Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2015

The End of Oppression - The Game

Josie the Outlaw explains The Game of Politics



"The End of Oppression" is a six-part series of videos which show what it will take for humanity to finally outgrow and escape its long history of violence and oppression.

Monday, June 3, 2013

The Whole Problem (and Solution) in Two Minutes

Another Larken Rose video, for those in a hurry, those with little time to spare. It argues very convincingly why government cannot be in a position of authority. Government was meant to serve, not to rule.

Any power a government has is obtained from 'We, the People'. People cannot give away what they do not have. As a result, they cannot 'give' power to a government that they themselves do not have.

A voter can transfer his self-ownership to the government, but never somebody else's (property rights). So a voter can vote for a 'boss', but the elected boss can only 'rule' the people who voted for him, not the people who voted for another 'boss', and certainly not the people who didn't vote because they want to remain their own boss.

'Democracy' is mob rule, based on false, immoral and unethical assumptions.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Value of a Proper Constitution

The Netherlands is (in name) a Parliamentary Democracy, the USA is (also in name) a Constitutional Republic. While The Netherlands once had the 'Plakkaat van Verlatinghe', which inspired the US Constitution, the current Dutch 'Constitution' is not worth the paper it's written on: it holds no limitation on government power, and literally all articles explicitly allow to be overridden by law.

Not the US Constitution. Even while 'We the People' allow the American Constitution to be treaded on and vastly ignored by US government, people who still know what the Constitution stands for can use it to resist totalitarian government rules, even when decreed by the POTUS himself. The Constitution allows local law enforcement to ignore federal law when that is deemed unconstitutional. More and more states oppose the federal gun-banning efforts, as those are indeed unconstitutional, since they violate the Second Amendment. Sheriffs across the US now refuse to enforce federal gun control laws, 6 states are considering legislative action against the federal government and a Florida Senate committee has proposed a bill to ban the use of drones for spying on citizens.

The only reason they can do this is because the federal government oversteps the boundaries laid down in the Constitution, and all members of the judicial forces, sheriffs, judges, etc. have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution. It's for this reason that the Obama administration is looking into getting rid of the Constitution in its current form; it blocks the totalitarian forces in achieving what they want. Idea's that the Constitution would be outdated, not fit for modern times, etc. are already being tested in the media. Don't be fooled, and make sure your congressman isn't fooled either.

Fight for your Constitution, as it is the only thing that protects your unalienable rights from the government power mongers, the totalitarian elite that means to enslave you and live off the fruits of your labour. Watch below Fox item on the subject, featuring judge Andrew Napolitano. Be aware how important a proper Constitution is for you, and how far the US one has been overstepped already. It only goes to show how Government is the Problem, not the Solution (GPS).

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Law without Government

On YouTube, I found an excellent series of three short videos describing how law without government would work. I've taken the liberty to present them here together. Enjoy.

 1) Principles


 2) Conflict Resolution


 3) The Bargaining Mechanism

Friday, April 13, 2012

The Road to Serfdom

OR: The Collapse of the American Dream (and not only the American one).
It's called a dream, because... you have to be asleep to believe it.

WAKE UP!!!


Please also check out the site behind this production.

Government Explained - Very Clearly!


Disclaimer: The USA is (supposed to be) NOT a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic.
There is a major difference!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Ron Paul - Face to Face

A fairly aggressive but fair interview challenging Ron Paul's stand on American and global politics, by Jon Ralston. Watch how Paul does not fall for suggestive questioning, does not bow down to the aggressiveness. For all who think Ron Paul is unelectable, who think this man will pose a threat to America, this is a must-see interview.

Drop your prejudice, take a step back, sit down and listen to what is being said, not who is saying it. Then, after you have formed your informed opinion, do think about who says it, and how he's consistently been saying this for the past 30 years. I read a response on a blog somewhere recently that sums up what Ron Paul is, and how he's being looked at and thought about. Someone wrote:
Ron Paul appears to be a bit of an odd character, until you start realizing that everything he's said and predicted over the years has the eery tendency to (have) become reality.
The exact quote escapes me, but it was something along these lines, and I think that pretty much sums it up.

Monday, January 9, 2012

"What if ...YOU were silenced?"

