“I love George Washington. Except for his Foreign Policy.”

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We are a political society primarily driven by our own, narrowly defined special interests. Not general principles.

Nowhere is that more evident than in U.S. foreign policy. We intervene in Libya to “protect civilians” and turn a blind eye to similar dynamics in Yemen because we consider that nation a reliable ally in the war on terror.

At some point, we need to develop some solid guiding principles, instead of relying on pragmatism to tug us around the international maze.

Over the last year or so, I’ve been struggling to redefine my views on foreign policy. As a former neo-conservative, I enthusiastically embraced the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I readily accepted the notion that military force serves as a legitimate tool for nation-building. And I still get goosebumps seeing projections of military power. I love fighter jets, tanks and big guns. Maybe that’s just a guy thing.

But it doesn’t take a doctorate in foreign relations to understand that U.S. policy has forged a tangled mess of contradictory alliances and obligations, and created a much more dangerous world. I’ve gradually come to accept that military intervention in foreign affairs typically causes more damage than good and that the whole concept rests on morally dubious grounds. Who am I to point a gun at another man’s head and demand he practice “democracy”?

This does not make me a pacifist. I believe in a vigorous defense. If attacked, respond with overwhelming force. As I tell my kids, avoid a fight if at all possible by every means at your disposal. But if you get forced into a position where you have to fight, fight to win.

This does not make me an isolationist. Non-intervention differs greatly from closing yourself inside a box and avoiding interaction with the world around you. I favor vigorous and open trade. This stands in direct contradiction to the concept of isolationism.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, I bought into the conventional wisdom on Ron Paul. He was pretty good on domestic policy, but a “nut-job” when it comes to foreign policy. But as I’ve really listened to what he says, as opposed to the media spin, and studied the world I live in today, I find he makes much more sense. Do I agree with him 100 percent? No. But I can no longer simply discount his foreign policy as quackery.

I hear this mantra all the time today. “I like that Ron Paul feller, except for his foreign policy.” I’m not even sure many who say that really understand his foreign policy positions. In fact, they line up pretty closely with stated positions of another president revered by most Americans – George Washington.

I wonder if Washington could get any traction in American politics today with this kind of foreign policy thinking? The following comes from his Farewell Address, delivered on Sept. 17, 1796.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.

So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean,as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.

Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing (with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them) conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

About Mike Maharrey

Michael Maharrey [send him email] is the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center. He proudly resides in the original home of the Principles of '98 - Kentucky. See his blog archive here and his article archive here. He also maintains the blog, Tenther Gleanings.

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WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

Some how I find it interesting that our society is comprised of individuals and when speaking of a society means what? We are all as capable?

Actually not all are equal because most have no desire to question their own acts or lack of. To question themselves to find the answers most are insistent at looking to someone else for such answers or blaming another or it is always some other but it is never the deciding force behind all force is it?

Philosophies are mere ways of life, some great some not as great and some philosophies just down right bad. But no one seems to know how to measure them by.

In every mirror while staring at self lives a life, just one, capable should discovery take place. Each individual in thoughts and characteristics by different imagination and creativities. Some able to create more and some not able to create by their own determinism.

My point is our whole basis is LIFE, no more and no less. To allow it, to grow it, to educate it, to do many things with it should WE choose. Our Constitution is our Liberty if adhered to and this is the allowance of life to do exactly what it does in nature. Again this is the ALLOWANCE of LIFE to DO what WE do in NATURE, with HUGE emphasis. It is so easy to look around and forget this most important simple basic of ourselves because we are fighting some ideology to be right to what? Make others wrong?

As Life I work to encourage life to decide with Life as the primary factor of decision making, as well liberty including our Pursuits for Happiness and when all of these are included in support of does great choice become a vision. When these very basics are left out the only thing we are left with is what we have today and that is the very ignorance of ourselves.

Our Foreign Policy is only a measurement from the acts to ourselves. We share with others the exact lack of respect we have for us as LIFE to life in foreign lands. Thinking of others as lessor speaks only to ourselves as ourselves because life is always as good as the life we are living or as poor as we choose to live.

BR549
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@WilliamSchooler "Our Foreign Policy is only a measurement from the acts to ourselves."

I would agree ..... but when politicians intentionally limit the educational process to stifle voters' ability to question that foreign policy, then those legislators (and presidents and judges) are severely in violation of the Constitution. (See the work of Charlotte Iserbyt, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America")

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@BR549

BR49, you attempt to convince me you are unable to stand up and fight? What happens when punks calling themselves politicians do anything against you? You stand against them with all your might and all your will and you decide they are done and we shall set the course.

There are very important simple basics in this post, what are they? Why are you having so much trouble with them? Because you choose to tell someone who knows rater than listen to someone telling you something very specific? Is it me that is all messed up or is it you that refuse to question you in your mirror?

The only things that happen to me are what I allow to happen and that is the only things. My acceptance is all mine, now what is yours?

What is a true politic, you ever ask that and then answer it? It is an individual in a public within a republic who challenges. Maybe you did not know that did you, maybe you should learn it shouldn’t you?

Face a mirror and answer this one most important question, WHAT ARE YOU? Be very honest and please be my guest and discover you. The answer is in one word so figure it out, please.

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@BR549

My apologies on Bob, I have made a few response to Bob as well.

So what you do not cause things to take place and study them to become great at them?. You do not evaluate the things you read by testing these ideas? No evaluation and validation practices?

I do, I learn a lot by my experiences and my findings have been awesome. My best study has been me, my discovery that I am life and good choices are based on such a fact and when they are not poor choices are made.

So what ever me all you want is your choice, if you cannot get past your own limits I fully understand but please keep in mind who that is and when another has stepped out side the normal box look at it or don’t but I recognize all the old practices I used to have and refuse any that got us here. It is a process of being honest to me by recognizing my own stupidity and replacing it with intelligence.

Who is BR549? Hello, I am William Schooler A Producing American both by trade and philosophy, a practice utilized to get things done.

BR549
BR549

@WilliamSchooler "...... but what you refuse to allow me is that I refuse to allow them to continue by refusing to use there pathetic teachings and learn my own," Huh? Whatever.

