I want to encourage all TEA Partiers not to waste time focusing on issues like repealing the 16th Amendment or income tax. These things aren’t going to happen. And even if they did, they would not make significant change. Even without the income tax, the federal government is taxing us indirectly through depreciation of the dollar and “print and spend” Keynesian economics. And it is this that is ruining the country.

Commodity money (gold/silver) is the only true money and since government cannot create wealth, to get real money government must levy taxes, which there is a definite limit political realities will allow. Witness California. The voters refused to be taxed more and because California cannot print money, it was forced to cut back on the size and expense of govenrment. The same is true of Washington: Shut down the printing presses and government will be returned to WE THE PEOPLE. However, once money is divorced from gold or silver, the government can do ANYTHING it wants by borrowing monetized debt into circulation. This is what has been happening in the US for decades under the Federal Reserve System, and it is this, not the income tax, that has brought our nation to the brink of ruin.

If we want to get our nation on sound financial and monetary basis, we must abolish the Federal Reserve and reinstitute a gold or silver standard, as called for by the Constitution.

“No State shall coin money, emit Bills of Credit [paper money], make nay thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts” Art. I, Sec. 9.

The federal government can emit bills of credit (sometimes a necessary evil in times on war when money and credit are tight), but to make paper money a “legal tender” unbacked by gold or silver it has no legal authority to do. Moreover, since the Federal Reserve is a consortium of private banks and not part of the government, it violates the Constitution which gives Congress alone power to “coin money and regulate the value thereof.” (Notice that “money” is ultimately coin - gold & silver coin, not irredeemable paper.)

One useful thing we can all do to help this process along is to ask our Congressman to be a co-sponsor of Ron Paul’s HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. There are 186 co-sponsors right now from both parties. There will never be another opportunity like now to make a fundamental change in our system. Please ask your congressman to co-sponsor HR 1207.

Next, we should realize that Washington is almost certainly beyond reform. The fix is in at the top for presidential campaigns. No true conservative who is serious about restoring Constitutional government to America will ever get near the White House. The last presidential campaign was a perfect example. Out of the available candidates, not one (except Ron Paul) even talked about restoring the Constitution. Huckabee, Giuliani, Romney, McCain are all establishment, politicians who would only have continued “business as usual” in Washington: More government, more print & spend fiat money, more loss of reserved States’ Rights.

Moreover, the idea that a Republican Congress can save us is pretty wishful thinking. Most republican candidates don’t have a clue about economics or the printing press money. Most Republican candidates are little better than “soft” Democrats, “moderates” who would compromise principle to broaden their appeal and win control. In short, more George Bush Sr.’s and George Bush Jr.’s who together have destroyed the Republican Party and delivered the White House to a radical socialist (who does not even appear to be a Natural Born citizen of the U.S. or at least is resisting all attempts to see his long form birth certificate which alone can settle the question) - a radical socialist, we say, who only the day before yesterday declared June “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” Thanks George!

No. We must demand a Constitutional Convention called by the States to propose Amendments. A Constitutional Convention cannot enact Amendments, it can only propose them. Any Amendment to the Constitution - whether proposed by Congress or by the States in a Convention - can ONLY be ratified by 3/4 of the State Legislatures. Hence there is no danger from a Convention. Just the opposite: certain ruin lies ahead if we do nothing.

We need Amendments radically down-sizing Washington DC and returning our Constitutional form of government back to the ORIGINAL INTENT of the founders, rather than the perverted thing 100-years of bad case law and federal usurpation have straddled us with. Anything less than this and we are just fooling ourselves and wasting our time.

If this doesn’t work, I believe our only remaining option is to work for State Secession from the Union. We simply have no interest in Washington’s agenda, its “new world order”, its print & spend economics, its anti-Christian policies, its abortion on demand, its “gay pride”, its trillion-dollar world empire, or its impending economic ruin and collapse.

States like Texas and others need to break away and gain their independence - for our CHILDREN’S SAKE - for it is they who will suffer most if we continue with “business as usual.”

God’s blessings,

I am sorry to anounce that the ''Tree of liberty'' has been fallen by loggers.I am told however that those same loggers have planted in the place of that tree three more trees.It seems those trees are the tree of ''profit seeking'',the tree of ''financial succsess'' and the tree of ''global security''.There is also an un-confirmed report that either a tree or a Bush of corperate rule may also be planted very soon.A spokesman from the forest of corruption is quoted as saying that the new trees unlike the tree of liberty, will require the blood of patriates but not that of tyrants in order to grow.----And now this message from our corperate masters..

The revolution will not be televised simply because there will be no revolution ! I know this to be true as a large portion of the population finds no injustice nor indignity in the fact that most persons in these modern times are forced to pay even for the land needed to live upon and the water needed to sustain life.A people who will without question pay for what nature has given freely area people incapable of rebellion.

Just because a fox is able to chew off a foot in order to escape a trap,in no way means the trap offers the fox freedom.Those persons who readily endorse free market capitalism should consider the gravity of what I am saying.

The more one must pay in order to live the less free one is.Free market capitalism assures that the things nature offers freely, will no longer be so.

There is no such thing as a natural right to profit from the needs of others.

In order to be free the individual must be allowed to engage in risky behavior,that is as long as that behavior does not arbitrarly endanger the wellbeing of others.

In matters of law we would do well to understand that we in fact have only one planet to reside upon therfore our laws should facilitate the common sharing of the earth.The earth despite the thinking of some, is not nor should not be the private property of anyone.

While all humans must in fact share the same planet,each individual is endowed with a physical body that is or at least should be the exclusive domain of the individual.While we must share the same earth, no person under normal circumstances must arbitrarly share their body with another.

