General Update

First of all, I apologize that I have lost touch with everyone. My brother and I are in Charlotte where we have VERY limited access to the internet. Therefore, I have not been able to do much at all for the club. With that said, I am working on a deal with the print shop at App. It may or may not work out. Anyway, I hope everyone will have a little extra time to work on some essays for the publication. If we cannot make a deal but still have content, then we will just print it ourselves so that we have something to give students at the club expo.

Peace,
Tim

Peace and Love to the C4L Group

I hope that everybody is having a Merry Christmas and a happy holidays!

Bongs for science

This is your brain on drugs
Some Harvard potheads made a bong to be used with individuals in an MRI machine, complete with erlenmeyer flask chamber, everyday headshop parts, a mask to inhale it through, and even an exhaust system to keep the stink outside.
They intend on doing some imaging to figure out what effects that nicotine and mj have on your brain, specifically looking at addiction.
Pretty cool, maybe they'll once and for all prove that mj doesn't get one addicted in any significant physical way, and we'll have some more infoammunition to get some reasonable legislation through.
Anyway, that's it

Edit:
Hell yea, I just made the blog wider. Now pictures will post a little more easily. Let me know if what I did causes any glitches or anything. Peace

Yippee

Congrats to everyone on another completed semester, or graduation if that applies to you! WOOOOOOO! I'M DONE!

Use this time you have now over break to get your brain working on creative ways to educate people or directly affect change in our system. I'm getting back into the graphics/web design game now that I'm graduated, and hopefully will be able to use some of my time to create more promotional material. If you guys have any ideas for things like shirts, fliers, stickers, magnets, billboards, magazine ads, whatever, let me know. I'd like to roll ideas over with y'all. All the time, I'm realizing that one of our big problems is just getting through to people in the first place.

We've got to create a campaign of sorts using a marketing scheme like Obama's Change™ (but with substance) because that's all people have the attention span for nowadays (or that's what they think, anyway, they just ignore anything political or intellectual for the most part). Just a word or phrase that's simple, actually catches people attention, and very succinctly states our purpose/ideals in some way. But at least upon first glance, looks like it comes from the consumerist bullshit mindset.

I've gotten frustrated a lot lately with people that just aren't very receptive to the situation because they're just not open to the idea that things aren't OK. There's a little barrier there that's been created through lifetimes of social indoctrination, probably by conventional mass media (advertising) for the greater part, and that barrier requires our attention. It comes back to the, "why are people not interested in politics, the news, economy, etc.?" question. I think about that all the time, but I can remember a time when I had that mindset, as well. It wasn't based on much of anything but apathy and lack of understanding of the importance of staying educated on world events. After all, I think we all know that there are people out there preying on the willful ignorance of our people, as sad as it is to say.
Anyway, we can't change the way people are, because their training has been going on for a long time, but we can learn to circumvent the barrier by playing by the same rules as those who have done so much to indoctrinate the average citizen with the nationalism and false belief in the system simply as the way it is.

What will be our marketing campaign? We all know: Melts in your mouth, not in your hands (bullshit, by the way), Just Do It, You're in Good Hands, We Love to See You Smile, So easy a caveman can do it, Can you hear me now?, and Be All That You Can Be.
Let's be all the we can be (not in the aaaaaarmy) and get the people justifiably pissed about the admitted war crimes, false monetary system, outright lies from our elected officials and lack of transparency in so many important areas, socialization of losses and privatization of gains, inequality, lack of liberty, destruction of the constitution, blatant misuse of power and so many other things that are plaguing us and importantly, CAN BE FIXED.

We've just got to get their attention. We definitely don't have that. It seems like American Idol, The Office, Batman, Gucci, and fast food have that pretty much locked down. What's the difference? Advertising.

Anyway, we're giving the Afghans guns again. Didn't we learn from last time we trained and armed the Taliban?

Just something random:
I wish I knew about Humanism before. It's a mentality or worldview that just makes tons of sense to me, and is compatible with many other beliefs.

ah!

Bush admin creates loophole in $750Bil bailout that protects executive salaries
I shouldn't even be reading the news, let alone spending my time here posting, so I won't say anything, but you guys have to look at that article.
Also, this is Absolutely insane

Just added:
More socialization of losses for the rich. Of course

Somebody is Sleeping in Gitmo Tonight

G.W. gets a pair of shoes chucked at his head.

Edit:
Now the whole Arab world is rallying behind this man.
"Saddam Hussein's former lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said he was forming a team to defend Zaidi and that around 200 lawyers, including Americans, had offered their services for free."