You can do whatever you want; I'm not stopping you. And who the hell is Bob?

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@BR549

What most of us didn't know was that since the 1930, at least, there was legislation that ACTUALLY PASSED that surreptitiously undermined that common American belief because corrupt legislators were being coerced by families like the Rockefellers and Carnegies and that the American public should get used to adopting a more Communist way of living, according to Andrew Carnegie.

This statement here is a great example to point this out, that idiots have more authority than I do because I don’t know my own foundation and principals makes me a ninny correct? Keeps me powerless, lifeless, unable to stand on my own two feet correct?

See I agree they did in fact manipulate our system but what you refuse to allow me is that I refuse to allow them to continue by refusing to use there pathetic teachings and learn my own, and learn from my founders of such an Independence. Awe yes the bedrock to my very own authority, thank goodness I have not decided to give this up like so many ready to accept defeat.

I realize Bob this is something you are not aware of or used to but this is why I am here to help point the way, to point to the path of least resistance by that which was already passed down to us. It was us that refused to acknowledge its full existence. Don't take it personal please just realize some of us are finding our way through the muck left before us to restore this Republic to be stronger than ever before. All achievements are done by people like you and I, not from acceptance but from great understanding and informed decision making and with that we can and will change the world by our own hands. To think this is an impossibility is to accept defeat and allow tyranny to rule you and I REFUSE!

BR549
BR549

@WilliamSchooler "You attempt to convince me you are unable to stand up and fight?"

Really. How did you ever come to that conclusion?

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@BR549

BR45, it is easy to say that someone else is dumbing down and it is true poorly educated politicians poorly educated, no argument here.

But you have curiosity and the ability to question yourself and far too many of us have been conditioned to think books are education when in fact books are ideas passed along. Some untested at all as in theory and some show poor results but are considered authority and some are true. But how do you as and individual know this? By testing what ever gets your attention. To know full well it is authentic or more lies. There are some who covertly manipulate and deceived, this would not be possible if all things were inspected by testing. Since you carry the final authority as an individual to take it upon yourself I would not go around blaming others at all. If anything educating myself has been far superior education.

Example, I know that all results are the truth, these are acts that have been carried out and what is left is the truth and nothing but. But how many will give and idea about something that has taken place?

I would ask you to look at you and all the results you have created and figure out how and why this happened because the discoveries of you are paramount in knowing what life actually is and is our very basis of ourselves period. Basing choices on the knowledge of us becomes greta choice when in support by actions and results.

BR549
BR549

@WilliamSchooler "Treason is only allowed by your acceptance as well mine ...." Sadly, that is not the case. I may endeavor, as did many others over the decades, to elevate our educational system to become the global standard. What most of us didn't know was that since the 1930, at least, there was legislation that ACTUALLY PASSED that surreptitiously undermined that common American belief because corrupt legislators were being coerced by families like the Rockefellers and Carnegies and that the American public should get used to adopting a more Communist way of living, according to Andrew Carnegie.

So, that dream of working one's way up the capitalism ladder was OK to a point, so long as too many people didn't get on that ladder and challenge the position of the hard core elite.

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@BR549

BR549 I am fully aware of the manipulation of our system but to sit here and put them on some pedestal because they think they are smarter than I is truly the lie your not facing. You have the ability to question and defy stupidity. Trust me when I tell you I am at it constant.

Treason is only allowed by your acceptance as well mine and this is what we refuse to learn. do not tell me criminals are more capable than I, this is a lie. There are just more of them constant in a treasonous direction and here we are doubting ourselves. This is nonsense and if you have accomplished anything in this life you should know full well you very much can. First figure out how you did it the first time and then figure out what your attempting to accomplish now.

The confusion is only ours if we do not get it my friend.

Know a Republic and then deliver a Republic over the top of the idiots because they are not that bright and actually fear you should you stand up and use what you do not and stop using what they gave you and that was their ignorance.

BR549
BR549

@WilliamSchooler Easy. First you look at Iserbyt's material. Charlotte was Reagan's first term Senior Policy Advisor for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It was the decades worth of federal legislation that she uncovered that she attempted to bring to light. This isn't just some idea I had, or that she had; this was, as she said, a deliberate attempt to downgrade the level of critical thinking in the American population while all these goody-two-shoes were talking America up as being the best in the world.

It is treason, flat and simple, and those traitors left a paper trail.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@BR549@WilliamSchooler

I regret that I couldn't find “Deliberate Dumbing Down” on American Deception, the site put up by C.I.'s son who wanted to preserve many old books and documents that he feared would disappear, along with many others, down the “Memory Hole.” Still, if you go to the link below and type Dumbing Down in the Search block in the upper right-hand corner, you'll get three books on the subject. One is that listed below the link with its description. I added the first paragraph of the Preface from the download I have. (I've downloaded everything from that site.)

There's also a similar book on “education” in France showing that the dumbing down goes beyond the U.S. to create the global serf force.

http://www.americandeception.com/

History_Of_Education_And_Its_Negative_Impact_On_Freedom-Iser

byt-1995-97pgs-EDU.sml.pdf

Large print chronology of deliberate dumbing down of America for use as overheads at education seminars..

PREFACE

"The History of Education...3D . . . and its Negative Impact on

Freedom" is intended for use by Americans opposed to the

restructuring of America's education system from its traditional

focus on "Individual Academic Achievement for Upward Mobility"

to cooperative global work force training/politically correct

attitude formation (Limited Learning for Lifelong Labor) .

From the main page of this site, click on “Education” in the list on the left to go to 135 items on the subject, including “Conservative” Reagan's agreement with Gorbachev on education exchange.

On second thought, if you value your sanity, don't go to the site.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@BR549@WilliamSchooler Thanks! I already have the book in PDF. I was looking to see if it was on American Deception to let others here know. I wasn't aware of the link you posted. It might have been a good idea to put it in your first message.

BR549
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@phreedomphan@WilliamSchooler There seems to be some glitch in my directly posting a link here, but try a cut paste with this:

www.deliberatedumbingdown.com

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

As Life I work to encourage life to decide with Life as the primary factor of decision making, as well liberty including our Pursuits for Happiness and when all of these are included in support of does great choice become a vision. When these very basics are left out the only thing we are left with is what we have today and that is the very ignorance of ourselves.

