Freedom, IN – Many feel that our “Major Party” choices on Election Day have been getting worse and worse, while the general condition of our society and individual lives seems to be devolving toward calamity.
That’s true, of course.
But we could fix it if only we’d acknowledge the problem, admit who freely chose this, and realize who’s got the power to turn this around. The fix itself is simple enough, and mostly written-down already.
That’s in reverse order, unfortunately; because as congressmen I could address the first two listed only aftervoters take a stand against the recent (since the 1970’s), self-appointed and irretrievably corrupt, “Two Party System”…by electing me!
Only voters can topple the two-party-in-name-only, crony network, which has become little more than a front, distraction, protection and marketing group for the finance and militarism elites who run the world behind the Two Party Firewall.
The other 8th district candidates have no intention or ability to fix the mess they choose to represent. So, first, voters must vote against that corrupt monstrosity. Yes, it’s good to vote against what’s wrong. To say otherwise is a terrible misunderstanding of the whole point of elections; and that is for peaceful revolution. If they feel that they can vote for me, that’d be great. But first, voters must fire the Two Party System!
After voters fire that shot heard ‘round the world, we can talk about other reforms including:
Why? Because the most effective way to hide the true costs of war, tax the public without their knowledge, enrich elites, and covertly monetize the massive debts incurred by impossible political promises and a military empire and industry, is to replace naturally limited money with monopolized fiat currency*, and then devalue it by making gobs of it…
And making gobs of increasingly valueless “money” is literally what inflation is. The price of everything goes up when the value of money goes down. And we’re headed for catastrophic hockey-stick-graph inflation very soon. I don’t know when. But we’ve let this corrupt, expand and fester long enough that I’m afraid it is now inevitable.
There’s a long, repetitious history of this. In every case, from ancient Egypt to today’s Venezuela, devaluing currency represents a slide to catastrophe.
In theory, fiat currency could work fine. But every case involving humans, the short-term political gain of devaluation outweighs the catastrophic long term costs to the society.
There are no exceptions; “fiat currency” always fails. And it’s always by the same stupid pattern.
Politicians spend money they expect future generations to pay, so they have to find a way to devalue/inflate the supply of currency, and then point fingers of blame everywhere but at themselves when it all collapses.
The United States of America has occupied the catbird seat of fiat currencies since WWII, when our lend/lease arms trading sucked up 2/3rds of the global reserve currency, and almost 3/4 of the monetary gold. We immediately started spending down on that when we joined the war, and through subsequent never-ending consequences of the world wars. We spent all that gold long ago, and between the end of the Breton-Woods Agreement in ’71 and the petrodollar scheme in ’72/’73, we found a new way to further devalue what had become truly fiat currency.
Audit the Fed.* We are past-broke, and it’s time to go through an orderly and just restructuring of debts, nullifications, and dismantlings.
Replace the current Federal Reserve System with a truly private banking system that is not only subject to audits, reporting and SOP as with other incorporated institutions, but also has NO power to monetize political debts or create currency.
However, people must be free to use whatever form of money or currency suits their needs. “Cryptocurrency” (which is really a form of market fiat currency that I’m seeing as an eventual problem in itself), foreign coins, even conch shells or knotted strings are not the government’s business. Our government’s only legitimate role in interpersonal transactions is when there is force or fraud involved.
In other words, I propose we stop lying, stealing, making promises we can’t keep, and clean our accounts for the promotion of peace, prosperity, security …and freedom.
Liberty or Bust!
Andrew Horning
*One could debate the meaning of the words and concepts “money” and “currency” forever. But for the purposes here, currency is an “official” (mandated or agreed upon) trade instrument that has no intrinsic value. Money is a pretty abstract concept, since value is still applied by humans, but it’s generally a scarce/limited/difficult-to-reproduce thing that therefore has by itself been granted some relative value (gold, silver, rare shells, libertarians).
*The Fed gets “audited” already, but only with many glaring exclusions and only by internal government and Fed processes. You can look up the details. But pretty much everything significant (like actions with foreign governments and international banking groups, internal communications and discount window operations, and monetary policy itself) is excluded from GAO audits, and all “independent” auditors are hired by…(wait for it)…the Fed’s Board of Governors.
