Now that the Ugly Pageant is over, can we talk?

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Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate
 

May 8, 2024

OK, “Primary Election” is over.  Can we talk now?

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

Our nation is in big trouble; for the first time in decades, and in more ways, and far worse, than ever.  The way we’ve been voting is not working.  What we’ve been told about critical things, is not true.  Our nation, and much of the world, is now led by a consortium of Malthusian eugenicist psychopathic elites, who make anti-USA agreements in foreign nations, strengthen our enemies.  They own and operate this inherently tribal and so-called “Two-Party System” as a puppet show, to divide us against ourselves, and divert our attention from what’s really going on.  I wish I was making that up.  But I’m not.

Yes, it is a puppet show.  The first opportunity to weed out the disobedient and attach the strings to candidates who’ll dance, is Primary Elections, which, as implemented in Indiana and most other states, are an unconstitutional, costly and taxpayer-supported, year-long promotion scheme for only the status quo crony parties, and the corrupting organizations that own and operate them.  Worse still, it’s during primaries that many voters decide their votes for the General Election. 

Alternative party candidates like me, who earn their place on the General Election ballot without taxpayer money, are not only excluded from the primary election ballot, we’re also denied the free media, and political advertising rates granted to only Democrats and Republicans…not to mention all the dirty corporate, NGO, INGO and elite money that attaches those puppet strings to the self-styled “Major Party Candidates,” who end up becoming incumbents until they die of mildew.  We shouldn’t keep re-electing this destructive corruption.  We should in fact be very suspicious of the candidates who make it through the costly and corrupting degradation.  But the media rarely even mention alternative candidates, and there are rarely any public debates or forums, until early voting has already started, when over a quarter of us vote, without ever hearing there’s easy opportunity for change.

That said, 2024’s damnable primary election is now done, and we need to talk, and there’s not much time.  We The People really do need to talk…about our collapsing money, economy and culture, on the eve of WWIII, that is by easily available facts, the result of our collective compliance, inaction, and votes. 

This is much simpler than we’ve been led to believe.  We The People have all the power, because we have the numbers, the voices, and even the money and working hands that make, buy, sell, and empower, everything.  And every Election Day, we still have the Power of Peaceful Revolution.  Yes, election fraud is a thing, but we could fix that, too, if we really wanted to.  We have no excuses.  You know the saying, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?”  Are we still fooled?  Are we hurting enough yet to change our choices, and thus change the world? 

The most timely, actionable words of our once-precious Declaration of Independence are, “…that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

We’ve been repeatedly warned about that “same Object,” by heroes like General Smedley Butler, Presidents like Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy, and all the wise people in between and after; yet we did not heed.  So now, many of us are needlessly suffering.  We’re told it’s our duty to vote, but too few of us know what our vote is for.  (Hint: it’s not to hire politicians).  Too few voters are even looking for alternatives, though most now say they want them.  Most people say they’re sick of the so-called “Two Party System.”  But alternatives have always existed in and around every one of us.  Alternatives have always been on the ballot.  We’ve never actually had a Two-Party System.  That’s been yet another of many lies that we should never have believed.  You can see that the primaries have innumerable candidates of highly varied ideology and beliefs, and can win with less than a quarter of the vote; yet we’re told we must have only two choices on the day that really counts?

Our constitutional design for a republic is still the newest and best thing in politics.  It’s a design for self-government; which cannot be delegated away.  Only We The People can fix this, and only by changing our choices and actions.  More simply, nothing gets better until we fire the crony network ruling class, and elect new guards for our future security.

We’ve seen that with more than two choices on the ballot, winners don’t need 51%, so blaming “the masses” is no excuse to keep re-electing what we’ve got.  Enough of us want more freedom, prosperity, security and justice, with less spying, lying, war and cultural collapse, that Libertarians should have won even more than the 12 races won in Indiana elections in 2022.  We would win many, many more in 2024, if people would just vote the way they talk.