Our Foreign Policy is only a measurement from the acts to ourselves. We share with others the exact lack of respect we have for us as LIFE to life in foreign lands. Thinking of others as lessor speaks only to ourselves as ourselves because life is always as good as the life we are living or as poor as we choose to live.

My philosophy is the observation of these and what is left by such acts by life to life and I see disrespect passed on by total disrespect because War has no respect in it, not even for self. You can say it all you want but show it, show me destruction to you is a great act of respect. Honesty can be said to be full disclosure of me as I am able to observe me. Should I be violent I shall disregard my honesty to me or to have disrespect for myself as LIFE.

It is funny to me that I look at the Constitution as a guide book to keep our Government limited to allow life and 1000s will argue without including life until they are green in the face. A constitution cannot be applied without full respect for life itself and no real Foreign policy will ever be successful with no respect for self ever. It is not life is a bitch and then you die, it is very much life is all about life and life will be allowed by its own resect to self to pursue achievements in support of ourselves.

I am not right nor am I wrong, I am a living example of self respect, an example that can be learned and used to support ourselves by our Constitution and our principals entirely in place.

I think some would be far better off in front of a mirror and the ideas that support them which would have to include all others because life cannot support life alone or it would parish.

BR549
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What too many of our myopic and downright Constitutionally ignorant or flatly corrupt legislators fail to understand is that we have not yet matured enough as a society, as a republic, to in any way justify changing the wording of this document. While these idiots are all too eager to rewrite the Constitution to no doubt benefit a fascistic world system of governance, the fact remains that since the time of our forefathers, Jefferson's advice that we educate as many people as fast as possible has been undermined by the same forces that recently voted for this S.1867 travesty. These people are either, blind, stupid, or corrupt. To do otherwise, would naively (even sometimes maliciously) assume that the wise words of Socrates and Plato, and the teachings of the Tragedies were, well, nice words at the time but that, because of technology and the speed and complexity of our current climate, they just aren't up to speed to handle the needs of today.

As philosophers have proven to us for thousands of years, the inner workings of man's mind has changed little. Rather than being all to quick to assume our race has matured enough to transcend our founding documents, we should be even more desperately clinging to those documents for the wisdom they continue to contain. To do otherwise would assume that a six year old has matured enough to drive his father's Corvette, solely because he had found the car keys and had seen his father turn them to start the car.

ron d
ron d

All of you seem intelligent, informed, and perceptive. Most likely more so than myself. But I would still like to put forth a couple of points for your opinions. If radical Islamic views are financed by the Saudis at the behest of their American and British controllers, if all foreign interventionist policies are done for the benefit of corporations and the one world government proponents, and if one of the primary objectives of war is as Lincoln said" to enslave us in debt ," aren't all of these foreign intrigues detrimental to the people of the U.S.? And if so, aren't Washington's policies just as applicable in today's world?

MelMason
MelMason

I am amazed at how educated our founders were. I read this and have a heck of a time following. We have not progressed and that is sad. But the simple truth in 2011 English as I understand it is : leave people alone. That's why I love Ron Paul.!! He's not afraid to tell the truth ..

JamesP.Delaney
JamesP.Delaney

Mike,

I think you're jumpijng the gun in your replies to me on this subject.

Had you read my posts on NY 10th Amendment Cntr and Opinerlog over the past two years, you would have clearly understood that I am absolutely indisposed to intentionally or unintentionally "twisting" the original meaning and intent of the Constitution. A "living Constitution" subject to gratutitous reinterpretation should be considered anathema to any clear-headed Constitution-first American.

That said, what we are chatting about here are the less than sacred foreign policy viewpoints of George Washington vs those of Ron Paul--NOT the original meaning and intent of the Constitution.

zacncat
zacncat

One should always remember.... GW was a Federalist..... when back in the day ...most of us would have been Anti-Federallist..with the likes of Jefferson, and Clay

Michael Boldin
Michael Boldin moderator

@zacncat true, but in comparison to today's crop on the left and the right the federalists were for an almost tiny federal footprint.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@Michael Boldin@zacncat

I agree with zacncat. If we take a good look at the Constitution as reported out of the Convention and vigorously supported by economic royalist Hamilton, it was a blueprint for an unlimited central government most certainly controlled by Hamilton's banker friends. Only the alertness and writings of men like Jefferson, Methacton Smith, and Richard Henry Lee forced the inclusion of the "Bill of Rights." These men were labelled "Anti-Federalist" because the Nationalists had usurped the Federalist name to mislead the people, much like the dirty tricks played in today's politics. Were it not for them, we would have had 200 years ago what we have today. Nobody should read the "Federalist Papers" without reading the "Anti-Federalist Papers" also.

Of course, not to be defeated, Hamilton then duped or conspired with Washington to create our first national bank and start the ball rolling - downhill.

JamesP.Delaney
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Though a thoroughly Constitution-first patriot, I honestly do not believe GW would fully espouse Ron Paul's foreign policy. We have to remember that when GW warned his fellow Americans against "entangling foreign alliances", he was painfully aware that the USA was, at best, a third rate "power", and I use that term loosely. He also understood that the Atlantic wall was, in fact, our greatest--if not only--defensive ally behind which America would be able to put itself in order. That Atlantic cushion no longer exists. In a world rife with nulcear and terrorist threats, I suspect GW's foreign policy today would be more appropriately forward-leaning, but he would be studiously cautious, balanced and anything he did would strictly be in America's absolute security interests.. In short, he would see the acutely dangerous threats in the world today to the homeland which clearly did not exist in 1800.

Michael Boldin
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@JamesP.Delaney constitutional analysis, in general, requires one to first drop all of one's personal beliefs, and take a value neutral study. That's e only way to get to what the founders set up and advised.

Otherwise we end up with a LOT of "well sure, but that was then, and he'd be viewing it differently today....just like me"

My question, every time someone says this about a position of one of the founders (this same thing happens quite often)..

"what other part of the constitution or advice from the founders do you think was just for the times....the 2nd amendment, maybe the 1st, or the 10th?"

