U.S. GIVES CHINA EMINENT DOMAIN OVER UNITEDS STATES

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BOMBSHELL II-CONFIRM-UNIMAGINABLE BETRAYAL-US GIVES CHINA EMINENT DOMAIN OVER US 

This comes from Robert Chapman, publisher of International Forecaster. WORTH A CAREFUL READ AND DISSEMINATION TO OTHERS!

Subject: BOMBSHELL II-CONFIRM-UNIMAGINABLE BETRAYAL-US GIVES CHINA EMINENT DOMAIN OVER US

PLEASE DISSEMINATE IMMEDIATELY-EVERYWHERE POSSIBLE

USA DOUBLE CROSSED-SOLD OUT BY POLITRICKSTER CABAL

THIS PERTINENT SECTION BELOW OF THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER DATED WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011, CONFIRMS A USA TENDER TO CHINA-A WRITTEN AGREEMENT GRANTING AN OPTION TO EXERCISE EMINENT DOMAIN WITHIN THE USA, AS COLLATERAL FOR CHINA’S CONTINUED PURCHASE OF US TREASURY NOTES AND EXISTING US CURRENCY RESERVES.

Put simply, the feds have now actually mortgaged the physical land and property of all citizens and businesses in the United States. They have given to a foreign power, their Constitutional power to “take” all of our property, as actual collateral for continued Chinese funding of US deficit spending and the continued carrying of US national debt.

This is an unimaginable betrayal of every man, woman and child in the USA. An outrage worthy of violent overthrow.

Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED to me that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People’s Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China’s continued purchase of US Treasury Notes and existing US Currency reserves!

The written agreement was brought to Beijing by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was formalized and agreed-to during her recent trip to China.

This means that in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations to China, the Communist Government of China would be permitted to physically take inside the USA land, buildings, factories, perhaps even entire cities to satisfy the financial obligations of the US government.

Put simply, the feds have now actually mortgaged the physical land and property of all citizens and businesses in the United States. They have given to a foreign power, their Constitutional power to “take” all of our property, as actual collateral for continued Chinese funding of US deficit spending and the continued carrying of US national debt.

This is an unimaginable betrayal of every man, woman and child in the USA. An outrage worthy of violent overthrow.

I am endeavoring to obtain images or copies of the actual document but in the interim, several different sources both in the US and in China have CONFIRMED this to me.

POLITICS AND THE IMMUTABLE LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE

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By Marilyn M. Barnewall
February 20, 2011
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Marilyn’s Law: The only way to maintain progress without chaos within a society is to have changeable social values that are tied to unchanging principles.

That may sound pretty boring, but if you’ve ever wondered where America went wrong and why, keep reading. This rather dull sounding concept holds the answer to a lot of questions. First, some definitional clarity so we’re all singing the same song.

What is the definition of “values”?

Values are laws based on social ideals created by humans to ensure a logical social order that encourages progress without chaos and helps achieve societal objectiveS. Also called “ethics” or “social rules.”

What is the definition of “principles”?

Principles are laws of nature created by God – if you don’t believe in God, the laws of nature were put here when the Big Bang happened. Few intelligent people deny the laws of nature exist. Principles are also embodied in the Ten Commandments (which are not, as some people seem to think, ten suggestions). Sir William Blackstone had it precisely right when he said: “When God created man… he laid down certain immutable laws of human nature.”

Whether the reader believes in Creationism, if it happens in nature, we can be sure of it. What goes up must come down. For every action, there is an equal reaction. For every cause, there is an effect. All living things grow to maturity, level off and die. The line of least resistance creates crooked rivers (and so it probably creates crooked people, too). Those are but a few of nature’s principles. They do not change from day-to-day as human values do. They are immutable. The line of least resistance will always create crooked rivers. What goes up will always come down. The sun will always rise in the east.

Values must change for progress to occur. If social values are not allowed to change, cultures remain in a rut. Human beings, however, have a penchant for thinking they are God. Perhaps that’s why He put into place unchanging principles which cannot be ignored if humans want to survive.

What does all of this mean and why should you care? Let’s answer two questions using this little philosophy.

• The problems of the Islamic world are caused because their legal, religious and social structures are all tied together under sharia law. These laws of Islam demand unchanging social values that are tied to unchanging principles. Unchanging social values means no progress.

• The problems of most Western cultures result from untying changing values from unchanging principles. For progress to occur without chaos, changing values must be tied to unchanging principles or no stability exists. No one can manage risk in an unstable environment. Capitalism/free enterprise requires risk management.

Principles are unchanging. Values change as a society progresses. It would make little sense to have laws about tying your Appaloosa horse outside the town tavern in today’s automotive society – but such a law once made sense. At one time, it made sense for a man to have more than one wife. Values/laws/rules change.

By bonding values that change to principles that do not, societies throughout history have maintained stability in the long-term and flexibility in the short-term. It’s a difficult, but necessary, balance. No societal stability means no unchanging principles are in place. No social progress means no changing values are in place to support a move forward.

Muslims live under sharia law, which conforms to the religious principles of the faith. Thus, Muslim values never change. Their laws remain the same no matter where the Muslim lives: Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran – the United States or Russia.

In most Western cultures, laws vary from Denver to New York City to Los Angeles. They differ from the United States to the United Kingdom to Brazil. Traffic drives on the right side of the road in America; on he left in Great Britain. Most societies say theft of another’s possessions violates their laws – their values. In America, one will get a slap on the wrist for violating that law. In Iran, the hand may be cut off.

Anyone who takes that as a slam against Islam is wrong. They may cut off the hand of a thief, but they haven’t aborted millions of unborn babies. No sane person in Western cultures can point to the cut-off hand of a Middle Eastern thief and shout “Barbarians!” because Muslims look at millions of abortions and shout “Barbarians!” right back at us.

