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THE TITANIAN LAW PROJECT
A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO LEGISLATORS, JUDGES, ATTORNEYS,
PARALEGALS, AND BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL STUDENTS OF THE LAW

When government by law was first invented, eight thousand years ago in Sumer, the basis of law (and hence government itself) was “might makes right”. The kings and tribal chieftains who could afford to field armies saw it was to their advantage to form a power-brokerage cartel to manage their shared monopoly of power over their neighbors. The mechanism that they invented to accomplish this feat, we know today as hierarchy. It is the central feature of almost all our institutions today, including those of Business, Organized Religion, and Government (BORG).

Today it is generally understood, at least in the developed western world, that the “might” of military and police forces does not, in fact, confer the “right”, upon those who wield such coercive power, to command the lives of those who lack these powers. Accordingly, most of the world’s governments give lip-service to the notion that they exist to serve the interests of those whom they govern.  And indeed, in an ethical human society, this concept would represent reality.

Unfortunately, for most of the people of the world, government that serves the interests of the public is just a myth, perpetuated by those who use the lie to facilitate their manipulation of those less resourceful than themselves. By believing the lie we permit our own enslavement.

In reality the nature of government has not changed since the days of Sumer.  It remains a power-brokerage cartel that truly serves only its own interests:

  • Maximization of its members’ profits,
  • Maximization of its powers of coercion, and
  • Stabilization of its monopoly role in the power-brokerage marketplace.

The rest of society, with few and insignificant exceptions, complies with the demands of government, even to the extent of mirroring one of its worst features, the use of hierarchy as a mechanism for power-brokerage, within the structures of virtually all our institutions, both public and private.

Thus it is that humanity today labors under the burden of a vast parasite, which, left unchecked, will do what all parasites do: it will destroy its host, even though its own survival depends upon the health of its host.  Today the parasite of government has the power to turn our entire planet into a radioactive cinder, unfit to sustain any kind of life as we know it.  As things stand now, it is likely to do this.

But maybe it’s not too late. Maybe, by using HoloMatic institutions comprised of ethical Octologues, we can pull ourselves back from the brink of disaster and transform human society into a sustainable thriving whole.

Whether you are a legislator, a judge (active or retired), an attorney (practicing or not), a paralegal, or merely a justice-minded law student, your participation in the development of Titania, your personal effort, your creativity could be crucial to the future of humanity itself.

To understand what is needed, let’s take a quick look at what is wrong with our current legal systems.  Such systems today, the world over, are prone to the following obvious flaws, foibles, or weaknesses:

  1. Many laws forbid ethical acts.
  2. Many laws require unethical acts.
  3. Many laws take money, property, financial opportunity, privacy, or freedom away from those to whom it belongs and bestow it upon those to whom it does not belong.
  4. Many laws, regardless of their merit, are passed by legislators to curry favor with voters or with the lobbyists who pay for their election campaigns.
  5. Many laws continue to be enforced long after it is obvious that they do not produce the behavioral results that they were intended to produce – or even when they produce the opposite effects.
  6. Many laws are passed and enforced in the name of “protecting the public” when, in fact, they primarily serve to give a group of influential people protection against the market encroachment of another, less influential, group of people. In this the public is the loser.
  7. Many judges openly forbid jurors from considering the merits or legitimacy of the laws being enforced in their courtrooms. This serves to bureaucratize the legal system by immunizing it against corrective feedback. In this case everyone is the loser.
  8. To be legitimate, by modern standards, a law must serve the best interests of the people – all the people – who are supposedly being protected by the law. When this principle is violated, the resulting law is not legitimate and cannot be ethically enforced.
  9. Enactment of a law is, by its nature, a delegation of authority from the legislators enacting the law to the legislative body that those individual legislators comprise. When a group of legislators enact a law that delegates authority that those legislators do not possess as individuals, the resulting law is not legitimate and cannot be ethically enforced.
  10. Mindful of the fact that governments are power-brokerage cartels whose true purposes are purely self-serving, it is clear that laws that support and/or enforce the true purposes of government are never ethical. The vast majority of laws in the world today fall into this category.

From the foregoing description of the “Foibles” of government-enacted law, and from what we have shown elsewhere in this website concerning the E+ Ethic and the “Comforting Lies”, we can draw the following logical conclusions, which comprise some of the principles of just law:

  1. Government, as we know it, is incapable of enacting and/or enforcing just (ethical) laws.
  2. Political systems, at best, determine who gets to participate in the power-brokerage cartels that we call “governments”; but nothing in any political process enables the people governed to alter the unethical nature of government. Majority Rule contributes to this fact.
  3. For a society to thrive it must have a legal system that is entirely independent of government.
  4. Such a legal system must be privately funded and privately operated by a group of people committed to the principles of just (ethical) law.
  5. Just laws must be enacted solely to serve the ends defined by the E+ Ethic or an alternative ethic that is the logical equivalent of the E+ Ethic, and must be further be constrained to embody the principle that ethical ends can only be achieved by means that are ethical ends in themselves.
  6. Any law, rule, regulation, or procedure sanctioned by the Bill of Ethics qualifies as an artifact or embodiment of just law.
  7. Any law, rule, regulation, or procedure not sanctioned by the Bill of Ethics is not an artifact or embodiment of just law.
  8. For a society to thrive, its unjust laws and the rules, regulations, and procedures that support and enforce them must be repealed.
  9. The exercise of (coercive) power over others is never ethical except  in the case of the defense of self or others against unethical acts – and then only when all available non-coercive means have failed – and even then limited to the application of the minimum amount of coercive force required to prevent further occurrence of the unethical act or to provide redress of the harm done by the unethical act or acts already perpetrated.