What if the perceived differences between Republicans and Democrats are just that: perceived...?

Judge Andrew Napolitano asks a number of rhetorical questions. Take a minute and think about the answers...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

In loving memory: Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
   - Knowing when to come in out of the rain,
   - Why the early bird gets the worm,
   - Life isn't always fair, and
   - Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies, don't spend more than you can earn and adults, not children, are in charge.

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers: I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame and I'm A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, do nothing.
Published by a Friend

(copied from an anonymous internet source)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Kangaroo Courts in a Banana Monarchy

Yesterday, the political trial against Geert Wilders started. While the court earlier already denied Wilders the majority of his witnesses, it allowed only three out of eighteen, claiming that it did not need to hear the same story multiple times, it yesterday once again showed its true (green+red=brown) colors: when Wilders announced he will appeal to his right to remain silent, the lead judge commented that it looked like Wilders lived up to his MSM reputation of posing a statement and then avoiding the debate.

A more clear demonstration of prejudice is hardly thinkable, as anyone following the debate knows that Wilders is always prepared to defend his opinions, and explain the delicacy of his position. Yesterday Wilders commented that he felt more like being in conversation with a D'66 (Democrats '66, the left wing traitor party more commonly referred to as Dhimmy'66) colleague than with an independent court. He also said he did not take back a single word, but that he was not responsible for statements he never made, but which were attributed to him by others.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Fascism in The Netherlands

While on July 1st 2008 fascism was already introduced into the horeca sector when Dutch Government took away the right of bar owners to run their property as they saw fit with the introduction of the smoking ban, Labour (PvdA) in Amsterdam overbid the CDA smoking ban by taking away the right of home owners to do with their home as they see fit, a living ban. Here's the deal:

Anybody owning a small home or apartment with a purchase price of up to 163.000 euros (upping that to 200.000 is under consideration) and not living there permanently (i.e. the owner has not registered in Amsterdam) will be forced to rent his property out to the social sector, even if the property is used during the week to avoid commuting to the owner's proper home, which happens quite a lot.

Friday, April 9, 2010

The Totalitarian Failure called European Union

Despite having had imposed the maximum fine for 'undesired' behaviour, Nigel Farage continues to point out the fact that the EU President, a position that according to demissionary MP Peter Balkenende did not exist and hence there was no constitutional nature in the Lisbon TreasonTreaty so the 2005's referendum's NO could be overruled, is an appointed position, not an elected one. Herman van Rompuy was selected, not elected, by other unelected officials, removing the vox populi from the political process in the EU. The peoples of Europe have no means to remove this man from office, as he, and most of his accomplices, are not accountable to anyone.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Government and Crime

Now that western governments are caught red-handed with their climatism racket scheme, the definition of crime is being reinvented. Dutch environment minister Jacqueline Cramer, a communist, is appalled by the crime of hacking the email system of the climatism mob. Even though the 'scientists' involved have acknowledged that the material is genuine, Cramer is convinced that the 'criminals' did some 'selective shopping' and have manipulated the material to make climatism look bad. She refuses to discuss the evidence, but keeps stressing that the hackers should be identified and proscecuted.

Please note that, before she came into office, Cramer signed a page-wide newspaper support petition for fellow communists who committed burglary in a government building in order to steal documents on nuclear energy plans...

Now that not only the UK has been proven to be involved, but also New Zealand, the true global proportions of this lie, led by Al Gore (how apt a name) become visible. In Australia, the government may fall over the hoax.

However, the silence is deafening. The Main Stream Media do not publish anything substantial on the matter at all, and while Dutch newspaper The Telegraaf mentioned the scam and the surrounding silence, it also keeps publishing climatist items without any reference to the scam. Dutch government turns a deaf ear and a blind eye and keeps pushing for an international treaty in Copenhagen in December, and presenting laws imposing yet more CO2 taxes that should cost the Dutch taxpayer another 20 million euros in 2012, to pay for the climate regulations. It will drive up energy bills by as much as 300 euro for a lot of people.

