Marc Gallagher of www.LibertyMaven.com recently posted this trial news show.  It’s called “Freedom Watch” and is a 60 minute injection of raw liberty hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano.  You can try watching the second hour-long trial show from this link.   Peter Schiff, Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal, Cody Willard, Ron Paul, Tracey Burns and Lew Rockwell from the Mises Institute and lewrockwell.com all took turns as the Judge moderated. The hour of audio from the first show is available here.

Prior to the watching the show, I had only come across the Judge’s name once or twice before as by personal choice I’ve been boycotting FOX since they blackballed Ron Paul from the New Hampshire presidential debate a year ago.  I’ve decided to remove my boycott if FOX airs this show – although it will probably only apply to NFL games and Freedom Watch. Continue reading →

What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of our meddling in the affairs of others?  What if we finally see that wartime conditions always undermine personal liberty? FULL ARTICLE

Involuntary servitude was supposed to be abolished by the 13th Amendment, but things like Selective Service and the income tax make me wonder how serious we really are in defending just basic freedom.  The income tax enslaves workers for nearly 4 months out of a year by garnishing what amounts to all their wages in that period of time.  A military draft could demand your very life, without your consent.  This should be unthinkable in a free society. FULL ARTICLE

Money is the Trojan horse that government uses to infiltrate and infect organizations.  Funding that, on the outset, is designed to strengthen and support, will bureaucratize and regulate in the end.  It is sad to see charities now having reason to focus on lobbying, regulatory compliance and paper pushing to get and retain money taken by force, rather than beefing up private, voluntary fundraising activities. FULL ARTICLE

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy. FULL ARTICLE

To improve the situation, you must first have a solid grasp of how we got here.  Government policies and central planning created the housing bubble, now going bust.  About a decade ago the government made expanded homeownership and affordable housing a public goal.  Through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the secondary mortgage market the government incentivized creative, low down-payment, more widely available mortgage products, and discouraged the market-proven lending standards of the past. FULL ARTICLE

Ron Paul on MSNBC 01/27/09

“You have to understand how we got into this mess. We got into this mess by spending too much, borrowing too much and inflating too much.

So what is the proposal? Spend more money, borrow more money, print more money…it makes no sense whatsoever.”

This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package.  In reality, this bill is just an escalation of a government-created economic mess.   As before, a sense of urgency and impending doom is being used to extract mountains of money from Congress with minimal debate.  So much for change.  This is déjà vu.  We are again being promised that its passage will help employment, help homeowners, help the environment, etc.  These promises are worthless. FULL ARTICLE

The economic situation continues to deteriorate this week as past and future bailouts were discussed on Capitol Hill.  The debate was over the accountability of already disbursed TARP money, and on whether or not to release remaining funds.   Banks that had already been bailed out before are looking for more money to fill the black holes that are their balance sheets, warning that they are simply too big to fail. However, whatever ‘devastating’ consequences these banks are dreaming up and pushing on Capitol Hill regarding their own collapse will be nothing compared to the collapse of our currency if we keep debasing it through these foolish bailouts.  It should be that they are too big to bailout.  The world will not come to an end without this or that bank.  The most troubling thing to me is this rhetoric that only government can save the economy, and must act.  This is so counter-productive. FULL ARTICLE

Ron Paul’s opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on January 13, 2009.

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