It is the intention of Titania to create and operate an alternative legal system to which the public can turn for the arbitration of conflicts, the redress of grievances, and the establishment and enforcement of just laws. To that end:

  1. The Titanian Legal System (TLS) will be built upon the definitions and principles provided by the Bill of Ethics.
  2. The TLS will be privately owned and operated, entirely independent of government, and will be funded entirely by voluntary payment of service fees and subscriptions by persons wishing to avail themselves of the services afforded by the TLS.
  3. Organizational elements of the TLS will be structured as HoloMats of Octologues according to the definitions provided by the Constitution of Titania.
  4. Over time, and as its means permit, the TLS will define and codify just law in the fields of contracts, business, torts, the environment, and criminal law.
  5. On the same basis, the TLS will offer services that may include, but not be limited to the following:

a.Mediation,
b. Arbitration,
c.Education,
d. Consultation,
e. Expert testimony,

f.  Judicial services,

  1. Defense of persons unjustly accused of criminal charges under government-enacted laws in government courts.
  2. The writing of legal briefs arguing for the repeal of unjust laws and the redress of grievances for persons against whom unjust laws have been enforced.
  3.  Development of a system of legal defenses against the enforcement of any and all laws providing for the practice of taxation by government at all levels.

If you understand the foregoing and are prepared to make a significant investment in bringing the TLS to reality, then you may be in a position to “play” in the Titanian “Legal Sandbox”.

Now let’s consider some of the other ways you can PARTICIPATE IN TITANIA.

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BORG agents from Pima County Sheriffs Office MURDER Iraq Marine War veteran Jose Guerena!

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May 292011

BORG agents from Pima County Sheriffs Office MURDER Iraq Marine War veteran Jose Guerena!

By Thomas Mario Costanzo

Tucson Arizona  Jose Guerena, marine with  2 tours of duty in Iraq gunned down in cold blood by BORG agents in his castle.  The victim had a wife, Vanessa Guerena and  2 sons one 4 the other 6.  Only one of his family members, his 6 year old son, did not suffer the trauma from being at the scene where his father was executed.

As the MURDERING gang known in some circles as SWAT forced its way into his home, Guerena, a former Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, armed himself with his AR-15 rifle and told his wife and son to hide in a closet. As the gang members entered, the  perpetrators said that “Guerena confronted them from a hallway”. In the gangland shooting the thugs, shot 26 year old Guerena with more than 70 rounds in about 7 seconds, at least 60 of which struck Guerena. He was pronounced dead a little over an hour later.

The BORG Gang known as “the Pima County Sheriff’s Department” lied (PDF) in their statement saying, “Guerena fired his weapon at the SWAT team”. They have changed their story acknowledge that not only did he not fire, the safety on his gun was still activated when he was murdered. Guerena had no prior criminal record, and the gang of thugs found nothing illegal in his home. The MAFIA gangsters’ police state records show they refused to allow paramedics give medical attention to Guerena for more than hour, leaving the young father to bleed to death, alone, in his own home.

The BORG GANG from the Police State of Pima County has now changed its story several times over the last few weeks. They have made a criminal confession (PDF) scolding the BORG media and critics for questioning the legality of the raid, the department’s account of what happened, and the department’s ability to fairly investigate its own officers. In typical MAFIA style they all refuse to talk or comment about their criminal history and to prevent their prosecution. They have obtained a BORG court order sealing the search warrants and police affidavits that led to the raids, and they’re now refusing any further comment on the case at all. When BORG Propaganda Officer Jason Ogan was contacted with some questions, he replyed via email that the gang won’t be releasing any more information. On Saturday, the head of the gang, Clarence Dupnik told Arizona Daily Star columnist Josh Brodesky that he may never release the search warrants and police affidavits in an effort to cover the asses and protect the pensions of his subordinate criminals.

The department’s excuses for keeping all of this information under wraps makes absolute sense, when you understand that the gang has a monopoly on VIOLENCE and MURDER and need to protect their monopoly of force, by legitimizing their existence. In his May 18 press release (PDF), for example, Ogan wrote, “The investigation that lead to the service of the search warrants on May 5 is a complicated (meaning WE THE PEOPLE are too stupid to understand important MAFIA THUGS business) one involving multiple people suspected of very serious crimes. Sometimes, law enforcement agencies must choose between the desire of the public to quickly know details, and the very real threat to innocent lives if those details are released prematurely.” Being they work for the same gang of criminals, they both have the same story.  Dupnik used the same line of reasoning as Brodesky. “Those are the real sensitive parts of why we are having difficulty with trying to put information out publicly–because we don’t want somebody getting killed, (However when it is one of WE THE PEOPLE it’s not that bad, we really only care about our fellow gang members).” Dupnik said.

The problem with that explanation is that the search warrants and affidavits weren’t sealed until four days after the gangland raids were executed, when Jose Guerena’s MURDER made national headlines.  If revealing the details of this investigation, which was initially described by the Sheriff’s Department as a marijuana investigation, could endanger lives, why weren’t the warrants and affidavits sealed from the start?  They are actually saying this poor marine was gunned down and murdered in front of his wife and 4 year old over a freaking PLANT for god’s sake?

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Robert Podolsky, Physicist The laws of thermodynamics and 9/11

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May 272011

AE911Truth’s EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Robert Podolsky, Physicist, Engineer

Mr. Podolsky explains how the Official Fire Story violates the Laws of Thermodynamics.

This is raw footage from one of the experts appearing in our upcoming, hard-hitting documentary of evidence for the destruction of the 3 World trade Center skyscrapers — “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out”

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TREASON – A NOTICE TO PUBLIC SERVANTS

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May 162011

TREASON – A NOTICE TO PUBLIC SERVANTS

On the night of December 23, 1913 the United States Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act and thereby committed the greatest act of TREASON in history. It surrendered this nation’s sovereignty and sold the American people into slavery to a cabal of arch-charlatan international bankers who proceeded to plunder, bankrupt, and conquer this nation with a money swindle.

The “money” the banks issue is merely bookkeeping entries. It cost them nothing and is not backed by their wealth, efforts, property, or risk. It is not redeemable except in more debt paper. The Federal Reserve Act forced us to pay compound interest on thin air. We now use worthless “notes” backed by our own credit that we cannot own and are made subject to compelled performance for the “privilege”.

From 1913 until 1933, the United States paid the “interest” with more and more gold. The structured inevitability soon transpired: the Treasury was empty, the debt was greater than ever, and the United States declared bankruptcy. In exchange for using notes belonging to bankers who create them out of nothing on our own credit, we are forced to repay in substance (labor, property, land, businesses, resources, life in ever-increasing amounts. This may have been the greatest heist and fraud of all time.