Unchanging principles are supposed to make it clear to everyone – government, the people, businesses – what is expected of them. Values give direction intended to help achieve the objective of the unchanging principle. So, before any value can be established, a concept or a doctrine – a principle – has to exist. Perhaps the selected principle is freedom. Values – or laws and social rules – must be created to support that principle. When the rich and powerful want the masses to have less freedom, that becomes the principle and laws are passed to support that objective. The point is, until society states its accepted principles, values cannot be established to help the social order achieve the objective of the principles. Values (or laws or rules) must be established to support the ideal contained in the principle, once the principle is defined.

Look at the Obama Administration’s inability to create jobs. People in the business community don’t know from one day to the next what is expected of them. Government at all levels appears to have abandoned the Rule of Law – both of values and principles. Who wants to take business risks in such an environment?

Ask yourself if the policies (or laws/values) of the BP oil-drilling catastrophe in the Gulf can be tied to any unchanging principle. There is no unchanging principle that says “greed is good” because, in the end, the greedy always fall to their own weaknesses. How about the fraudulent mortgage foreclosures that run so rampant in the country? Can you conceive of any Law of Nature or of God to which such unlawful behavior could be tied? What about abortion? To which Law of Nature or of God is such a “value” attached? I can find none. There is a big difference between “value” and “valueless.”

Values must change or societies do not progress. There are countries on this planet that still function as they did several hundred years ago because they tie their unchanging societal principles to unchanging values. Unchanging values results in no social progress. This explains the dilemma of the Muslim world.

It’s interesting that the social ills of two totally opposite cultures – Muslim and Christian – have at their core the same basic problem. Neither understands the need for changing values that are tied to unchanging principles.

When people start trying to change principles, they change the entire doctrine at the core of the principle. Freedom is a principle. For freedom to remain as our forefathers defined it, the definition must stay fixed. It is an unalienable right granted by our Creator, not by our government. What comes from the Creator must remain unchanged by man. The definition of freedom, however, has not stayed fixed. Socialists and fascists have slowly redefined it.

The word ‘freedom’ has been changed to mean ‘license.’ They have re-defined ‘freedom’ – or have tried to do so. Most Americans do not accept their re-definition – but don’t know how to get their tried and trusted definition of “freedom” back again.

I believe one of the biggest problems people around the world suffer today is a lack of definitional clarity. When someone speaks to you, what is that person saying? If you define the word “freedom” one way and he defines it another, are you communicating effectively? Do you understand one another? It has allowed our elected officials to get away with highway robbery while, technically, not lying. In many cases they do lie, but not always. Sometimes they just scam us. It is up to us to stop it.

Politicians have a responsibility to talk to the public in understandable terms… honest terms. The public has a responsibility to demand they do so. We have ignored our responsibility as badly as they have ignored theirs. When you attend political debates this year and next, one of the most valuable questions you can ask is “Will you please define what you mean when you say ‘______’?” (Add any words – cost cutting, or 20 million people who don’t have health care – who are they?) Make them define their terms! One of the questions I am about to start asking politicians is: “What do you mean when you say ‘democracy’? Our founding fathers gave us a republic, not a democracy, so why do you refer to it as a ‘democracy’?”

I believe this little theory of mine applies to most of the social problems in America today. Nothing is black and white because powerful people are disconnecting our changing values from unchanging principles. They are re-defining freedom. The confusion in both political parties is caused because a slick group of thieves are removing the unchanging principles that have anchored American society for a few hundred years.

The only way to move America from capitalism to communism is to re-define words like freedom, faith, education, sovereignty, independence, competition. Those words represent the unchanging principles on which America was founded. “…Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…” How do you define happiness? How do the millions of Americans on welfare define it – or those who find happiness in drugs or in reality tv shows each night? How do we as a society define ‘life’, ‘liberty’ and ‘happiness’?

It makes it possible to ignore the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States… which ensures our most important unchanging principle: Freedom. At least it ensures freedom as long as the Rule of Law is respected.

© 2011 Marilyn M. Barnewall – All Rights Reserved

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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. She has written seven non-fiction books about banking and taught private banking at Colorado University for the American Bankers Association. She has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and one work of fiction (about banking, of course). She has served on numerous Boards in her community.

Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and as a journalist has written guest editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, among others. On the Internet, she has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who’s Who in America (2005-10), Who’s Who of American Women (2006-10), Who’s Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who’s Who in the World (2008).

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How the Federal Reserve banksters stole our gold

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How the Federal Reserve banksters stole our gold and took Control of the United States in 1933

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A Special Report on the National Emergency in the United States of America

Research of Dr Eugene Schroder

. . . in 1913, The Federal Reserve Act was passed, authorizing the creation of a [private] central bank, the thought of which had already been noted in the Constitution. The basic idea of the central bank was, among other things, for it to act as a secure repository for the gold of the people. We, the People, would bring our gold to the huge, strong vaults of the Federal Reserve, and we would be issued a note which said, in effect, that, at any time we desired, we could bring that note back to the bank and be given back our gold which we had deposited.

Until 1933, that agreement, that contract between the Federal Reserve and its depositors, was honored. Federal Reserve notes, prior to 1933, were indeed redeemable in gold. After 1933, the situation changed drastically. In 1933, during the depths of the Depression, at the time when We, the People, were struggling to stay alive and keep our families fed, the bankers began to say, “People are coming in now, wanting their gold, wanting us to honor this contract we have made with them to give them their gold on demand, and this contractual obligation is creating a national emergency.”

On March the 2nd, 1933, however, we find that Herbert Hoover had written a letter to the Federal Reserve Board of New York, asking them for recommendations for action based on the over-all situation at the time. The Federal Reserve Board responded with a resolution (Exhibit 15) which they had adopted, an excerpt from which follows:

“Resolution Adopted By The Federal Reserve Board Of New York. Whereas, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the continued and increasing withdrawal of currency and gold from the banks of the country has now created a national emergency….”