Oh boy

You fuck with us, you go down

First, read this

Then, read this

BofA is saying,
"I care not what puppet is placed on
the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...
The man that controls Britain's money
supply controls the British Empire.
And I control the money supply."
Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Check the video out, this guy is not very articulate, but some of the things he says are interesting.

Edit: This is interesting, too, I found it while reading about the Rothschild family.

"If these International Jewish Financiers should once again succeed in plunging the nations into a world war, the result will not be the bolshevisation of the world, and therefore a victory of jewry. But the destruction of the jewish race in europe"
---Adolf Hitler in a speech to the Reichstag after the Ewige Jude Jan 30, 1939

Hitler was a bigger threat to the banking establishment or NWO as we see it now than maybe anything else has been yet. Not that we should be taking lessons from his tactics. He kinda had the wrong idea, didn't he? Just like the White Nationalists, he allowed fear and sweeping, senseless hate to drive his actions.

I don't have time for any original material...

...so I'll just post a bunch of links to news I read today. There was a bunch of stuff to read. I know some of you may have seen this already, b/c it's mostly from RawStory, but, my bad.
The Fed approves Chinese bank CCB to open office in US--- one of the comments at the end of that article was something like "here come our overlords," and what's funny is that I had read an article earlier today about wealthy Chinese coming to the US to purchase high end homes that have dropped in price due to the housing scheme. They have always done trips to the US and purchased real estate, but the incidence has gone up significantly. Right now, trips are being organized by groups of wealthy Chinese as often as every two weeks. These developments are rather... intriguing.
Watchdogs demand bailout transparency--- We should write letters like this to congress and to our other reps. Maybe Patrick or Andrew M would know more about this. I am less educated on our governmental system than some of you folks might be, fo sho.
Illinois Governor suspends business with BofA--- Now state gov't is getting on the bailout bonanza, forcing BofA to do business with, or give loans to, a unionized company. This is getting interesting
Blackwater guards in Iraq launch grenade into girls school, killing several, and are now charged with manslaughter--- Now this is nuts, in what circumstances would it seem prudent to launch a GRENADE into a GIRL'S SCHOOL? Is anyone else afraid that there were actually no "bad guys" near the building? These guys are a bunch of trigger happy, racist assholes getting paid to smoke some Ay-rabs. More not-cool stuff from Blackwater. Shower electrocutions from faulty wiring in barracks, countless noncombatant kills. These maniacs need to either go home, and a lot of them to prison, or face the fate of these clowns. (That is the kind of random article for which I love Harper's magazine)
What? The? Fuck? GM apologizes for "disappointing," "betraying" us then goes on to explain that this is because of "lackluster design" and that jobs are at risk. Wow. I think we need to remember that if GM closes, these semi-skilled workers that used to construct GM's car will be highly sought after in the inception of the new and improved auto manufacturing industry in our country. This is what we call the free market. It doesn't seem like anyone knows what that really means anymore. Boo Hoo, and this from one of the auto execs that just a week ago said he'd be willing to take a buck a year as salary.
Thanks, a lot Rick. It's interesting when you use your FUCKING BRAIN and discover that this guy makes only just more than 10% of his money through simple salary. The other $13 million dollars a year he takes in through stock awards, option awards, increases in pension value, and all other compensation.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally, of company number 2 of the big three, is also oh so humbly offering his services as Chaotic Economy Orchestrator for only a dollar. He, however, makes off even better that Wagoner of GM. Last year, Mulally raked in a cool $39.1 million in compensation in '07.
You can't get a hold of Chrysler's CEO compensation numbers because the company is privately held. However, I think you can assume with a level of certainty that his compensation is similar to our other two generous friends.
It really does piss me off when these arrogant punks treat me like I'm stupid. I'm not stupid, fellas. The media is saying we'll have an answer about this whole auto bailout thing soon, so I guess we'll see.

I can't wait until the tazer episode.

Kop-busters.

Just a follow up...

Thinking along the lines described a few posts down, I want to quote a passage from Ron Paul's book The Revolution: A Manifesto that I feel describes in his terms a certain point I was trying to shed some light on.