When a government goes bankrupt, it loses its sovereignty. In 1933 the United States declared bankruptcy, as expressed in Roosevelt’s Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111, and 6260, House Joint Resolution 192 of June 5, 1933, confirmed in Perry v. United States, (1935) 294 U.S. 330-381, 79 L.Ed 912, as well as 31 USC 5112, 5119, and 12 USC 95A. The bankrupt United States went into receivership, reorganized in favor of 115 creditors and new owners. In 1913, Congress turned over America… lock, stock and barrel to a handful of criminals whose avowed intent from the beginning was to plunder, bankrupt, conquer, and enslave the people of the United States of America and eliminate this nation from the face of the earth. The goal was, and is, to absorb America into a one-world private commercial government, a “New World Order.”

On March 9, 1933 President Roosevelt called for the passing of The WAR POWERS ACT TITLE 12 USC. Section 95 (a) and 95 (b). This act declared all United States Citizens to be the enemy of the United States Government, and placed us under permanent Emergency Rule, bypassing Constitutional constraints on government.

With the Erie R.R. v Tompkins case of 1938, the Supreme Court confirmed their success. We are now in an international private commercial jurisdiction in colorable admiralty-maritime under the Law Merchant. We have been conned and betrayed out of our sovereignty, rights, property, freedom, common law, Article III Courts, and The Bill of Rights has been statutized into “civil rights” in commerce. You have destroyed the Republic. America has been stolen. We have been made slaves, i.e. permanent debtors, bankrupt, in legal incapacity, rendered commercial “persons,” “residents,” and corporate franchisees known as “citizens of the United States”

Since 1933 what is called the “United States Government” is a privately owned corporation of the Federal Reserve/International Monetary Fund. It is merely an instrument whereby the bankers administer their ongoing subjugation and plunder of what was once considered “the last great hope of human freedom.” All “public servants,” officials, Congressmen, politicians, judges, attorneys, law enforcement officers, States and their various agencies, etc., are the express agents of these foreign principals – see Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938; 22 USC 286 et seq, 263A, 185G, 267J, 611© (ii) & (iii); Treasury Delegation Order #91 – who have stolen the country by clever, intentional, and unrelenting fraud, trickery, treachery, non-disclosure, miss-representation, intrigue, coercion, conspiracy, murder. If there is a greater tragedy in human history it is hard to know what it is.

An insidious aspect of this is that “officials” like you may think you are “public servants,” are upholding the “law,” or other hoaxes. In truth you are conscientiously and assiduously serving the archenemies of yourselves, your own rights, your fellow citizens, continued human rights, life, and freedom in general. YOU are seditiously administering the plunder, bankruptcy, conquest, destruction, dismantling, and elimination of your country. YOU are systematically defrauding, extorting, impoverishing, and injuring human life on the basis of crimes and lies of such magnitude, depth, and proportions as to be beyond human comprehension.

Now you believe you can sell this nation to foreign powers with the stroke of a pen by Executive Order 12803, April 30, 1992.

By so doing, you are committing TREASON and PERFIDY so immense as “to make the angels weep.” If you and your fellow “officials” do not understand the real situation, you are ignorant, naive, deceived, and conned. You are sheer dupes. If you do know and are parties to it, you are guilty of evil and heinous BETRAYAL. You are in such case TRAITORS and CRIMINALS. All of you “in power” are therefore, either fools or knaves, either of which eminently invalidates your “authority” and renders null and void absolutely all-moral obligation to pay allegiance or to obey the TREASONOUS SYSTEM you enforce with such mechanical viciousness.

If, you, “public servants” had any shred left of humanity, awe, heart, clarity, sanity, access to your true being and conscience, you would instantly resign and do everything possible to inform the American people of their plight and help us retrieve our rights and our country. Only by such means can you even begin to atone for your endless crimes against humanity, the lives you so arrogantly and mindlessly butcher with the “meat-grinder of the law.”

What do you think the American people will do as they discover that they have no more country, that they are slaves to mortal enemies, that they have been tricked and betrayed by their “leaders” who sold them out? What do you think they will do when they realize that all their alleged “public servants” are willing or stupidly compliant parties to the plunder, bankruptcy, subjugation, and ruin of their lives and country?

There is no acceptable excuse for what you have done. You cannot engage in bringing harm to life and, like the Nazi’s defense at Nuremberg, presume that because you do so under the “authority” of an imaginary, abstract, unreal legal fiction called “government” you are freed of the consequences of your acts. Moral and natural law are not obviated by ignorance, hubris and self-righteous militancy. Your entire system – from the ground up – is deceit and fraud. It is illicit in essence and ab initio. As Broom’s Maxims 297, 729 put it: “A right of action cannot arise out of fraud.” Honor is earned by honesty and

integrity, not under false and fraudulent pretenses. The color of the cloth one wears cannot cover up the usurpations, lies, and treachery. “When black is fraudulently declared to be white, not all will live in darkness.”

More and more Americans are awakening to the truth. What do you think the American people will do as they discover that they have no more country, that they are slaves to mortal enemies, that they have been tricked and betrayed by their “leaders” who sold them out? What do you think they will do when they realize that all their alleged “public servants” are willing or stupidly compliant parties to the plunder, bankruptcy, subjugation, ruin and destruction of their lives and country? Thomas Jefferson wrote: “An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” Lincoln said: “Just as I would not be a slave, neither would I be a master.”

I will not participate in your corrupt, arrogant, and cruel fraud, either as perpetrator or victim. I will no longer sit here and writhe. The TYRANNY over this nation MUST END! End Emergency Rule. Repeal all laws passed under Emergency Rule. Give us back our substance and our law. Give us back our Republican form of government.

If you continue with this course, you will have natural and moral law and higher powers to answer to, not to mention all those you have wronged under color of law. You will have your own laws turned against you, as you have turned the law against us. To transform the shield of protection into a sword of exploitation, subjugation, and plunder is perfidy. I am an American. My destiny is to live as a freeman on the land my forefathers conquered and that I will fight to keep.

You have now been placed on notice. All further actions on your part will be willful! Resolutely, from an American who demands their country back.

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What Did Osama bin Laden ‘Deserve’?

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May 162011

What Did Osama bin Laden ‘Deserve’?

by Butler Shaffer

Recently by Butler Shaffer: How Perverted Have We Become?