. . . on March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the united States. On March 5, 1933, President Roosevelt called for an extraordinary session of Congress to be held on March 9, 1933, as can be seen in Exhibit 17:

“Whereas, public interests require that the Congress of the united States should be convened in extra session at twelve o’clock, noon, on the Ninth day of March, 1933, to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive.”

On the next day, March 6 ,1933, President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039, which has been included in this report, starting at the bottom of Exhibit 8. In Exhibit 32, we find the following:

“Whereas there have been heavy and unwarranted withdrawals of gold and currency from our banking institutions for the purpose of hoarding . . .”

Right at the beginning, we have a problem. And the problem rests in the question of who should be the judge of whether or not my gold, on deposit at the Federal Reserve, with which I have a contract which says, in effect, that I may withdraw my gold at my discretion, is being withdrawn by me in an “unwarranted” manner. Remember, the people of the united States were in dire economic straits at this point. If I had gold at the Federal Reserve, I would consider withdrawing as much of my gold as I needed for my family and myself a “warranted” action. But the decision was not left up to We, the People.

It is also important to note that it is stated that the gold is being withdrawn for the “purpose of hoarding”. The significance of this phrase becomes clearer when we reach Proclamation 2039, wherein the term “hoarding” is inserted into the amended version of Section 5 (b). The term, “hoarding”, was not to be found in the original version of Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917. It was a term which was used by President Roosevelt to help support his contention that the United States was in the middle of a national emergency, and his assertion that the extraordinary powers conferred to him by the War Powers Act were needed to deal with that emergency.

Where had our gold gone? Our gold had already been moved offshore! The gold was not in the banks, and when We, the People lined up at the door attempting to have our contracts honored, the deception was exposed. What happened then? The laws were changed to prevent us from asking again, and the military was brought in to protect the Federal Reserve. We, the People, were declared to be the same as public enemy and placed under military authority.

Going now to another section of 48 Statute 1 (Exhibit 35):

“Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury such action is necessary to protect the currency system of the (U)nited States, the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may require any or all individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations to pay and deliver to the Treasurer of the United States any or all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by such individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations.” Notice now to whom we refer as “owning” the money!

By this Statute, everyone was required to turn in their gold. Failure to do so would constitute a violation of this provision, such violation to be punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 and imprisonment for not more than ten years. It was a seizure. Whose property may be seized without due process of law under the Trading With the Enemy Act? The enemy’s. Whose gold was seized? Ours — the gold of the people of the united States. Are you seeing the fraud here now? Who did they make the ‘enemy’?  We the People!

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The Federal Reserve criminals removed and shipped out all of the gold that was stored in their banks and then proceeded to steal the remaining gold that was physically in We the People’s possession. Rep Louis McFadden said of these criminals:

“Some people who think that the Federal Reserve Banks United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man’s throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime.”

Hence the people’s legitimate claims to their own gold became ‘hoarding’ and they were forced to surrender the gold in their possession to thieves at the behest of their new President (FDR) who aptly called this tragedy The New Deal. It certainly was a New Deal . . . for the international banksters and the Robber Barons. They hit pay dirt!

From Dr Schroder:

“To summarize briefly: On March 9,1933 the American people in all their domestic, daily, and commercial transactions became the same as the enemy. The President of the united States, through licenses or any other form, was given the power to regulate and control the actions of enemies. He made We, the People, chattel property; he seized our gold, our property and our rights; and he suspended the Constitution.

And we know that current law, to this day, says that all proclamations issued heretofore or hereafter by the President or the Secretary of the Treasury are approved and confirmed by Congress.”

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Now we know why in 2008 when Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson ordered Congress to bailout the banksters . . . they had no choice. But to this day, according to Rep Ron Paul, no one really knows for sure where America’s gold actually is or whether or not it has been shipped out of the country.

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The Federal Reserve – a Criminal Cartel

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The State of National Emergency

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The State of National Emergency

by SourceWatch

In 1973, in the Emergency Powers Statutes (Senate Report 93-549), the first sentence reads: “Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency.”

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Regarding what is known as a State of National Emergency, Paula Demers writes: “According to the United States Constitution, Article 1, only Congress shall make federal law. However, since the War and Emergency Powers Act of 1933, every president has usurped lawmaking powers. Their ‘laws’ are called Executive Orders (EOs). These EOs, not our Constitution, are what is governing America today. The War and Emergency Powers Act enables … the president to declare a national emergency, and thereby become a dictator.”[1]

“Presidents can also carefully choose their words and declare a war on anything, in order to give them dictatorial control. For example, the War on Drugs makes it possible to use federal authorities, such as FBI, FEMA, BATF, and the military against American citizens. A well-known example is Waco. Another example is Hurricane Opal. After Florida was declared a nation emergency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) arrived on the scene and residents were placed under martial law (restricted to the point of not going outside their door). When the federal government does this, it is going against the Constitution. The War and Emergency Powers Act is an unconstitutional act on the part of our government, created so that presidents can bypass Congress, and do whatever they choose.”[2]

“It also makes it possible to do away with posse comitatus in cases of ‘emergency’. Posse comitatus is what protects American citizens from the military being used against them.”[3]

Emergency Powers Statutes (Senate Report 93-549): In this 1973 official report, the U.S. Senate admits that the Emergency Powers given to the President (Franklin D. Roosevelt) under the pretense of the National Emergency of 1933 have remained in force and that the normal function of the Federal government has been suspended. [93rd Congress, SENATE Report No. 93-549, 1st Session]. See War Powers Act,

“When Congress declares an emergency, there is no Constitution…”

• Dr. Eugene Schroder (a founder of the American Agriculture Movement) and David Schechter, in their book War, Central Planning and Corporations. The Corporate State, discuss the long-lasting impact of the powers granted by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (Public Law 73-10):

“The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 [commonly referred to as the “Farm Bill”], a curse to farmers for so many years, was a key piece of legislation in these emergency powers, for it took the power to coin and regulate money away from congress (as provided in the Constitution) and gave it to the president. Tracing back through the archives, further investigation showed how emergency government was simultaneously implemented in all states through a highly coordinated effort coming straight down from FDR and the federal government. Emergency government, outside the bounds of the Constitution, has now been the norm for more than 64 years, according to the Senate’s own study.”