That’s called crime when any of the rest of us do it. When it’s done abusing power in violation of oaths of office and causing economic distress and pointless death it really ought to be called treason.
And that treasonous ruling class is mostly not the people you see on the ballot, or numbly pontificating on C-SPAN. Heck no. Follow the money that we’ve been voting for. You’ll see the people who pull strings from behind a curtain.
There isn’t anybody alive who can’t be threatened, blackmailed or otherwise manipulated by the dark and twisted forces that control our “intelligence” agencies, for example.
1. Stop voting for it! And by “it,” I of course mean the global crony network whose puppets we call The Two Party System. No, I don’t mean just Democrats and Republicans. I mean the system of cronies and unfair legal advantages that’s more corporate than it is political. Don’t give this monstrous mob your approval on Election Day. And do NOT, by default, grant its wishes by staying home on Election Day. Anybody left alone and unchallenged with unchecked power for too long becomes corrupt, and almost all of us have been blowing electoral kisses to the same Powers That Be for over a hundred years nonstop. STOP THAT!!
2. Vote against it. Yes, we’re supposed to vote against people. Remember, this is revolt with your vote! When your house is on fire, you need to kill the fire, not swap it for another. So first, fire the crooks! Vote for anything or anybody but the puppet show you know to be corrupt!
Remember, even the very best Ds and Rs (and there are some great people in those parties – like Thomas Massie, or Justin Amash, for example) are powerless against this mess without more allies, and your help. They cannot fix their party, or the people who control it. YOU must vote against all of that!
Our nation’s founders understood that elections are messy, corrupt and problematic in themselves; so elections’ purpose is very focused – they’re for peaceful revolution. That’s why we vote; so we don’t have to shoot politicians the way our founders did.
3. Use your vote as a weapon, or somebody else might. Seriously. It actually happens that people who don’t vote often show up voting…even after they’re dead. If you think staying home is a protest, you don’t understand how bad things have gotten.
4. Then, and only then, is a discussion of ideology and ‘isms something better than a time and energy wasting distraction.
In summary: Vote as though it’s war! Because, of course, it is.
USA wonks nodded their smug comprehension, apparently thinking that at least we elect our lawmakers on this side of the pond. At least our lawmakers can be fired.
But we don’t fire them. Nor can we; because most of our laws aren’t written by people authorized to write laws. And we didn’t elect them.
You see, while the “lawmakers” in the US Congress are of course overpaid, arrogant, and almost completely corrupt, they’re practically irrelevant now.
Unelected bureaucratsin innumerable federal agencies (DOE, FDA, FCC, USDA, IRS…) and even private organizations with governing powers like “The Federal Reserve System,”make thirty times as many regulations as does the US Congress, though Article I Section I of the Constitution for the USA restricts all legislative powers to only congress. Even if counting only those regulations that affect USA citizens directly, bureaucrats wrote sixteen times as many laws as did the US Congress.
Some say the rapidly growing regulatory burden amounts to around$15K per year for every USA household. Whatever the actual cost, unregulated regulation is literally criminal, and very destructive to our prosperity, independence, opportunity and of course, freedom.
What’s worse is that these agencies are also, quite unlike our US Congress, heavily armed against us.
They have been granted legislative, judicial, and executive powers (armed with SWAT teams and military gear…the USDA has machine guns! Even the federal DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION is armed now!!!) without checks and balances, without an electoral accountability, and without any constitutional authority.
I propose a sunset rule or constitutional amendment – a 10-year expiration date for all non-constitutionally specified agencies, laws, powers and programs to gracefully remove, or at least review for reinstatement, everything that’s not specifically written into the constitution.
I propose a Rule of Law reboot, to affirm that politicians must obey laws too…at last.
I propose we stand down our global military “whack-a-mole” machine, and concentrate on defending our homeland instead of browbeating and manipulating the world.