Do you want the kind of politicians with a plan that most say they want from their party?  I’m here.  There are lots of us, ready and waiting.  Let’s talk, please.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

No “lesser evil” in the Duopoly

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Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

April 25, 2024

It’s no secret why politicians “change”

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

Despite their campaign rhetoric, every one of Indiana’s federal politicians has voted for more cronyism, spying, lying, silencing, spending, foreign entanglements, subterfuge and debt…quite the opposite of what most voters want.  Every one of these incumbents, and both crony parties, have robbed you of money, rights, autonomy and opportunity.  No exceptions.  Not one from Indiana, anyway.

So today, a common question on alternative media interviews is, “why do you think politician X spoke common sense before the election, but has now become yet another cog in the status quo corruption machine?”  I’m astonished how few ever answer correctly, when the answer has been known for generations.  It’s corruption – by either The Carrot, or The Stick.

Harry S Truman famously wrote that, “We want no Gestapo or secret police.  FBI is tending in that direction.  They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” 

In other words, “knowledge” (particularly of the leverageable, dark sort) is power.  That’s The Stick.  Intimidation, personal attacks and smear campaigns, faked “evidence,” lawfare…and assassinations are quite the inducement to toe the line.

But even before the existence of the “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” that Eisenhower, and even our founders, warned against, behind-the-scenes tyrants like John D Rockefeller and other Malthusian eugenicists bent on global domination, used their money to take over entertainment, healthcare and of course, education.  They created tax-exempt NGOs and INGOs to build the stage and attach strings to our present political puppet show.  Campaigns are expensive – too expensive (that’s an issue I’ll discuss later).  And that makes candidates open to The Carrot; i.e., campaign donations, insider trading, and other corruptions of money and other bribes.  Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum succeeded where the Fabians, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations did not, by assembling a corporatocracy of wealthy corporations and the ultrarich, by what he calls “Stakeholder Capitalism;” i.e., globalist corporatist mercantilism; i.e., fascism or National Socialism, as only dreamed by Mussolini and Hitler.  Their money base includes all traditional media and entertainment groups like Disney, financial powers like Blackrock, of course the whole of our military-industrial and scientific-technological elite including the CIA, FBI, Raytheon, Boeing, Google, Facebook…  The money and power is both immense, and mighty.  So, our visible, elected government, has become a protection racket for a shadow government of ruling class elites.

Fortunately, those of us who’ve been decrying this for decades are no longer a tiny number of fringe voices.  New media, and new documentation such as Whitney Webb’s exhaustively researched, two-volume, “One Nation Under Blackmail,” have detailed the connections from our government’s first employments of The Mob, to the CIA’s purchase of Civil Air Transport, and what really was the story with Jeffrey Epstein’s clients.

The simple fact, and the correct answer to the aforementioned interview question is that…while We The People slept, our politicians sold out, and we kept reelecting them anyway.  We The People have not been the ones supplying either carrots or sticks.  The unconstitutional, inherently divisive and self-appointed Two Party System has over time become only a red-herring smokescreen puppet show diversion from the real powers behind the curtain.  Enough of us now know it that we should stop reelecting this whole system of corruption.  And we can.

We still have the power to tear away the curtain and see the truth.  We still have the power to fire not only the puppeteers, but the entire consortium of kingmakers, bundlers, partisan staffers, corporate cronies, three-letter agents and globalist NGOs.  That is, in fact, the whole point of elections.  Our votes are our weapons of peaceful revolution, and it’s time we use them.  And that’s not all the power we’ve got.  Let’s talk.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

Crisis at the Border, or in DC?

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Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

March 6, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

Ours is a nation of immigrants, of course.  While the influx of cultures and ideas has stimulated progress, citizens and politicians of the US of A have always been at odds over it anyway.  Many of today’s issues are identical to those of the 1800’s through early 1900’s, when alternating, disrupting waves of Chinese, Irish, western versus eastern Europeans surged onto our shores, with complaints of “stealing jobs,” degrading our culture, increased crime, etc., etc., et cetera.  Racism and deportation fever partly fueled both the creation of Liberia, and the Zionist movement.  During WWII, we locked up citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent.  There were politicians, as today, quite eager to proselytize new voters in their ongoing lust for political dominance.  But there are some problems that are new, and catastrophic.