I'm inspired by all these political conversations that I have (or don't have) that just serve to alienate myself from the individual or individuals I'm speaking with based on the assumptions that there are just certain aspects of government, along with personally established viewpoints about them, that cannot be changed. The passage is as follows:

"Once government does become involved in something, intellectual and institutional inertia tends to keep it there for good. People lose their political imagination. It becomes impossible to conceive of dealing with the matter in any other way. Repealing the new bureaucracy becomes unthinkable. Mythology about how terrible things were in the old days becomes the conventional wisdom. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy itself, with a vested interest in maintaining itself and increasing its funding, employs all the resources it can to ensuring that it gets a bigger budgest next year, regardless of its performance. In fact, the worse it does, the more funding it is likely to get--exactly the opposite of what happens in the private sector, in which those who successfully meet the needs of their fellow men are rewarded with profits, and those who poorly anticipate consumer demand are punished with losses" (74).

http://darkdownhere.com/?p=255 ....this site is pretty cool and this clip is very interesting...possible libertarian media representative???

Peter Schiff is censored by the CNN at the end of this interview...and no wonder, listen to what he is about to say. http://www.breakthematrix.com/Economy/Peter-Schiff-gets-cut-off-on-CNN
Unbelievable, the media and the government are desperately trying to cover the truth about our failed economy with media blackouts and endless propaganda.

http://www.breakthematrix.com/2008-Elections/Ron-Paul-if-we-only-had-listened

Accepting Responsibility

[ This post was originally intended to be nothing more than a reply to post "It Has Begun," but ultimately I felt that these ideas deserved some objective attention; a chance in the infinitely populated world of thought. The action of the poster in posting the post that this argument was originally a response to is precisely proof of the argument itself, and it is because it is proof of this argument that the argument I attempt to make is, I believe, relevant.

It is my hope here that the ideas that I present, those that I am accountable for foster in the very least an uncertain but positive purpose for others. In some sense this particular mode of sharing thought enables full, unrestricted participation and response-ability (for obvious reasons, here we should not focus our explicit attention on the sense that doesn't. However, I do not wish to do any injustice to any and all individuals by disregarding a sense of interaction and response-ability that is arguably necessary to the (non)being of each and every individual, which is apparently lacking in this particular form of communication).

In the light that this form of "discussion" enables a certain sense of an unrestricted ability to respond, I invite you to respond with your own account not necessarily of the accounts described and borne within this text specifically, but of any other account as it relates to liberty and freedom for both the individual and the group. I believe that through discussion (as positive interaction) we can, as ourselves, as individuals, and as a whole, formulate a working ideology of progressive, and positive change for ourselves, for individuals, and for a whole. In this instance I do not mean to presuppose change as necessary, but rather hope to invite and encourage the possibility of active and engaging definition of change itself.

Please excuse (and therefore be forewarned) any aspect of my writing that serves to mystify rather than clarify. In some sense, my analytical tendency always poses the threat of presenting seemingly pointless digressions. But as long as one can establish from these “thoughts-as-they-are” some meaningful relation of ideas, then a positive purpose is served (even if the relation that is made is itself perceived as negative).

If anything, respond. The very heart of this particular smattering of thought beats through the processed breath of an atmosphere that is formed by the ability to respond. I am that which breathes. There is no issue without response. Responsibility – conscious recognition and interpretation of response-ability – determines the issue, not the opposite.

Without further digression, my response to the article posted is as follows: ]





Shit. Soon we'll be housing the (our) oppressors - a modern-day Quartering Act - as if we hadn't been already.

Currently, as victims of the search for unattainable satisfaction, as objects of the distancing of (un)satisfaction so as to avoid its acknowledgment, at least 130 nations have come to bear an imposed military presence that is manifest of this unattainable satisfaction. At present, billions of dollars (and most importantly life and freedom) are being spent by a government, obviously disconnected from those it governs, towards a [personally defined] means to an end that has proved itself, what appears to be, so far unattainable.

The common conception of government held by the “general public” is no doubt comfortably resting somewhere in the realms of magical, removed. Almost an enigma, government is perceived as necessary in some certain sense, but without the need or room for the habitual, natural analysis and consideration of its end and function by those that are supposedly meant to give it meaning and purpose.

In some sense it is understandable how the citizens of a governing "body" that legislates militaristic command and action at its own discretion, in a nation that supposedly stands for and represents the very opposite, would not be aware of, and therefore, not feel responsible for this annihilation of liberty of those "others" who inhabit a nation with borders that exist outside the realm of their own, the others whose borders come to signify and mark the location of the unapproved, and in an important sense unacknowledged, action of individuals under the guise of “government” as being a fact to all others as illusory. In some way its okay to say here that there’s no permission without asking and that the government did not, in fact, ask. But the government shouldn’t have to ask. There should be no question of asking. Not in the sense that “government” dominates individuals and is the arbiter in all matters, but on the contrary, in the sense that government (albeit possibly only ideally) is the product that, because it works both for, and on behalf of the citizens which define it, is directly representative of each and all those individuals that are affected by its definition.