These are timeless principles, and timeless limitations on government.

phreedomphan
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@Michael Boldin@JamesP.Delaney There's one argument I always use against the "times have changed" excuse for the usurpation of power by the criminals who have seized control of the government.

Yes! Times have changed. But the Constitution wasn't written to govern times. It was written to govern men and men have not changed. There are still among us those who would reduce their fellow men to slavery, who would send men and women to kill and be killed in wars solely for the aggrandizement of those who have seized power.

Until such time as men change, the Constitution should be restored. Changes should be made slowly and deliberately one amendment at a time. One of the first I would like to see is the return of the Senate to the States. I would then like to see the Presidency restored to its original main function of administrator of the laws passed by Congress. With that, I would like to see it taken out of the popular election so we can concentrate on the election of our representatives and see to it they don't presume to be our "leaders."

Michael Boldin
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@JamesP.Delaney What a lot of people tend to do when the founders views don't match their own is this.....

"we live in different times today....so I would expect founder X to have this particular view that I espouse instead of what they actually said."

That's backwards. On top of it, advocating such a twisting of the founders' advice encourages others to do the same...

"I'm a constitutionalist, and I know Sam Adams was very pro 2nd amendment, but today he would recognize that we don't all just have muskets, and that there needs to be some realistic limits in this right. He would've advocated something different based on today's technology"

I disagree with both your personal twisting of washington's words as much as the liberal who twists adams' words.

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@Michael Boldin@JamesP.Delaney

I very much agree Michael, what was it they were looking at at the time of their writings. They were certain of some results because these were very visual as well experienced.

One of my best discoveries was the Declaration of Independence is really a running record of truths all documented for use to go forward with. Since that time the Constitution has had a whole different visual and it is funny when I mention it many will say o no. But when I read what was written as what they were viewing from did it become very clear to me. Liberty is only achieved through activity and the knowledge of its parts and understanding, this had to be documented and is. Results over all things do speak the entire truth and ours today is only verification of what was communicated validates the truths they spoke of.

There is no truth that cannot be validated by a viewed result, not one, so verification becomes an important key to all directions.

Mike Maharrey
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Perhaps. But your point begs a question. Given that the U.S. lacked power in the early days of the Republic, from a "security" standpoint, wouldn't it have made more sense to ally with a more powerful nation for protection? It seems to me, that as a world superpower, we are in a better position today to pull off Washington's expressed foreign policy than at the time he articulated it.@JamesP.Delaney

JamesP.Delaney
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@Mike Maharrey

1800 America entering into an entangling alliance with a foreign power for the purpose of ensuring its defense would have been this side of suicidal. Why? Given America's precarious military and economic condition at the time, a strict policy of neutrality was the only sensible course of action for this infant state. We could ill afford being drawn into an interdynastic European conflict. Today, the exigencies of potentially catastrophic nuclear and terrorist threats in a shrinking world without the benefit of natural defensive barriers requires a more forward-leaning, albeit cautious, balanced and sensible, preventive approach. At least that's my opinion.

phreedomphan
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@RHill@PamMcDermott@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey Most people are not aware of the real threat Saddam posed to the U.S. He had assembled a secret fleet of 30,000 pontoon equipped camels, each capable of carrying a short range missile launcher and one missle. He had amassed enough firepower to destroy most of the boardwalks on our East Coast with the possibility of severe damage to some casinos. This is the real reason Donald Trump ordered Bush to attack Iraq.

Most of those camels, along with their drivers (sailors?) escaped to Iran giving us full justification for an attack on that country before it becomes a threat to The Donald..

RHill
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Is it not strange the way Mr. Delaney uses terms that are left quite undefined, forcing us to deduce their meaning solely from surrounding context? He does not respond by asking for a concise definition of non-interventionism. Instead, he calls non-interventionism 'isolationist', even after being corrected. You are spot on, Pam. An attitude of respect (even if not returned) and free trade (even if not reciprocated) is not isolationist in any conceivable sense. It maybe foolish economically, politically or militarily - which James Delaney has not argued - but it is not a course that isolates it adherents politically, socially or economically. So what is he even talking about??

Judging from past discussions with closed-minded individuals that cut and run when the questions get too difficult for them, 'isolationist' means that we do not force our will on others based on perceived threats that may or may not have any basis in reality. We act with violence, or the threat thereof, and sanctions upon even the implied possibility of a threat. And even then, the implied nature may not even be coming from the target of our force. It may come from disgruntled expatriates who give us false intelligence to further their own ends - which was done in the case of Iraq when much of the information that we based our intelligence of Saddam's WMD's was garnered from such shady sources. And yet, Mr. Delaney claims Ron Paul's foreign policy is naive? Absurd in the extreme! @PamMcDermott @JamesP.Delaney @Mike Maharrey

PamMcDermott
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Please understand, Mr. Delaney that you're blanketing together all factions of Islam. This is quite like doing the same to all of Christian faith, and we all know what vast differences there are between fundamentalists and unitarians. Respecting others and engaging in fair trade with them is not isolationist thinking. @JamesP.Delaney @RHill @Mike Maharrey

phreedomphan
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@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey

Wow! That's some ego you have, Jim. You seem to think I went to all that trouble measuring just to refute you. As I said, I measured it last week. That was before your post.

You say you are “a thoroughly Constitution-first patriot.” Maybe. But I've been fighting the globalist and regionalist bastards for close to forty years and their speech is liberally sprinkled with comments about the world getting smaller or shrinking as an excuse to get more involved in the affairs of others while they work to dismantle our borders – internal as well as external. We've also heard all the rhetoric through the Bush and Obama administration attempting to justify military action against any who don't goosestep to our music by calling it “preventive.” We “bombed Iraq into the stone age to “prevent” Saddam's use of the WMDs he didn't have, and now it appears we're getting ready to do the same to Iran as a measure to “prevent” that country from developing imaginary nuclear weapons. Of course, all of this is the product of “progressive” or “forward” thinking.