Gabriela: And you believe everything the authorities tell you?
Franz Kafka: Well, I have no reason to doubt.
Gabriela: They’re authorities! That’s reason enough.
~ From the movie Kafka

My recent article on the U.S. government’s assassination of Osama bin Laden elicited many favorable responses, along with a negative one that advised me that this man “got what he deserved.” The reader went on to ask “how dare you imply that we owed him the ‘right’ to be captured and brought to justice.” How effortlessly we make our judgments when our minds are in the default mode, and we need only parrot the words of those in authority!

The media has long been an echo chamber for the avoidance of independent thought and judgment. It is easy to repeat the party line that the state’s enemy du jour “got what he deserved” when one refuses to ask the question “what does any of us ‘deserve’?” What do I “deserve?” Do you know what you “deserve,” and for what actions? From what set of facts do we draw when we make such judgments about the conduct of others? I am neither a fan nor a defender of bin Laden, but those who are so anxious to invoke “closure” as an excuse for evading inquiries into the nature of governmental policies, might ask themselves why they are so willing to embrace his murder.

An answer to the question “what did bin Laden deserve?” depends upon one’s perspective. Even leaving aside the obvious responses that his Al Qaeda sympathizers would make, even patriotic Americans might have differing opinions, depending upon the time period of one’s assessment. When the Reagan administration found bin Laden and Al Qaeda useful agents to help rid Afghanistan of Soviet military forces, American politicians took turns posing with these “freedom fighters” for self-serving photo-ops. Their combined efforts drove the Soviets from that country, and helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. For his part in all of this, did bin Laden “deserve” having a statue built to him in Washington, D.C., or a boulevard named for him?

But when his usefulness to American interests terminated – or even became hostile – he was quickly relegated to the character of “villain.” This is a tactic long predating Machiavelli, having been useful, in recent years, to transform Saddam Hussein from Donald Rumsfeld’s smiling photo-op “friend” to a linch-pin in the axis of evil; to Muammar Gaddafi’s mercurial foe/friend/foe role of convenience in American foreign policy. That most Americans insist on remaining so dupable – if not outright stupid – as the state plays out its games of “endless enemies” at their expense, is remarkable.

What did bin Laden “deserve” in all of this? What do any of us “deserve” in our dealings with one another? Is there any principle to which we can turn to help us answer such questions? Do we “deserve” to be coerced, robbed, or killed whenever someone with superior strength is able to do these things to us? Is this the highest social standard to which we can repair? Have the playground bully and the brutalizing parent become the “founding fathers” of our “New World Order?”

If the defenders of state assassinations believe they have found a defensible tactic for resolving disputes – or just promoting their own preferences – should it become more widely available for all of us to employ? If two neighbors have a long-standing dispute as to the ownership of rose bushes along their property boundaries, should they resort to murder to settle the matter? Do we not understand that the problem of urban street-gangs is but politics on a different scale; that Obama’s drive-by shooting in a house in Abbottabad differs from such a killing in south-central Los Angeles more in terms of geography than substance? If the political establishment is willing to embrace such methods as a way of eliminating political enemies in foreign countries, should the same practices be acknowledged as appropriate within America? Might we want to rethink the “lone-nut-with-a-gun” explanations most of us eagerly swallowed to explain the deaths of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, et. al. as well as the failed attempts on the lives of Ronald Reagan and George Wallace?

For decades, I have tried to discover whether there is some principle upon which all people can agree to define the propriety of our actions; a proposition that rises above arbitrary subjective preferences. Politically-defined laws will not suffice, since the state – being defined by its use of violence – exists to promote and enforce conflicts among people. Neither have I found so-called “natural law” principles much help, as their content seems to vary from one advocate to another.

The one standard to which I am able to find a virtual consensus is this: no one wants to be victimized. No one accepts that their life or other property interest should be subject to trespass by another. Sadly, most of us have internalized our regular victimization by the state, sanctioning such predations provided (a) we believe everyone else to be so bound – the vicious doctrine of “equality,” and (b) if we are to be singled out for maltreatment, that we be accorded “due process of law.”

The idea that the military and/or the police – the enforcement arms of the state – could undertake arbitrary and deadly force against any person, finds support among most conservatives. This is why the market for flags and “support the troops” decals blossoms whenever the emperor finds a new “enemy” to attack. It is also why so many conservatives – and even a number of so-called “liberals” – can get their diapers so knotted over the suggestion that Osama bin Laden should have been brought to trial rather than murdered. It is the same mindset that allows police officers to gun down “suspects” without, themselves, being held to account in a court of law.

Suppose a man is “suspected” of having committed a heinous crime (e.g., sexually assaulting and then murdering a small child)? Suppose this man is found and arrested by the police, who then take him into a back alley and kill him? Did he “get what he deserved?” Would you raise any objection to this – unless, of course, you were the suspect – or would you regard demands for a public trial to be only a “loophole” that might allow him to “escape” his punishment? Is a jury determination of “innocence” to be regarded as a “legal technicality?” Is “suspicion” or “accusation” the equivalent of “guilt?” Should “criminal procedure” classes in law school be required to address such matters as “how to organize a lynch mob?” Should a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon square off with an ACLU activist to debate the question “is justice delayed, justice denied?”

Given the grisly history of lynching in this country – in which the race of the victim was often all that mattered – President Obama who, regardless of where he was born, has more melanin in his system than most Americans, ought to have resisted the self-righteous impulse that has led some people to respond to fear by pulling sheets over their heads!

Don’t you understand that if the bin Ladens of the world can be “brought to justice” by government hit-men who, like their Mafia counterparts, then dump the bodies into the ocean, so can you? Insistence upon state-defined “due process of law” is no guarantee that the innocent shall not be punished, but it’s an improvement over assassinations, torture, trips to hidden prisons around the world, and the denial of habeas corpus. Jury trials often result in wrongful convictions, but I’d rather take my chances with twelve men and women with no sinister agendas of their own, than with decisions made behind closed doors by the politically unscrupulous. Bin Laden “deserved” a public trial for the same reasons you and I would.

