Following Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress I suggested he was merely representing his constituents. I also suggested that he’s probably a liar too, but not many picked up on that. They were too interested in discussing how disrespectful it was for a man to yell two words at the President during his address, two words that probably should have been three words: “We all lie!”

But what I’m most miffed about is all these charges of racism going around. There’s nothing about what Joe Wilson said that was racist.  Those jumping to conclusions about race are instigating racism instead of helping prevent it. Now Jimmy Carter says he believes that Wilson’s comment was “based on racism.” Well I suppose that settles it.

The bottom line is that it is not in any way racist to disagree with the President on health care or any number of issues. Why does having a black President turn so many into race-card-playing Al Sharptons? If this is the way it is 9 months into Obama’s Presidency I’m really starting to worry how this country will be 2-3 years from now.

Here’s a tip. Unless the person disagreeing with Obama is wearing a white hood, is burning a cross, or actually says or writes something that is racist, put your race card back in your pocket where it belongs. If you don’t, you are perpetuating racism by “crying wolf” when there is no “wolf” to be found.

The most recent Rasmussen approval rating for Obama is at 50%. That means that 50% disagree in some way with Obama. Do you seriously believe that in 2009 half of America is racist? I’d suggest seeing a therapist if you do.

Instead of  straw-man-jumping directly to racism in your counter-arguments why not argue the actual issue? If you don’t then you are only reinforcing that you have no counter-argument.

Jimmy Carter is setting a very bad example. Do the opposite.

The reason they choose these camera angles becomes obvious as the report unfolds. Revealing the man’s race would not fit their version of the story. They’d look idiotic if they talked about all these “white people” carrying guns at Obama events if the one they showed was actually black. As it turns out they look not only idiotic but extremely biased.

By the way, what former Presidential assassin goes by the name “Mark” Hinckley? At least that comment appears accidental.

I will not complicate the untying of that knot by quoting our Founders nor Abraham Lincoln. I will instead make an attempt to use logic. It is up to whomever reads this to decide if I’m successful in this endeavor.

The right of secession is a claim of freedom from the State. It is a rejection of State slavery. It is purely libertarian yet it has always been associated with the “peculiar institution” which was a complete rejection of liberty. Slavery has muddied the secession debate to the point that it is difficult for anyone to sound off in favor of secession without being demonized as a kook (at best) or a white supremacist (at worst).

I want to claim publicly, before I get labeled, I abhor slavery in all forms. It is pure evil. How hypocritical it was for the Confederate States to use States Rights in an attempt to continue violating human rights. It is also quite hypocritical today for those who claim to believe in liberty to marginalize those that support secession as a recourse for combating creeping State tyranny. Such tyranny is nothing more than a form of collective slavery.

How can individual slavery be so wrong and collective State-sponsored, taxpayer-funded slavery be right? The answer, of course, is that it cannot. Slavery in all forms is immoral, whether it be evidenced through the government’s incrementalist approach of freedom reduction or by the sound of a whip gashing a man’s back. The drama of the latter should not minimize the evil of the former.

To be a supporter of secession while denouncing human slavery is consistent and moral in the cause of liberty.

History has shown that one era’s fringe is another era’s mainstream. It is unlikely that secession would be considered a viable option by the masses for combating the ceaseless expansion of government today, thanks in large part to those that feel compelled to associate it with slavery. The secession principle is wholly libertarian and deserves more respect than it is receiving from the detractors.

Ron Paul has been a favorite target of the detractors because of his recently released pro-secession video. In it he focuses on the right message, the principle of secession. Instead of attacking Ron Paul we should be emulating him.

If we make the effort to unmuddy the water of secession in our time perhaps the next generation won’t be afraid to swim in its clarity. After we are gone they will thank us for our eternal vigilance so they still know liberty.

Adding to all of the beyond ridiculus Obama coins, dolls, buttons, underwear, halos and toast comes Obama Fingers. No, you won’t be able to put batteries in them and massage your back to the self-enriching sounds of Obama’s “Yes we can!” voice in your ears. These fingers taste like chicken.