I don't have your ego, Jim, so I'm not going to suggest you sat all night with your dictionary just to concoct an answer to me. I believe that's your technique. When I fought on the front lines against regionalism, the enemy's weapon was high sounding but meaningless rhetoric served with a large helping of dictionary pudding designed to make their specious arguments more palatable. Since then, I've been very suspicious of people who flower their writing with ten cent words where nickel words will do.

JamesP.Delaney
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@RHill@Mike Maharrey

It appears we've met an impasse. Just toying with nuance and words now. You have your opinion, an opinion heavily tainted, I believe, with isolationism and idealism. I have mine, also supported by a host of credible "experts". In any event, I cannot support Paul's candidacy, not because of his excellent economic policies but because of what I believe are his astonishingly shortsighted foreign policy. So, end of discussion. I think we both have something better to do. Good luck.

RHill
RHill

@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey

That you would see no distinctions between Shiite and Sunni Islam in regard to our present circumstances is quite telling to me. You admit that our foreign policy has been 'rife' with mistakes... and yet, Ron Paul's foreign policy is fundamentally in error? What foreign policy do you advocate? A "rigidly practical" foreign policy? A platoon of questions arise form such a statement. Is there no other guiding principle above what is rigidly practical? If there is, what principle would that be? Why is a policy of non-interventionism (NOT "Isolationist", as you so foolishly refer) impractical? Is Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit impractical when he agrees that we are targets of Islamic Jihad because of our foreign policy and the effects those policies have on Muslims? Is that an impractical position because it is factually in error? But if the expert Scheuer is correct, then is not insanely practical to assume that if it is American interventionist policies that are motivating Islamic terrorist, then removing the irritant of American interventions will lower tensions and rob the Jihadist of their main recruiting platform?

Do human beings volunteer as suicide attackers for no reason other than the metaphysical propositions of Islam, and Allah's promise of paradise and 72 perpetual virgins, or is it much more likely that what motivates Muslim suicide attackers is a sense that they are under attack from the West, and the United States in particular? Is it not odd that throughout the 1980's the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran called for a Holy War against the United States and absolutely nothing significant happened? And isn't it equally odd that Khomeini did not justify this Jihad based on our behavior in foreign policy, but in our culture and way of life... and yet, nothing happened? And isn't it all the more curious that the suicide attacks only began in full after the United States took up positions in Islamic territory, attacked a Muslim country and proceeded to stay on scene indefinitely?

The foreign policy that is impractical is yours. It ignores both historical realities and basic human nature. And I would add that any foreign policy that seeks to be practical would at least try to understand the enemy and what motivates them. Your "Sunni/Shiite" comment is very telling indeed.

RHill
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@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey

Certainly, if a democratically elected government is endangering American life and Liberty, then appropriately is how they should be dealt with. But that hardly answers my question. I said nothing about any threat, attack or hostility. In fact, Iran posed no threat whatsoever when our foreign policy choice was to engage in subterfuge and enslave a nation under the rule of our favored dictator. And this was done in the name of security!It was done under the pretense that it was a new world, a world of a dangerous rival who had the bomb... and supposed designs on Middle-Eastern oil. Does this justify such sin?

No time, a three year old needs my attention. Plenty more to come...

JamesP.Delaney
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@RHill@Mike Maharrey

I think we've strayed considerably from the subject of this post, so let's stop chasing our respective tails. Suffice it to say that US foreign policy, like foreign policy everywhere, has been rife with miscalucations and errors even when conducted by so-called brilliant or high-minded practitioners. My point is that we must not be unwittingly isolationist or faithfully attempt to hitch our wagons to an anachronistic 18th century foreign policy approach in the 21st century. For me anyway, that is abundantly obvious. We have to deal with the reality which surrounds us. at any given time. Also, Islamists are Islamists whether Sunni or Shiite, Iranian or Saudi. And, frankly, I couldn't care less if a gov't is "democratically" elected or not, e.g. Hamas. If a threat, they should be dealt with appropirately. Finally, in foreign policy we must be rigidly practical. I've nothing more to add.

RHill
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@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey

I hardly see we we are in agreement. By no means was I even trying to imply that our foreign policy ( 'forward leaning'?) is the sole cause of our economic condition. On the other hand, you do lay the blame for this financial meltdown in one singular place, while seemingly disregarding the expensive cost of our foreign policy course of the previous decades. I do not. There is plenty of blame to go around. Furthermore, I believe that our foreign policy is a sign of the erosion of our moral fiber.

Who wishes to base our foreign policy on wishful thinking? Weren't you the one who complained earlier about another posters comment concerning your position being hyperbolic and inaccurate? This applies to you as well. It is pure nonsense.

Iranian Jihadists? The form of Islam we have been attacked by was Sunni, not Shia Islam. Yet we rattle the saber over Iran and its nuclear program. They will not go quietly away, in no small measure because of the very policies you apparently advocate. And why should they?

I have known dozens of Iranians in my life, and none where even the least bit hostile towards the United States, other than for the way the United States has behaved towards Iran for 50 plus years.

A question: Does a 'forward leaning' foreign policy actively participate in the overthrow of democratically elected foreign heads of state and install dictatorial monarchs who are fond of secret police and torture? Is that okay in your book? This is a serious question that truly seeks an answer from you. Thank you for your time.

JamesP.Delaney
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@RHill@Mike Maharrey

On balance, I believe we're in agreement. I would say, however, that our situation today is all the more precarious owing to the nature of the potentially catastrophic threats looming over us, both from within and without. Also, to lay the blame for our economic woes on a forward-leaning foreign policy alone is way off the mark. I lay that squarely at the feet of a profligate & corrosive Progressivism which has all but eviscerated our Constitution, our economic system and our moral fiber.

Also, a US foreign policy based on wishful thinking and an incautious disengagement is not a solution.

Finally, to realistically expect Jihadists in Iran to quietly go into the night and squabble among themselves without posing a nuclear threat to us and our allies is terribly misguided.

RHill
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@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey

Our position today is also quite precarious. Furthermore, our foreign policy has only exacerbated the bleak economic circumstances we face. We can ill afford to be drawn into internal squabbles in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and any number of other places. The founders feared the unforeseen consequences of foreign meddling. Human nature is no different today than in their time. And human nature has more to do with a sound foreign policy than what time it is in historical terms. Past wisdom is still valid wisdom, or it was never wisdom to begin with.