Also planned for 2012 is the infamous 'Kilometer heffing', the per-kilometer charge for driving, which will double the current cost of mobility, while the current taxes on mobility are only returned in infrastructural improvements by some 20%. The rest goes into leftist hobbies, like immigration of analphabetic muslims and others that have no ability to help improve the economy, only drain it. Under the 'heffing', every driver will be followed by GPS, so the state will always know exactly when and where someone was at any given time, what route was taken and what speed was driven at. Public transport offers full control as well, as anonymous tickets cease to exist in favor of a chip system requiring travelers to check in and out for each journey, informing government where they are. GSM tracking will fill in the blanks. Totalitarianism in optima forma. Such is the state of affairs these days.

As Dutch party PVV, of Geert Wilders, opposes these crippling measures, elitists join together in order to try to arrange a repeat performance of 2002, when they succeeded in getting Pim Fortuyn killed by demonizing him. Almost every day, someone hits the media with a comparison of Wilders to Nazi-Germany, completely forgetting (well, ignoring and trying to hide from the people) that Hitler was a socialist, like themselves, and was very tight with islamists, again, like themselves.

While to some it is very obvious that they try to associate someone with evil that really is tied to themselves, many fall for the rhetoric. In a country where Hitler is said to be far right, where in reality he was as left as the current government, the people cannot even blamed for their blindness: brainwashing starts at a very young age. What they can be blamed for is their refusal to learn, to even open their eyes and engage whatever is left of what once was their brain.

Stefan Molyneux made a very clear case why government by definition will consist of criminals: it's the only place criminals can legitimize their crimes and get away with it. Ayn Rand made similar observations, a long time ago already.

We are facing grim times, and if we can't get these criminals before a court of law (real law, not the leftist PC law) soon, times will get more grim very quickly. Until the people finally have had enough, and the lynching starts. We should find a way to prevent that, as then there will only be losers. But given the way Dutch government appears to be in a real hurry to rob its citizens blind, I'm not very hopeful.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hanging Geert Wilders

Last Tuesday a doll was found hanging in the vicinity of The Hague Central Station. Four persons were arrested who claimed the hanging was an 'art-project' and the doll, with a picture of Geert Wilders knifed to it, was an 'object of art'. I didn have time to report on it before, but GoV correspondent VH translated the news article for Baron Bodissey, who published it on his site. I've taken the liberty to reproduce that translation here (thanks, VH):
Police in The Hague this Tuesday found a doll in the vicinity of the Central Station of the Hague [at the Koeklamplaan] on which a picture of PVV leader Geert Wilders had been stuck with a knife. The doll was hung from a tree with a rope around the neck. The police arrested four persons who confessed their involvement.

That is what the police of the Hague have made public. Around the photo of Wilders, fake blood was smeared. The doll also had a bag over its head. The police, in consultation with the public prosecutor has confiscated the doll. Geert Wilders, according to the police, has indicated that he will file a report of the threat with the police.

The four arrested suspects, three women and a man, 18 and 19 years old, are from the Hague, Leiden and Nootdorp, and said the doll was an art project as part of an assignment for school. Two of the women have been released; they seemed to have nothing to do with the matter. The other woman’s involvement is being investigated at the moment. The man remains a suspect, a police spokeswoman said.

No doubt, the 'art' claim is intended to escape prosecution, as another 'artist', who placed 16 altars resembling memorial shrines for Wilders in various spots in Rotterdam, was let off the hook earlier.

9/11 Revisited

In a staged interview with Mr. Obama, actor/director Charlie Sheen revisites the still uncleared issues on 9/11, requesting a new investigation from the man that promised change and more openness from government. Given the fact that Mr. Obama is most likely not a legal president, and that all his actions since his inauguration are completely opposite to his promises, I will not hold my breath.

However, the issues Charlie Sheen puts forward are now undisputed, and have not been listed so clearly together so far. It's refreshing to see an established celebrity using his brain instead of blindly adoring the Obama cult and its suffocating socialism, like so many celebrities do. Well worth a read: Twenty Minutes with the President.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Blasphemy

"Obama is God", how's that for blasphemy?



At least this guy admits Obama is not pro-America, but he seems to think that's a God-like quality.