Photo: AP

From the Guardian UK:

A company in German(sic) has just introduced a line of snacks called “Obama Fingers”: frozen chicken fingers with curry dip. To Americans, marketing a fried chicken dish with the name of our first African-American president instantly tingles our sensitivity to racial stereotyping and racist imagery.

The author prattles on about the apparent racism in such a move. Then asks if it is racist if the company putting out the product claims it was ignorant of such stereotypes?

It’s only “racist” to someone who looks at them and thinks… “oh lord, that is racist!” I look at them and see the chicken fingers are breaded and fried, and come with a curry dip. I then think… mmm yummy. Then I think, what an incredibly stupid name for a food product.

I can certainly see how someone may be offended by Obama Fingers, but don’t we have more to be worried about than whether or not a German company puts out a product that may or may not be offensive?

For our sake I hope it is a complete failure like the government’s other perpetual wars.  Though I fear that with the popularity of Obama and his “wolf in sheep’s clothing” words it may end in success.  If that happens, America will no longer be America as we once knew it.  Some may argue that America is already gone, capitalism is dead, and those of us who fancy liberty should self-immolate.  Thank god the nature of liberty coexists with the burning desire to keep it intact.  Rather than self-immolate we should immolate, through the ballot box, all of those in DC who are enemies to liberty. As Chuck Norris has suggested, Ron Paul could be the arbiter of which of his colleagues deserve to be choked out of office.

The actions being taken by Obama to combat capitalism are likely to prolong our second Great Depression. Even though Rahm Emmanuel said that they couldn’t let a crisis go to waste, perhaps what he really meant was that if they could  implement a first term agenda that prolongs the crisis, America may get what the “leftest” of the Left have wanted all along: a socialist country. It certainly won’t happen overnight, but it’s beginning to look more and more like we are in the final stages of the Progressive incrementalism which began in the late 19th century with the British Fabian Society and arrived in America with the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.  FDR really kicked the effort into high gear during the Great Depression.  Now, Obama seems to be putting the finishing strokes on the American Socialist Portrait.  Be still and say cheese! Wait! Is that a camera or a gun?

Obama is turning the federal government into your gambling- and drug-addicted, abusive father. He will empty your pockets to satiate his infinite losses. He will forever be drunk on credit. His manipulative words will guilt you into loving him, for a time.

In the end you will sit penniless, a bruised and battered slave to the state, if you aren’t already. If you think that’s bad, wait until you see what he does to your children and grandchildren.

How angry will future generations be when they discover the very first African American President was also the man who presided over the return of slavery? The difference this time is twofold.

The slave owner is not a southern farmer with a whip, but rather the entire U.S.  government with the full force of the military and all their weapons. Finally, the box labeled “Race” on your National ID Card does not determine whether or not you are a slave. Modern slavery is colorblind. The slave “litmus test” will be how you answer the following two questions.

Do you live in the United States? Do you work for the government?

If you answer yes to the first, and no to the second, you are a slave.

Then again, if Obama’s War on Capitalism ends up like most other well-intentioned government programs we have nothing to worry about.  It will fail.

Like Abraham Lincoln, Obama is trying to patch up national divisions. To ready himself for the job, Obama said Friday he is reading some writings by Lincoln, “who’s always an extraordinary inspiration.”

Lincoln locked up journalists who didn’t agree with him. He lobbied for deporting “negroes” to Liberia. He makes George W. Bush look like a saint. As for “always” being an “inspiration” as Barack Obama says. Well, I’m curious if Obama happened upon this quote from Lincoln during the fourth debate he had with Stephen Douglas in 1958:

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

Way to go Obama. How inspirational. “Yes we can!” has officially become “Oh No, He Didn’t!”

We can only assume Obama is picking and choosing only the “good” things Lincoln said. Much like he’ll only pick and choose the portions of the Constitution that he happens to agree with and ignore or twist the rest of our so called supreme law of the land. Remind me again how this is “change” from the last eight years?

As for Roosevelt, well it is starting to become a more mainstream opinion amongst economists that many of his policies prolonged the Great Depression instead of shortening it. We don’t hear that from just the Austrian economists anymore.