For example, having studied Islam and Islamic culture for the last several years, it seems to me that when left to itself, Islamic society is far more interested in their own internal squabbles than with spreading Islam, subjecting infidels or offensive Jihad of any kind. The current mindset of the Islamic Jihadist we face is one that is defensive in nature. This is a defensive Jihad. It is a war to expel foreign invaders and their puppet regimes. Ron Paul's foreign policy (and Washington's wisdom) would serve us well.

"Today, the exigencies of potential catastrophic nuclear and terrorist threats...requires a more forward-leaning, albeit catious, balanced and sensible approach."

Absolutely... that's why Ron Paul's foreign policy (and that of the founders) makes perfect sense, even now.

JamesP.Delaney
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@phreedomphan@Mike Maharrey

Your hyperbolic and inaccurate characterization of my remarks is unhelpful. My comments can in no way be construed as supporting a US foreign policy entailing "bombing everyone who doesn't agree with us."

Also "shrinking world" is metaphorical. That means figurative, allegorical, emblematic--obviously not a physical reality. That said, I am nonetheless awed by your having actually tken the time to measure the circumference of the earth with your ruler in order to disprove my "shrinking world" theory. Very impressive! You must be exhausted.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@JamesP.Delaney@Mike Maharrey I don't quite understand how bombing everyone who doesn't agree with us back into the stone age is "forward-leaning." As far as a "shrinking world" is concerned, I measured it with a ruler last week and it's still about 25,000 miles in circumference at the equator.

PhilipMurray888
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I think we must all see and agree that the present greatest threat to the United States and the people does not come by foreign nations, but by the "foreign" policies forced upon us through Congress and the Senate via unConstitutional laws from the ideological minds of unpatriotic socialist statist monopolizers in control of the "foreign" currency foisted upon us through the Federal Reserve Banksters.

Revolution is the solution; it worked for George Washington and it will work for US.

BR549
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@PhilipMurray888 Revolution does NOT have to be violent, nor does it have to imply that any existing member of Congress be dethroned. Revolution CAN, however, be the peaceful means of "reminding" those whom we have elected to oversee our higher workings of government that we still have a common sense of purpose and aspire, as individuals, as a country, and as members of the body of man, to do greater things in realizing our higher purpose.

Somehow, these clowns in Washington have lost their way. It doesn't make them ALL "bad", and while some of them definitely need just a good dope slap, there are, unfortunately, a large body of them, who are "the problem". Those pathological ones are those in positions of high power, who feel it necessary to hide everything they are doing from the American people, while at the same time choosing to bury their handiwork within mounds of intentionally confusing legislation and at the same time denying the population the necessary education that would have thrown the thugs out a long time ago.

WilliamSchooler
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@BR549@PhilipMurray888

BR45, is it really them? Or is it possible it is simply us because we are not aware of our own foundation and principals and tools we use? What is defiance or standing against poor ideology? Bad decisions show bad effects and these are presentable but only if individuals are certain as to why.

Back in the day when Public was recognized meant what? To stand as an individual in public to be HERAD, this not being the case today is our own failure to ourselves. What are public within a Republic? It is individuals applying their very basic principals of LIfe, Liberty and our Pursuits to achieve for our growth and sustainment and shoe results in Public. This not being the case today shares with us the exact results of poor decision making without such principals and no defiance against poor decision making based on what? It is not their lack of understanding of us but rather our own lack of understanding of ourselves. But it is so easy to blame another versus the effort to discover myself, my poor choices, my lack of investigation and my no achievements towards my own Republic.

A great revolution is an informed public with certainty of the direction for which they are headed or no destination can be achieved. A true revolution if for independence from false authority such as Governments pretending to be something they are not at all. Our own knowledge of us gives us force in our decision making and the ability to deliver.

PamMcDermott
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I have read your blog as well as examined the nwo map. I must say, you come from a very dedicated and knowledgeable place. I remain very sincerely impressed. I will comment further on this later. @phreedomphan @WilliamSchooler

WilliamSchooler
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@phreedomphan

Thank you phreedomphan,

Always remember ignorance sticks out the most and your my shining star. Simple english is too tough for you I get it, thanks for sharing.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@WilliamSchooler You're a laugh riot, William. Maybe if you sent me what you're smoking, I could better understand what you're writing. Anyway, I have no more time to give real world facts to counter metaphysical and/or drug induced hallucinations from a fantasy world. Rant on, but rant on alone.

WilliamSchooler
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@phreedomphan

Phreedomplan,

I have no doubt most the time you have no clue what I communicate. That is a habit formed by you my friend not by me. Maybe because it is your popular attitude and lack of listening or duplicating since it is written.

Pathetic intimidation technics don't work with me so you can keep wasting energy if you wish after all it is yours.

Since I work every day to drudge through the crap hole I am proof positive one can prevail by what I use and yes I recognize you don't but thats not that uncommon with those who are used to telling versus the art of listening we get it.

As for history I have read my fare share but I view it far different than you and I am entirely aware of the pathetic individuals for which you speak. Only the difference between me and you is I look down on their pathetic asses and you look up to them, while saying please don't hurt me master.

If you say you accepted Thomas Jefferson’s statement then you would know full well it is the lie they bread and so many accept that gives them power. But then that comes from a producing American who has tested other ideas like the focus on demand of product versus all the dollars and cents. See while you were sitting there reading I have been testing limits so don't blame me for being this way, I am proud of what I have done so far. Its totally ok I am not as perfect as you because I love the fact I am flawed and can still learn unlike those who already know it all so they cannot accept anything new, trust me I get it. Please don't be mad just get over it man, I understand you are done and I refuse to stop.

I already know well where the bottom is so there is only one direction for me and I am totally fine with it.

Positive thinking, is that new age or old crap? I refuse to be like you and work hard only to be me. Man that is so individual isn’t it?

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@WilliamSchooler (continuation)

I don't know how much history you've read, but I suspect you should read more. Not the “official” version, but that written by the folks that were fighting the New World Order in any of its forms. Many were brilliant people who certainly “knew themselves” but all their efforts have done little more over the centuries than slow the progress of tyranny.