This of course draws a discussion about the role and purpose of the citizen in interaction with his government (ultimately himself in a sense). In remembering the structure of the constitutional republic after which we have originally intended our country to be modeled, the interaction described above necessitates a sense in which the individual citizen is responsible for himself, his fellow citizens, and his government.

Naturally, the citizens who posit and understand what is their government as some uninterpretable but necessary fact concede that they have no effect on their government, but only that government has an effect on them. Government becomes representation alienated. In this case it is the citizen that does give government its power, but it is not through manipulation (in a positive sense that it denotes an understanding of, for the protection of freedom and liberty and progress towards those ends) that the power is given, but rather through submission.

This inescapable individual responsibility of the citizen who is a necessary part of a nation that is in its foundation the supposition that it was directly modeled on (and still is accountable for) aspects of a representative government that exists and functions under the interpretation of representation, not as an alienation, but a unification, certainly implies also in all citizens (thus, in each citizen) a type of responsibility for the mode of his government’s action.

What I mean is that, simply and ultimately, this responsibility on the subjective level requires active participation. Through interaction a “temporary ethics” can be derived, generally agreed upon, usually unique to a particular epoch (do the ethics define the epoch, or does the epoch define the ethics?), but never a concrete, determinate (if you will) ethics that is either always or instantly universally applicable. Again, here I do not wish to digress into, or instigate a discussion on the nature of ethics beyond which the term directly (and admittedly, vaguely) applies to this particular discussion.

The individual who experiences a wanting, a longing even, for participation without responsibility in a system that in itself depends on both is sure to achieve at best a false sense of participation. This false participation cannot ever satisfy simply because it is false. It never serves to demystify that which it is participant of. Rather, it is a crucial part of the mystification itself. It serves only to ensure the inevitable presence of the mystical. False participation will not cease to haunt the individual who lives it. He is reminded of it in his every day actions. Even those aspects of life that are least influenced by this mystified government always remind him of it. It is necessary in one sense to his particular mode of “participation” in that it defines the ways in which he can participate but constantly reminding him through this participation that he really cannot participate. Any possible upsurge of questioning is stifled in false participation. For questioning requires a sturdy foundation on which to question: responsibility. This foundation of questioning in responsibility requires that before the questioning of any empirical knowledge can begin, one must accept the pretences on which empirical knowledge can be questioned.

The acceptance of responsibility is the crux of an individual who exists amongst a world of social interaction (which is what makes “government” is necessary). This is simply because that individual becomes accountable. His views, his choices, they define him. He recognizes this fact in others. The responsible individual, or citizen, does not experience government as mystification the way that one who lives under the premise of false participation inevitably does. The individual who accepts responsibility feels a sense in which his participation means everything precisely because he is consciously participating. Participating in the sense that he attempts to consider all aspects of an act, posited or factual, past, present, or future and its relationships to freedom. All actions ultimately have inexhaustible implications. What is significant of responsibility is not the quantity of effects considered, but the facticity of consideration above all else.

False participation is not distinguished from genuine participation based simply on a certain level of empirical knowledge of government. In fact, as has been established above, empirical knowledge cannot be considered in absence of some type of participation. Government knowledge and socio-political awareness are ultimately notions derived from subjective interpretation of empirical knowledge. As there must occur an instance in everyone’s life where at least some (if not all) objects of consciousness are at some point “mystified,” or made “unclear,” in ways not by any means unfamiliar to the apparent “mystification” of government in public conception. That is, generally speaking, the majority of the population has a conception and perception of “government” that is more mystified than solidified. In a sense, everything needs solid ground upon which to build; a point of evolution, an end towards which one can project action. From conceptualizing government as mystical, all thought of or about that government is also in some sense mystical. It possess a mystical quality simply because it never fails to remind of the mystery. As established above, any act of false participation is consumed by the mystery, thus can never elude it. But that is not entirely true. One can choose how they will participate. False participation does not deny all forms of reflection.