With each passing month, it becomes increasingly evident that the United States of America – as a formal system – is about finished. The Constitution has become virtually meaningless as a means of conducting the business of the state. The “separation of powers” of the various branches of government – which we used to pretend would limit the ambitions of each – has given way to notions of “empire,” with the president playing the role of “emperor,” able to start wars on his own motion (and without congressional approval); to torture or imprison without trial, or order the assassination of any persona non grata of his designation; to give away hundreds of billions of dollars to his corporate friends; ad nauseum. Over many decades, the powers granted to government in the Constitution – which, far from being limited, speak of “general welfare,” “necessary and proper,” and “reasonable” – have been given very expansive definitions by the courts. By contrast, the rights reserved to individuals have been accorded very restrictive meanings. In the treatment of bin Laden – as well as the continuing incarcerations at Guantanamo – we see further confirmation that what we once thought of as an inalienable right to a public trial is another illusion sacrificed to the empty rhetoric of “national security.”

Though the “United States of America” is in a terminal condition, “America” – as a social system – may yet survive. America preceded the nation-state and, if we can revisit the basic assumptions that underlay the “founding fathers” efforts, we may discover why conditions in which peace, liberty, and respect for life must take precedence over edicts offered by rulers who smirk and strut as they demand obedience to their every whim.

In the course of such inquiries, we may discover why bin Laden – along with every one of us – deserved to not be dealt with in such an arbitrary, coercive manner. Institutionalized violence is the essence of every political system, and is in the process of destroying Western Civilization. But as secession and nullification enjoy an increasing interest among thoughtful people, members of the establishment power structure may find themselves regarded as the new “Red Coats.” Like their predecessors – and in the words of Lysander Spooner – they may then be urged “to go home and content themselves with the exercise of only such rights and powers as nature has given to them in common with the rest of mankind.”

May 14, 2011

Butler Shaffer [send him e-mail] teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of the newly-released In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and of Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. His latest book is Boundaries of Order.

Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given

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Indiana: Full Frontal Fascism

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May 142011

Indiana: Full Frontal Fascism

Something huge–huge and not good–just happened in Indiana, which will be little more than a blip in the propaganda that passes for national news. The Supreme Court of Indiana just ruled that in Indiana, when a police officer decides to illegally come into your house, you’re not allowed to do anything to stop him. According to “Justice” Steven David, resisting an admittedly “unlawful police entry into a home” is against “public policy.” Got that? If you live in Indiana, and a cop decides to invade your home without a shred of legal justification, it is considered a crime for you to do anything to stop him.

Bizarrely, “Justice” David also said that resisting law-breaking cops goes against “modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.” You see, only judges are wise enough to know that when the Fourth Amendment says you have a right to be free from “unreasonable searches and seizures,” it actually means that the cops have the right to commit “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and you have no right to do anything to stop it.

Please allow me to toot my own horn here, by pointing out that in my novel, “The Iron Web” (page 231), I predicted this step occurring. It is an essential, major step towards totalitarianism, for the control freaks to decide that even when they break their own laws, their victims have no right to resist. There is a huge principle at stake here, and what these three Indiana jackass “judges” have just done is guarantee either complete totalitarianism, or a bloody revolution (or both, in that order). Because this ruling means, quite literally, that residence of Indiana have no rights at all. What would it possibly mean to say you have a “right” to not have your home illegally invaded by a jackbooted thug, while also saying that you cannot do anything to defend that right? To say that you are legally required to allow your rights to be violated means that they aren’t rights. (Duh.)

But never fear, because, according to the Supreme Jackass Court of Indiana, you can always come crawling to your masters, after you’ve been illegally victimized by one of their jackboots, to beg for some restitution. (Good luck with that.) “Justice” David says that, after you let the cop illegally invade your home, you can always “protest the illegal entry through the court system.” That’s almost straight out of my novel the Iron Web, where a new (fictional) law would “mak[e] it a crime to forcibly resist any arrest, while also providing legal remedies to those who have been subjected to improper arrest.” (This isn’t the first thing in my novel that later became either proposed legislation or a new court ruling.)

If anyone considers this reasonable, keep in mind that by the exact same “reasoning” (and I use that term extremely loosely), they might as well also rule that if a cop decides to shoot your dog, or steal your car, or rape your wife, you have to quietly stand by and let him do it, and then later file a complaint, or a lawsuit. In other words, the jackboots can do absolutely anything they damn well please, “legal” or not, and your only recourse is to later whine to the very control freaks that the jackboots work for.

What was the rationale for this? In case all of the above wasn’t Orwellian enough, check this out. “Justice” David argued that “allowing resistance [to law-breaking cops] unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved.” Holy smokes! Why wouldn’t this psychotic reasoning (a.k.a. “retroactive tyranny justification”) also mean that if anyone breaks into your house, or assaults you, or steals your stuff, or otherwise attacks you, you’d better let him do it in order to avoid “escalat[ing] the level of violence”? Using defensive violence to combat aggressive violence is completely justified and righteous, notwithstanding the opinions of the tyranny apologists appointed by the parasite class. If a cop illegally barges into your home, you have every right to escalate the level of violence to any extent necessary to stop him, including blowing the fascist’s damn head off.

I’m glad I don’t live in Indiana, because if some cop decided to barge into my house without a shred of legal justification, I’d now know that if I tried to hold him back, or push him out, I’d be arrested and prosecuted. So I’d just have to shoot the bastard instead. And since it’s tough to do that sort of thing without anyone noticing, I would then be a fugitive, for having defended my home and family against an invading criminal. And if that much happened, and I was forced to become a fugitive, I might feel obliged to go pay a visit to the three stupid, tyrant-loving fascist jackasses on the Indiana Supreme Court who just decided to declare it a crime for someone to defend himself against illegal trespassing, breaking and entering, and assault, if the scumbag attacker happens to have a badge.

Hmmm, I have an idea. If there are any Indiana cops who still respect the Constitution, please do your state a huge favor, and go barge into the home of “Justice” Steven David–during supper would probably be a good time. Barge in, without a warrant, and without any legal justification, guns drawn, and start ordering people around. See if “Justice” David does anything to resist. If he does, lock his fascist ass up for violating his own idiotic legal ruling. In fact, since he just declared it to be illegal for him to resist your illegal invasion of his home, if he lifts a finger to stop you, shoot the bastard, or at least give him a good tasering. (That’s exactly what happened in the case where “Justice” David sided with the law-breaking cop.) After all, we can’t just let people assault police officers, now can we? If some Indiana cop had the spine to do that, I know several thousand people who would be thrilled beyond words.