We should have orderly immigration across borders secured by uniform laws and processes, as already prescribed by both state and federal constitutions, and a growing body of laws.  The ongoing invasion is not from any fault of the relevant and constitutional laws, or even with immigrants, spies, foreign militants and others surging across our border.

1. Our government is intentionally, and at taxpayer expense, luring and transporting and paying unvetted foreigners to come here.  There is no constitutional, legal authority, and certainly no money, to give them free healthcare, education, travel including airplanes, phones, housing, legal exemptions, privileges and immunities unavailable to legal citizens.  There are lots of reasons politicians have been doing this to us for many years before Biden.  But it’s all unconstitutional (and therefore illegal), corrupt, and obviously destructive.  It’s vitally important we stop this.
2. Social Security and Medicare require pyramid funding with a growing working-age population.  And USA birth rates, as with other “western” cultures, have been declining.  So some argue we need more young immigrants to make the math work.  But all of our “safety net” and welfare programs are buckling from other causes as well, so I propose we find better ways to fund services for our elderly and needy citizens.
3. We’ve made “legal” labor so expensive, complicated, legalistic and impractical that “illegal” labor is sometimes the only workable option; especially where minimum wage laws push out our own citizens, particularly young people, from the workforce.  I propose we fix this. 
4. Our ever-changing, unpredictable and absurdly unfair immigration laws and policies force illegal aliens to lay low, force employers to keep secrets and break laws, and generally force the realities of illegal aliens under the rug.  If it were easier/faster to get visas, then the sort of people we want here – the ones who’re desperately wanting to build a better life for themselves and their loved ones – could go through controlled checkpoints with drug sniffing dogs and people wearing blue gloves, and become legitimate citizens.  I propose we settle on laws and policies that are fair, consistent, and focused on our domestic security, health and employment interests…and then just enforce them!  …As is already law. 
5. We’ve been tormenting and destroying half the globe with our “War On Drugs,” murderous CIA plots and coups, oppressive policies/embargoes and direct attacks, such that We The People have, both directly and indirectly, made angry refugees all over the globe.  In other words, we’ve made other people’s countries practically uninhabitable, driving them here for survival…and for retributive, military and criminal purposes.  We’ve already suffered such violence many times, such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  There are “terror cells,” spies, “Reconquistas,” foreign police and other foreign agents operating here under our noses.  I propose we stop all this self-destructive, unconstitutional, whack-a-mole foreign policy that’s obviously directed by the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower, and our founders, warned against. 
6. States with high alien populations get more federal House reps and Electoral College electors, since we now count non-citizens in the census.  And it’s no longer secret, or even “illegal” in some cities, that non-citizens vote.  That the Democratic Party, as well as the UN, many corporations, NGOs and INGOs have openly stated they want to demographically and culturally change the USA.  And there is a lot of world history to illustrate how this works…ask a Native American.  Estimates of the number of aliens here in violation of our processes and laws vary wildly – but as information leaks out, it appears that since Biden took office, there are likely around 30 million people here illegally – easily enough to change the direction of our civilization.  This is an insidious and dangerous game, and I propose we secure our elections at once.  Most citizens want this, and we should be very suspicious of politicians who don’t.
7. There is, since the 14th Amendment, a constitutional stipulation that anyone born in the USA is a USA citizen.  So there’s a constitutional incentive for pregnant women to dive over the national goal posts to deliver a baby in the citizen end-zone.  It’s not their fault, and God Bless them if they succeed.  These babies are the very least of our problems, and maybe a hope for our future.  Many new immigrants love our nation and its constitutional rule of law more than too many of our politicians.  This is good, and I propose we do NOT amend the constitution to stop this.

Most of the problems would be solved if only we’d affirm and enforce the Constitution for The United States of America against those who’ve corrupted our government.  

