Deflate The Inflated Federal Reserve...

"Who receives newly inflated money first? The federal government, the Federal Reserve, major national banks, and government contractors. It is no surprise then that those who benefit the most from inflation are those who collude to continue the cycle of inflation, weakening the dollar and raising prices. The rich get richer, and the middle class and the poor grow poorer."

Paul-Martin Foss

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/foss1.html

Video Of The Charlotte End The Fed Rally...

Thanks to Xaq for the video. I have a brief cameo about 1 minute, 19 seconds into the video. My sign obscures my face.

The Golden Rule Of Self Government...

"Hence, if Jesus was serious about the Golden Rule--and He most certainly was--then it necessarily means that He is a consistent libertarian, as the Golden Rule as a political ethic is completely congruent with the libertarian Non-Aggression Principle, i.e., that no person or group of people may initiate the use of force against another, or threaten to initiate force against another."

James Redford

Chasing Huxley...

Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley. Welcome to the Brave New World...

The R[evol]ution Continues At The Campaign For Liberty...

My fellow patriots,

Ron Paul made many personal sacrifices during his campaign for President. Dr. Paul certainly poured his heart and soul into his campaign. That's nothing new...he has been carrying the banner of Liberty for over 30 years.

He has asked very little in return. He has never wavered in his commitment to Liberty, Peace and Prosperity. Against all odds, Ron Paul has stood the test of time. He has tirelessly advocated on the behalf on Freedom and the blessings she bestows.

Shouldn't we strive to do the same?

Sure, the odds of anyone of us having the kind of influence Dr. Paul has earned seems quite far fetched. Never the less, shouldn't we at least try?

Ron Paul has made a simple request to the folks who supported his campaign.

Join the Campaign For Liberty and become a precinct leader.

On behalf of Dr. Paul and the future of this nation, I am asking you to do the same.

The cost is low. For only $35 a year, you can have full membership privileges, such as the privilege of becoming a precinct leader.

Other membership privileges include your own profile page, including your own blog. The C4L has it's own social network so you can communicate with other members across the nation.

Dr. Paul started the Campaign For Liberty because he wanted the Revolution to continue.

I can think of no better way to honor Ron Paul and his legacy.

Won't you join me?

Thomas Hill
8th District Coordinator, Campaign For Liberty

Ron Paul Discusses The GOP Loss On CNN

Another Cabarrus LP Member Wins Elective Office..

Mike Helms, longtime member and officer of the Cabarrus LP, has won a
seat on the Cabarrus Board of Education. Mike becomes the third member
of the Cabarrus LP to win an elective office. Bob Ritchie and Jeff
Goforth are currently serving their second terms as Soil & Water
supervisors.

Thomas Hill
Chair, Cabarrus LP

Mencken On Democracy...

“It came into the world as a cure-all, and it remains primarily a cure-all to this day. Any boil upon the body politic, however vast and ranging, may be relieved by taking a vote; any flux of blood may be stopped by passing a law. The aim of government is to repeal the laws of nature . . . . War becomes simply a device to end war. The state . . . takes on a transcendental potency . . . . Democracy becomes a substitute for the old religion . . . not vulnerable to logical attack.”




http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/ludlow/ludlow2.html

Liberty Is Compelling...

"Liberty is such a compelling and important value that even brutal dictatorships claim to support it. Tyrants say they are promoting "higher" freedoms - such as "national security", "economic equality", or "the common good". The graveyards of history are filled with the corpses of those deceived by such claims."

Jarret Wollstein

A Friendly Reminder From The Declaration Of Independence...

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it."

Coke Or Pepsi?

"We no longer have independent candidates representing the views of the electorate; rather, we have two corporate brands fighting for market share – the only tangible difference between the two is the advertising (campaign promises). Obama (Pepsi) promises to be the "choice of a new generation," while McCain (Coca-Cola Classic) declares that he's "the real thing." But while the two products may taste slightly different, they both consist of the same basic ingredients."

Paul Armentano

http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p39.html

Church Of Democracy...

"The statists, the collectivists, the social engineers, the central planners, and the religionists, cheerleaders, and worshippers of the cult of the state see democracy as a living, breathing institution that must be protected. Their values tell them that the majority must rule over the minority. That’s what democracy is and has been for thousands of centuries. That’s their religion. And, because of that coercive religion that they have been foisting upon us, it’s what they would like to call the Church of Democracy. Their view, in the language of civics, is that the state is their god, and their beloved and precious democracy is the Church where they worship that god. Socialism, communism, populism, and fascism ae all part of that Church’s bible. That’s what it’s all about, and that’s how they proselytize their religion to others."

Todd Andrew Barnett

About The Campaign For Liberty...

[From the "About" page on the Campaign For Liberty website]

Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change," neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years. Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.

That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation.

The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Liberty stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.

With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy. Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda. Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.

We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.

We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decisionmaking and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. And the central bank's ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred. For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.

We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress. We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.

We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives. Such compromises of our country's independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control. Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example? The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.

Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.

Our country is ailing. That is the bad news. The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us. Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

Will you join us?

Dr. Paul On The Bail Out Vote...

The Long & Winding Road...

The Greatest Weapon We Have...

"H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have."

Ron Paul

Ultimate Crowd Equals Ultimate Mob...

[Thanks to Michael Nystrom...]

"Government is in many ways the ultimate crowd, with nearly every decision being made by committee."

Steve Hochberg

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/63007

Slander '08

The Shadow Knows...

Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Ron Paul