Gary North writes: “In 1933, Congressman James M. Beck, speaking from the Congressional Record, states:

• “I think of all the damnable heresies that have ever been suggested in connection with the Constitution, the doctrine of emergency is the worst. it means that when Congress declares an emergency, there is no Constitution. This means its death. It is the very doctrine that the German chancellor is invoking today in the dying hours of the parliamentary body of the German republic, namely, that because of an emergency, it should grant to the German chancellor absolute power to pass any law, even though the law contradicts the Constitution of the German republic. Chancellor Hitler is at least frank about it. We pay the Constitution lipservice, but the result is the same.”

North says that what Congressman Beck was saying is “that, of all the damnable heresies that ever existed, this doctrine of emergency has got to be the worst, because once Congress declares an emergency, there is no Constitution.”

Beck goes on to say:

• “But the Constitution of the United States, as a restraining influence in keeping the federal government within the carefully prescribed channels of power, is moribund, if not dead. We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill becomes a law, if unhappily it becomes a law, there is no longer any workable Constitution to keep the Congress within the limits of its Constitutional powers.”

North asks “What bill is Congressman Beck talking about?” Beck is referring to the 1933 “Farm Bill”, which was passed by the House of Representatives “by a vote of more than three to one.” North points out that, “again, we see the doctrine of emergency. Once an emergency is declared, there is no Constitution … In 1973, in the Emergency Powers Statutes (Senate Report 93-549), the first sentence reads:

“Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency.”

North emphasizes that the “Farm Bill” says “that if a national emergency is declared, there is no Constitution.” This is further emphasized by the above Emergency Powers Statutes’ statement — “Since March the 9th of 1933, the United States has been,” in fact, “in a state of declared national emergency.”

The middle language of the Emergency Powers Statutes states:

“This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.”

North adds that “this situation has continued uninterrupted since March the 9th of 1933. . . .”

“A majority of people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency…”

• Senate Report 93-549 (Introduction) 1973.

“The President may:  Seize property, organize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute Martial Law, seize and control and transportation and communication, regulate operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens”.

• Senate Report 93-549; Senate Resolution 9, 93rd Congress, 1st. Session (III) 1973.
• See: Chapter 1, Title 1, Section 48, Statute 1, March 9, 1933; Proclamation 2038; Title 12 U.S.C 95(b).
• Also see Executive Orders.

Currently, the United States remains in a permanent state of national emergency (22 U.S.C.A. 286rd. 1977).

• Executive Order 12919[4] dated June 3, 1994, otherwise known as National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness [5][6], was signed by President William Jefferson Clinton.

On October 29, 2003, President George W. Bush continued the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) regarding Weapons of mass destructionfor 1 year, with the “national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938, as amended.”[7]

“NATIONAL EMERGENCY: (as defined in Black’s Law Dictionary) A state of national crisis; a situation demanding immediate and extraordinary national or federal action. Congress has made little or no distinction between a “state of national emergency” and a “state of war”. Brown v. Bernstein, D.C.Pa., 49 F.Supp. 728, 732.”[8]

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For more details regarding this complete destruction of our Constitutional government see:  A Special Report on the National Emergency in the United States of America

The U S Chamber of Commerce

From: “Joe and Barb M.” <joeusa@cox.net>
Subject: Chambers of Commerce, illegal aliens, Foreign Trade Zones.
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its subsidiaries­the largest traffickers of illegal Mexicans and OTM’s and purveyors of Foreign Trade Zones.   The enemy within.
The Chamber is a major component in job-killing activities known as “free trade”.  “Free trade” is a misnomer.  There’s nothing free about the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s use of the phrase “free trade”. It is government mandated trade. What we should have is Fair Trade.  Since Geo. W. Bush and his band of neo-con corrupters, our nation has lost 6 million industrial jobs.  The U.S. is engaging in the textbook definition of Fascism.  A “Private/Public Partnership” (PPP)­a nexus between government and industry, where the government is the CEO.  Review 1930’s German history.

Chambers of Commerce act independently and also in concert with the national brand in destroying American jobs and standards of living by leading the charge exporting jobs and industry abroad, while at the same time, behind the scenes hiring foreign nationals from abroad for cheap wages to accomplish technological services here in the U.S.

The Chambers have for decades been obsessed with maintaining open borders and exploiting 3^rd world illegal alien populations for exploitation by industries.

One of the few legitimate creations by the federal government to slow down the illegal invasions was the institution of E-Verify demanding that U.S. businesses identify illegals by a simple phone call…just a telephone call away and 99% accurate.

Resistance to using the mandated E-Verify was recently made public by a printed communication with the letterhead of the Arkansas Homebuilders Association, under the names of Todd Wilcox, AHBA president and co-signer Julie Mills, AHBA executive vice-president. In this communication the ugly hand of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in their litigation vs. Candelaria, no. 09-115, August 8, 2009 to do away with E-Verify raised its head.  According to the AHBA a decision is expected by this summer at the least and they are expecting E-Verify to be killed.

A statement of violation of the Constitution and U.S. law could not be clearer.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing to destroy E-Verify for their equally guilty enablers­e.g. Tyson’s, Simmons, AHBA, Pilgrim’s Pride, Contractors, religious orders, anti-American ethno-centric organizations,  and various factions of Arkansas government.

