America does not need CHANGE. It needs a REVOLUTION.

Revolution: A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Aristotle described two types of political revolution:

1. Complete change from one constitution to another.
2. Modification of an existing constitution.

Thomas Jefferson said periodic revolution was necessary to remove the excesses, corruption, and violation of rights that tend to show up in government.

Restore and reinforce the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Declare a new Declaration of Independence from the international bank cartels who have run the whole show from behind the scenes with their ‘actors’ to take the heat. Dissolve the Unconsitutional Federal Reserve of which is a private consortium or cartel of international bankers out to control your lives more than the populace at large knows.

The American Revolution, like most wars, was fought, not for the any great ideal (ie: freedom), rather it’s roots were economic. The wealthy plantation and business owners wanted to keep more of what they made rather than give it to Britian in the form of taxes.

How is wanting to keep more of your property (i.e., all of it, not have it stolen from you) not a great ideal?

Highlander, I have no idea what you’re going on about. You seem quite confused. Perhaps you would care to explain what specifically is bothering you?

As for the Revolution, it’s quite true that there is an economic component to it. But it did not exclusively impact the aristocracy, from which came most of the leadership of that revolution and of the early years of the United States. It impacted virtually everyone. The economic policies Britain had imposed had caused a severe recession and seemed, to the people of the day, to be an attempt to starve them into submission.

It’s also true that the ideas of the day provided almost nothing for women and slaves. We condemn this today, and rightly so; yet at that time either was unthinkable. Remember what I said about old ideas? There is some good in them, and we should take what is good and leave the rest in the pages of history.

The same is true of today’s ideas; there is good to be found in them which should be carried forward, and the bad should be left to wither away. Of course, few at the time of the revolution would have considered women’s suffrage to be a good idea, and similarly with some ideas that I have advanced here. Perhaps this is why Highlander finds some of my ideas “treasonous.” History will judge, I suppose.

Finally, a reading list is a very good idea. The Market for Liberty is a good one, and you can get that for free. Healing Our World is another must-read, and probably the book I would suggest everyone read first.

The American Revolution, like most wars, was fought, not for the any great ideal (ie: freedom), rather it’s roots were economic. The wealthy plantation and business owners wanted to keep more of what they made rather than give it to Britian in the form of taxes. They used rhetoric and idealism to incite the poor to fight the war for them.

I wouldn’t call the Declaration of Independence ‘rhetoric’. That document clearly details the burdens the people had to endure:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

While some of the language in the Declaration might be ‘flowery’, accusations like those above are very specific and hardly simple ‘rhetoric’.

They won their freedom to keep more of what they made but the average person traded the British yoke for an American one.

Consider the UK today, which has lost its tradition of freedom. The middle class in the UK are leaving in droves. The vast majority of people migrating to the UK are from poorer countries eg. India, African countries, eastern Europe. Where are the middle class leaving to? To places like the USA, Australia and Canada. Places where the tradition of freedom has not been lost. The UK is in dire financial straits. The USA still has an economy that can pull itself out of the current situation – if it makes the right decisions – the UK doesn’t have this luxury.

The average American became free to work for the wealthy Americans who benefitted so much for the war fought primarily by the poor.

The average American was also enjoying the highest standard of living of average people throughout the world.

If our revolution became the beacon of freedom around the world, why did not our founding fathers include women and slaves in “we the people”. “All men are created equal, except if you happen to be female or black”. The common man has benefitted little from our revolution. It took women over a hundred years to get their right to vote. It took blacks longer than that to be given their rights as Americans. If we’d have remained with Britian, slaves would have been freed 50 years before they were here! It took workers until the 1930’s to get work places and wages that were just.

Perhaps you should consider the context of this statement. Australian aboriginals (natives) weren’t universally given the right to vote until 1965, and only received their first partial voting rights in 1949. Women in Switzerland were only given the right to vote in 1971. The USA might have had a tumultuous history, but it hasn’t done to badly in affording true equality before the law in the context of the rest of the world.

Furthermore, your statement that Britian ended the slave trade 50 years before the USA is dubious. Britian did enact laws in the early 1800s banning slavery, but it still continued in British colonies, and the USA also passed laws in the early 1800s banning the importation of slaves.

We the people have never had control of this country, unless of course you only count the wealthy as the people. No the common person has had to fight for every advantage they have today. They have had to fight the american aristocracy which has always been supported by the government to get such luxuries as an 8 hour work day, no child labor, safer working conditions, a decent wage, employer paid health care, vacations, etc. They not only fought for them, some were killed trying to get the worker rights we have today. I think many who do not remember the beginnings of the labor movement, the fight for worker rights, take those rights for granted. I doubt that I will live to see the day where common folk like you or me have a meaningful say in the running of the land of the “free”.

Most of these things changes were occurring around the other parts of the Western world roughly the same time as they did in the USA. It is not factual to claim that workers were exploited here while in other parts of the world the labour movement had delivered them a ‘workers utopia’, especially when you consider the standard of living of the American worker compared to other parts of the world.

If you love socialism that much and think it’s going to save you then lets have some action rather than words. Move to a socialist country like France, Sweden, the UK, Venezuela or Cuba. See if your standard of living actually goes up and whether poor people really do enjoy such a better deal. Let me tell you, they don’t. Personally, I’m looking to head to the USA because I like my freedom, and I know that if I’m willing to work I can build a good life.

And tonight I was introduced to this Canadian researcher who puts the NAU “countdown” date as… 1 January, 2010… on her “Statement of Purpose” page.

http://habeascorpuscanada.webng.com/statementpurpose.html

Habeas Corpus Canada: Statement of Purpose (Kathleen Moore)

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From

• THE NORTH AMERICAN ‘SOVIET’ UNION, February 27, 2007, http://www.NewsWithViews.com – February 27, 2007

The regionalization (consolidation) of the world is quite similar to the three-stage plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting, the official program proclaimed:

“Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries, after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations.” (Ed note: The third stage is taking place right now as we in the United States of America become part of a federal union, the North American Union, which will in the near future become part of a world union of socialist nations.)

• WALKS LIKE A DUCK; TALKS LIKE A DUCK…, http://www.NewsWithViews.com – January 13, 2004

“What we are looking at today in the United States of America is a “communist”, not “fascist” takeover of the United States.”

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“We live in a make-believe world created by others. We are given our “truths”, our history, our “science”, our “religions”. We are given our entertainment and we are given “enemies” to hate. We are given this via the media, advertising and education. — John Crittenden

The two biggest enemies of any free peoples are their government and organized religion. Governments are criminal organizations with all the talents of organized crime. They have guns, same as the mob, and they make rules. If you don’t obey their rules they will come and take you away. If you refuse they will lock you up or kill you.

All religions are evil and false. Religion has nothing to do with God. Religion is a lie. Organized religion was created by men to control other men and does so to this day. Both government and religion were created by the same people who now want to take over the world. — John Crittenden

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http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/contplay/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greghallett.com%2Fbooks.html (Expand playlist)

Greg Hallett Radio Interview Playlist / Episode 14 HTTOTW: Cloak – 5 Feb 07

“9/11 was constitutional.”

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http://sovereignsentience.blogspot.com/2008/10/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-fabian-society.html

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

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http://www.nord.twu.net/acl/

Anti Communitarian League

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Living Outside the Dialectic (Niki Raapana)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPW5rC-chDU

Communitarianism

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Trance-Formation of America