By poll numbers and my own observations, it seems that an unprecedented number of people are waking up to the reality that the Ds and Rs are part of a locked-arm collusion against us. Very few are yet willing to put in such simple terms, or act on that reality, of course. In fact I’ve never seen/heard so many people say they don’t see any reason to vote anymore. Many now understand that elections are to at least a degree and in some way, rigged, so they are thinking of staying home next Election Day.
OK.
That would mean the passionate few among us will not only have a greater, disproportionate effect on Election Day, but we also, in discussions with these discouraged voters, need to convince them of only three things; none having anything to do with messy and contentious partisan ideology:
If you’d go and vote for the Two Party System again, then you’re right…you’ve got no fight in you, and you’d just be another drop in the bad guy’s big bucket. They own you. But at least you don’t want to voluntarily approve them, so just stay home. Let the rest of us try our might against this mess.
The only votes that count for positive change, the only votes that could shake the world, are those against the status quo and for an alternative…any alternative…to the Two Party System. If you don’t see that, or if you aren’t willing to try, you really aren’t mad enough yet, or don’t yet see the problem.
Voting is the power of protest, of saying NO, and of peaceful revolution. We’ve been wasting that power as if it were just a poker chip up to now; but we really could fire the bums on Election Day. It’s just a choice.
Number one is the easiest. But it should be invoked only on those who’re truly hopeless; the real sheep among us[1]. Sadly, they will be many. Don’t worry; the passionate few always move destiny. The sheep really don’t matter in social change. They will follow when there’s a new shepherd.
Number two should be pretty simple, but it’s not easy to convince people that we’ve not even tried in the last century. We’ve not just allowed the Ds and Rs to write illegal regulations granting them huge advantages over other parties and candidates; we’ve actually asked them to. And they’ve used that advantage to entrench themselves against us. So, yes, there is extensive fraud. I know that and even proved it in 2004. But if even a fifth of the people change their hearts and minds and choose to vote in favor of a new government, and if the powers that be try to fudge the elections to swing it their way once again, we’d all know about it. And that would lead to new levels of energy and action.
Number three will be hard. We’re tribal, cliquish creatures, after all. We paint our faces at football games, for Pete’s sake. But we’ve got to convince people that the corruption that they suspect is worse than they think, because it is.
They’ve got to get mad at the Ds and Rs, and vote that way.
[1] However, I must note that I’ve never been very good at determining who are the sheep, and who will become the next shepherds (it’s easy to spot the wolves). I’ve observed that the educated, comfortably middle class are most likely to be wasted time; while the roughest, least comfortable among us are more likely the gems. Angry young black men, redneck whites, poor illegal aliens who’ve been working hard to get ahead, may be a whole lot smarter and more aware of their surroundings than you think. I’ve been favorably surprised many times by society’s untouchables, and I’ve almost always been sorely disappointed by the well-coiffed and well-heeled.
Please do me a favor and write letters to the editor, to your local radio and print broadcast, regarding a terrible, destructive, unconstitutional and criminal scam that’s been worsening for the past one hundred years.
The private clubs we call the Demoratic and Republican parties have, as you know, granted themselves special status, powers and advantages. Taxpayers are forced to pay for political primaries that involve only Ds and Rs, and which give them a year’s head start in public attention, fundraising, and organization. Only Ds and Rs can have Precinct Committeemen, people with many quasi-governmental powers, yet none of the restraints. Only Ds and Rs can be on election-related committees – only they count the votes, make appointments and fill public office vacancies. Only Ds and Rs can have electors, who really choose the President of the United States of America.
I’ve been advised that, while my case is rock solid on fact, merit and law, no court in Indiana, federal or state, would hear my case; at least not until there’s some public attention on this ongoing crime. Without at least a little public attention, my suit would almost surely be immediately dismissed “with prejudice” as are so many other complaints against our rogue leaders. So I take my case to you.
Please consider the gravity of my charges; and consider that you and your loved ones are also affected by our society’s worst, and potentially fatal problem.
If you’d like some supporting information to mull over, besides the links above, these might help:
Nearly all of what we call “issues” — the unraveling economy, a ridiculous healthcare system, rising prices, even militarized police and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — are just symptoms and side effects of a much worse problem.