The Chambers of Commerce are in no way representing small businesses while taking their exorbitant yearly fees and using to defend big business and destroying the middleclass workforce.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with others, is pursuing what is known as “Foreign Trade Zones”.  The U.S. Dept of Commerce in lockstep with various city/state Chambers of Commerce, are negotiating with China to promote private businesses while inviting the Chinese to come here to invest, (EB-5 Visas), live, and start businesses and then file for a “Foreign Trade Zone” status and get special tax cuts and lower operational costs than American businesses outside the zone can have.  The U.S. Dept. of Commerce then takes over all control of the land and business guidelines within the Zone.

China and other nations who participate in “Foreign Trade Zones” are under no obligation to hire Americans. Under the Free Trade Zone arrangements foreign investors, e.g. China, can bring in as many of their own citizens as they desire, may build cities replete with shopping malls, schools, hospitals, etc. under the EB-5 Visas.   “Foreign Trade Zones” are not a new concept. “Foreign Trade Zones” are being promulgated all over America right now.  In Fort Smith, Arkansas Mitsubishi is building a wind turbine factory and bringing in Japanese employees who are and will be subsidized by Arkansas taxpayers.

The Chambers are telling Private businesses that they cannot make it economically without sending their products to China; therefore American businesses can move into “Foreign Trade Zones” for exporting their products to China.   Promoting EB-5 Visas by the Chambers of Commerce will be the death knell of middleclass Americans, both in wages and in numbers.   State Governors are travelling to China to make agreements with them to become foreign investors in the U.S. “Foreign Trade Zones”.

This is just a tip of the corrupt national Chamber of Commerce, Governors, and of course Federal Government. There are many more players in this American job-killing endeavor and in Fort Smith it is noted that there are yearly treks to China and environs by Univ. of Ark. @ Ft. Smith Chancellor Paul Beran and his substantial entourage. Could it be Beran is promoting “Foreign Trade Zones”?

Legislators, please be aware of the Trade Zone assaults and the destruction it will wreak.  Please take the time to research, and the first place to begin would be Governor Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.   Might want to look into the Aspen Institute where A.G. McDaniel is ladder climbing and traveling the world.

Conclusion: the Chambers of Commerce are open-borders and illegal alien advocates, while at the same time promoting the Foreign Free Trade Zones, which has all but annihilated the real free market translating into destruction of American jobs, sovereignty and stability.

Do any of you see what the coming attraction is if the will of the people continues to be ignored and abused?  Think Egypt.  I do not believe for one minute any politician or bureaucrat will lift a hand to save our once preeminent Republic while at the same time they are busily involved in incestuous behavior, i.e. preemptive wars globally, a phony “war on terror”, citizen abuse at airports and other venues, nationalized medicine, printing phony money, thousands of bureaucracies that are duplicitous or in most cases have no meaningful purpose but having lives of their own, and stealing taxpayer money to subsidize their criminal behavior.  A Giant Protection Racket.

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen

www.arkansasfreedom.com

 

Dr. David Janda explains rationing and why Dr. Rob Steele must defeat Dingell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ

OLDDOGS COMMENTS

A seven year sedentary lifestyle in front of a computer, studying the reasons for a dying nation have finally taken their toll these past few weeks, and at seventy, I am now finding out first hand what the effects of Obama Care really are.

 

In years past, an infection in my sinus and lungs could be cured by a dose of Augmentin and a few days of rest.

 

http://antibiotics.emedtv.com/augmentin/augmentin.html

Augmentin 875 mg — 875 mg of amoxicillin and 125 mg of clavulanic acid per tablet.

Augmentin contains two different medications: amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium (also known as clavulanic acid or simply clavulanate). It belongs to a group of medications known as aminopenicillins, which is part of a larger group of medications known as beta-lactam antibiotics (named after the ring-like “lactam” structure of these antibiotics). Amoxicillin works by stopping bacteria from making cell walls, which eventually causes the bacteria to die. However, many bacteria have developed resistance to amoxicillin and similar antibiotics by producing enzymes called beta-lactamases. Beta-lactamases break the beta-lactam ring, making amoxicillin and similar antibiotics ineffective.

 

The other component of Augmentin (clavulanate) is known as a beta-lactamase inhibitor. Clavulanate binds to bacterial beta-lactamase and stops the enzymes from breaking down the amoxicillin molecule. Clavulanate itself has no significant antibacterial activity; it merely helps to prevent amoxicillin from being broken down by bacteria that would otherwise be resistant to it. Essentially, clavulanate “augments” the activity of amoxicillin (hence the name Augmentin).

Slowly over the years it has been harder and harder to obtain Augmentin manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.

 

Augmentin was originally made by GlaxoSmithKline. The patent for the drug has expired, and several companies currently make generic versions of Augmentin.

 

However, not all strengths and forms of Augmentin are available in generic form.

http://antibiotics.emedtv.com/augmentin/generic-augmentin.html

 

It has consistently been my experience that the generic versions do not give me diarrhea and do not cure the infection, in spite of published information, and the original has had a 100% success rate.

During my last Doctors visit, no amount of complaining could produce a prescription for the original brand name Augmentin, and the old method of the Doctor taking hand written notes was being done on a laptop, which led to a conversation about Obama Care. This Doctor then admitted that he had no choice in his decision, and it was the Generic or nothing.

If the reader sees no problem with this method of health-care, it is my opinion that you have shit for brains, and that’s why you love bureaucrats making your decisions.

James OldDog Harvey

 

 

Forced Globalization of Trading Marts: Consolidation for Disaster

The Daily Bell

Thursday, February 10, 2011 – by  Staff Report

Forced Globalization of Trading Marts:

Consolidation for Disaster

http://www.thedailybell.com

EC insists on consolidation of brokerage firms … For the umpteenth time on Monday, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) restated the need to drastically prune down the number of stockbrokerage firms as part of efforts to ensure that they become more professional and better capitalised. Fielding questions during her maiden address to journalists for the year, SEC Director General, Ms. Arunma Oteh, stressed that the ultimate aim is to ensure sanity in the nation’s equities market, and in line with her avowed zero tolerance stance for market infraction of any kind. Perhaps prodded by the SEC management, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), recently suspended 61 brokerage firms for not being adequately capitalized to the minimum of N70 million, at a time when moves were made several months ago to raise their capital base to N1.5 billion. – Daily Independent

Dominant Social Theme: It is important to trade correctly and with increased depth.