In other words, if we’d just quit making “legal” labor so costly, quit making illegal entry the only door, quit giving tax-paid freebies to illegal aliens, serve the needs of our own citizens, stop messing up other countries, and stop pulling non-citizens across our borders on purpose, we’d not likely even talk about a wall.  We might even happily welcome foreigners looking for a better life as our friends, coworkers and neighbors.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

Spies, liars, and hackers of the public mind

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Contact: Andrew Horning
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January 31, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is seeking the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

♬♪ They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake; they know when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake! ♩♫

In 2017 I made the case for several radical proposals that I reaffirm now:

• Kill FISA, of course, but also nullify the National Security Act of 1947.
• Eliminate the FBI, CIA and NSA, leaving all domestic law enforcement to more local, appropriate units of government, and already-constitutionally authorized courts. 
• Make the US Congress directly manage our foreign spy operations and funding under specific congressional warrants and limitations, including the Geneva Conventions, just as with constitutional funding and declaration of war and national defense (which hasn’t been the case since WWII, BTW).
• Make the process and results of FOIA requests more open and complete.
• Most importantly, I proposed making it a serious crime, eligible for criminal and civil punishment, for agencies and agents of government to withhold the immediate and full release of requested information to congress, and/or in most circumstances, as specified by congress, to the public.

In the years since 2017, it has become obvious to a larger number of us, that secrecy and deceit has enabled the creation of a corrupt and perverse system of control that is in the final phases of destroying our republic.   If I’d been the only one calling for us to wake up, I wouldn’t be so worried that my frequent and public proposals have been ignored.  But I’m not the only one, or the most recent, or the most familiar with the shadowy puppet masters behind the curtain.

“…We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail.  J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” —  President Harry S. Truman

“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” —  President Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” —  President John F Kennedy

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

The case for (peaceful) revolution

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Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

January 12, 2024

The case for (peaceful) revolution

Freedom, Indiana – Andrew Horning is seeking the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

With Larry Bucshon soon exiting, stage left, A good friend and longtime GOP D.C. insider said I should run in the GOP primary for Indiana’s 8^th district seat.  I was briefly tempted.  Truth be told, I’ve voted in the two requisite GOP primaries, and I’d love to get paid for what I do at personal cost anyway.  I won an election as a Republican, and a high percentage of the finest people I know, are Republicans.  So it is with respect to the opinions of my friends that I declare the causes which call for revolution, instead of continued capitulation to the status quo.

The whole inherently corrupt, unconstitutional, fraudulent Two Party System is a puppet show distraction from the legions of bureaucrats, bundlers, kingmakers, puppet masters and authoritarian NGOs, INGOs, corporations and billionaires who’re actually running the world.  That’s of course unconstitutional, as well as fraudulent, thieving, and mass murderous.  And those movie-ready supervillains are doing a terrible job of ruling the planet.  …How terrible?

Through the last forty years, fertility and birth rates have dropped.  Early puberty for girls, and halved testosterone and sperm count for boys.  Explosion in autism spectrum disorders.  Exploding chronic disease and the very visible problem of obesity and metabolic syndrome in even our very young.  More recently, a marked increase in “excess death” rates and lower life expectancy.  The ominous, new, phthalate syndrome.  Mental health issues, possibly including gender dysphoria.  We’ve gone from poisoning our own people, to funding the bioweapons research of the Chinese Communist Party.  We have a needless, corrupt, unconstitutional immigration crisis.  We’re on the edge of another World War, just as we’re about to experience a global monetary, fiscal/financial and cultural collapse that will make The Fall of Rome look like a lady’s gentle sneeze.

Since the mid-1990’s, I’ve ever-more-urgently protested, campaigned, written and publicly lectured against the corruption of our globalized, monopolized, corporatized, sold-out, blackmailed and bought government.  I’ve warned of the insidious growth of unelected cartel powers from the Fabian Society, Chatham House, Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, Trilateral Commission and, of course, the World Economic Forum which have enacted the techno-totalitarian plans of Malthusians to create a corporation-owned digital panopticon, and rob us of all we have.  I’m certainly not the only one who’s issued such warnings.  Starting with founding fathers and several later Presidents, we’ve been warned.  My last press release was about one of the last steps toward a techno-totalitarianism Eisenhower could only imagine when he coined the “scientific-technological elite” – silencing opposition and controlling information.