Many of the same decisions made by FDR are being pushed today to help with our financial “crisis”. The more we regulate the longer it will take the market to deregulate itself. This is the economics equivalent of the bigger they are the harder they fall. Can Obama prolong the inevitable failure until he is no longer in office? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

]]> http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/08/barack-obama-channels-racism-for-inspiration/3141/feed/ 0 http://libertymaven.com/2008/09/18/government-intervention-caused-the-banking-failures-a-rant/1947/ http://libertymaven.com/2008/09/18/government-intervention-caused-the-banking-failures-a-rant/1947/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:34 +0000 Mike Miller http://www.libertymaven.com/?p=1947 While watching Neil Cavuto rip apart Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, my blood pressure rose a few points when I heard Bill O’Reilly call for the government to “watch over” banks and businesses to make sure they’re not preying on unsuspecting innocent people. He ranted that “it was wrong for those banks to lend to people who can’t pay it back” and my my blood pressure shot through the roof. While in chat with a friend, I ranted:  (slightly edited to remove cursing)

(12:32:26 AM) LibertarianMikeM: I get so (bleep)ing pissed off when liberals (and apparently also neocons like Bill O’Reilly) say that “it was wrong for those banks to lend to people who can’t pay it back” when in fact it was Clinton Administration (thanks to the Community Redevelopment Act in the late 60’s) who FORCED the banks to give out loans to “underprivileged” buyers. So the banks did what they were told even though it was a bad idea, and then when things went wrong, they blame the banks.  WTF?
(12:32:45 AM) LibertarianMikeM: Here in Baltimore, the exact thing is happening.  Wells Fargo was coerced (by threat of being called racists) to make loans available to many people who didn’t have the means to pay back to the loans.  Then the housing bubble burst, and people started defaulting on their loans causing this huge mess, and now the city is suing Wells Fargo for being “greedy” and handing out these loans.
(12:32:58 AM) LibertarianMikeM: What a (bleeped) up situation!

While I’m sure there were some cases of overly-zealous loan officers taking advantage of the “good times” at the height of the bubble, it cannot be denied that many banks were coerced into handing out questionable loans against their will.  They were forced by legislators to go against their own policies in the name of “social progress”.  Then when all the foreclosures came, nobody seemed to remember it was the government’s intervention that cause the problem in the first place.  It’s oh so convenient to blame the “greedy” bankers.

Investor’s Business Daily discussed the same thing:

But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions.

Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.

The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but “predatory.”

Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ’90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.

Nevertheless, the media constantly repeats the lies and the drooling masses suck it all up.  Then all these unconstitutional bailouts, and we’re way over our heads in debt.  There’s no doubt in my mind that the only possible end result of all of this is economic collapse.

by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published September 9, 2008 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article4761.html

It’s official! The total size of the army of the free world has hit 6 figures. The Revolution is 100,000 strong and growing, not bad for the first summer! As I wrote here, it’s a struggle of attrition, but as McBama prances about bragging about the goodness that next wars will bring our nation, hope is building at www.CampaignForLiberty.com, not the least of which is the mysterious announcement Ron Paul will make concerning the presidential campaign on September 10th.  Well, according to both the Neocons and the Barackcuda, Russia is next in line to get beat down after Pakistan and Iran, and hopefully more and more wars will mean more and more Americans will leave the mainstream lemmings and join our Revolution. Some of our patriots (apparently a new species of lawyer with principles and backbone) are even renewing their efforts to arrest Bush and Cheney this last weekend.

Celebrate by listening and watching these two inspiring videos from Aimee Allen, who performed at the Rally of the Republic last week.

From 2002, “I’d Start a Revolution (If I Could Get Up in the Morning!)”

And Aimee’s The Ron Paul Anthem

She’s certainly got the spirit down right even if I don’t agree with all of the lyrics.

After the luster falls away, both of the vice-presidential candidates should also help the Revolution. I call it the principle of Same-Same, eventually Americans will just get sick of the system like most of us revolutionaries already have. Most Americans can only take so much disappointment (and losers! look at George W’s popularity!) before searching for a change, for something new. We need to be there to offer it to them, if it  is our version of freedom that they want.

