Here's an anonymous email that I found post-worthy:
"I'm in an unusual spot: I rarely find myself aligned with the vast majority of Americans regarding any specific issue. Yet, it is my understanding that 3/4 of us oppose the bailout of Wall St., and that we have been making ourselves heard through a deluge of calls and emails to our congressmen.
Guess what? They aren't listening.
Enough is enough, folks. "The will of the people?" Don't kid yourselves. "The last act of any corrupt government is to loot the treasury." Once the act is complete, the curtain will fall on our republic.
As is always the case, the government (with help from the corporate media shills) are using fear tactics to ram this travesty down our throats, but it's not working. We, the People ain't buying the BS. Nevertheless, our (allegedly) elected "representatives" will ignore our pleas, they will defy their oaths, abuse their power, take a giant dump on the constitution, abdicate thePeople's last vestige of authority over the control of currency, and permanently enslave us to an elitist cabal of international bankers.
We are left with one card to play: it is time for Us - the People - to bail out from this stinking corpse of corruption.
No need to make their acts of thievery any easier than necessary - Why participate in allowing the federal government to use payroll deduction to collect income tax? "Just Say No." Or in this case, "Just Check Exempt." Whennext April 15th rolls around, what would happen if one million Americans simply forgot to file? From a practical, realistic standpoint, how many people can the IRS audit, investigate, possibly charge and then, eventually attempt to prosecute? I'd say a few thousand at most, and quite possibly less than that. You don't even have to fully refuse. Most Americans are well experienced in various stall tactics when somebody calls and says, "Where's the money?" Tell 'em the check's in the mail. Send 'em a dollar a week, and promise to cover the rest when you decide you can afford it. If you receive any mail from the IRS, mark it "return to sender" or "not at this address."
The current law may consider such activities less than acceptable. I'm not a tax lawyer, and frankly, the point is moot. The current federal government is fraudulent by any reasonable definition. The Rule of Law is meaningless if the spirit of the law is being held hostage. The federal government cannot prove - even to its self-imposed standards - that the results of our elections are legitimate. They show no regard for the constitution, and even less understanding and/or respect for the Framer's intent. The judicial branch has shown no inclination to reverse the trend; in fact it has done quite the opposite. See the Kelo and Raich cases for recent examples. In short, this government no longer derives just power from the consent of the governed, but rather claims authority as it sees fit, with total disregard for the legal and constitutional processes that were origanally, specifically designed to prevent such tyranny.
Don't let them scare you into supporting their treachery. Paulson claimed, ten days ago, if a bailout wasn't approved immediately, disaster would strike. Yet here we are, ten days later, no deal has been struck, the sky hasn't fallen upon our heads, and neither has the banking industry or the market in general. Don't buy into the fear and panic. That is the worst thing we can do. Fear clouds rational thinking.
Please keep pestering your congresspeeps. Promise to vote against them if they betray you on this issue. Follow through on your promise. Remember the reasons our founders declared independence. Note the similarity between the "long train of abuses and usurpations" which they revolted against and the growing list of despicable, tyrannical acts of our current established government.
Recall the principle upon which the new government was instituted: "to secure" "certain inalienable Rights."
Remember where our government derives its just power: "from the CONSENT of the governed."
Remember the one Right we still retain and may still choose to exercise at any time:
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [securing our rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
Our federal government, through legislative dictate and supported by judicial review, has expanded the concept of eminent domain to include the forcible seizure of private property if a case can be made (often by ethics-challenged high-powered special interest attorneys) that said seizure somehow serves the "greater good." Much of our current debt is held by foreign (government owned) banks. The value of the debt far exceeds the value of real assets held by the federal government. So when the debt gets called in, there is nothing to stop our government, or anyone carrying the debt, to seize any and all private property to cover the indebtedness. I say let the government fail. We can always create a new one. But don't let the government permanently enslave you by buying into the fear that if we don't do what they say, we're all doomed. That was the mindset that got us mired in Iraq. Other examples are too numerous to list.
Don't be swayed by the "bipartisan support" of some compromised form of bailout. "Bipartisan support" is best likened to the act known as "double penetration." Bipartisan support gave us the spiraling debt during the Reagan years, and during the Clinton administration it gifted us with welfare "reform" that costs more but serves fewer people, banking manipulation that led to the stock bubble/burst that "necessitated" the housing bubble/burst that has ballooned into the current fiasco. bipartisan support has given us NCLB, NAFTA, McCain-Feingold, congressional "authorization" for presidential use of force in Iraq (rather than the constitutionally mandated congressional Declaration of War), the anti-terrorism legislation of the 90's that was the framework and foundation for the Patriot Act, the Patriot Act itself and it's numerous successive expansions, telecom immunity, A failed War on Drugs, a farcical War on Terror, and, as Sonny and Cher used to sing, "the beat goes on."
Any proposed taxpayer-funded/backed bailout of the financial sector is nothing short of treachery. In fact, it is tyranny. Furthermore, the way it is being forced upon us is nothing short of economic terrorism. If it weren't for the sad fact that "all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed," we'd be running the dirty bleeps out of town with torches and pitchforks, with their complicit corporate cronies close behind. But we're too soft, too cowardly and too comfortable in our crumbling, consumption driven house of cards to take any action. We'll be queitly marched into economic slavery like the Jews were marched into Auschwitz. Don't kid yourself. It's already begun. The wheels are in motion.
A little more wisdom from my favorite political philosopher, and I'm out.