To cut to the crux – “The Government” as represented by the Two Party System we see on the ballot is hardly even relevant anymore.  Most “laws” aren’t written by elected lawmakers. They’re written, judged, executed and enforced by executive agency bureaucrats and cops…and that’s all illegal.  Even the laws passed by legislatures are mostly written by unelected staffers and of course lobbyists.  “Public-Private Partnerships” are a scam.  Corporations chartered, empowered and regulated by corporate laws are government entities, and are not private.  “Public” means politicians.  Corporations, NGOs, INGOs and IGOs ARE today’s government.  This is of course anti-democratic, anti-constitutional, illegal and illegitimate.

Maybe we’ve not yet suffered enough? We all should have read the words, “that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed” in context. For too long, and through too much deceit, injustice and death, too many of us have emboldened and sustained what must end by our mindful choice, or in slack-jaw horror, violence and poverty.

We need a revolution.  We need to fire the whole system of corruption and fraud.  No politician can do that – only voters can.  And they can do that only by willfully, conclusively rejecting the whole crony network.

The good news is that we have the legal, peaceful power to accomplish this…in a single day, if we’re willing to look in the mirror and see the truth of how we got here.  All revolutions start in the mind, after all.  And it’d take only a little more than a third of us to change everything. It’s only the bad math of a “two party system“ that has us invoking “the masses“ for our “lesser evil“ choices. It’s the passionate few who’ve always determined the course of history – just as it’s only tiny handful of wealthy globalists calling all the shots today. And by all the recent data, we have the numbers – we need only vote the way we talk.

We can live together in peace, security, prosperity, liberty and justice for all.  We need only use our votes as weapons of revolution, as is their whole purpose. I intend to put exactly that peaceful, necessary revolution on the ballot for Indiana’s 2024 US Senate election.

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

What’s our REAL “existential crisis?”

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Contact: Andrew Horning

Horning for US Senate

June 29, 2023

What will we do when the CCP takes Taiwan?

Freedom, Indiana – June 29 2023, Andrew Horning, seeking the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s nomination for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024, made the following statement regarding our dangerous, pivotal time:

After my decades of appeals through columns, Op-eds, protests and political campaigns, about the bipartisan (meaning only two unconstitutional parties), pandemic and destructive corruption of our government, I’m glad that at least a little of this existential problem is starting to emerge from behind the major media veil.  …At least with puppets like Biden, and bit-players like the FBI.

But the depth and length of our system-wide corruption has left us in a fragile, overextended, indebted, self-deceived and precarious state, at a very bad time.  Our collective inattention and torpor has caused a number of serious problems that need attention.  For example, the CCP is moving stepwise and relentlessly against Taiwan.  What are we going to do about it?

Ever since the Carter administration cancelled the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (SAMDT) with Taiwan (formally the Republic of China – ROC), there has been no formal agreement to defend Taiwan from takeover by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that rules the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  Officially, since recognizing the PRC and de-recognizing the ROC in 1979, the USA supports a “One China” policy, with no regard toward the ROC’s existence as a sovereign nation.  NATO only unofficially treats the ROC as a “major non-NATO ally” as defined in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.  Ukraine was never given even this status by NATO, yet much of the world is assisting the legendarily corrupt Ukraine both financially and militarily in our insane proxy war against Russia.  And much of the world depends upon the ROC’s semiconductor industry for both civilian and military purposes.  Russia has been losing population, resources and strength for some time, while China has been very cleverly winning a war of subversion and dissipation against the USA since at least 2012.  Yes, China has lots of internal problems.  So does Russia.  And so do we.

However, the PRC wants Taiwan, and they mean to take it as their own.  What’s our calculus now?

Generations ago the USA abandoned Jefferson’s “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”  It’s no secret that the USA is backing away from Social Security and Medicare obligations.  We are internally fragmented by a crony network veiled by the two-sock puppet show called the Two Party System.  We are nearly paralyzed in a cultural, psychological and moral hot mess that’s tearing even our families and societal support organizations apart.