While not a perfect or complete basis for the formalation of just legislation,any legislation contrary to these simple but indisputable facts is likely to be contrary to both the cause of freedom and justice.

Why? Lawyers tend to look for legal solutions. Engineers teend to look for engineering solutions. Doctors tend to look for medical solutions. It only stands to reason that politicians think revising government is the answer.

Individual liberties really are at the center of this debate. DC apologists agree that government is not functioning properly and is in many cases corrupted, yet they still believe that state solutions to their social problems are on the way...but why?

"We the People" have fallen into a drunken stuper. Drunk with wealth, drunk with prosparity, drunk with our own importance. We have forgotten the nature of our existence and the freedom of our minds and souls. It is only now when we are on the brink of falling into the darkness of becoming "just another country" that we are starting to wake up. Man! what a hang-over!

There is a cycle that exists in nature that allows "freedom" to continue. Freedom gives to us free choice, choice begets consequence and consequence demands responsibility. If you negate responsibility then you coincidentily negate freedom.

Until "We the People" are willing not only to espouse freedom, but live a life of accepting responsibility for the choices we have made, and demand of others(this includes our family and friends)that they do likewise, we will be irrevocably stuck in a system of government that will see freedom slip away each year.

Like Patrick Henry Lives,will too incorporate boiler plate reply. Except all my past posts are incorporated herein by reference to subject matter hereto. Sorry,Patrick. Couldn't resist. LoL.

Jeffersonian is right. It's ALL about INDIVIDUAL rights. And the most important is the right to be FREE from a TYRANNICAL government.

I want to encourage all TEA Partiers not to waste time focusing on issues like repealing the 16th Amendment or income tax. These things aren’t going to happen. And even if they did, they would not make significant change. Even without the income tax, the federal government is taxing us indirectly through depreciation of the dollar and “print and spend” Keynesian economics. And it is this that is ruining the country.

Commodity money (gold/silver) is the only true money and since government cannot create wealth, to get real money government must levy taxes, which there is a definite limit political realities will allow. Witness California. The voters refused to be taxed more and because California cannot print money, it was forced to cut back on the size and expense of govenrment. The same is true of Washington: Shut down the printing presses and government will be returned to WE THE PEOPLE. However, once money is divorced from gold or silver, the government can do ANYTHING it wants by borrowing monetized debt into circulation. This is what has been happening in the US for decades under the Federal Reserve System, and it is this, not the income tax, that has brought our nation to the brink of ruin.

If we want to get our nation on sound financial and monetary basis, we must abolish the Federal Reserve and reinstitute a gold or silver standard, as called for by the Constitution.

“No State shall coin money, emit Bills of Credit [paper money], make nay thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts” Art. I, Sec. 9.

The federal government can emit bills of credit (sometimes a necessary evil in times on war when money and credit are tight), but to make paper money a “legal tender” unbacked by gold or silver it has no legal authority to do. Moreover, since the Federal Reserve is a consortium of private banks and not part of the government, it violates the Constitution which gives Congress alone power to “coin money and regulate the value thereof.” (Notice that “money” is ultimately coin - gold & silver coin, not irredeemable paper.)

One useful thing we can all do to help this process along is to ask our Congressman to be a co-sponsor of Ron Paul’s HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. There are 186 co-sponsors right now from both parties. There will never be another opportunity like now to make a fundamental change in our system. Please ask your congressman to co-sponsor HR 1207.

Next, we should realize that Washington is almost certainly beyond reform. The fix is in at the top for presidential campaigns. No true conservative who is serious about restoring Constitutional government to America will ever get near the White House. The last presidential campaign was a perfect example. Out of the available candidates, not one (except Ron Paul) even talked about restoring the Constitution. Huckabee, Giuliani, Romney, McCain are all establishment, politicians who would only have continued “business as usual” in Washington: More government, more print & spend fiat money, more loss of reserved States’ Rights.

Moreover, the idea that a Republican Congress can save us is pretty wishful thinking. Most republican candidates don’t have a clue about economics or the printing press money. Most Republican candidates are little better than “soft” Democrats, “moderates” who would compromise principle to broaden their appeal and win control. In short, more George Bush Sr.’s and George Bush Jr.’s who together have destroyed the Republican Party and delivered the White House to a radical socialist (who does not even appear to be a Natural Born citizen of the U.S. or at least is resisting all attempts to see his long form birth certificate which alone can settle the question) - a radical socialist, we say, who only the day before yesterday declared June “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” Thanks George!

No. We must demand a Constitutional Convention called by the States to propose Amendments. A Constitutional Convention cannot enact Amendments, it can only propose them. Any Amendment to the Constitution - whether proposed by Congress or by the States in a Convention - can ONLY be ratified by 3/4 of the State Legislatures. Hence there is no danger from a Convention. Just the opposite: certain ruin lies ahead if we do nothing.

We need Amendments radically down-sizing Washington DC and returning our Constitutional form of government back to the ORIGINAL INTENT of the founders, rather than the perverted thing 100-years of bad case law and federal usurpation have straddled us with. Anything less than this and we are just fooling ourselves and wasting our time.

If this doesn’t work, I believe our only remaining option is to work for State Secession from the Union. We simply have no interest in Washington’s agenda, its “new world order”, its print & spend economics, its anti-Christian policies, its abortion on demand, its “gay pride”, its trillion-dollar world empire, or its impending economic ruin and collapse.

States like Texas and others need to break away and gain their independence - for our CHILDREN’S SAKE - for it is they who will suffer most if we continue with “business as usual.”

God’s blessings,

Great article. This whole movement isn't about states rights, it's about individual rights. and just keeping states and governments in their proper place.