If you come up with any positive action plan to replace the “Power of Positive Thinking” ideas,I'd love to read those plans. For the most part, Positive Thinking has been promoted by hucksters who, to sell their books, tell everyone they can be the president of the corporation they work for, knowing full well that they sell a lot more books than there are openings at the top.

After years of fighting and years of aging, I'm definitely suffering from battle fatigue, but that doesn't mean I've given up completely. It does mean that I'm not listening to any magical, mystical will power claims as answers to the problem.

In closing, you said, "For the record money is not power but rather the lie you keep accepting as power." I guess that's because I'm a dummy who's accepted the beliefs of the dummy of 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson, who believed that banks having the power to control our money supply were more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@WilliamSchooler

William, you ask, “What makes me so sure and you so in question?” I'm coming from experience and knowledge of what has been going on for centuries, usually put in place over the bodies of those who thought knowing themselves was an armor that could stop arrows and bullets. I've accumulated that knowledge and experience over the years since the 1960's.

I must confess that most of the time I have no idea what you are talking about. It sounds like some sort of metaphysical, new age rambling to me. My guess is that you are coming from a standpoint of the naivete of someone who has never stood on the front lines fighting anything TPTB really wants. Sometimes they will put up a facade of opposition to get you to “demand” what they want.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that you never had the media telling everyone that your side had no proof of its “claims,” while the arguments of the gang promoting Big Bro's plans were treated like gospel although they had nothing but rhetoric to support their outright lies. You probably didn't have a reporter from the local rag that was dissing you come to your house for an interview, but refuse to look at the documentation you had laid out for him. You probably never had to yell at your wife for not using coupons after you'd dumped many hundreds of dollars in the hat to get something published. In one instance, I paid the full $400 for an ad in a local advertiser. It was credited with being a major factor in beating the bastards. BTW, that was 1970's dollars.

I could have used the time and money I spent delaying the plans of TPTB taking care of my family, but I always said, “One day my daughter will ask me, 'Daddy, why do I always have to do what the government wants? Why can't I do what I want?'” I didn't want to have to tell her that it was because people like me, who saw what they were doing, did nothing. (cont.)

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@phreedomphan

Phreedomhan

The enemy is only as strong as you allow them. Yes there are a lot that are hard of hearing but like all accomplishments persistence does prevail when the principals are sound and unswayed.

These things you communicate only exist if you stand down but I assure you if you know you and self determinism you know how all things become achieved bad or good makes no difference. Ignorance of us our only weakness and knowledge of us all the strength we need. There is not an achievement on earth that was ever comprised without man, why is that? What makes that possible?

When you say you give up, you give up on you are others? I am not convinced of your map but then I am not into acceptance and total defiance to any sort of idea like that at all. You would do well to get there because this will not be achieved alone. For the record money is not power but rather the lie you keep accepting as power. In all of life you are power or you missed you right from the beginning.

There is much more that I know but I hold my tung because most cannot even have what I express to you. But I do know this for sure, All things are possible with informed self determinism, it is the total force to be reckoned with.

This is only possible when you first discover you are the most important weak link of all because all truth can be found in your own vicinity. The fact Pam recognizes the truth tells me where she has been investigating and all the answers await you there. The map may be a truthful idea to some in the blind sector but for us in the seeing sector I don’t see it as our future at all. What makes me so sure and you so in question?

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

@PamMcDermott

Thank you Pam, I own a good clear mirror and inspect me daily assuring myself I stay in line with my principals in all honesty with me and hopefully others recognize the honesty and where it begins.

phreedomphan
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@PamMcDermott@WilliamSchooler

Speak for yourself, Pam. I started fighting about 40 years ago and eventually burned out. Running all over the place trying to tell people what's going on and having very few listen can be frustrating. Too, the enemy doesn't just attack us in one direction. They have the resources, money (ours) and people (fools among us) as well as the media. We found ourselves fighting agents of the federal and state governments, the Republocratic Party (Demolican if you prefer), the two major Philadelphia “newspapers (one now defunct), and the two “major” (using the term loosely) newspapers in Bucks. Despite this, we were able to beat 3 attempts to foist regionalism on our county through a sham “grassroots” method, but when they can't get what they want from the people, they have methods set up to go over or around. If you're interested, you can see the post “Regionalism – Death of the American System” in my Lost Liberty blog. It ties in with the theme of the 10th Amendment Center.

http://phreedomphan-lostliberty.blogspot.com/2008/07/regionalism-death-of-american-system.html

I was also fighting other federal schemes including globalism. You can find the map and plan published in Philadelphia in '41-'42 in the “New World Order – Death of America” post in the same blog. I was showing a blueprint copy to friends and co-workers before the internet, and I posted 3 segments in the libraries and galleries of various political discussiong groups on the net before it was digitized by the Library of Congress. Unfortunately, I think Google is messing around with it and you can't get the map to blow up enough to read it. At least, I couldn't. It's possible there's a glitch in my software. On the other hand, the disappearance of the map from the University of San Diego site makes it look like somebody doesn't want the map seen. I think I've found it on anther site and I'll post that link in a day or so.

http://phreedomphan-lostliberty.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-world-order-death-of-america.html

PamMcDermott
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@WilliamSchooler I have been reading your comments all along and am amazed. You are the only one who seems to realize that we all, as individuals, have made our own beds by our own inactions over the past decades. It is our responsibility to ourselves to keep ourselves informed, to read our history, our Constitution, and participate actively in our government - not only on the national level, but at all levels. I've been just as guilty as the next person of not involving myself, not contributing over the years. That time, for me, is over. The words spoken and written by our founding fathers are timeless, and address humankind. Our world may look quite a bit different today, but intrinsically we remain the same.

WilliamSchooler
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@BR549@PhilipMurray888

What is the action in this comment, what choice are you using? I know we have been duped now what? Stay at effect of ignorance thrown upon me or stand up with half a mind of my own to know better?

What is it you have learned by all these acts? That they have happened? Now what? Let us look in the future, let us determine our direction and what is the force upon the earth itself? The individual and the power of choice and this is what you are not including. You know all this is wrong but what, no will to educate and become far brighter than idiots?