It’s not true that the USA spent the USSR into collapse under President Reagan.  It is quite true, however, that we’re spending and spreading ourselves toward calamitous dissolution.  This will end badly, if we don’t control ourselves.

So, what can we do when the PRC takes the ROC?  We could collapse.  Empires always crumble.  Our endless asymmetrical wars and cultural disintegration have made us weak in ways we clearly do not see.

Maybe, we can do nothing.

We need national defense.  Not the global meddling with the CIA and regular military fighting each other worldwide that has become our literal stock in crony trade.  Real, serious, constitutional defense of what’s both important, and possible, even now.

Ask me how.

Liberty or Bust!

Andy Horning

Freedom, Indiana

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“’Relighting the Torch’ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ46CHG5  

Relighting the Torch

For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrew Horning
Libertarian candidate for IN08

16 October, 2022

Horning publishes “Relighting the Torch”

Freedom, IN – From the description on Amazon.com: “We The People and our government avatar, are a hot mess. But we can fix it whenever we set our minds to it.

‘Relighting the Torch’ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time.

In this book are Horning’s almost-famous and now updated annotated Declaration of Independence and USA Constitution, along with numerous (and sourced) authoritative quotations by key historical figures.

We can, at long last and in the midst of all today’s troubles, realize our ancestors’ dreams of peace, prosperity, security, liberty and justice, for all.

…But the unconstitutional and contemptuously divisive Two Party System our founders warned us about really has to go.”

The paperback is available now, and the Kindle edition will be coming soon.

https://horning4congress.com/
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, Indiana

*See my previous press releases at: https://horning4congress.com/news-media-2/
And please see, “Eight Steps to Success” at https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/

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Conspiracy Theories aren’t as scary as The Truth

For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrew Horning
Libertarian candidate for IN08

30 September, 2022

Freedom, IN – For nearly 30 years through think tank articles, newspaper columns and blogs, and well-before I started organizing protests and running for public office, I’ve been writing about the problems that had already been dividing and threatening this nation’s future. And I’d been proposing solutions, ones that had already been amply proven a hundred years before I was born, to work better than anything else humans have ever tried.

Now, unfortunately, amid massive transgenerational theft, corruption, manipulative promises and domestic militarization that must have our nation’s founders shouting at us from the hereafter, the once brilliant flame of liberty has been replaced by gaslighting and pre-Hammurabi authoritarianism. Our government is both a Big Lie, and our most ominous and existential threat. We don’t have much time to set this right before global conflagration and catastrophe.

There’s no need to detail the lies, the conspiracy facts or the obvious energy, economic, social and moral problems that We The People now suffer. What’s important is to understand that we got here because fewer and fewer among us dare to speak truth to power, far too many are paid to lie, and over 90% of us, both voters, and those who delegate their choice to others, have been voting for this monstrous mess.

The “Two Party System” is a bad game

Any democratic process at all, whether political, business or at home, depends upon good information. Bad or missing information dooms the process to bad outcomes. And our increasingly secret, yet intrusively snooping government has not only paid or otherwise induced people to lie for generations, even well-before and since Operation Mockingbird and Facebook, but has also become a puppet show distracting us from the fact that the people in elected office are not the people running our government.

Most of our citizens have known for some time that our government is corrupt. But how could we know the extent of the corruption, or what to do about it, unless we have more exposure to well-documented yet nearly forbidden information from alternative sources like Epoch Times or foreign media? Political debates are a thing of the past. Most “investigative journalism” has become only a litany of partisan buzzwords and cherry-picked quotes.

So it’s both understandable, and our collective shame, that in electoral politics there is no advantage to being right, and clearly no disadvantage to being wrong. The consequences of that are only now starting to unfold.

But a bigger shame is that our monolithic information, entertainment, education and political systems have so effectively pitted us against each other, that we think we have bigger problems.

We have the power to fix this, of course. But we have to both want to, and vote that way.