(P.S. Incidentally, in U.S. vs. John Bad Elk, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that resisting an unlawful arrest, even if doing so requires killing the cop, can be legal. Whether this conflict between the Supreme Court and the Indiana Nazi Brigade will be resolved in court remains to be seen. But whatever any black-dress-wearing, wooden-hammer-wielding narcissist says, if someone decides to barge into your home, you have the right to evict him, with a harsh word, a fist, or a 12-gauge–whichever you deem necessary.)

 

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Is there any truth to the Iraqi dinar rumors?

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May 132011

Sovereign Man

Is there any truth to the Iraqi dinar rumors?

Notes from the Field
Date: May 13, 2011
Reporting From: Santiago, Chile 

Have you heard the rumors about the Iraqi dinar? Week in, week out, we receive at least 2-3 questions about this.  The ‘word on the street’ is that the Iraqi government is set to “increase” the value of the dinar, essentially re-peg it against the dollar by 2, 10, even 100 times its current value.

In other words, rumor has it that if you’re sitting on $1,000 worth of Iraqi dinar, that after the re-pegging, that same dinar will be worth up to $100,000, practically overnight.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it just isn’t true… and I wanted to take some time today and lay these rumors to rest since it’s such a popular question within this community, and I know that there are some people scrambling to pick up dinar.

In 2010, the Central Bank of Iraq did announce plans to ‘redenominate’ the Iraqi dinar, effectively chopping off a few zeros from the nominal value of the bank notes. But the actual value in US dollar (or euro, gold, oil, wheat, etc.) terms would remain unchanged.

Any potential upside in the Iraqi dinar is in becoming a free-floating, market based currency. Many currencies in the Middle East including the United Arab Emirates dirham and Saudi riyal are pegged to the US dollar. So is the Iraqi dinar.

Iraq’s peg is set by the International Monetary Fund because, at this time, there is no international market for the dinar. In time, I suspect the dinar may break away from this fixed rate (similar to how Kuwait abandoned its dollar peg several years ago) and appreciate against the dollar.

Over time, this would result in single or double digit returns, however, not overnight fortunes of making 100 times your money. I still own some of the old Saddam Hussein dinars, they’re just collectors items for me, nothing more.

Bottom line: don’t believe the hype about the dinar. Even if you’re bullish on the country and think that a market valued dinar will appreciate, you would still have to hold the investment in cold, hard cash. There are better proxies for Iraqi growth, particularly in Kurdistan. We’ll explore those another time.

Another reader, Victor, recently wrote and asked, “Simon, how do you receive mail? You are traveling constantly, what is the ‘secret’ that permanent travelers use to receive mail and packages?”

Physical mail is so last century. I can’t remember the last time I received something in the mail that I actually cared to read. In the US, it’s either junk mail, universities and charities hitting me up for more money, or annoying letters from some government agency.

Years ago, I used to have a commercial mail drop in the US. These companies make it their business to receive mail on your behalf, then forward it to you wherever you are in the world.

The guy who owned it was a salt of the earth sort of fellow… Vietnam Vet, ‘death from above’ tattoos all up and down his forearms, and a hell of a nice guy. I used to call him up every few weeks to have him FedEx my mail to me, and we’d end up BSing for an hour about the latest stupid thing that came out of Bush’s mouth.

Unfortunately, he went bust. Poof, no more maildrop. It turns out he wasn’t a very good businessman. So I have literally been without a real postal mailbox for about 4-years.

If I want to receive a package, I just have it shipped to wherever I am (or expect to be) in the world. If international shipping isn’t possible, I ship to a friend’s address in the US and ask them to send it on to me.

Any federal agency that needs to find me has appropriate contact information for one of my tax attorneys in Florida, and this is about the only real mail that I receive anymore– notices from the State Department, IRS, or Homeland Security come in through his office, and he forwards them to me.

Removing yourself from the postal system, or at least separating your mailing address from your home address, is a great step to increase your privacy. As privacy master JJ Luna often says, you never want to associate your name (i.e. mail) with your home address.

Commercial maildrop services are a good solution for this– you could simply set up a mail service near your home and collect all mail there. Or, if you’re an expat, you could set up a maildrop in your home country and have them receive and forward your mail to you anywhere in the world.

In this case, it would make sense to pick a mail drop in a state or province without any state sales tax… that way, if you buy something online, there will be no sales tax charged. This alone can often save the cost of the mail drop.

In the US, you can try these places in Oregon or Delaware, which have no state sales tax–

http://www.themailcenter.com/,
http://www.mailforwardingservices.com/
http://www.homebaseoregon.com/
http://www.demailbox.com/

In Canada, you would want to have something in Alberta: http://www.calgarymailbox.ca

If you’re looking to move overseas, sometimes it makes sense to set up a maildrop in your new country in order to ensure that you receive mail reliably. In Panama, for example, you could try
http://www.centam-mbe.com/ or
http://mailboxespanama.com/

Lastly, there are services like SwissPost in Switzerland or EarthClassMail in the United States which will receive all of your mail for you, and scan/email everything to you.

This is a reasonable solution if you expect to travel a lot and still receive a lot of mail, though I personally have privacy concerns of someone I don’t know going through my mail.

Have a great weekend.

Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com

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Cell Phones “Fema Special Chip” Tracks YOU!

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May 132011

Cell Phones “Fema Special Chip” Tracks YOU!

Cell Phones providers will now be required to install special chips that no one but those in the government want.  The consumers of the cell phones with be forced to pay for a service they may not want, but because of Mafia government.  As of May 10, 2011 all providers are mandated through their licenses to enable the government to send them text messages and alerts.  Being this technology is already  possible the questionable activity is why do these phones need a”Special Chip”?  Many authorities on the mafia Government have reason to believe these chips will transmit all data on the phone to the government, no different than the special databases that exist for EVERY SINGLE CREDIT CARD TRANSACTION YOU MAKE!

There is no word on the chip’s other abilities (i.e. instant shut down?). This announcement was made directly from Ground Zero, again milking 9/11 to promote a high-tech police state.

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What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?