Free-Market Analysis: The article excerpt above sounds as if it could have been written anywhere in the West, but its focus is the Nigerian securities industry. The replication of the US model is startling. The regulatory body is called the SEC and the issues being discussed have to do the Nigerian stock market, brokerage firms and the US catchphrase “zero tolerance” – regulatory authoritarianism in other words.

This Nigerian episode is symptomatic of several larger issues having to do with modern Western economics. The argument that “bigger is better” when it comes to economic structure generally is certainly an important dominant social theme of the Anglosphere. One can take the view of course that the replication of Western-style (American) trading is merely the result of a superior system; and this goes for US-style central banking as well. In fact, one can count on the fingers of one hand the country’s that had not until recently installed Western-style central banks and strangely enough the West has not-so-coincidentally been at war with several of them.

What is clear is that the Western securities trading and fiat-money paradigm is increasingly ubiquitous. The methodology is actually driven by fiat-money and sustained by securities centralization. We have written about this before – pointing out that securities market consolidation speeded up considerably in America after the Civil War, as mass-produced equity financings were pioneered and refined. Today, the centralization is ongoing and global. The more that securities trading is concentrated, the more profitable – lucrative – it is for those who control it. The order flow becomes almost inconceivably massive along with the commissions. These are incredibly powerful twin forces: central banking and centralized (electronic) securities trading.

One can argue of course that the evolution of the “modern” money system is an outgrowth of its competitive efficiency. When evaluated this way, a case can be made that the system evolved around the world because it outdid all the others and thus was selected by the Invisible Hand. But this is a little like arguing, in our view, that wars of conquest are regularly pursued as an outcome of marketplace competition. It is simply easier, if one wants to adopt this perspective, to take what one wants; this is the reason, according to this argument, that war remains a market solution of choice.

Of course, war may offer compensations but that does not mean it ought to be the preferred tool of wealth-building. War eventually disadvantages both victors and vanquished alike; the saying “those who live by the sword die by the sword” probably encapsulates a valid observation. Violence begets violence and its frequent application does not necessarily given an advantage to the individual applying it. The current consolidation of trading marts may seem reasonable and driven by business-priorities. In fact it is a violent process that tramples what would be a more normal and predictable paradigm: specialized marts controlled independently (in the US and around the world) and linked as necessary via emergent electronic communication technology.

The same can be said for central banking and securities-trading centralization. Both are entirely artificial financial methodologies that have been imposed on the West – and now the world – by force. The force in this case is mercantilism, which uses the power of the state via law and regulations to provide commercial advantages to those shaping legislation to their advantage. The behind-the-scenes maneuvering is not so obvious as outright conquest but it has the same effect. Leviathan’s force of law – and punitive results – are brought to bear on those who might be possible competitors. They are removed not by the market itself but by government regulatory leverage.

Mercantilism, especially in its initial phases, is not very evident to the body public, and this makes it a most useful tool. The regulatory strategies that it adopts can be disguised as mechanisms implemented for general welfare. Even mercantilism’s inevitable consolidations can be presented as necessary for social and industrial “efficiency.” Central banking partakes of this justification as does globalized securities trading. It is this trend that is currently in play in a post-crash global economy. The unification of markets and products proceeds apace, as we can see in this recent CNBC news excerpt:

Global Stock Exchanges Are Headed for Major Consolidation … Germany’s Deutsche Boerse is in advanced talks to buy NYSE Euronext, and the London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy Canadian stock market operator TMX, as exchanges globally look for ways to boost their markets and cut costs. Together, Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext would dominate exchange trading in continental Europe. The companies said they could cut costs by 300 million euros ($408.7 million) a year. The combined group would have headquarters in New York and Frankfurt, with Deutsche Boerse shareholders holding about 60 percent of the combined company and NYSE shareholders holding the rest.

It is the Anglo-American power elite that evidently and obviously stands behind these ever-vaster consolidations – the same players that have developed and propagated central banking. It aims ultimately at creating a single market that can trade every kind of available instrument (including derivatives and carbon credits) under the watchful eye of a single super-regulator.

In fact, this is not very well known right now, but if one does the research it soon becomes clear that the US securities regulatory model has been spread around the world with quiet determination. Just as US-style securities markets have been propagated throughout Africa and Asia, so US-style regulation with all its illogical inconsistencies and corrosive industry favoritism has been installed as well.

The Anglosphere’s securities trading model nestles within the West’s (and now the world’s) larger banking mechanism. They are two halves of a whole. When Western bankers print money to excess, various securities markets begin to expand artificially – a bubble is being created. Such “booms” are inordinately profitable to those who control the banking and securities trading stimulated by fiat overprinting. The elites who control central banks, commercial and investment banks and ultimately the trading marts benefit from all phases of the business cycle.

When central banking overprinting of fiat-money causes ruinous collapses, the elites that stand behind the system strive to further consolidate power by claiming that the free-market has “failed.” When the ruin affects the marts themselves, as it must, the powers-that-be form committees to issue white papers recommending yet more regulations and banking and securities industry consolidation. The system is not just massively controlled, it is constantly centralizing and enlarging as central-banking causes collapse after collapse and consolidation after consolidation.

Conclusion: The elite goal of a single worldwide trading mart encompassing every instrument known to man is the “flip side” of central banking. It is the bastard child of a union between the regulatory state and reckless money printing. It will prove no more “efficient” than fiat currency itself – and just as ruinous.

 

 

All Ambassadors Called Back to Washington!

All Ambassadors Called Back to Washington!