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. "
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
The only good fight is the one that is fought with love in one's heart. I love liberty; I love humanity. Fight the good fight, people! Our common enemies are fear, cowardice and ignorance.
'Turn on, tune in, bail out.'"
Guess what? They aren't listening.
Enough is enough, folks. "The will of the people?" Don't kid yourselves. "The last act of any corrupt government is to loot the treasury." Once the act is complete, the curtain will fall on our republic.
As is always the case, the government (with help from the corporate media shills) are using fear tactics to ram this travesty down our throats, but it's not working. We, the People ain't buying the BS. Nevertheless, our (allegedly) elected "representatives" will ignore our pleas, they will defy their oaths, abuse their power, take a giant dump on the constitution, abdicate thePeople's last vestige of authority over the control of currency, and permanently enslave us to an elitist cabal of international bankers.
We are left with one card to play: it is time for Us - the People - to bail out from this stinking corpse of corruption.
No need to make their acts of thievery any easier than necessary - Why participate in allowing the federal government to use payroll deduction to collect income tax? "Just Say No." Or in this case, "Just Check Exempt." Whennext April 15th rolls around, what would happen if one million Americans simply forgot to file? From a practical, realistic standpoint, how many people can the IRS audit, investigate, possibly charge and then, eventually attempt to prosecute? I'd say a few thousand at most, and quite possibly less than that. You don't even have to fully refuse. Most Americans are well experienced in various stall tactics when somebody calls and says, "Where's the money?" Tell 'em the check's in the mail. Send 'em a dollar a week, and promise to cover the rest when you decide you can afford it. If you receive any mail from the IRS, mark it "return to sender" or "not at this address."
The current law may consider such activities less than acceptable. I'm not a tax lawyer, and frankly, the point is moot. The current federal government is fraudulent by any reasonable definition. The Rule of Law is meaningless if the spirit of the law is being held hostage. The federal government cannot prove - even to its self-imposed standards - that the results of our elections are legitimate. They show no regard for the constitution, and even less understanding and/or respect for the Framer's intent. The judicial branch has shown no inclination to reverse the trend; in fact it has done quite the opposite. See the Kelo and Raich cases for recent examples. In short, this government no longer derives just power from the consent of the governed, but rather claims authority as it sees fit, with total disregard for the legal and constitutional processes that were origanally, specifically designed to prevent such tyranny.
Don't let them scare you into supporting their treachery. Paulson claimed, ten days ago, if a bailout wasn't approved immediately, disaster would strike. Yet here we are, ten days later, no deal has been struck, the sky hasn't fallen upon our heads, and neither has the banking industry or the market in general. Don't buy into the fear and panic. That is the worst thing we can do. Fear clouds rational thinking.
Please keep pestering your congresspeeps. Promise to vote against them if they betray you on this issue. Follow through on your promise. Remember the reasons our founders declared independence. Note the similarity between the "long train of abuses and usurpations" which they revolted against and the growing list of despicable, tyrannical acts of our current established government.
Recall the principle upon which the new government was instituted: "to secure" "certain inalienable Rights."
Remember where our government derives its just power: "from the CONSENT of the governed."
Remember the one Right we still retain and may still choose to exercise at any time:
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [securing our rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
Our federal government, through legislative dictate and supported by judicial review, has expanded the concept of eminent domain to include the forcible seizure of private property if a case can be made (often by ethics-challenged high-powered special interest attorneys) that said seizure somehow serves the "greater good." Much of our current debt is held by foreign (government owned) banks. The value of the debt far exceeds the value of real assets held by the federal government. So when the debt gets called in, there is nothing to stop our government, or anyone carrying the debt, to seize any and all private property to cover the indebtedness. I say let the government fail. We can always create a new one. But don't let the government permanently enslave you by buying into the fear that if we don't do what they say, we're all doomed. That was the mindset that got us mired in Iraq. Other examples are too numerous to list.
Don't be swayed by the "bipartisan support" of some compromised form of bailout. "Bipartisan support" is best likened to the act known as "double penetration." Bipartisan support gave us the spiraling debt during the Reagan years, and during the Clinton administration it gifted us with welfare "reform" that costs more but serves fewer people, banking manipulation that led to the stock bubble/burst that "necessitated" the housing bubble/burst that has ballooned into the current fiasco. bipartisan support has given us NCLB, NAFTA, McCain-Feingold, congressional "authorization" for presidential use of force in Iraq (rather than the constitutionally mandated congressional Declaration of War), the anti-terrorism legislation of the 90's that was the framework and foundation for the Patriot Act, the Patriot Act itself and it's numerous successive expansions, telecom immunity, A failed War on Drugs, a farcical War on Terror, and, as Sonny and Cher used to sing, "the beat goes on."
Any proposed taxpayer-funded/backed bailout of the financial sector is nothing short of treachery. In fact, it is tyranny. Furthermore, the way it is being forced upon us is nothing short of economic terrorism. If it weren't for the sad fact that "all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed," we'd be running the dirty bleeps out of town with torches and pitchforks, with their complicit corporate cronies close behind. But we're too soft, too cowardly and too comfortable in our crumbling, consumption driven house of cards to take any action. We'll be queitly marched into economic slavery like the Jews were marched into Auschwitz. Don't kid yourself. It's already begun. The wheels are in motion.
A little more wisdom from my favorite political philosopher, and I'm out.
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. "
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
The only good fight is the one that is fought with love in one's heart. I love liberty; I love humanity. Fight the good fight, people! Our common enemies are fear, cowardice and ignorance.
'Turn on, tune in, bail out.'"
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