The announcement that Americans are set to be bombarded with mandatory government propaganda via their cellphones represents a shocking lurch forward in the Obama administration’s bid to launch a total takeover of all communications as part of a wider move towards controlling the Internet, developing an omnipresent wiretap system, and creating a constant environment of suspicion and distrust by enlisting citizens to spy on each other.

Short of implanting a microchip in people’s heads, the US government has opted for the next best thing, a chip in your cellphone. But what else will these “special chips” be used for?

“Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software,” under the new program which was launched today in New York and is set to be rolled out across all major cities by the end of next year, reports CBS New York.

Cellphone users would not be able to opt out of “presidential messages,” with Verizon and AT&T, the nation’s largest cell phone carriers, already on board.

“For now, the alerts are capable on certain high-end cell phones but starting next year, all cell phones will be required to have the chip that receives alerts,” adds the report.

The messages will supersede all other phone traffic and have a unique signal and vibration, meaning that your private conversation could be cut off to make way for government propaganda in a program that resembles Minority Report-style invasiveness on steroids.

What else these “special chips” that will be mandatory in all cellphones will do is not explained, but given the recent scandal where it emerged that cell phone companies were building location databases of where their users had traveled, the sky’s the limit.

Cell phone providers already have the capability to send out text messages to all their subscribers instantly, so why the government needs a “special chip” to be installed will only heighten suspicions that this is a trojan horse for an omnipresent wiretap that will feed every scintilla of information from your phone directly to big brother.

As one respondent to the story put it, “Surely you only need a database of all phone numbers to send out text messages. Am I only person wondering why all handsets need to be fitted with “special chips” in order to receive text messages? The “special chips” can only be being introduced to serve other purposes.”

“This seems very suspicious. Why can people not opt out of the president’s messages?” asked another. “They pay for their phones – they should dictate what it does, not Obama.”

Would the “special chips” also empower Obama to shut down all cell phone traffic on a whim in a time of declared “national emergency”?

Obama already has the power to override all radio and television networks under the recently expanded Emergency Alert System, which allows FEMA to break in on live broadcasts to send out alerts.

His administration is also pushing cybersecurity legislation that would hand Obama a figurative kill switch for the Internet. The term “kill switch” is an oversimplification, what the agenda actually revolves around is the ability to impose Chinese-style censorship over the world wide web and develop an ID system that would force users to have their access controlled by a state-run licensing procedure.

The government-mandated chips would also help achieve the Department of Transportation’s aim of blocking all cellphone use in cars. The chip would allow authorities to prevent use of the phone by measuring the speed you are traveling via GPS technology and shutting down the handset.

This trifecta of broadcast media, Internet, and cellphone traffic represents a total takeover of the entire spectrum of communications in the United States by the Obama administration.

Aside from the terror fearmongering, the system is also wide open for abuse in more prosaic terms, with some fearing that the messages could include PR talking points and political electioneering. Indeed, the image that accompanies a USA Today piece about the story is of a cellphone displaying an infomercial about Obama’s 2012 campaign.

The plan to harass cell phone users with specious terror alerts is part of a larger agenda of fear-based social conditioning by the government. As we noted last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new system to replace the old color-coded one. Now so-called terror threats that inevitably turn out to be either false alarms or politically motivated scams will be posted on Facebook and Twitter pages in addition to broadcast over television, radio and cell phones.

As we have exhaustively documented, the move has nothing whatsoever to do with keeping Americans safe from terrorism. More Americans are killed every year by bumble bees or peanut allergies than they are by terrorists.

“Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer, or severe allergic reaction to peanuts,” writes Ohio University’s John Mueller in a report entitled A False Sense Of Insecurity.

The real agenda behind the program manifests itself in numerous ways. On the one hand, this is a further intensification of the Big Sis “see something say something” campaign, it’s designed to condition Americans that terrorists are lurking around every corner and that they must spy on their community to prevent attacks, when in reality every major terror plot that has been uncovered in the United States was either staged or provocateured by the federal government itself.

This is also about capitalizing on the dubious Bin Laden raid to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration, corralling subservience to a system that utilizes fear to control the population and eviscerate constitutional rights.

With the compliant and castrated media increasingly distrusted, Americans are either moving to alternative news sources or tuning out altogether. This has necessitated the government to launch a wide spectrum takeover of all communications in its bid to keep the population under the firm control of state-issued propaganda.

We are now just a few steps away from having literal telescreens installed in our homes that beam directly into our brains the latest government fables about who we’re bombing now, what level chocolate rations are this month, as well as Michelle Obama’s mandatory exercise program.
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The Federal Reserve System stabilizes the economy

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Federal Reserve Geithner BernankeCOMFORTING LIE #12

The Federal Reserve System is a government operation that exists to protect the public by stabilizing the economy.

Most people have no idea what the Federal Reserve System really is, nor how adversely their daily lives are affected by it.[1] Only the barest facts about the subject are cited here, the reader being invited to verify their authenticity via the footnoted reference.  Accordingly, the facts are these.

1.  The Federal Reserve System is not a government operation at all.  It is, rather, a banking cartel that exists only to enhance the profits and market stability of the cartel’s members.  It is, however, in partnership with the government cartel.

2.  There are no reserves anywhere in the Fed.

3.  The Fed is not a system in the sense in which it was intended by the Congressional act that created it.[2] The Congressional intent was to diffuse the concentration of financial power of the biggest banks and investment firms in New York.  Instead the Fed  protects the financial interests of those firms and guarantees the stability of their shared monopoly.

4.  The Fed does nothing to stabilize the economy.  If anything it consistently damages the economy by creating more and more money out of nothing.  As a result the economy has proven less stable than it was before the creation of the Fed.

5.  A further result is the steady erosion of the buying power of the dollar which results in the appearance of rising prices.  We call this phenomenon “inflation”.  While we are told that the Fed protects us from inflation, the fact is that the Fed is the primary cause of inflation.

6.  About every ten years the value (buying power) of our money is cut in half by inflation.  But our loss of buying power is precisely equal to the Fed’s gain that results from its practice of printing money for the Government to spend.  This is why the Government permits the Fed to create money out of nothing.  Quite literally, the government steals our buying power by borrowing such fiat money from the Fed.  Besides losing our buying power, we also wind up paying the interest that the government owes the Fed as a result of this bogus practice.