Isn’t “change” the entire basis for the personality cult of popularity the Barackcuda has wrapped himself in? I actually coined this term for Obama (no copyright, feel free to use) here in July and I realize I’ve never explained why, so let me take a sec. Back when he was debating Hillary there was lots of mumbling about the finer points of universal health care, but also the war was a key topic. Hillary refused to compromise her position, and Obama sold himself to most as the peace candidate, the smart, slick, reasonable future statesman and diplomat. However, almost as soon as the Clinton obelisk was toppled, Obama switched gears by wanting to turn up the bombing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as noted in the July article. That’s when I noticed, that for all his charismatic speeches, his silver tongue, all of it was basically just a siren call, as I had originally suspected. Below the waterline, the guy will rip whomever in his way to pieces, hence the name Barackcuda, although piranha might be more apt.  Maybe the term will catch on later.

What did Sarah Palin have to say about all this? Apparently, in an article that is being suddenly withdrawn or blocked over the internet, so I must add the source certainly may be false or suspect, although its just as likely these days that it’s the truth and the McCain campaign is censoring it, she said,

“So Sambo Beat the Bitch!”

This was allegedly overheard by a waitress as she spoke to her lunchmates in public. Per this article’s theme, this lady is one mean, vindictive, racist, perhaps a reincarnation of Dick Cheney and inspires Alaskan minorities to live out their sad, oppressed lives. I don’t know about the whole truth of that, but one thing is for sure and that is many Republican white males and articles here at the Chart have really been adamant about their new-found love for this previously fairly obscure political figure. Most went from having no clue who she was, to falling heads over heel in love with her mousy brown eyes after catching a few newscasts. Sort of like Dan Quayle (grin). I suppose putting a pretty face on imperialism never hurts, every King needs his Queen.

Per the same article, her high school nickname was “Sarah Barracuda” for her lethal ability to crush her enemies. Sarah Barracuda or the Barackcuda, take your pick.  Like I said, Same-Same.

And the alternative is Osama-Bin-Laden, I mean Obama-Biden (hey, you have to admit the linguistic similarity is a bit disturbing). What does it say about when the candidate for “Change” picked a 35-year crusty old relic-veteran of the Senate?

Here is a quote from Joe Biden, which for me is pretty much sums up everything I need to know about this excuse for a man. From this link you can also read his VP acceptance speech, which a piece of warmongering, socialistic propaganda.

“Bush foreign policy has dug us into a very deep hole, with very few friends to help us climb out. And for the last seven years, the administration has failed to face the biggest the biggest forces shaping this century. The emergence of Russia, China and India’s great powers, the spread of lethal weapons, the shortage of secure supplies of energy, food and water. The challenge of climate change and the resurgence of fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the real central front in the war on terror.

Ladies and gentlemen, in recent years and in recent days we once again see the consequences of the neglect, of this neglect, of Russia challenging the very freedom of a new democratic country of Georgia. Barack and I will end that neglect. We will hold Russia accountable for its action and we will help Georgia rebuild. I have been on the ground in Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, this administration’s policy has been an abysmal failure. America cannot afford four more years of this failure. And now, now, despite being complacent in the catastrophic foreign policy, John McCain says Barack Obama, Barack Obama is not ready to protect our national security. Now let me ask you this. Whose judgment do you trust? Should you trust the judgment of John McCain when he said only 3 years ago, “Afghanistan – we don’t read about it anymore in the papers, because it succeeded”? Or do you believe Barack Obama, who said a year ago, “We need to send two more combat battalions to Afghanistan”?

The fact of the matter is, al-Qaida and the Taliban – the people who have actually attacked us on 9/11 – they’ve regrouped in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and are plotting new attacks. And the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has echoed Barack’s call for more troops and John McCain was wrong and Barack Obama was right.”

So is this guy just another neocon with a side order of global warming slave theory or what? Now when Joe Biden entered the Senate, another war was still going on. It was called the Vietnam War, and we were supposed to be uniting against communism. You want the truth? Here it is.  Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War.  Joe Biden supports the War on Terror. But right up until he ran for Senate he obtained five (5) Vietnam War draft deferments. This enables him to tie current VP Dick Cheney for the number of deferments, so we may have a continuous line of chicken-hearted-war-hawks as VP. That’s what I mean – Same-Same!