Falling closer back to Earth, this mystification of government by the false participant - the constant recognition through daily action and interaction of alienation from a necessary “structure” that contains and enforces “law” that governs, and also that the structure necessarily alienates; a realization of irrelevance for government that results in irrelevance for self – are precisely the terms in which the individual can find motivation and accept responsibility, become a participant, become accountable. It is precisely from this standpoint that one can recognize a situation in which one is, in terms of freedom, importantly related to government. This realized situation forever gives birth to choice. Through scrutinizing the positing of this alternative situation the individual is sometimes given a glimpse responsibility – not meaning that one is irresponsible for failing to reach that particular end, rather that one at all times has a choice to act in accordance with that particular goal as an end. At any given instant the possibility of facticity of that particular goal’s achievement at some point in the future is in a way meaningless. It is the choice of action in the present that reflects the particular end, regardless of the achievement of that end. This does not intend to ignore the undeniable positivities that result from achievement, especially, and certainly, when that achievement is reached by a responsible project. But achievement, no matter what kind is ultimately always unsatisfactory. However, taking responsibility for the approach to (un)satisfaction can be arguably stated as achieving the closest state to “true” satisfaction.

Assuming responsibility can be considered a task that is both “easy” and “hard” depending on the perspective of which it is assumed. However, it is certainly clear how false participation can be observed as the “easier” approach of the two. This is because the false participant can still exist alongside the responsible, must exist alongside the responsible by virtue of participation – that is the common denominator here – so in an external sense does not feel, at least in terms of government, any more limited than the responsible individual in the ability to respond. However, from the perspective of the responsible individual there exists an apparent limit to the ability in which the false participant truly responds. But the responsible one can never impose that trait on another individual. That would be against its very nature. An individual has to choose, in this case, and if not in all cases, responsibility. And with responsibility comes realization of choice, or responsible choice. But again freedom, participation, and accountability are not qualities that once adopted or represented in action are established indefinitely, they must constantly be reaffirmed. And that is ultimate responsibility.

So to reiterate, in some way it is understandable the instance of “self-governed government” springing forth from the very same identity that was originally supposed as an example for freedom and liberty and representative government in its purest sense. It is these particular values – freedom, liberty, and government by the people, for the people – on which this country was founded almost 300 years ago. We seem to forget that this association can be made only with the conception of our country as it was in its infancy. To describe the country as it is today in the same light and manner one does when conceptualizing it as it originally were is a distinct act of false participation. It’s evidently quite arguable based on empirical fact that our country has deviated significantly in ideology and practice from that of our country’s founders. We’ve trained ourselves, just as much as we have been trained, to not genuinely participate. To become both temporarily and permanently satisfied with pseudo-participation within a matrix. We must accept responsibility. We are human beings. Likewise, so are all those who keep government “alive” through thinking it, being it, participating in it. We make it. Why do we as human beings seem disposed in some way to thickening the fogs of mystery for ourselves?

The negative presence of our military is lived directly by millions of individuals each day. Still one rarely, it seems, ever attempts to see from the perspective of those other civilians, other citizens. They pose no threat to us, the way our government wants us to believe, those citizens of other nations but of our same status as human. But false participation accounts for their lack of consideration by the very community they are a part of. It’s of no direct concern to any one of us.

Not until we’ve got those who are determined to enforce a certain concept freedom, distinguishable as such simply because it was in the past, enforcing on those of its own country who are supposed to be free! We can and must acknowledge, without also bearing a shame that is discouraging to action, the inherent selfishness implied in not recognizing the freedoms of others become jeopardized by an entity that we are associated with until that entity (that is in some sense ours) poses the very same threat to our own freedom. We can realize now a situation in which freedom is equivalent in its meaning for all humans. We can as a people reconcile the necessity of this freedom and the eternal importance of establishing it as fact for all individuals.

We must act now. If at this moment we recognize such limitations on responsibility, one can also imagine the limits a total military state could impose. Though, what if it takes a scenario such as the one forewarned in the news article? Are we consumed by materialism, 21st century distractions, or by mystification, alienation, and fear? Materialism is in effect an excuse for false participation. Involvement and consideration don’t imply abandoning a convenience, even in a material sense. In fact, involvement ultimately creates a sense of convenience. There is absolutely no reason to have faith in the individual who acts under the pretenses of false participation, just as there is no reason to have faith in one who is at this moment responsible. That is the nature of the definition of responsibility.

It’s not a question of teaching responsibility directly, of being able to change the outlook or perspective of the individual. Only the individual can change himself. Those responsible can adopt the task of creating situations for those who participate falsely that serve to demystify concepts such as government and freedom through enabling the ability of response. The effort must necessarily be grassroots, all the way down to the single root that is the individual. Humans must encourage responsibility in every, and all other human.