A new currency distributed with new treasury dollars?
Sunday, February 06, 2011 2:21
FORWARDED FROM : becworks@gmail.com

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/399/615/All_Ambassadors_Called_Back_to_Washington.html

U.S. Ambassadors of the world called back to Washington

In an unprecedented move, apparently one that has never happened before, nearly all U.S. Ambassadors to all nations have been called back to Washington for a summit conference this week.

politico.com reports, “Ambassadors from almost all 260 U.S. embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries are expected to convene at the State Department for what’s being billed as the first meeting of its kind.”

huffingtonpost.com, “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.”

The first logical thought that comes to mind…  Looking back at all previous world crisis, what might now be so important, evidently more-so than anything ever in the past, to call all Ambassadors back to Washington?

The sky’s the limit with ideas and conspiracy…

To get all their stories ‘straight’ ahead of time – for something

To prearrange settling the debt score between nations prior to a new world currency roll-out

A dollar currency devaluation

China is calling in our debt

New severely damaging Wikileaks about to release

Afraid of electronic communication leaks of something very important to discuss
While the main stream and most Americans are involved with the SuperBowl at the moment, hardly any reporting on the event can be found. Fine time to do something ‘under the radar’.

Could this actually be simply a ‘first time’ of such a gathering to discuss ‘normal’ business? At first instinct, suspicion is aroused. stay tuned…
Update… The ‘official’ explanation from the U.S. State Dept. is something named, QDDR.

Disclaimer: These notes are not intended to be used as accurate transmission of the GET Telephone Conference and Guest Speaker “Contact 2”.  The notes are only shared for the sakes of those who do not have the time to listen to the AUDEO although, IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Reporting:
R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences
Freelance Investigative Reporter: becworks@gmail.com

Audeo of a G.E.T. Phone conference with “Contact 2″  who is a former intelligence Air Force officer. Takes 2 hours.

http://files.hoza.me/Information-on-Iraqi-Dinar-etc-2Feb2011.mp3

NOTES – (DRAFT ONLY)

1. Disclosure is given about the global currency shift that is happening today . . NOW . . and we don’t see it.  We are not being told what is happening.

FACT: The Chinese took away the processing authority of delivering the Global Settlements and the Prosperity Packages , and are making the deliveries at this time.  Americans were dragging their feet on the promised deliveries, and the Chinese did not put up with it.

There was an Emergency Meeting over the weekend with the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington on Saturday and Sunday.

A meeting with the Chinese Dragons and the Pentagon occurred this weekend.

Monday, today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled all of the US Ambassadors and Consulates for a 2 Day Meeting in Washington, DC.  The reason for the meeting was to prevent interference on other levels as they continue this process.

Once the Program Packages and Global Settlements are delivered, there will be a new currency distributed with new treasury dollars.

The Iraqi DINAR will be devalued

There will be a new level global playing field with the new currency.

The sequential events will happen very quickly; all of this should be over by Wednesday.

The Chinese New Year is on Thursday, and they want it done by then.

By next Monday, there should be a new banking system.

The Iraqi DINAR will be used for oil purchases – globally.
the Chinese Yuan will be used for exchanges.

Currencies are recognized as sovereign-based, and will be continued .. just reformed.

Q&A — BRIEF EXCERPTS OF ANSWERS ONLY  (Go to the video for the details)

1.  By revaluating the DINAR, the price of USA gasoline will rise to the same as other nations.  It has been artificially and fraudulently suppressed.

2.  The Federal Reserve has kept the USA in a perpetual state of DEBT and used the Americans as the slaves to pay it.  This is going to end.  The transition to new POSITIVE valued currencies will be based in Gold, Silver or Oil.

3.  The Federal Reserve is fighting this global action.  The Chinese circumvented it.China is dismantling the OPEC Cartel, that was created by the Rockefeller elitists.

4.  The situation in Greece is different.  People were burning the banks that were under Rockefellers.  At this time, Spain and Portugal will be okay.

5.  The elitists all over the globe are going down.

6.  At the end of WW-II, there were 152,000 NAZI iffucers infiltrated into the US Intelligence community, and they began rebuilding the regime in the USA.  The American CIA was patterned after the SS.

7.  The National Security Act with its Black Projects forced Americans to sign away their rights in the name of national security.

8.  The NAZI plan for seizing power was disclosed by a Professor in his Ph.D. Thesis, which was later a book entitled, How the Nazi’s Seized Power.

9.  To gain control of the USA, the hidden NAZI regime had to seize control over:
(a) Intelligence community,
(b) Media,
(c) Banking, and
(d) the Military Industrial Complex.

10.  In order to gain control over the Media, there had to be a willing Religious group .. the Fundamental Christians were the perfect tool because they had Dogma and Patriotism.  TRAP:  Everyone wants to love their country.

11.  After a lot of research, the United STates military minds agreed — THERE IS NO HAPPY ENDING TO A NUCLEAR WAR.  So, they started using the debasement of currency to entrap their enemies and suppress them.

12.  The military plan to debase currencies as a military strategy went to Howard Hughes who shelved it; however, President Reagan brought it out, funded it, and used it to gut the Soviet Union.  It worked.

13.  A total of $43,7 Trillion was made during Reagan’s exploitation of Russia.  It was high-jacked by President Bush, and never returned.  This is the reason for the Settlement Programs today.

14.  The CIA is running the global Drug Cartels.  It is going to be defunded when the new currency is in place.

15.  An even playing field will have transparency.  It will eliminate the reasons for (a) war, (b) Drug cartels, (c) Oil manipulations, and (d) Chainless slaves to pay taxes.

16.  China is not interested in expansion .. never was and never will be.  It is focused on making life better for the country.  China’s wealthy leaders only used communism to reunite the very divided country.  Americans do not need to fear China, and try to understand that it thinks very differently.

17.  China allowed the USA to borrow $43 Trillion to restart the US economy in 1933.

In 1978 – the 75 year loan came due.