7.  It is therefore accurate to say that inflation is a tax that permits the government to raise any amount of money it wants at any time without asking permission of the public.  We and our children pay the inevitable bill.

8.  Under regulation by the Fed, commercial banks were at one time permitted to only lend out to the public 90% of the deposits on hand, thus ensuring that there was always at least 10% of deposits on reserve for depositors who demanded their cash.  Today the rules have changed.  If your commercial bank has $100 in deposits, it is permitted to lend out $900 that it never received in deposits. The pretense is that your $100 is 10% of $1,000, so the bank may lend the difference: $900.  As a result of this practice the vast majority of commercial bank loans to the public are made with money that is as unreal as that which the government spends.

So when you buy a house for $100,000 dollars, put 20% down, and take out a 30-year mortgage at 10% interest, you wind up paying over $170,000 in interest to the bank  Under these conditions the bank makes a profit of about two and one half times what the builder receives (about $70,000) for providing all the labor and materials that went into the house.

9.  What is more, if you fail to make your payments, as sometimes happens, the bank gets your house.  Why? Because it put up the money for the purchase, but

10. The bank didn’t do this with its own money, nor even with its depositors money.  It created the money out of nothing with a few keystrokes on a computer.  This cost it nothing and therefore represented no risk whatever.

11. This example of the $100,000 house is, as Ed Griffin puts it, “like a grain of sand in the Sahara”.  To truly understand what the Fed is doing to the public you have to multiply this effect by “every house in America, by every hotel, by every high-rise office building, by every factory, every jet airplane, every warehouse full of goods, every farm building, all the factory and farm machinery.”  The result is an almost unimaginable river of unearned wealth flowing into the hands of the banking cartel.  The numbers are so vast as to be incomprehensible.  And all of this takes place at the expense of the taxpayers, who don’t even know they are being taxed.

12.   On the government side of the partnership, the government is able to tax the public in any amount at any time without even telling the public that it is being taxed.  On the banking side of the partnership the commercial banks affiliated with the Fed are able to collect perpetual interest on money created out of nothing, with no risk or cost to the “lender”.  The entire scheme is a gigantic scam, and the public is the loser.

13.   As ugly as these facts are, the problem doesn’t end there.  Where is all that money going?  Is it accumulating somewhere?

No. The owners of the Fed cartel have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes, no matter how luxurious their lifestyles.  When people have control of that kind of wealth they usually spend large portions of it to acquire power over others.  They do this by buying up influence and control over the institutions that are the centers of influence in our daily lives.  To do this they buy up politicians, political parties, radio and television networks, cable networks, publishing houses, universities, church organizations, newspapers, magazines, non-profit foundations, multinational corporations, and entire foreign governments.

So the upshot of the Fed’s duplicity is that the owners of the controlling shares of the world’s biggest banks, and their colleagues, who own control of  similar central banks in other countries, are steadily taking control of the world.  It is this group who control such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

[1] For a thorough account of the Fed, its origin, purposes, and functioning the reader is referred to The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, American Media, 2004.  An excellent 75-minute lecture summarizing the book can be downloaded free at www.realityzone.com.

[2] The Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

 

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Osama Ben Ladin Can I take off my shoes now?

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May 022011

Sovereign Man

Notes from the Field

Date: May 2, 2011
Reporting From: Montevideo, Uruguay

Despite being one of the most cerebral societies in the history of the world, the Ancient Greeks condemned one of their greatest philosophers to death for asking too many inconvenient questions and pestering the status quo.

Certain things, as it turns out, are sacrosanct and beyond debate.

Good citizens, whether in Ancient Greece or today, are expected to fall in line with what they’re told, and any measure of dissent or intellectual discourse is met with derision and public ridicule. Anyone who questions the nation’s hallowed truths is labeled as an enemy… or at least, accused of supporting the enemy.

If Socrates were alive today, though, he would be busier than ever.  As uncomfortable as it may be for many people, there are difficult questions that need to be asked.

Is it the nature of justice in America to order the assassination of someone located in another sovereign nation who has not been put on trial, no matter how evil he has been made out to be?

When a country spends 10-years and billions of dollars to chase a man around the world, only to find him ‘hiding in plain sight’ right next door to a country it has invaded, what does it say about its capability to keep the citizens safe?

As the mainstream media is presenting all the information passed along by the US government without questioning any of it, could there be another side to the story that is not being discussed?

In light of such an apparent ‘victory’, when will the civil liberties and financial privacies that have been taken so rapidly since 9/11 be reinstated?

Regardless of any short-term euphoria, is the country headed in the overall right direction? Moreover, has there been any change in the ability of the nation’s leaders to forge real solutions?

Understandably, it’s an easier course of action to celebrate in the streets right now than to ask questions. People are weary of war, and as they have now been told that a grotesque symbol of evil has been put down like a mangy dog, it is no doubt a cathartic moment for those who are emotionally invested.

Yet seeking the truth is not an act of sedition, but one of patriotism. When a society slanders independent thinkers and dismisses those who do not fall in line like chanting Zombies, they’re simply borrowing from the same playbook that the Soviet Union used.

In time, the exuberance will fade, and western nations will once again find themselves facing indelible challenges.  Most of them are already past the point of no return.

The dollar remains fundamentally weak. Commodities and precious metals did fall immediately following last night’s announcement (giving our partner Tim a tidy profit on the short silver position he wrote about last week), though the long-term trend on all tangibles remains bullish over fiat.

Even against other fiat currencies like the euro, yen, and Swiss franc, the dollar is weakening. Debt problems remain unaddressed. The Fed’s balance sheet remains inflated. And a tiny handful of men still controls the money system that has been wrecking the lives of ordinary people around the world.

Roughly 3,000 people died in the September 11th attacks. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians around the world have died in retaliatory conflicts since then. Millions of people have seen their lives change for the worse as a result of the consequent erosion in civil liberties. Billions of people are facing a critical pinch from rising food and fuel prices.

Yes, the boogeyman we have been told to hate for the last decade has been put to rest. But if we choose to ignore the real evils that remain in the world for the sake of short-term euphoria, we’re simply dancing in the streets while Rome burns.

Until tomorrow,
Simon Black

Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com

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