Without adoption of responsibility we will continue as people, as humans, to be stomped on, crushed, annihilated, by those other humans who live falsely in power with the guise of language and its resulting concepts, such as “government.” We will be denied all forms of response. We will be denied. Our individual cessation is of no concern to its cause, for that cause in its very nature denies responsibility for any of its ends.

Please respond.

On our Treasury Secretary Designate

Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary designate, drew my attention at first with his current position as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's scary from the starting line, because this guy has headed up for about 5 years what is possibly the most important branch of the Fed cartel. Not cool, Tim.
This fellow, living in CNN/Money's 11th best place to live in the US started his life in finance with Kissinger and Associates, then moved on to the Treasury Dept. From there he joined the Council on Foreign Relations economics division and then worked with the IMF on a policy reforming committee. He is also a trustee of the Economics Club of New York,a private club of international top executives and government officials that hosts events regarding policy and issues relating to economics. Check out the website above to see a list of recent speakers. It's a fascinating list, I'd say. You can watch videos of select sections of these people talks on YouTube. He also worked to push through the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns and has played a role in decisions regarding the bail outs and other issues related to our current "financial crisis."
He also serves on the board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements, which is basically the bank for the world's central banks. This group's culture of secrecy has caused many to doubt their intentions. We should be looking at them, too.
Timothy Geithner does not seem to be on our side, here.

Help end the fractional reserve banking system, which shifts wealth from the deserving masses to a few bankers at the top. This is the single greatest barrier to peace that our world faces. We can defeat it, and the snowballing of vast reform for liberty that will follow will be the next step towards a truly advanced human race. I think we too often consider ourselves mature and civilized, failing to realize the fact that technological and intellectual growth will never cease, and has only truly begun taking flight in the last few hundred years. We have solved some problems, but have created others that stand in the way to total freedom and prosperity.

Astounding

Citigroup buys a tollroad operation in SPAIN for $10 Billion.
This is the money WE PROVIDED THEM WITH! OUR TAX DOLLARS!

Cheney indictments dropped. That took all of, what, a few days. Politicians have lots of bargaining power with one another. You drop the charges here, I'll drop the charges there.

Silly Palin, you were supposed to give those to charity.

Yes, $1 a year, salary, but what about all those stocks, sir?

The news is full of stuff to piss you off today.
These are all RawStory from today... If you don't get some of your news there, you should be.

Bernanke Bucks for Tomorrow

Click on the image below for a larger image that will look better when printed!

Front:



Backs:
“The inability of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the revolutionary war.”

-Benjamin Franklin


“One thing to realize about our fractional reserve banking system is that, like a child’s game of musical chairs, as long as the music is playing, there are no losers.”

-Andrew Gause, Monetary Historian


Why does the US government choose to borrow money from private banks at interest when congress has the constitutional authority to create all the interest-free money it needs, itself?
Why create money as debt?
How can a money system dependent on perpetually accelerating growth be used to build a sustainable economy?


“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

-John Adams, founding father of the American Constitution

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
-James A. Garfield, assassinated POTUS


I might make some more later...
Any quotes that you like in particular?

STAMP! STAMP! STAMP!

On the CampaignForLiberty site there's some video of Dr. Paul speaking at the Fed protest in Houston, TX, and a Texas Straight Talk he did regarding monetary policy.

Wikiquote: Federal Reserve
Wikiquote: Banking

These are good lists of quotes that you might want to read over. Sometimes it's easy to see and have an understanding of the details of a situation while being somewhat unable to phrase the big picture.

Here's an idea I had...

"§ 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations.

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

It's all about intent. This is why Where's George works. (it's pretty cool, too, by the way) However, for them it's a lot more easy to prove that they are not intending on making the bill unfit for issue because the whole point is to keep them circulating and track it. In the case of my idea, well, it gets a little interesting. My intention is not to make the bill itself unfit for issuance but to reform the entire monetary system. I think this puts me on the right side of the cell bars, right? Let me know if anyone disagrees, don't want to be breaking the rules.

I'm thinking either just a simple stamp with a cfl.org link or something similar. Maybe a quote, if one is short, and good enough.
I'll put a couple designs together, and get a couple dozen made, and we can all stamp through our wallets whenever we get new bills. Woo!

See you at the meeting later, folks!

It has begun

Read this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217.html?hpid=topnews

What kind of monstrous scenario are they preparing for?

Beware of false-flag terror. Beware of standing armies. This might not end well.