Aye, there’s the rub.

https://horning4congress.com/
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, Indiana

*See my previous press releases at: https://horning4congress.com/news-media-2/
And please see, “Eight Steps to Success” at https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/

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Cassandric Ruminations

When I shared this on Facebook after the tragically fumbled (but otherwise correct) withdrawal from Afghanistan, I wrote: “Well, #7 is a little less true today, even though we’ll still have wars going on once we’re finished blowing up charity workers in Afghanistan. Thanks, Joe!

But the others are much 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 true today.

What I thought was pretty funny when I said some of this two years ago, is less funny now.”

I should add, however, that the tribal rhetoric varies greatly depending on which tribe has the government’s keys. For example, Republicans talk a good story against spending, debt and the inherent inflation of the Fed’s money presses when the Democrats are in charge. And Democrats talk a good story against the anti-USA-citizen militarization of our government when Republicans are in charge.

And I should add a third #9 (or maybe a #11):
That THIS PARTICULAR ELECTION IS TOO IMPORTANT to vote for anything different.

Anyway, you can see that this is now tearing us up, apart, and down right now. Maybe it’s not yet too late to turn this around before this becomes history-making catastrophe. Maybe it is. But I sure wish we’d try…

Politicians Lie – Social Security is Past-Broke

This is an old press release. Almost ancient, in terms of how much things have gotten worse. But on the eve of the Great Reset, when lies and “cancel culture” and tribal hostility is coming to a boil, I thought it made sense to post this here:

For Immediate Release

August 15, 2016

Contact: Andrew Horning

Freedom, IN – We’re living the biggest lie of all time. I wish that were hyperbole. But we’ve taken an ancient recipe for disaster, and inflated it to a systematic, global, trans-generational scale that’s unprecedented in human history.

Incumbent politicians want only to be reelected, so they won’t spill any bad news. And voters want to believe promises, and don’t want to hear bad news, so we keep reelecting the incumbents.

But there is bad news that people need to hear sooner, rather than later: Our nation’s debts are worse than we’ve been told, and the recent rosy prognostications of OASDI’s short term health, are lies.

The ~19.4 trillion-dollar “US National Debt” figure often bandied about includes only the face amount of securities outstanding. And this amount, while seemingly huge, is comparable to the USA’s debt/GDP ratio just after WWII and at the peak of our nation’s rebuilding. Many people know this, and therefore assume the government has an infinite capacity for writing and redeeming such debts.

But that’s not today’s picture at all.

An approximately $66 trillion “US Total Debt” includes state and local government securities outstanding, plus citizen personal debt; and that is by itself the greatest debt any nation ever owed. While this comes to about $809,896 of debt per US family, even this still doesn’t include the “Federal Agency Debt” of over $8 trillion, or much more significantly, what we call “Unfunded Liabilities” of entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

That debt, which is typically only a matter of conjecture since the rules of its calculation are purely political, is guesstimated to be, by itself, well-over $1.1 million …per taxpayer!

Putting it another way, the promises politicians have made to future generations amount to around two times the globe’s total economic output. Just the retirement-related debt alone equals a full year of global output.

Putting it in a much more personal way; the whole world cannot pay for your Social Security. It was spent long ago, and we’re only writing IOU’s now.

There’s a one-hundred-year-old, terrible-ending story about this involving The Federal Reserve, Lawrence of Arabia, FDR and Richard Nixon.

But the bottom line is that a lot of political effluvium is about to hit the fan, and we need to act quickly to clean up what is sure to be a terrible mess.

I propose we dramatically cut spending, government interventions, powers and agencies immediately. Stand down our crony empire and global war machine, and focus on the real problems we face in our real, personal, human lives.
I propose we replace our Ponzi-Scheme funding of Social Security, Medicare and other welfare and entitlement programs with a much simpler taxation and minimum support system at least similar to the Fair Tax.

In other words, I propose we stop lying, stop making promises we can’t keep, and start keeping the promises that make sense for the promotion of peace, prosperity, security …and freedom.
How? It’s really just a choice. Ask me about it.

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