Thomas Jefferson documented a ton of truths and with them he warned of such acts. He also gave us something very instrumental to DECIDE WITH should we choose to investigate its ingredients. That was the Declaration of Independence and then he participated in the Constitution based upon such principals, WHY? Not to deceive but to give a course to follow and items in which to achieve to have LIBERTY in this country. Since we did not fully get this then we can certainly get this now and move forward or we can all call each other names, scream about all the stupid acts criminals did to us and we can stop caring about ourselves. But this I am in total refusal to and agree with Thomas Jefferson that we are able and history repeats itself so understand why this is and you shall stop in its tracks. Of course if you are able enough to decide that kind of activity, is entirely up to you is it not?

BR549
BR549

@WilliamSchooler@PhilipMurray888 "A great revolution is an informed public with certainty of the direction for which they are headed ....." "An informed public"; I like that.

Imagine then what might have happened if the US population knew about the complicity of the Netherlands, England, and the US in cutting off supply lines to Japan in the 1930s .... and in particular, that our government KNEW that the Japanese Navy was underway long before Dec. 7th. Then too, imagine what might have happened if the population knew it had again been duped, when the the whole staged Gulf of Tonkin incident was trumped up to help drilling and mining interests in that region. 58,000 of our troops died in that conflict; not to mention the estimated two-million Asians and Chinese.

phreedomphan
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@BR549@PhilipMurray888

I'll be 70 in March and I've been voting since I was 22. From my experience over those years I can that they are not clowns in Washington. They serve well the people responsible for getting them in office - and it isn't you and I.

“Turning them out” doesn't do any good because their replacements, regardless of promises made to the voters, will serve the global money powers as did their predecessors. Those “turned out” will have lucrative jobs waiting for them on the outside.

Consider the alternatives “our” elected representatives have. They can serve the people and likely be assassinated, or they can serve the Plutocracy and have a lucrative career and more than comfortable retirement.

Lincoln defied the bankers and started printing money with no interest. He became the star of the show at Ford Theater.

The Lindberghs, father and son, were formidable enemies of the Federal Reserve. The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and murdered and a scapegoat, Bruno Hauptman, paid for it.

Congressman Louis McFadden attempted to expose the Federal Reserve and fought it until his death by poisoning, the third attempt on his life.

John Kennedy sought to follow Lincoln's example and take the power of creating money from the bankers. The bankers had people waiting for him in Dallas and, again, a scapegoat, Lee Harvey Oswald, was blamed.

Congressman Larry McDonald was the heir apparent to Robert Welch to head the John Birch Society. McDonald would have transformed it from an organization used to ferret out people susceptible to the truth and keep them chasing their tailsinto a force for liberty. They took out a whole airliner to get rid of him.

As long as those we elect have nothing to fear from us and everything to fear from the Money Powers, they will ignore us. Simply replacing them when the break their promises will not do it. The only choice we have is to remove from office, by “executive action,” those who will not honor their campaign promises.

phreedomphan
phreedomphan

@BR549@PhilipMurray888 Maybe I'm naive, but I don't expect the wave of sloths until after we're completely disarmed. That's the usual method of tyranny, disarm first, massacre after.

Still, this is the reason we have to act as individuals and not as a mob. It's also why the TSA (modern acronym for KGB) is now setting up highway check points. Don't anyone think for a minute it has anything to do with protecting us. It's to protect the ruling Money Mafia and its operatives in Congress.

If the people do take to the streets in armed rebellion, they won't just be facing home-grown hit men, we'll have to deal with the Blue Helmet Mafia. Besides, it's highly likely that the "leaders" of the mob will be the henchmen of those at the top. Nothing will change that way.

I have no evidence of this, but some are saying the NWO plans to reduce world population to 1/2 billion. That sounds extreme, even for those monsters. Still, Robespierre was one of the pawns of the secret societies that helped the Moneyed Aristocracy bring down the Landed Aristocracy in France, and he wanted to so reduce the population of France as to make it a self-sustaining agricultural land. After guillotining much of the aristocracy, clergy, and intellectuals, he began loading whole town populations on boats and sinking them in the rivers.

BR549
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@phreedomphan@PhilipMurray888 We keep focusing on the politicians, yet it is the bankers who need a good ass woopin', or as you so aptly described it, "executive action". However, it's those dimwits in uniform, who still haven't figured out that have been duped; they will become the cannon fodder for the bankers because the bankers will have no problem sending wave after wave of those paramecium-minded sloths to mow down the very citizenry that was paying their salary.

Sooner or later, it will correct itself, if even only for a couple hundred years. As I was in the gun store today perusing the myriad of gun sale flyers from the various vendors, I was dumbfounded at just how many guns are out there in the world; I mean there are millions upon millions. Imagine, for a moment, if we were able to focus all that energy toward a higher standard of living for all people. Jefferson had said one of the first responsibilities we had was to educate as many people as possible, as fast as we could. He was right. Add to that the fact that as the educational level rises, the number of offspring go down. Those dim-witted "illuminists" are so sociopathic that they'd rather trash the planet through ignorance than educate everyone into willfully adopting a lower planetary population. I guess once the population gets educated, the people can also better conclude how they have been getting scammed, so it becomes obvious why nothing gets done until a population crisis emerges. In the end, these wannabe population managers are no better than some MacDonalds manager who blames the crappy food, the dirty toilets, the slippery floors, and the swarms of flies, on all of his employees instead of taking a good long look in the mirror.

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@PhilipMurray888 When my cousins, a good bit older than me, came back from bombing Germany in WWII they told of strategic manufacturing targets they weren't allowed to bomb because of who owned them. From that day my uncle's slogan was, "Give me a carload of rope and enough troops and let me go to Washington. I'll straighten the county out." Unfortunately, he didn't get his rope and troops or we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today.

There's only one change I would make to your post, Philip. I would call the needed action a revolution. It's the government that has revolted against the Constitution. We need a counter-revolution to put down the government's rebellion.

I've posted an excerpt from Garet Garrett's "The Revolution Was" here:

http://phreedomphan-lostliberty.blogspot.com/2009/05/revolution-was.html

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