No Treason

Ron Paul held a press conference, urging his supporters to vote 3rd party. The candidates, including Bob Barr, who was not present and continues to squander opportunities, all agreed to a 4 point plan detailed here.

Basically, Foreign policy, privacy, national debt and the Federal Reserve. The 4th is the most important point.

Returning recently to the Ron Paul Forums, DailyPaul and Campaign for Liberty sites, I’ve been so disappointed that people were still very focused on electoral politics, and not on the monetary and economic liberty issues. Electoral politics are useless, as long as the system of corruption and theft is not directly attacked, and attacked primarily through the illegal, immoral and unconstitutional Federal Reserve system.

The great thing about this press conference, is that left candidates like McKinney and Nader will carry the FED message back to their supporters, who are probably oblivious to the way that institution works, or how it enables the warfare and corporatist state, while robbing from those dependent on the welfare state, keeping them in a permanent state of poverty and servitude.

This is a huge opportunity, and I hope that the CFL and the individual candidates capitalize on that opportunity to generate a legitimate movement, not just in America, but worldwide, to get rid of inflationary fiat money and central banking.

Any RPers who are reading this, please, please, please I plead of you, it is necessary that you learn how the monetary system works, and precisely why sound, free market money is a must if there is ever going to be a smaller state, and an end to the usurpations of fascist big government.

I will post a follow up with some resources to get people started, in the meanwhile Tom Woods at the CFL seems to be the most knowledgeable person there about the inner workings and history of the Federal Reserve system. Lean on him for knowledge, he’s a great resource to have in the struggle for liberty.

Also, Bob Barr not attending does irritate me. He’s intentionally avoided confronting the monetary system which is why I feel that he is not gaining traction and people are not buying into his campaign.

If Bob wants people to trust him, he will have to take risks, speak truth to power, and attack the state at it’s central nexus. Libertarians are not stupid, and his campaign generates next to zero excitement, because he’s boring, dour and cowardly in his approach.

Bob, you screwed up by missing this press conference. You can make it up by standing up to the FED starting today.

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I think I am finally beating my addiction to forums. Slowly. The leechblock plugin for Firefox helps.

Google releases their new browser, named Chrome. Someone mentioned that it was difficult to find Chrome related domain names. Not too difficult for me. I scored 4 in 10 minutes.

Also, the release of Chrome is somewhat surprising. I’m not a tech gawker, and admit I had no idea it was coming even though it coincided with Google shutting down it’s CPA referral program (perhaps due to someone I know who had found a way to push massive conversions through it) where it promoted Firefox heavily. After doing so much work to move people to a browser that is now a competitor…

Maybe it was to give Microsoft a kick in the jiggly bits.

What’s fascinating to me is that the internet is evolving so rapidly that browsers are becoming more diverse and more disparate. Chrome is not like other browsers, although only the more technically minded folks will realize how different it really is. There truly is a lot of differentiation in the freest market mankind has ever seen.

FSK lost his job. That sucks. Although I think the drama of his workplace was starting to crush his soul, so maybe it is a good thing that he is now searching for a new mission. I’ve been there. I’ve always been better for the resets in my life, whether I pushed the button or someone else did.

I have 10 drafts, or unpublished, half-written, half-baked posts. With each passing day, I feel less connection to them, and the reasons I started them in the first place. While this holds true of what I thought might be a legendary post about the LRC Podcast, with the lack of podcasts for what feels like a couple weeks now, perhaps it is best that I didn’t get that one done or sink hours into transcribing audio quotes.

I totally abuse commas. So sue me.

I don’t like blogging. Bloggers have always seemed like soapbox self-promoters to me. There are so few who have something worthwhile to say, and many who just want acknowledgment for saying anything. But I have to admit that it is cathartic. And can be reflective.

On the Mises forum, someone asked, “How does an industry benefit from being taxed?”. What proceeded were explanations of the method by which companies benefit from taxation, and the conclusion that taxation functioned similarly to regulation as a barrier to entry.

I was going to add to the discussion and point out that lobbyists and corporations now write legislation, because whether it is tax or regulation, the government is the most efficient way for big business to control and limit competition. There doesn’t seem to be enough disgust with statism and the status quo for me in those discussions. At times, the environment seems very laissez-faire and in direct contradiction to Mises admonition, “tu ne cede malis”. I’m all for laissez-faire, but not when it comes to my oppression.

There are so many charades going on around us. The campaign charades, the legislative charade, the patriotic charades. Yesterday I listened to a few friends talk about Obama and Palin. They both acknowledge the system is a scam, that politicians are parasites and so forth, but are completely enthralled with the cult of personality that surrounds speech making and grandstanding.

“You should watch Bill Maher!” they tell me. Well, no I shouldn’t. I gave up Maher early in my transformation. He’s a cynical bigot whose primary contribution is attacking everything and everyone. The problem is, he does it indiscriminately. Literally, the loose cannon of left-intellectualism.

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From Wikipedia

Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs. It is an integral concept of George Orwell‘s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

War and Peace, turning their backs on one another.

One of my favourite examples of doublethink is

“War is Peace” or, “We have to fight’em over there, so we don’t have to fight’em over here”.

The premise being that only through war abroad can there be peace at home. Or that killing creates safety. Or that murder is a tool to prevent, yep, you guessed it, murder.

Continue reading Doublethink 101