Now we are supposed to be uniting against terrorism. You can join the please-save-us-mommy-from-the-big-bad-scary-terrorists-oh-mommy-save-us camp if you want, but pardon me if I don’t buy that line ever again.   I am not afraid, and you can speak to Congress here if you aren’t either.  For POTUS, Bob Barr is one choice, a Ron Paul protest write-in is another. If you want a truly radical choice, just forget all about it and get involved in your local politics.

For the record, I also suspect Mickey Mouse and Bruce Wayne will take record shares in the coming election as well.

In Liberty!

Jake, the Champion of the Constitution

www.CampaignForLiberty.com

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

As always, unlike the NFL, the author grants full permission to allow any accounts of, rebroadcasts, retransmissions, repostings in part or full of this article to your blog or anywhere else in order to promote the Restoration of our Republic.

Veritas numquam perit. Veritas odit moras. Veritas vincit. Truth never perishes. Truth hates delay. Truth conquers.

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Why shouldn’t the government interfere in the market and rein in corporations?
Is that the job of the federal government? I would say absolutely not. The government is not there to guarantee that the market is going to operate in a certain way.

Isn’t the government there to do whatever the people want? Isn’t that the whole idea of a democracy?
In a pure democracy, yes. But we don’t have a pure democracy. We have certain principles on which the nation is founded. The basic philosophy—the reason the government was set up the way it is—is to keep the government out of those areas. In our system, it’s not the job of the federal government to do those things. It is the job of the government to ensure free commerce.

Do you actually believe free commerce will cap pollution and keep the water pure and the air clean?
It may or may not.

Don’t you think the public has a right to keep its water clean?
I wouldn’t equate public concern with the appropriate role of government. The public, by and large, would like government to do all sorts of things.

And this is a democracy, and the government should do what they want.
It’s not a democracy. We have certain principles. The government exists to provide very limited functions—for example, free commerce.

The government exists to do whatever people want it to do.
Part of the problem is that we no longer have a truly educated public. The Founding Fathers lived in a very different world. They lived in a world where people understood and cared about the written word. They had a much more educated citizenry.

The reason the “citizenry” was more educated was because the “citizenry” excluded everybody who wasn’t a white male landowner.
Abigail Adams was one of the brightest people around back then.

But she couldn’t vote, and neither could slaves, or anybody who didn’t own land.
But Abigail Adams still influenced public policy through her interchanges with her husband. Part of the problem today is that we don’t have an educated citizenry like that. The citizenry may clamor for the government to do all sorts of things. That does not provide an appropriate basis for the government to do it.

Who else is going to decide what the government should do, if not the citizenry?
We don’t live in a democracy! This was not intended to be a country where the citizenry decides what they want government to do! We have a structure of government that is based on principles, independent of the vagaries of public opinion.

I’m not sure that’s true at all. The citizens can elect representatives to do whatever they want. If the citizens want to take away their own right to free speech, they can do it.
They could.

They can make government come to their doors every morning with a newspaper and donuts if they want.
Well, we’re almost at that point.

And so it goes. One wonders if they would treat Obama and McCain to the same line of opinionated questions, sarcasm, and assumptions. Read the full interview here at GQ.

Overall the article concludes that Ron Paul supporters will be split amongst McCain, Barr, and Baldwin via quotes from Ron Paul volunteers and campaign staff.

“Unless McCain does make changes in his platform,” including abandoning his support for the Iraq War and renouncing deficit spending, “I don’t think [Paul supporters] will be voting for him,” said Hart, who hopes to attend the Republican Convention as a delegate for the state. “They will more likely be voting for the Constitution Party or Bob Barr.”

“It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of the disaffected Republicans would cast their vote for Bob Barr because he’s much more conservative than John McCain,” said Jeff Greenspan, Paul’s Nevada state coordinator.

Read the full article here.

Barr’s drug warrior past is discussed along with the Defense of Marriage Act, the Libertarian Party, the Iraq War, Iran policy, role of religion, white supremacist supporters, and big government spending. Ron Paul even makes an appearance in a clip from his previous interview. Watch the interview in 3 parts below.

Part 2 | Part 3