It makes all our talk of ideology, libertarian versus authoritarian, or even “left” versus “right,” whatever those mean anymore, not just irrelevant but a costly distraction. The problem is corruption; we have a crony-network-crime-ring running the nation and much of the world. Here is what can be done about it in three steps:
First, take away the unconstitutional special powers and immunities seized by the private clubs called the Democratic and Republican parties. We shouldn’t have parties at all, really. Equality under law is fundamental justice, and mandated by Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 23. So let’s defrock these charlatans and thieves. Let independents and third parties have equal rights to election-related commissions and ballots. End primary elections, which implicitly provide more money, public attention, free advertising and media promotion to only Democrats and Republicans at the actual expense of all alternatives. End the special powers and immunities of precinct committeemen, which only Democratic and Republican parties are allowed. In case you think that having written special powers and privileges into Indiana Code make the self-appointed “major” political parties legit, Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 25 makes it clear that legislation cannot transgress the constitution. Read it; much like the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment, it’s the single most important sentence in Indiana Law.
This first step must be taken by voters, of course. Current officeholders will not voluntarily step away from power – you must fire them. Then we can move to step #2 after you hire people who actually want to move forward.
Second, kill central banking as it currently exists. Yes, audit the Federal Reserve Bank system, repudiate unconstitutional/illegal debts and otherwise clean up the mess. Andrew Jackson was right — moneychangers are inherently “…a den of vipers and thieves…” and we must rout them out. But moneychangers, as opposed to mere bankers, are never free-market enterprises; they require political authority to become monopolistic. And our “Fed” was required long ago to primarily fund our government…not serve the needs of business. Sound money is critical to freedom, so ending the accounting tricks and thieving traps of political/private hybrid central banks is the single most important step. That’s why it’s constitutionally mandated by the Indiana Constitution’s Article 11 Sections 3 and 7, as well as the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 8:5, and Article I Section 10. But it’s highly unlikely we’ll be able to address the bankers until we take away their two-party puppet show diversions. Look at the campaign donations from the financial sector and you’ll see why this is step two.
Third, stand down the Empire. Our fear-aggression syndrome isn’t just costly and destructive, it makes us less secure, less prosperous, and certainly less free. Not only have all our wars since WWII been unconstitutional but the actual design of our military has been unconstitutional since 1903 by the federal constitution’s Article I Sections 8 and 10, Article II Section 2, the Second and Fifth Amendments, as well as Indiana’s Article 2 Section 9, and Article 12 (the whole thing). This also should be done immediately, but it’s unlikely that most people will see just how bad it has become (and how right Dwight Eisenhower was about it) until we unmask this monster by taking away that crony-network-crime-ring. Also, look at the campaign donations from the military-industrialist sector. Look at how no state of sustained warfare can exist without debt-based fiat currency. You’ll see why this is step three.
Joe Biden, proving that even a broken clock is right twice a day, said: “Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.” Very well, let’s make 2016 the year we do that right.
I suppose we don’t react to it in any useful way because it has happened gradually, over several generations, in a sort of frog-in-the-cook-pot scenario. And maybe we just can’t picture anything better than what we’ve suffered all our lives.
But I don’t know why we even talk about ideology or “issues” until we deal with this: The two private clubs called the Democratic and Republican Parties are:
Owned by pretty much the same people. The small variation in owner pools (a few seemingly opposing corporations, unions, and “special interest groups”) don’t make any difference in political reality, because the major shareholder of both parties are the same bankers, military industrialists and energy, transportation, insurance, agri/pharma and debt services companies.
They do pretty much the same thing in rising spending, debt, militarization (both global and domestic), spying, lying and selling out. They’re both authoritarian, corrupt and think we’re their servants.
Let’s end the charade. The thieving, deadly game of false dichotomies we call “The Two Party System” should be revealed for what it is …a sock-puppet show that distracts us from the real behind-the-scenes truth that our government is a crony crime network. Their modus operandi and stock in trade is division and conflict; categorizing people and then setting us against each other; both here and everywhere on earth.