Should anybody really be surprised, that this inhabitant of the White House, who cannot prove to be a constitutional POTUS, who seeks dialog with people who over 30 years have proven to have only America's destruction as their goal, who shows more openly each day to be a muslim himself and who seeks to drive all businesses that keep the American economy afloat either to their grave or out of the country should turn out to be the worst thing that could happen to the US, and thus, the world since Carter and the Clinton administration?

America, stay on watch! Your freedom is being taken away hand over fist, like ours here in Europe. Obama means business, like the government in Atlas Shrugged meant business.

Who is John Galt?

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Libertarianism - The Key to Freedom

One picture can be worth a thousand words...

Friday, April 3, 2009

The Obama Deception

Already referred to in below post, but until now not published on this blog yet, due to time constraints. I planned to publish this over two weeks ago, but did not get round to do the English article. I already published this in Dutch on HetVrijeVolk.com and Vrijspreker.nl, as I think this video is very important and deserves the widest audience possible. I agian have no time for an accompanying article though, but decided to post the video anyway. I may add an essay to it later on.



Hat tip: Foehammer

Thursday, March 5, 2009

The deliberate crisis

It's getting clearer by the day that the financial crisis was created deliberately in order for governments to strengthen their power, so they can implement even more socialist/communist laws. Nationalisation of banks and other industry is almost normal these days, and that should tell anybody something. A simple tell-tale that it's deliberate is the fact that the Dutch government will NOT cut its own spending, its leftist hobbies, a single Euro.

On subsidies, foreign 'aid' and other matters they could cut their spending by some 80 billion here, but instead they only talk how it's going to hurt for every Dutchmen, for we have a real crisis, and oh, by the way, Bilderbert (Bilderberg Bert) Koenders is prepared to spend an extra 25 million on Hamas...

Eight months ago our finance minister (Bos, labour) assured us there would be no crisis, that it was an American thing and Europe was sound. Then we 'might feel some impact' and now we have a 'very serious' crisis. Well, we shouldn't be surprised; the only thing labour's really good at is lying through their teeth.

And it's all the shareholders' fault now. Not a word about the expensive, government run financial markets watchdogs that never raised an alarm, not a word about ex-politicians being high up and well paid in the banking business that never uttered a sound, not a word about the fact that this whole crisis was government engineered in the first place.

You'd think they'd stop, or at least park, their plans for mileage taxing, that will cost billions. But no, that's 'good for the economy' and more importantly, it'll enable them to tell for each car-driving citizen where he was and when he was there.

Well, government spending has never ever helped the economy yet, as governments have no money. They cannot create wealth, they can only confiscate it, as Reagan accurately pointed out. And I could well do without the infringement on my privacy.

And finally there's climatism. Even while the Al Gore sponsored agendas of GIS and the IPCC are increasingly exposed, and global cooling is underway (perfectly normal climate fluctuations), governements keep pushing for climate control measures, that cost billions and will bring nothing, at best, and a flood of unanticipated bad consequences at worst.

Goal is global poverty and wealth and power for a small self-appointed 'elite'. It will be the end of civilization, the beginning of utter chaos. This is the agenda of the Franfurt School, whose teachings have produced Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness and Critical Theory.

Obama is killing America, but I fear Berg's proceedings will go nowhere. The current line followed by the 'judges' is telling: nobody will force Obama to prove what he cannot. Alan Keyes recently made some very accurate statements. The video is below, in my previous post. The only possible saviour there is the American people rising up against their 'government', as intended by the second amendment. Short of that, the states' waking up to their constitutional sovereignty may help stopping the Soros circus. It's unbelievable that the elections wound up to be between the possibly worst candidates available, and that the worst candidate won, even though his constitutional qualifications were already challenged but not investigated.

In The Netherlands, Balkenende came into power in 2002 after a Coup d' État, by the killing of Pim Fortuyn, who was going to end Political Correctness. Now Geert Wilders must be proscecuted because he's making too many waves; another Coup inside 7 years. Having Geert killed would be just that bit too obvious, so they need to find another way. Britain has already refused him entry to the country, on false grounds. Unfortunately for the socialists, he polls as the number one party now. But as Stalin already said: it's not who votes that counts; it's who counts the votes. So now they need any excuse to establish their power and, who knows, even decree the state of emergency, suspending all democratic processes, 'for the general good'. Well, Ayn Rand wrote about that 'general good'. We all know where it leads.

