerful incentives that can influence human conduct. Each and every one of them felt that, whether personally responsible for bringing on the dreadful issue or not, in shouldering his gun to meet it, he was defending not only his heritage of liberty, but his home and property from the lawless hand of an invader, who sought to subjugate them to his will – that he was obeying the first law of nature, and was therefore justified in the sight of God and man.

We are now a great consolidated nation more or less loving brethren, moving on one path to a common destiny, and the statesmanship of the present day is teaching us new lessons in the science of government. Only last month we heard from a great Senator from the breezy West, that Thomas Jefferson “borrowed his ideas of the social contract from Rousseau and the French philosophers,” that “his dreamy imagination was captivated by their vague phrases and imperfect generalizations,” that “he had no conception of the moral forces which give a nation strength, duration and grandeur,” and that “he failed to comprehend the supreme obligation of law as the bond which united society.”

This same great Senator, to be sure, had already apotheosized John Brown, whose soul, they say, is marching somewhere, but any embarrassment which that fact might suggest to his present argument could only arise in a disloyal mind, and is, therefore, unworthy of consideration.

The Jeffersonian maxim that just government derive their powers from the consent of the governed is, in the eyes of this great Senator from the West, one of those vague phrases and imperfect generalizations by which the “dreamy imagination” of the father of modern Democracy was captivated; whereas the truth, according to the same authority, is that all governments rest “not upon consent, but upon force.”

The South, he says, tried the theory that governments rest on consent and was logical in doing so, but Grant’s guns “refuted their fatal syllogism.”

“The rule of the majority is still the rule of the strongest,” exultingly exclaims this great man. Alas! what answer can be made to this argument of numbers…Verily we should rejoice that we have lived to see the true character of our government thus explained and accepted, and the whole duty of citizenship, as well as the aim of successful statesmanship, resolved into the simple process of “going with the crowd.” May the crowd go right, henceforth, is at once the prayer and only hope of the patriot.”

(An Address Before the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, Hon. Alfred Moore Waddell, The Last Year of the War in North Carolina, W. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, 1888, pp. 6-7)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

The 70 Socialist Members Of The US Congress

"In such a condition there may possible be a solid and honourable peace; and one in which the South may still preserve many things dear to her in the past. There may not be a political South. Yet there may be a social and intellectual South. But if, on the other hand, the South, mistaking the consequences of the war, accepts the position of the inferiour, and gives up what was never claimed or conquered in the war; surrenders her schools of intellect and thought, and is left only with the brutal desire of the conquered for ‘bread and games’, then indeed to her people may be applied what Tacitus wrote of those who existed under the Roman Empire: ‘We cannot be said to have lived, but rather to have crawled in silence, the young towards the decrepitude of age and the old to dishonourable graves.’"
--Edward A. Pollard, 1866
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See them HERE.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Run Away Slave (This Movie Should Be Great!)

(Or as Frederic Bastiat states in The Law, Socialism invariably turns into Communism. BT)
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."
-- Ayn Rand, “Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon,” The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 9, 1962
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Run away from the slavery of tyranny towards the blessings of liberty! See the trailer
HERE.