And this isn’t petty crime. No other gangs on earth steal so much or kill so many either directly or by their violent black markets, puppet dictators and covert collusion. This isn’t tin-foil-hat hyperbole. It’s fact. Let’s stop acting like it’s not.
Realistically, there are no other issues worth discussing until we deal with this one. All other serious problems are just symptoms of a government gone very bad…and very well-armed against us.
A dozen Presidents warned us about the people who have made the world their ATM and battle ground. But over generations, the factions controlling our government have become ever-bolder in their violations of written, practical and moral laws.
To banish any possibility of doubt about the “stacked deck” of our elections:
Special privileges and powers granted to a class of citizens called a “major political party,” as defined and implemented in Indiana, are of course illegal by the Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 23:
“The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
Here is a small sampling of special privileges and immunities just here in Indiana:
By creating arbitrary thresholds (Ind. Code § 3-10-1-2) that suppress all other candidates and political organizations, they have granted themselves taxpayer funded primary elections, which implicitly provide more money, public attention, free advertising and media promotion to only Democrats and Republicans at the actual expense of all alternatives.
Ind. Code § 6-4.1-4 specifies that members of the Indiana Election Commission “must be a member of a major political party.” And Ind. Code § 6-4.1-4 grants that only “the state chairman of the major political party” has powers of nomination and appointments for succeeding terms. Only designees “of the state chairman of each of the major political parties” shall “serve as members of the state recount commission.” (Ind. Code § 3-12-10-2.1)
Ind. Code § 3-10-1-4 grants only major political parties privileges of organization (precinct committeeman are a special class of citizen who have special powers [example, Ind. Code § 3-13-1-4, 5, 6], yet aren’t subject to the limitations placed on other political officeholders [Ind. Code § 3-6-1-15]) and process for nomination to public office and filling vacancies (e.g., Ind. Code § 3-13-5, 6).
Ind. Code § 3-10-1-15 sets apart a separate ticket for “each political party holding a primary election” making all alternative candidates inconspicuous to voters.
And to be clear…the Democratic and Republican Parties have, with the power they won during WWII (when most other parties, like the once-powerful socialist parties became discredited by their association with the USSR and Nazi/socialist Germany, and the opposite ideologies were overwhelmed by the USA’s new imperialism and nationalism), wrote themselves power over everybody else. Only they are “major political parties.” Only they get all the freebies, special powers and exemptions, and the ability to ignore laws anyway.
In case you think that writing words into Indiana Code can make anything legit, Indiana Constitution’s Article I, Section 25 makes it clear that legislation cannot transgress the constitution:
“No law shall be passed, the taking effect of which shall be made to depend upon any authority, except as provided in this Constitution.”
The evidence of corruption is everywhere. The correlation between campaign donations (business investments that pay multi-thousand-percent dividends) and legislation, the revolving door between regulators and the regulated, the hand-in-glove relationship between lobbyists and lawmaking, the insider trading that’s illegal everywhere but in the halls of power, the obvious payola, pork and conflicts of interest are so well documented by both “left” and “right” media as to be the most universally known and completely inexcusable part of this problem.
It’s not just academics, advocacy groups, bloggers, wonks and journalists who’ve told us about corruption. Our own US Presidents, from the very first one, tried to clue us in. President George Washington warned us against not just the existence of political parties, but also the entrenched corruption that invariably sprouts from such tribalism. In 1834 Andrew Jackson called Central Banks, “… a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, I will rout you out!” In 1912, after decades of rising cronyism, President Woodrow Wilson wrote that, “… we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” In 1961, President Eisenhower warned us against “…the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
What’s particularly of note today is what else Eisenhower said in that same speech: “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.”
We should have heeded the warnings. We should have noticed when the warnings stopped.
Personally, I don’t care what politicians do on their free time and with their own money. They can have affairs with every sort of willing creature(s), and snort all the coke that Marion Barry missed, and I won’t care a whit.
But all the stealing and defrauding and needless, groundless war has got to stop.
And it won’t stop until we turn against the corruption that fuels all the worst of human actions.
Come on…we know this one. Our government, from the Precinct Committeeman who gets special business contracts and a summer job for his son on the DOT, to the bankers who own and operate most of the world, is corrupt from stem to stern, from keel to crow’s nest.