Oh yes, it's deliberate all right.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Fascism is back!

While the left in The Netherlands still rise to any opportunity to express their abhorrence of their companions Mussolini and Hitler, the fascists of the 1940's, their fascism has returned full force to Dutch PM Balkenende's regime. Jan Peter Balkenende's government, already having exposed itself as a traitor to the country and the citizens of The Netherlands by ignoring the people's NO in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution and its rewrite, the Lisbon Treaty, handing over The Netherlands' sovereignty to Das Vierte Reich, is now dictating what business owners can and cannot do with their own property.

The first step onto this particular path of fascism was taken when the Dutch government forced owners of bars and restaurants to make high investments in air cleaners for their establishments to diminish the effects smoking had on the atmosphere. Reasoning behind this was 'public health', which of course has nothing to do with it. It's up to the establishment's owner whether or not he want to present his personnel and clients with clean air or a blue haze one can cut and fold.

If personnel doesn't like it, it goes to work elsewhere; if clients don't like it, they stay away and the establishment goes bust. Simple as that. The free market will decide what the client likes and thus what businesses will florish and what not.

Allowing private ownership but not the freedom to use that ownership to the owner's advantage is the defintion of (state) fascism. Combined with nationalism, one gets National Socialism, which the left claims to be far right, but which of course is as left as it can get. But hey, the best lies are the ones repeated most often, Goebbels already knew that.

Fascism means one has to pay the cost of property but cannot reap the benefits. When the Dutch government ordered a full smoking ban for restaurants and bars in The Netherlands last July, it took another step onto the path of fascism. Bar and restaurant owners no longer had the freedom to allow or disallow smoking in their establishment as they saw fit.

Now many establishment owners are facing nearing bankruptcy due to this ban, more and more are ignoring the law and allowing clients to smoke again, much to the chagrin of the non-smoking lobby and, surprise, the Association of Bar and Restaurant owners. While one would expect this Association to stand up and fight the government to get the ban lifted, it actually whines that it's not fair that bar owners get fined for breaking the law. Because, they claim, a bar owner is not a policeman, and it's the clients that break the law, not the bar owner. Thus, the client should get fined!

They do have a point, of course, a bar owner is no more a policemen than any other entrepeneur is a tax collector, but still each one of those has to collect, administer and hand over VAT on his activities for/to the national tax extortionists. But the conclusion is invalid. There is no market for non-smoking bars, otherwise they would've been in existence for a long time already. Restaurants already had voluntarily split their space in smoking and non-smoking sections, as second hand smoke is much more of a burden while eating a meal than while chatting and drinking.

Today's practice is that smokers that still visit their bar go outside to have their smoke, and now the anti-smoke lobby wants a ban on smoking in open air, as well as on smoking inside one's car. But as people do not like to have their butt frozen off just for having a smoke, they tend to stay home more as the temperatures drop and the rain pours. Because of this, bars now openly advertise that they will allow smoking.

But that was miscalculating the Dutch government's hunger for power abuse. The state has the monopoly on both power and force, and if it makes a law it will damn well see to it it gets obeyed. So it will start a strict regime on upholding the ban, as bar owners that allow smoking falsificate competition, which is an economical crime, and thus can lead to loss of the business permit, and thus closing of one's livelyhood.

Readers of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged undoubtedly recognise the rant Dr. Ferris presented to Hank Rearden, where Ferris states that governments are after power, and there's no power to be had in obedient citizens. So in order to create criminals, a government will create laws that cannot be obeyed, and then it will excert its power. Written in 1957, Atlas Shrugged frighteningly accurate describes the machinations of today's governments, from nationalisation of banks to taking away all personal freedom from those who create wealth, in order to favour the needy, the greedy, the parasites, of which politicians (and monarchs) are of course a prime example. The more people get dependent on government, the bigger it gets, and the more power it yields.

Before July 1st, a bar owner that conducted his business as he saw fit was a hard working citizen, making his living in a fully legal fashion. Now, without changing anything in the way he conducts his activities, he has become a hunted criminal, only because the state changed the rules, interfering in matters that are way beyond the scope of the state's primary but negated duty: protecting individual rights.

The Dutch are ruled by criminals.