Congress wanted to ignore it.  President Bush, Sr. gave NWO speeches.  He was arrogant, and believed that the Chinese
Dynasty had all died; therefore, he did not have to pay back the debt.  During the Clinton administration, the Chinese presented the heir to that Dynasty, and the money was due.

18.  The Gold located in the bottom of the Twin Trade Towers was quietly removed at 11:00 pm at night by 4 garbage trucks, and taken to the Russian vessels 50 miles North of the Hudson River.  It was off-loaded onto 2 airplanes and then taken to the Mahauve Air Field. Once all of the gold was removed, the towers were imploded – September 11, 2001.

PURPOSE OF 911 WAS TO HIDE THE THEFT OF $43 TRILLION IN GOLD.

19.  The “HOMERUN” software was developed to take control over 757 and 767 airplanes from the ground, in case of problems in the cockpit.  There were only 3 planes in the 911 event.  The Pentagon was hit by a smaller craft.

20.  The purpose of Basel I and II is to stop unbacked currency and produce International regulations for accounts.

21.  All debts are in the process of being “PAID in FULL”. via the Global Settlements.  Berneke recently siad that CDOs are worthless.  He was telling us that “all debts are gone.”

22.  Mortgages that do not have a Promissory Note are technically and legally gone, according to recent Court decisions.

23.  The MER is trying to play a game with old property.  (listen to the video)

24.  It is predicted that the IRS is not going to be around much longer.  Federal Reserve is definitely going away.

25.  When American people learn about the atrocities created by their own government, they will be as horrified as the little German towns that were within 1 kilometer of the concentration camps, but did not know what was happening.  There will be people prosecuted for US War Crimes in the near future.

26.  There are very, very wealthy powerful Chinese families who are working behind the scenes on these coming changes.  They choose to have no losers.  They want “Two winners” and long term stability.  Communism was a tool, just like Socialism, Democracy, and other political choices.  They are not absolutists.

27.  The USA recently parted 2 nuclear carriers within the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone of China.  The USA was told to move them.  The USA refused.  An undetected Chinese submarine exploded an IMP weapon behind the Reagan aircraft carrier, which accidentally fried all of the electrical equipment in the Princess Cruise ship.  the message sent to the USA was that the Chinese are capable of blowing up the two carriers, and offered the USA the opportunity to comply.  This occurred 35 miles South of San Diego.

28.  The speaker said to be prudent and take your time with decisions.  Let things settle and understand them before making a move.

“A huge Operation has gone on right before your eyes, and Americans did not see it.  Changing in a way never seen before. The charade is being disrobed.”

END

 

Democracy Won’t Help Egypt

The Daily bell

http://www.thedailybell.com/1729/Tibor-Machan-Democracy-Wont-Help-Egypt.html

Democracy Won’t Help Egypt

Wednesday, February 02, 2011 – by  Dr. Tibor Machan

Even without being an Egyptologist I can say with reasonable certainty that it will not help to solve Egypt’s problems to make it into an unlimited democracy. What we are likely to get is Lebanon with the heavy hand of Hamas in charge there. In Egypt it looks like the Brotherhood is ready to jump into the position Hamas occupies in Lebanon.

In any case, in none of the discussions about what lies ahead for Egypt is there ever any mention of ushering in a limited – or bona fide liberal –democracy, with a constitution that would restrain all sides and leave the citizenry in peace to attend to its own affairs. Such pluralism isn’t very likely to take center stage in that country.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak became a virtual dictator after the assassination of the previous president Anwar Sadat, with hardly any credible and sensible resistance from the population and it’s only now, that a bunch of young people appear to be upset enough with the culture he has been heading up, that his rule is seriously questioned. Nothing much that’s rational is evident in the current developments apart from the simple insistence on the part of a great many Egyptians that they’ve had it up to here with being ruled by Mubarek team.

Now this is not so surprising when one realizes that none of the leaders around the globe, including American presidents, nor indeed many intellectuals in Egypt itself, have made a serious pitch for Egypt adopting constitutional reforms that respect individual rights. That’s not the same thing as promoting the vague idea of democracy, which as history shows, has not managed to be a bulwark against tyranny, not in Western or Eastern Europe, not in Latin America, not even in the United States of America where nearly all the good ideas failed to get democratic support or bad ones got swept aside democratically. The American civil war was no triumph of democracy, nor the New Deal, nor again all the oppressive federal measures that are burdening the country, keeping its economy hostage to populist and egalitarian notions.

Very probably the reason the U.S.A. hasn’t gone under yet is that some of its better features gained solid momentum and despite the absence of sustained political and judicial support for them these are continuing to be fairly dominant – relatively free and competitive markets, civil liberties, private property rights, freedom of religion and speech, due process, etc. But they are all gradually being replaced with the widely championed ideology of activist citizens in higher education and media, people working in the most prestigious and invincible institutions in society, who not very surprisingly want to regiment us all into compliance with a vision of full equality. (The cautionary tale about this was written by George Orwell, in his brilliant fable, Animal Farm, who was anything but a Tea Party type but, rather, a rare sensible Leftist!)

When the mobs in Egypt, who have been treated as a bunch of unruly children by Mubarek’s regime, finally couldn’t take it any more and stood up to the dictator, there is little reason to think they would become a civilized citizenry that renounces the temptation to rule others once they gain power. Their call for democracy appears to have little to do with the kind of constitutional system that America’s founders favored. Even their call for freedom seems mostly to be about being free to rule instead of being ruled.

At the personal level my fear is that those expatriates from Egypt who in the last few years decided to return in the hopes that their country would move closer to a liberal democratic model are now packing their bags again, headed back to some more stable region of the globe so as to save their necks from chaos. I know a few such people and can only empathize with their disappointment.

True self-government isn’t the sort of democracy we have seen in the Weimar Republic, in Lebanon, in Venezuela, and being widely demanded now in Egypt. It is, instead, a polity that upholds the rights of individuals not simply to take part in the vote but to live as they choose in peace with their fellows.