So let’s fix it.
There are two parts to this:
Recognizing how we got here.
Choosing something else. That means, of course, anything butthe Two Party Puppet Show.
We got to where we are because authoritarian corruption is where people usually go. It’s what happens when you stop fighting it, and it’s why all civilizations eventually fail. And in the case of the USA and its democratic elections, we didn’t just fall into humanity’s default state of corrupt government, we voluntarily chose it, and kept choosing it with a >90% reelection rate. And, if I can believe my ears and eyes, will likely choose it again in 2016.
Of course I hope I’m wrong about that last part.
So…
We have to change ourselves. Our choices must change. Our actions must change. We must do our homework before we vote, after we vote, and whenever we feel like caring about our lives, liberties and property. We can stop voting for the same people and parties that we know are corrupt. We can vote for alternatives that, up to now, have been getting only single-digit support.
And to do that, I think we need to imagine a better way to live. We need to stop putting so crazy-much trust in politicians, and show a little skepticism with their promises. We need to see more ways to do things through the free market (look up what this really is if you think the Free Market is the bad guy…we have crony capitalism, not free markets). If we can picture a better life, we can choose it. If we choose it, we’ll get it.
This last part is critical. Simply voting for alternative candidates won’t fix a thing because it’s fixing the wrong thing.
First, comes us. Nothing gets better until We The People do.
We must change our own hearts and minds. We must develop a picture of how we should live, and then, dammit, choose that life!
I shouldn’t have to prove that constitutional rule of law under our existing state and federal constitutions as written would be a great start. I’ve been trying to prove it for decades now (to little effect). But ultimately, nobody can make you read the constitutions or choose wisely.
That has to come from you.
I’m hoping that what I’m offering here is a first step in recognizing that we have a terrible, terrible problem.
And I’m hoping you know that it’s in your power to fix it. If we could get more people to see only that, we could be on the path to a better future…as opposed to the more usual cataclysm…which, I hope you can see, is just around the corner.
Some brave (no, really) people went and did what I only wish the rest of us would do.The Lakota are subtly yet boldly fighting for sovereignty through economic independence by issuing “the world’s first non-reserve, non-fractional” gold/silver currency.
While it’s certainly not the world’s first, it is, as far as I know, the world’s only real money today.
I almost always agree with Ron Paul.Excepting his commitment to the GOP (I tried it once), I could be his understudy.His travails against central banking, in keen particular, are right on the …er …money.
Article 11, Section 3 of the Indiana Constitution says this:
If the General Assembly shall enact a general banking law, such law shall provide for the registry and countersigning, by an officer of State, of all paper credit designed to be circulated as money; and ample collateral security, readily convertible into specie, for the redemption of the same in gold or silver, shall be required; which collateral security shall be under the control of the proper officer or officers of State.
I’d love to see a debt-free currency issued in competition/ replacement of Federal Reserve Notes.…Did you notice our constitution’s gold/silver valuation requirement? Very nice.
As Governor I would insist upon citizens’ right to barter using whatever unit of barter it chooses (such as the “Liberty Dollar” which, in 2007, was illegally stolen in Indiana by our “federal” government agents).
Only voters can topple the two-party-in-name-only, crony network, which has become little more than a front, distraction, protection and marketing group for the finance and militarism elites who run the world behind the Two Party Firewall.
Forget ideology; that’s not the problem.
Remember, even the very best Ds and Rs (and there are some great people in those parties – like Thomas Massie, or Justin Amash, for example) are powerless against this mess without more allies, and your help. They cannot fix their party, or the people who control it. YOU must vote against all of that!
Our nation’s founders understood that elections are messy, corrupt and problematic in themselves; so elections’ purpose is very focused – they’re for peaceful revolution. That’s why we vote; so we don’t have to shoot politicians the way our founders did.
3. Use your vote as a weapon, 
This first step must be taken by voters, of course. Current officeholders will not voluntarily step away from power – you must fire them. Then we can move to step #2 after you hire people who actually want to move forward.
We Declare 
